I remember one of the old scholastic arguments that God could not be both omniscient and omnipotent, because then he could do nothing that he wouldn’t already know he would have done. So he wouldn’t be able to change his mind. Excellent essay. 🙏
😂 Great analogy! I can remember a time in my wayward 20s, when I had a higher estimation of Occam, Russell and Whitehead than I did of St. Paul. But eventually “I put away such childish things.”
Me too. Just couldn’t compute back then why the boundless God wouldn’t fit inside my skull - and after me going to all that trouble making room for him!
I still use Occam’s razor these days, but only for shaving my own bristly claptrap.
I remember one of the old scholastic arguments that God could not be both omniscient and omnipotent, because then he could do nothing that he wouldn’t already know he would have done. So he wouldn’t be able to change his mind. Excellent essay. 🙏
Thanks, Daniel. Yes, some of those Scholastic debates feel like sitting on a spinning top trying to count the turns!
😂 Great analogy! I can remember a time in my wayward 20s, when I had a higher estimation of Occam, Russell and Whitehead than I did of St. Paul. But eventually “I put away such childish things.”
Me too. Just couldn’t compute back then why the boundless God wouldn’t fit inside my skull - and after me going to all that trouble making room for him!
I still use Occam’s razor these days, but only for shaving my own bristly claptrap.