Defining ‘omnipotent’ as ‘able to do things which can be done’ is an interesting move—it makes me realize that my ideas about what can be done (especially by hypothetical extremely powerful beings) are very foggy.
Religious people bump up against that when they try to see why some prayers apparently get answered and others don’t.
Defining ‘omnipotent’ as ‘able to do things which can be done’ is an interesting move—it makes me realize that my ideas about what can be done (especially by hypothetical extremely powerful beings) are very foggy.
Religious people bump up against that when they try to see why some prayers apparently get answered and others don’t.