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Single Idea 2920
[filed under theme 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions
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Full Idea
A God who cures a headcold for us at the right moment is so absurd a God he would have to be abolished even if he existed.
Gist of Idea
A God who cures us of a head cold at the right moment is a total absurdity
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Anti-Christ [1889], 52)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.170
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[contradictions in our concept of a supreme being]:
1719
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In Empedocles' theory God is ignorant because, unlike humans, he doesn't know one of the elements (strife)
[Aristotle on Empedocles]
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2630
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If Plato's God is immaterial, he will lack consciousness, wisdom, pleasure and movement, which are essential to him
[Cicero on Plato]
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2645
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Why shouldn't the gods fear their own destruction?
[Cicero]
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16651
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God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts
[Auriol]
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6224
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An omnipotent will cannot make two things equal or alike if they aren't
[Cudworth]
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21252
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Perfections must have overlapping parts if their incompatibility is to be proved
[Leibniz]
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2920
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A God who cures us of a head cold at the right moment is a total absurdity
[Nietzsche]
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18978
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It is hard to grasp a cosmic mind which produces such a mixture of goods and evils
[James]
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5208
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A person with non-empirical attributes is unintelligible.
[Ayer]
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3459
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You can only know the limits of knowledge if you know the other side of the limit
[Searle]
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8055
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If God is omniscient, he confronts no as yet unmade decisions, so decisions are impossible
[MacIntyre]
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7602
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In the Bible God changes his mind (repenting of creating humanity, in the Flood)
[Armstrong,K]
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16427
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Presumably God can do anything which is logically possible
[Chalmers]
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10332
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Omniscience is incoherent, since knowledge is a social concept
[Kusch]
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9122
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God cannot experience unwanted pain, so God cannot understand human beings
[Sorensen]
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3874
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How could God know there wasn't an unknown force controlling his 'free' will?
[PG]
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3873
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An omniscient being couldn't know it was omniscient, as that requires information from beyond its scope of knowledge
[PG]
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