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From: 54375rr@hou2a.UUCP (R.RENNINGER)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Omniscience/Omnipotence
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Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 12:34:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 25 12:34:51 1984
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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