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Re: The evils of the Trinity idea
Posted By: gremlinn, on host 24.25.220.173
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 15:36:19
In Reply To: Re: The evils of the Trinity idea posted by Mike, the penny-stamp man on Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 09:05:32:

> > A descriptor such as "all-powerful" wouldn't be convincing enough to me unless a strong case could be made that the person who used that term really *meant* it in the sense of including even logically impossible acts.
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> Are you saying the idea of a god, for you, can only be reasonable if the god proves himself to be unreasoning? As i understand it, God's knowledge is above ours, because we're made like him; it's not estranged to us as if we were made wholly unlike Him.

I don't understand how this has anything to do with what I was asking, so I'll try rephrasing it. I was asking: is there any text in the Bible which describes God as performing logically impossible actions?



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> It sounds like you're trying to pose something like the old mocking philosophers' "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?"

As an aside: what does this saying mean, anyway? I've seen it plenty of times during my life but never understood what it meant.



>If you don't really want to know whether a god is there, such questions are fine. But if you actually want to find whether there is a god, wouldn't the sensible thing be to begin looking at how a divine being could help the world make sense, rather than how he could defy all rules of sense encapsulated in the world?
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A diving being could help the world make sense by not screwing with logic, for one thing. That would be sufficient. I *do* believe that a divine being should be bound to logical possibility, so I was looking to see if anyone could bring up sciptural evidence of the opposite. The absence of said evidence would then strengthen my case that it's not reasonable to assert that God *can* screw with logic and make the universe senseless, as a few people here have done recently.

> Mi *usually skips these things, but after helping open the door, feels a little obliged to step into the playroom* ke

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