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This 5 page paper argues that the idea that God is not omniscient, omnipotent and perfectly good fails, because a being that does not exhibit these qualities is not God. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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This paper attempts to show that the following statement fails: "There is no god that is omniscient, omnipotent and perfectly good." For purposes of the paper, the assumption is made
that not even god can do what is logically impossible for him/her/it to do. Discussion The first idea that we might consider is that there is something strange in the
prompt; we are asked to consider "god" not "God." The distinction is important: To make ones target the discovery of a God is to set up a confused and
confusing problem ... A God makes sense only if one can envision a class of such entities. But it is plain there cannot be a class of Gods because (1)
God, unlike god, is supposed to refer to the one and only Supreme Being; [and] (2) by God is meant a non-spatial and non-finite entity ... (Velecky, 1994, p. 30).
Therefore, in order for this to make sense we have to assume that we are discussing a god, not God; there are many gods in human history.
We might consider the squabbling Olympians, for instance; or the vast Indian pantheon; or the Great Spirit and other mythological beings of the Native Americans. Lets consider the Greeks briefly
because their gods are familiar. We are dealing here with Zeus, the King of the Gods; his wife, Hera; and all the other familiar names: Ares, Apollo, Athena, Poseidon,
Hades and the rest. The great myths tell us of the fallibility of these beings. Zeus for example was forever getting caught with another woman; and according to Homer Ares,
the God of War, was himself wounded in battle before the gates of Troy. These gods are the product of a rich imagination and they mirror quite clearly the values
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