Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2a.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hou2a!54375rr From: 54375rr@hou2a.UUCP (R.RENNINGER) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Omniscience/Omnipotence Message-ID: <419@hou2a.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 12:34:51 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2a.419 Posted: Tue Sep 25 12:34:51 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 19:52:50 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 15 <><> I wonder if anyone has heard the paradox about the incompatibility between omnipotence and omniscience. It goes like this: if you are omniscient, you already know everything you are going to do. Therefore, you have no freedom to do anything else. Likewise, if you are omnipotent, you can't know anything about the future, because that would preclude those actions you knew you weren't going to do. The implication is that God, if omniscient, can't change His mind, and if omnipotent, doesn't know any more about the future than we do ( if that much ). I would appreciate