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Old 05-05-2009, 10:52 AM   #488
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Originally Posted by lamchopz View Post
Allow me to play devil advocate this time.

At first when I read about the notion of omnipotence and omniscience being incompatible, it made sense. However, when I read it today, it made sense and didn't.

The key point about incompatibility between omnipotence and omniscience perhaps is this: if one knows that something will happen, one cannot change it because changing it will turn it into a different thing, which is obviously not what one saw in the beginning. Correct me if I'm wrong.

That made sense.

Today, it doesn't. I sat at the computer for a while, thinking how that I once understood this and just can't see it again. It then became apparent that in my mind I was thinking about the theory that an event can lead to many possible outcomes, namely the current action leads to a specific future. I randomly call it the Many Futures hypothesis. In essence, this is just the crude version of the Multiverse theory.

Back to the point of omnipotent and omniscient being incompatible, let's look at it with the idea that one event leads to different future outcomes depending what action or set of actions is undertaken. If God is omniscient, God can see these possible outcomes. Being omnipotent, God can direct an event to a specific outcome (future). With this, the incompatibility of omnipotence and omniscience is completely abolished.
You haven't got it right. Being omniscient, god not only sees three possible options, he also sees which of those three he is going to pick. The question is whether or not he can regardless of whether he will change that given option to another one.
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