@philosophyminis: The problem with the idea of God is that it just doesn't make any sense. According to traditional monotheism, God is said to have three attributes: God is all-powerful — omnipotent; God is all-knowing — omniscient; and God is all-loving — omni-benevolent. Taken alone, these have problems, but put together they render the entire concept incoherent. But according to the medieval scholar Thomas Aquinas, there might be a way out. For example, one of the problems with omnipotence is that it can't beat itself. And the early question of children is something like: can God create a stone he cannot lift? Or can God create a better God? If God cannot do this, then God is not omnipotent. And if God can do this, then God is suddenly second place. Likewise, with omniscience — can God know a false or contradictory thing? And with omni-benevolence — can God do an evil thing? Aquinas’s answer is to say that the word omnipotence does not mean 'can do anything,' but it means 'possessing all possible powers.' So, the ability to make a greater God, and the ability to know false things, is not a possible power. In short, Aquinas says that God is limited by what logic allows. But this doesn't sit well with some, because, for example, Descartes believed that God could do what is logically impossible. And Ibn Sina believed that God does not possess powers, since he must be simplicity itself. So what do you think? Do God's attributes make sense? Or is this entire discussion a nonsense parlour game?
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J.R :
The Epicurean paradox
2025-12-15 07:23:29
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notduggyman :
god watching Eve eat the evil apple he put there while knowing she would eat it beforehand, therefore dooming humanity because he felt like it
2025-12-15 19:13:01
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Joey D :
It doesn’t make sense on any level, no matter which one or how you look at it
2025-12-15 01:04:13
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moongnome :
Idea of God makes sense but not in any known religion way.
2025-12-15 10:02:48
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Lewis Marshall :
“ no contradictions “
2025-12-15 19:27:03
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atalia♥︎’ :
i feel like God only makes sense as a concept
2025-12-15 10:49:32
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jesopo 🇻🇦 :
AQUINAS MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🇻🇦‼️
2025-12-15 01:23:48
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Not That Dude :
These kinds of questions led me away from Christianity and into agnosticism. I think a personal god doesn’t make much sense. I think god, whatever “god” is, is probably more of a force. I like the line from the Dao De Jing, “the Dao that can be named is not the eternal Dao.” The same is true for god. Whenever we start saying, “god is this,” we’ve already simplified something that can’t be simplified. These days I’m skeptical of anyone making absolute claims about god, whether they’re atheists who say there isn’t one or Christians who say there is.
2025-12-14 20:18:58
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lazy neko :
The common claim that God’s omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence are internally contradictory relies on a misunderstanding of what these attributes mean within classical theism. The objections typically assume that omnipotence means the ability to do absolutely anything whatsoever, omniscience means knowing even falsehoods and contradictions, and omnibenevolence means having the capacity to perform evil while merely choosing not to. However, these assumptions redefine God into a logically incoherent being and then criticize that redefinition. When God is properly understood as a personal being with a fixed, rational nature, the alleged contradictions dissolve. First, the omnipotence objection—often illustrated by the question, “Can God create a stone so heavy that He cannot lift it?”—rests on the false assumption that contradictions are genuine tasks. Omnipotence, in classical philosophy, does not mean the power to bring about logical impossibilities. Logical contradictions such as a ‘square circle’ or ‘a stone too heavy for an omnipotent being to lift’ are not things at all; they do not exist in any possible world. To say that God cannot perform logical impossibilities is not to say that God lacks power, but rather that there is nothing there to be done. Power applies to realities, not to incoherent word combinations. Similarly, the question of whether God can create a more powerful God misunderstands omnipotence itself. ‘More powerful than omnipotent’ is a meaningless concept, and two beings possessing all power is logically impossible, since sharing or dividing total power would mean neither possesses it fully. Second, the objection to omniscience—such as asking whether God can know something false or contradictory—commits the same category error. Knowledge, by definition, is awareness of what is true. Falsehoods and contradictions do not exist as objects of knowledge; therefore, there is nothing there for God to know. Saying that God cannot know falsehoods does not limit His omniscience any more than saying He cannot see invisible colors limits His vision. Omniscience means knowing all truths, not affirming non-entities. Third, the objection to—
2025-12-19 02:31:47
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jakeastonfta :
Given the amount of extreme and gratuitous suffering in the world, the existence of an all-loving god who is also all-knowing and all-powerful is impossible. No loving being would knowingly allow such unnecessary misery.
2025-12-16 23:29:19
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animals are people too :
Einstein said the world is driven by stupidity, fear and ignorance. It's why we still have religion instead of philosophical teachings.
2025-12-19 06:59:52
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shinmon :
Interesting video, but these aren't paradoxes of God, they're failures of human logic, the questions themselves are logically absurd (like asking to create a "square circle"). The problem is trying to fit the infinite into finite human categories
2025-12-22 19:56:14
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deravatus :
throughout history theres been hundreds if thousands of religions created and wiped out how arrogant of us to assume ours would be any different once we're all gone
2025-12-16 00:07:20
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SultanMJH :
This apparent incoherence is because we are using human thinking and logic as basis to understand God.
2025-12-16 09:48:12
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MDC1932 :
If there were a god sitting by, watching everything that happens on this planet, then who needs him?
2025-12-15 10:46:40
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Mr 七th Hokage :
If bound by logic is the only way for him to make sense then he becomes 100% a human construct. Less of a god but just an elevated human.
2025-12-15 11:07:49
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John m. :
Human fears created god
2025-12-18 13:59:46
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TitiHonG :
If God is all knowing, it implies he already knows those that will come to heaven and those who'll go to hell, meaning our personal effort to be good or righteous is needless since our destination is based on chances.
2025-12-15 14:14:33
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Amar :
What doesn’t make sense to me is when people try to humanise God into a thing they can easily comprehend and abstract. If God can beat logic, then he can create a rock that he can’t lift, and at the same time lift it. The point is that it’s not meant to make sense because our reality is limited, God is not. That should really tell you everything.
2025-12-15 02:40:15
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Isaac Taylor :
These are nonsensical word games for the most part. But even if God could make a square circle, could our human minds make sense of such a thing? Theoretically, there are supposed to be more than 3 spatial dimensions, but our minds cannot imagine that. We cannot contain God with the box of our finite minds.
2025-12-15 01:05:36
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Cj 🇦🇺 :
who made god?
2025-12-15 02:02:16
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Zibuse L Kunene :
If we can explain and fully understand God, then He ceases to be God.
2025-12-15 09:03:19
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Jaa :
the problem about God is us. humans are like ants trying to define an Elephant based on their ant knowledge. even human logic is not even absolute knowledge, its basically higher common sense. God does not even operate with the smae logic that humans use.
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Joseph :
Maybe we are trying to fit God into human capacities
2025-12-16 19:25:55
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Delvane :
Being able to do something and choosing not to do it is also an exercise of power
2025-12-15 07:05:36
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