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Tuesday, May 13, 09:15:51pmLogin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 123456[7]8910 ]
Subject: But it isn't.


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Damoclese
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Date Posted: 03/14/04 8:01am
In reply to: Wade A. Tisthammer 's message, "Non sequitur" on 03/13/04 10:31pm

>
>Yes, I agree that God must be greater than a state of
>non-being if premise 2 is correct.


No. That's not qui the it. Nothing IS a state of non being.
God, being the greatest being, has to be the grandest non being. (as non-being is simply the null state of being)

But premise 7
>read, “God must be the greater nothing.” But I fail
>to see why God must be any kind of nothing from
>premise 2.

Because if God is the greatest being, he has to be the greatest when it comes to non-being, as non-being is simply a null state of being.

Additionally, premise 9 read, “Therefore,
>being the greatest nothing, there is no God” also
>seems a tad non sequitur.

If God is the greatest nothing, and nothing is a lack of being or the null state of being, then it stands to reason that there is no God. (otherwise, what exactly does God being the grandest nothing mean?)

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Oh yes it is.Wade A. Tisthammer03/15/04 12:15pm


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