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[–] 8 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

I can do everything that's possible for me. Am I omnipotent?

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  • [–] -3 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

    No. Omnipotence is the ability to do everything possible, regardless of who or what is acting. The limitation is on the reality side, not on the actor.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

    I get that part, since more is possible than I can do, but God is the one who decides and creates what is possible, so he should be able to do anything whatsoever.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    God can't create a squared circle. He did not decided that, it just is. If you think that this kind of limitation makes him not omnipotent, then again, I'll happily recognize that he is not omnipotent. But I'll still hold that he can do everything possible.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    Then who or what determined what is possible?

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  • [–] 1 point 40 minutes ago

    Nobody and nothing. If you read the beginning of Genesis carefully, God doesn’t create out of nothing; he transforms matter that is already there. Of course, it’s a myth, not a practical description of the beginning of the universe. But it suggests that some things simply are. I think the laws of logic simply are, or, put differently, God is logic itself. He can’t go against himself. He is his own limit.

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