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