Re: Religion in LotR

On 1/20/09 10:18 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
John W Kennedy wrote:
No educated Christian, at least, believes that God can change pi.

??? The mind boggles. There are educated Christians who manage to believe
anything they want

No. If they believe such a thing, they are /not/ educated, because they are talking nonsense.

- one I've recently encountered was changing values of C.

c (I assume you mean c) is not pi.

So if "No educated Christian" believes that God can change pi, I'm sure it's
only because no such person has considered the question.

Quite the opposite.

"It remains therefore, that God is called omnipotent because He can do all things that are possible absolutely; which is the second way of saying a thing is possible. For a thing is said to be possible or impossible absolutely, according to the relation in which the very terms stand to one another, possible if the predicate is not incompatible with the subject, as that Socrates sits; and absolutely impossible when the predicate is altogether incompatible with the subject, as, for instance, that a man is a donkey."
-- Thomas Aquinas: "Summa Theologica", I, Q25, a3.

"...meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words "God can."
-- C. S. Lewis
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