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Originally posted by asaris
What the argument amounts to is this: God can't violate the laws of logic because it doesn't make sense to claim that God can violate the laws of logic.
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Asaris: I agree that it does not make sense to US that God can violate the laws of logic, since we are slaves to logic and our thought is structured by logic. But why do you assume that what God can do is knowable to us. Why must God's actions be logical just because our thought is logical? Why is logic prior to God. You may presume that logic is prior to everything. I presume that GOD is prior to everything, including logic - and that logic came from somewhere, namely God's mind. If God is prior to logic, then God's will should be able to transcend the laws of logic.
As filtherton said above, the answer to the question of the rock is unknowable to us, since we can only think within the bounds of logic - but just because its unknowable, doesn't mean it's beyond the bounds of what God can do. How can you assume that God can only do what we can make sense of?