[QUOTE="Dracargen"][QUOTE="Cute_Red_Panda"] I think you meant a four-sided triangle. But if you say no, then you admitting that the beings isn't all powerful. Same if you say yes, hence a paradox.
darkmoney52
Yes, that's what I meant. Anyway, I can say yes or no and still have God be all-powerful, and here's why:
There are two definitions to omni-potence: God can do anything imaginable. Since this is the one you had in mind, I'll start with this. If God meets this definition, then He can make a four-sided circle, and He can make a being more powerful than Him, while still being the most powerful being. Sure, it's a contradiction, but so what? God, being all-powerful, can make contradictions true and non-contradictory.
The second--and more applicable--definition is: God can do anything within logical reason. God can do things humans couldn't dream of, but He cannot make a four-sided circle, because that is logically impossible. He is still omnipotent, but cannot do the logically impossible. Therefore, God cannot make a being more powerful than Him, because, since He's all-powerful, that is a logical impossibility.
If you had one chance to speak with God why would you want to waste it argueing about the semantics of shapes and omni-potence?
When I speak to God, I'm going to ask every question I can think up, whether the answer seems obvious or not. Because I'm going to want to know EVERYTHING about God.
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