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    2 years ago

    Strictly talking the logic of it, if you’re omnipotent, then you have the power do do anything, and that includes the power to do flagrantly self contradictory things, defy logic and still be logically consistent.

    The “if you’re omnipotent” part is a pretty big “if”, but it’s not inconsistent to say that “anything” includes the ridiculous.

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        2 years ago

        We’re discussing logical consequences of a thing, not if the thing is possible in the first place.
        You don’t have to talk logical consistency to rule out “all knowing and all powerful” if you’re just looking at how things work in reality.
        In reality, you can’t be all powerful or all knowing. Done, end of story. It’s impossible on the face of it.

        In the hypothetical where something can be all powerful, then the power to do whatever, even in a universe that behaves like ours does, is consistent.
        The power to do anything includes the absurd, inconsistent, and contradictory.