Logical impossibility is a bad argument against theism, as it’s possible to...
Good point, though my jury is still out on whether it really is possible to parse what it would mean to be omniscient, for example. Or if we can suggest things like the universe “knowing everything,” it’s typically not what theists are implying when they speak of an omniscient being.
...it’s still unclear what you’re inquiring about.
I think I’ll just let it go. Even the fact that we’re both on the same page with respect to determinism pretty much ends the need to have a discussion. Conundrums like how an omniscient being can know what it will do and also be said to be responsive (change what it was going to do) based on being asked via prayer only seems to work if determinism is not on the table, and about every apologetics bit I’ve read suggests that it’s not on the table.
This thread has been the first time I think I can see how intercession and omniscience could jive in a deterministic sense. A being could know that it will answer a prayer, and that a pray-er would pray for such an answer.
From the theists I know/interact with, I think they would find this like going through the motions though. It would remove the “magic” from things for them. I could be wrong.
Good point, though my jury is still out on whether it really is possible to parse what it would mean to be omniscient, for example. Or if we can suggest things like the universe “knowing everything,” it’s typically not what theists are implying when they speak of an omniscient being.
I think I’ll just let it go. Even the fact that we’re both on the same page with respect to determinism pretty much ends the need to have a discussion. Conundrums like how an omniscient being can know what it will do and also be said to be responsive (change what it was going to do) based on being asked via prayer only seems to work if determinism is not on the table, and about every apologetics bit I’ve read suggests that it’s not on the table.
This thread has been the first time I think I can see how intercession and omniscience could jive in a deterministic sense. A being could know that it will answer a prayer, and that a pray-er would pray for such an answer.
From the theists I know/interact with, I think they would find this like going through the motions though. It would remove the “magic” from things for them. I could be wrong.