HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoIf Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine?message-squaremessage-square130fedilinkarrow-up1510arrow-down124
arrow-up1486arrow-down1message-squareIf Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine?HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square130fedilink
minus-squareSotuanduso@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·1 month agoYes. The power to do literally anything would allow one to do this.
minus-squareFreshLight@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoCan he create a stone that is not liftable and then proceed to lift it?
minus-squareHexarei@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·1 month agoThe easiest answer to this is yes, he could create a stone he couldn’t lift. And then he could lift it anyway.
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoActually the easiest answer is “no” because it doesn’t require cognitive dissonance.
minus-squareHexarei@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThere’s no cognitive dissonance in negating a false negative
minus-squarePapaStevesy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoWhat false negative? If he can lift it then he didn’t create a stone he can’t lift. Can he make one plus one equal anything other than two?
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWell Jesus, yes. Because Jesus let Himself die as well.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoBut then he respawned
minus-squareZahille7@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoYour comment made me think of this scene from American Dad
Yes. The power to do literally anything would allow one to do this.
Can he create a stone that is not liftable and then proceed to lift it?
The easiest answer to this is yes, he could create a stone he couldn’t lift. And then he could lift it anyway.
Actually the easiest answer is “no” because it doesn’t require cognitive dissonance.
There’s no cognitive dissonance in negating a false negative
What false negative? If he can lift it then he didn’t create a stone he can’t lift. Can he make one plus one equal anything other than two?
Well Jesus, yes. Because Jesus let Himself die as well.
But then he respawned
Mhm
Your comment made me think of this scene from American Dad