• exanime@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    There are many good arguments against God. This is not one of them.

    That is because this isn’t an argument against god. It is simply a question that resulted in a Paradox about the character of god as described by the Church

    Can 0 equal 1? The answer to that question isn’t yes/no, it’s that the question is invalid.

    What? the question is not invalid. it is a yes/no, the *implications" of that yes or no however can carry significant correlations

    Freewill does not equal non-freewill.

    yeah, nobody is making this crazy claim…

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, probably would have been better to use dividing by 0 instead of 0=1 as the example, but the point still stands.

      Yes/no isn’t a valid answer to a paradox. Can God create a universe where there is freewill and there isn’t freewill? Can God create a rock so large he can’t lift it? Can he shit so big he can’t flush it? All interesting, but in the end invalid questions. But shoehorning in a yes/no when the real answer is just undefined is incorrect.

      It’s good fun for an internet comment section, or irritating some youth group leader, but in the end not a useful question.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t get why you say they are not valid questions? I see nothing invalid in them. Instead it seems to me you seem to disagree with the consequences such “yes/no” answers carry and are preemptively dismissing them

        Overall this paradox is a thought experiment, as such, even in the absence of a concrete answer, it is still a very valid and valuable question