Yeah, that makes sense I suppose. I have a question for you still, if you think its worthy of answer. Does God’s knowledge of reality function in the manner that he knows x will occur and thus it occurs? Or is it that x occurs and thus he knows it occurs? Even if that be in scenarios that never happen, parallel universes, deep into future or past.
You didn’t give one.
Was your answer, we later established that the reason He could not lift them is because of His will. I’m asking if rocks exist that He can’t lift regardless of will, a different question.
I don’t think Julius_Caesar believes in logical impossibilities. This is while simultaneously holding that it is a logical impossibility for God not to be able to understand and create logical impossibilities like the circle square.
Which is, frankly, ridiculous. Of course things can be logically impossible.
Nah. Just not prone to using atheist talking points.
??? It’s an atheist talking point to admit that there are things which are logically impossible? I’m sorry, but what?
Exactly. In no world can’t 2+2= 4. Nor can God be evil. Nor can the part be greater than the whole. To think otherwise is just being absolutely dishonest.
Atheists pose this question to Christians all the time.
In this world it does.
I’m a Catholic, but I’m bringing it up because your line of logic leads to being susceptible to such questions.
On the converse yours would seem to mock the idea God’s omniscience means just that.
How? God knows everything that can possibly exist. Nothing could know about that which cannot exist.
Your doctrine, I presume.
The doctrine of the Church.
I meant to say to 2+2=5
. In anycase, the point is that you can’t make 2+2=5.Now you’re just moving the goal posts.
I did no such thing. That was the original question.
God knows everything eternally. Your question is nonsensical.Mmarco:
How can there be a point where God knows of something but it does not exist, but later it does?
Your objection is nonsensical. God has alway known eternally that the expression " square circle" is nonsensical, and therefore impossible to exist. On the contrary, your fate is not nonsensical, but it has always been possible and God has always known eternally your fate as well as all your free choices. As I have said, God has always known eternally the properties of the infinite universes He could have created, but that He has never created. God is absolutely free to choose what to create among the infinite possibilities He has, and this is true also for the souls. God has always known everything eternally, including what He has never created, what has never happened but it could have happened and what is nonsensical, and therefore could never happen.Mmarco:
My objection still stands. How can God ponder the shape of a square circle if it does not exist? How can God ponder my own fate if I have not existed to carry it out with my free will?
But God cannot know the fate of someone who does not exist. There is no fate that exists for them because they did not exist to carry it out.