Is omnipotence provable?
I would like to propose a question for the esteemed participants here and hopefully the knowledge and intellect that you all possess might rub off on me.
The age-old question discussed in the Hebrew Atzor ''can god create a stone so heavy that he won't be able to pick it up?'' has age-old answers, and has many derivatives. My question is, can God negate (לאַפס) a fact? The question is not if he can destroy a fact or erase it from collective history but if he can at the year 5766 make the fact that my grandfather died last year a non-event. Again, I'm not asking if he can make him live again, but if he can change that fact. In other words, is God beyond fact or does fact precede God.
Now, according to the Rambam who claims that God is within the realms of logic and does not precede it, as opposed to the school of thought that God as the creator of logic can produce a triangle with four corners, will he apply the same theory here?
If we can say that God is confined to the reality of facts and logic then could this be the base of Spinoza's theory that God is not omnipotent?
Who then can blame him for thinking like that? After all the ones who excommunicated him had no proof to the contrary.
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