Path: ultra.sonic.net!news.pagesat.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!aslan.demon.co.uk!andrew From: Andrew Rilstone Newsgroups: alt.books.cs-lewis Subject: Re: God, Gygax, Brahman (was Susan No Friend of Narnia) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:03:46 +0100 Organization: The Small Carrot Shop Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <01bca288$faecb4c0$LocalHost@lap586> <21606.smail.smayo@ziplink.net> <5svap0$536$1@lurch.mcc.ac.uk> <33F52A5F.3AA4@dragontree.com> <5trquc$1h0$1@lurch.mcc.ac.uk> Reply-To: This@Left.Blank.To.Discourage.Junk.Mail NNTP-Posting-Host: aslan.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: aslan.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.126] MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Version 3.03 <3aYeJUWAsGS1FwPCwFgLAUIQiZ> Lines: 25 Xref: ultra.sonic.net alt.books.cs-lewis:8629 In article <5trquc$1h0$1@lurch.mcc.ac.uk>, Dr A O V Le Blanc writes >Lewis effectively identifies the apparent >paradoxes of such childish logic (e.g., God can make a rock so big >that even He can't lift it) as spurious, as red herrings of just >this kind. God can make a rock of any size. God can then swear by Himself that this rock will never be moved. It is inconsistent with the nature of God that he ever be untrue to himself; God cannot be inconsistent with his own nature; thus, having so sworn it is impossible for the rock to be moved, even by God himself. Hence, God can make a rock which cannot be moved. However, the immovability of the rock is a function of God's nature, not the rock's size. Presumably, however, God could swear by himself that no object of greater than 3,000,006 metric tons could ever move, which would define all rocks of 3,000,007 tons is immovable by God by virtue of their size, which may fit the bill. Of course, it is probably not within the nature of God to set up immutable conditions of the universe in pointless ways. -- Andrew Rilstone andrew@aslan.demon.co.uk http://www.aslan.demon.co.uk/ *************************************************************************** "Why can't I be a non-conformist like everybody else?" ***************************************************************************