05 Jun '08 05:38>
Originally posted by knightmeisterI balk at this because it is incoherent. Either an entity -- irrespective of its eternal state or not --
Why do baulk at this? You presumably would not baulk at the idea that light is both a particle and a wave?
is or is not omniscient. It cannot be both.
Of course, your analogy with light is totally incongruent; being a wave or particle is not only
not mutually exclusive, but is the case with all things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave–particle_duality
I don't question it because there is no contradiction (although it is mystifying). Now, if someone
said that light is both a wave and not a wave at the same time, that would arouse the same
sentiment that I feel when you say God is both omniscient and not omniscient at the same time,
the sentiment of incredulity.
Nemesio