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[–] [S] 1 point 8 hours ago (6 children)

I generally don't care for the arguments of "an X creator must be Y, therefore Z". It's very similar to https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/divine-simplicity/, and always tries to sneak in an "ought" for an "is". From that link for example, "God is ontologically superior to every partite entity", what does "superior" mean? Why?

So not to pick on you specifically, but I'd need to see a well-reasoned argument about why a smarter creator would be "more powerful". In fact, flip it on its head. A dumber creator is "more powerful" because it must require more power than a smarter creator in order to do the same thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago (5 children)

    It is not that a smarter creator is more powerful, but that an all-powerful creator, by virtue of being all-powerful, must be capable of expanding its own intelligence. If it cannot, it is incapable of something, which makes it not all-powerful.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

    It must have no need to expand its own intelligence even though it could, for if it's all-powerful, it must be able to do everything possible, while being dumb.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

    A lack of intellect is a dis-ability. To be omnipotent, one must have perfect ability.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    To be omnipotent, one must be capable of giving oneself perfect ability. It doesn't require that one must have perfect ability.

    A being that is all-powerful despite having a disability must truly be more powerful than a being that doesn't have that limitation. In fact, the being that is all-powerful despite having the most limitations must be the most allest-powerfulest of all.

    This is just the semantic word games you get with terms like "all-powerful". I've never cared for arguing about the term, because it's ill-defined 🤷

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  • [–] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    I do not think a being can be all-powerful and have a disability, because a disability is a lack of ability. Any limitations must be self-imposed and not substantive—they would have to be purely symbolic—or the being would otherwise be limited, and therefore not omnipotent.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 4 hours ago

    The being with a true disability that is all-powerful must truly be aller-powerfuler than another being that lacks that true disability.

    Yeah, it's a silly argument, but that's because theology as a whole is silly.

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