I disagree. Essentially, after we established that can God know what it’s like to not know something via everything being informational and God having all the right tools to understand this information, you didn’t successfully refute this argument. If you think you did, show me where, and I’ll show you where I countered and then we can compare them directly.
We addressed the distinction between being a part of God and being God. We addressed the distinction between 1) knowing x and not knowing x at the same time (paradoxical) and how this is not the same as 2) knowing x and what it’s like to not know x (not paradoxical)
You’ve still to not clearly said, do you acknowledge the distinction between 1 and 2? My understanding is that you still insist that the item of knowledge you’re proposing: Namely, knowing x and not knowing x at the same time, is something that is knowable/not absurd.
I also made a clear distinction between how parts can be a certain way, without affecting the definition of the whole here:
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You didn’t directly address the post. You reiterated what you said and brought in the concept of infinity. Which again, I addressed in my last post to you.
Again, we are a part of the omnipresent/omniscient/Existence. We are not it, we are a part of it. It would be paradoxical otherwise. Address this point if you’re sincere.
God is Existence, so obviously God is never gonna know non-existence. It’s not something to be known. That is absurdity. Again, God knows what it’s like to not know something. This does not amount to knowing x and not know x at the same time. See, I addressed your point again, but you keep avoiding this very point. Address it directly if you’re genuine about philosophical debate.
That’s because you focus too much on unknowns. You don’t know the future so you don’t know how things might get balanced in terms of justice. Also, you don’t know what mechanisms kick in to counter some of the evil we see in our world. It’d take omnisience to make that judgement and it’d take omniscience to fully know the potential of all things in relation to each other. Unknowns are things that you can’t apply reason to. It’s an irrational move. By all means, if you see clear injustice and it’s clearly known to you and you want to uphold reason and morality, then do something. Perhaps give to charity and hope that you were part of the mechanism for some kind of justice (in this case wealth distribution), but don’t make assumptions about things that are outside your realm of knowledge like this wrong/injustice will never be righted.
It’s matter of reason. Knowns outweigh unknowns. Pure and simple. You don’t deny omnipresence just because you don’t know if existence can sustain beings with a 100 senses or not. You don’t deny the Perfect being doing/planning/designing perfectly because you don’t know the future and can’t see if things get balanced or if there is some benefit that may not have been derived otherwise. God does as it pleases, but what it does, it does perfectly because it is perfect. I can think of hypotheticals to how the evil you see can ultimately be a necessary thing in relation to bringing out the best of outcomes relative to the potential. However rejection of Existence as that which I’ve outlined, is blatantly paradoxical. You can’t give me any alternative hypotheticals. So again:
We don’t reject knowns in favour of unknowns. It’d be misguided to do so. To non-omniscient beings how God does perfectly is at times mysterious/unknown. But God always does perfectly.
It’s paradoxical so it’s meaningless.
There’s no external when it comes to Existence. That’s absurd. There’s nothing that isn’t a part of God/Existence. There’s nothing other than Existence. We’re in full agreement on this. What you don’t seem to address or acknowledge is that: We’re just a part of Existence, we are not Existence itself, we’re just a part of it. I’ve repeated this many times you either don’t understand it or you ignore it. Do you understand now?
What did I say that lead you to believe this? In any case, I acknowledge there’s a difference between the two, I don’t know where you got that idea from.