Monday, September 18, 2006

Thoughts on God's Omnipotence

“So far as the laws of mathematics refer
to reality, they are not certain. And so far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality” --Alfred Einstein, Geometry and Experience

His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense. This is no limit to His power. If you choose to say 'God can give a creature free will and at the same time withhold free will from it,' you have not succeeded in saying anything about God: meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words 'God can.'... It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives; not because His power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.
--C. S. Lewis

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