J Lou@mastodon.social to Atheist Memes@lemmy.world · 17 days agoIf God must be omniscient, God doesn't existfiles.mastodon.socialimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down110file-text
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minus-squareJ Lou@mastodon.socialOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·16 days agoThe statement is only generates a contradiction if there is an omniscient being. If there are no omniscient beings, it is consistent. The idea is that it is impossible for a being to both know and not know something. Knowable is not the same as known to a particular being @atheistmemes
minus-squarethemeatbridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 days agoIf there is an omniscient being, the statement is known. It’s internal inconsistency doesn’t make it unknowable. Omniscience isn’t bound by strict semantic logic. Like, I couldn’t disprove you exist by saying “You don’t know this statement is true.”
The statement is only generates a contradiction if there is an omniscient being. If there are no omniscient beings, it is consistent.
The idea is that it is impossible for a being to both know and not know something. Knowable is not the same as known to a particular being
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If there is an omniscient being, the statement is known. It’s internal inconsistency doesn’t make it unknowable. Omniscience isn’t bound by strict semantic logic.
Like, I couldn’t disprove you exist by saying “You don’t know this statement is true.”