-A supreme being must be omniscient and omnipotent.
-If a supreme being is omniscient, he must know everything and that includes all of his future actions.
-Since he knows what his future actions are, in order to be omniscient,he must not be wrong and must do exactly that.
-We defined earlier that a supreme being must be omnipotent as well.
-If he is omnipotent, he must be able to do whatever he wants at anytime.
-However he can only perform the actions that he knows, therefore he would be unable to choose his own actions.
-Therefore such a being would have no free will and would simply be something that follows a set of laws
Since the 2 characteristics contradict each other, they cannot coexist on one being. Therefore a being that matches our definition cannot exist. Therefore a supremebeing cannot exist.
What do you think?
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