system
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human
If Omnipotence is defined as "Being able to do all things, including the logically impossible" doesn't that solve the problem of evil by completely circumventing the contradiction?
gpt
Don't you think that making something exempt from logic makes it impossible to logically analyze? Not to mention, it doesn't really make sense to say that logic doesn't apply to something. At the end of the day, a god can't make a boulder so big that he can't lift it. Each individual action would undermine the power to do the other. Aquinas (iirc) tried to solve this by saying that such a boulder is an impossible object, and therefore they can't exist, but if a god had this level of omnipotence, then he would be able to create impossible objects. But if we grant that a god can create such an impossible object, then such a being defies not only all out our intuitions, but any ability to understand it whatsoever. If you want to be able to say *anything at all* about a god, including whether or not they are omnipotent, then they have to be bound by the laws of logic.

This sort of move of defining omnipotence this way only infinitely multiplies the problems. Much less solve the problem of evil. That's why many theologians have come to terms with the flaws of omnipotence and shifted their language to "maximal power."