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What is your favorite paradox or conundrum? I am partial to can god kill god? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Daft_ish@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The monotheistic all powerful one.

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[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Can God kill Himself.?" This presumes God is a physical and material being.

I'm afraid I don't see why being non-physical entails being eternal. For example, couldn't God create an angel and then destroy it later? If angels are non-physical beings that can be created and destroyed, then immateriality doesn't entail eternality. Moreover, you're right that God cannot die, but it doesn't follow that the answer to question #1 is "no". If there was something that God couldn't do, then God wouldn't be omnipotent. So the question asks can God commit a logically contradictory action.

God would then be both a non material being, and a material being in which he animates, that has the potential to lift the stone. Now if you belive that every material object has consciousness...

I think our starting assumptions are somewhat far apart.

[–] dbug13@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Creation and destruction are bound to the material world. If God created an angel, what matter, aside from God, would be created? If no matter is created then there is no matter to destroy. If God creates an angel from what material would God create it from? God is non material. The angel would just be an expression of God, just as a wave of the sea is just an expression of the entire sea itself, the wave is the sea, and an expression of the sea. The angel would also be just an expression of God. God would not create nor destroy anything, God would just be reconfiguring itself.

God is capable of being omnipotent and commit a logically contradictory action. If God is a perfect being, and thus can only create perfect things, and then God decided to create an imperfect object, then that object would be perfectly imperfect, like the beings that are asking the logically contradictory question: Can God kill Himself? Circular logic is in itself, complete.