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God is bent.

שו”תCategory: philosophyGod is bent.
asked 9 years ago

Good evening,
I read somewhere in one of your articles that ‘Many believe that God is certainly subject to logical laws, even if not to the laws of nature.’
Can we clarify the nature of that subordination? After all, the laws of logic themselves were created by God.
Perhaps his submission to them was created voluntarily, like the possibility of choice (a deliberate reduction of his abilities)?
 
If you have already written an article on the subject, I would also be happy to provide references.


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מיכי Staff answered 9 years ago
Hello. First, sorry for the delay. For some reason I didn’t see the question until now. As for the substance of the matter, I argued about this in my book Two Carts in Chapter 13. In short, I say that the laws of logic are not laws in the same sense as the laws of physics and certainly as the laws of the state. The laws of the state and the laws of logic were enacted by someone. It could have been otherwise. This is not the case with the laws of logic. It could not have been otherwise. Therefore, “the laws of logic” is an unsuccessful and confusing expression. The claim that if every X is Y and a is X, then a is Y is not a logical law. This is simply reality, and it cannot be otherwise. Even God, the Almighty, cannot make a round triangle, because there simply is no such thing and there cannot be such a thing. This is a paradoxical concept. Therefore, when they say that he is “subject” to the laws of logic, it is a borrowed expression. He does not deviate from the laws of logic because there is no such thing as deviating from them. Consider the question of whether God can turn himself into a human being? He is supposedly omnipotent, so he can. But then I will shoot him in the head and kill him. If he does not die, then he has not really become a human being (because a person who is shot in the head dies). And if he does die, then the necessity of reality is not found in reality, which is an oxymoron. This means that he really cannot turn himself into a human being. Because the necessity of reality cannot simultaneously be possible in reality (i.e. mortal). This is a logical contradiction. This is also the solution to the problem of the stone that he cannot lift, and so on.

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