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Are the concepts of omniscience and omnipotence contradictory? [duplicate]
Theistic religions believe in a God or Gods.
Do religions that claim their God is omniscient and omnipotent face a contradiction in this conception?
I'll explain my reasoning.
If God is omniscient, he ...
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How can God gives us free will and yet be the creator and originator of everything at the same time? [closed]
Religious people say we have free will in that god has the knowledge of whatever will happen but he doesn't cause our actions, we have a choice. I did an act of sin out of my own choice; god was only ...
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If we assume God exists, why isn't He doing something about all the wars and suffering on Earth? Is there a plan behind His reasoning? [duplicate]
Just so you know, I'm religious, I'm Christian. However, that doesn't stop me from wondering about this question. I'm sure someone must have asked a similar question before, so I'm sorry if I'm boring ...
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Are agent explanations better than non agent explanations?
Suppose you were using a telescope and zooming into Jupiter on the surface and saw a rock that had a face that looked very very much like your great grand mother. Suppose that it was very detailed to ...
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What is the state-of-the-art of formal definitions of God?
Isn't the only formal analytic definition of God, that of Cantor's Absolute Infinity?
What is the state-of-the-art of this approach?
Are there other definitions?
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Does the argument from order apply to God?
Lots of people consider the universe to be too complex, ordered, structured, and too advanced to have come about, without a designer. However, isn’t God the most complex, ordered, structured, and the ...
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Do the Abrahamic faiths solve the argument from evil?
There is the proposition that if evil exists in the world then how could an omnipotent, omnipresent God allow that evil to happen.
The Abrahamic faiths propose that God created the garden of Eden ...
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Proof of the existence of God?
Here it is, the long-awaited proof for the existence of God (for your consideration).
I have taken the liberty of defining discretely what God is, without which there is no question to be answered (...
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How can we exist?
Positing that God exists and is perfect (by the fact that he is the moral authority and is thought of as absolute perfection according to the general consensus); a change that he makes would mean that ...
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Does it make sense to consider God meaning is 0? [closed]
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Mathematics is science, that can prove or disprove everything.
That is the meaning of Mathematics, prove or disprove any statement.
When somebody say something, that something are statements ...
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Moral arguments against dystheism (in the spirit of James Rachels)
Here's my almost-twenty-years-old memory of Rachels' argument (I read it in an introduction-to-ethics class at a community college):
If God existed, there would be a being more important, morally, ...
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If God is an immaterial being, is it impossible for Him to exist?
Most people, even atheists, often at least recognize the possibility that God may exist but claim that it is very improbable.
But if God is defined as an immaterial being, is the notion of that even ...
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Does probability require a beginning? Can it apply to eternal things like god?
When it comes to the probability of something coming into fruition, a number is calculated based upon the future. The probability of a dice landing on 6 means that if one were to roll a dice in the ...
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How can God exist but allow such suffering and inequality? [duplicate]
I know this question may be have been asked innumerable times over the last 4,000 years but I'm curious to see how serious theists reconcile God's existence with the horrible suffering that a very ...
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Does Omnipotence of God imply nonexistence of physical laws
I have already asked a similar question about omniscience of God implying determinism. I was corrected by people that this is actually fatalism and that there are different forms of omniscience.
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