The Omnipotence Paradox

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipotence_paradox \ If a being is essentially omnipotent, then it can also resolve the paradox (as long as we take omnipotence not to require absolute omnipotence). The omnipotent being is essentially omnipotent, and therefore it is impossible for it to be non-omnipotent. Further, the omnipotent being cannot do what is logically impossible. The creation of a stone which the omnipotent being cannot lift would be an impossibility, and therefore the omnipotent being is not required to do such a thing. The omnipotent being cannot create such a stone, but nevertheless retains its omnipotence. This solution works even with definition 2, as long as we also know the being is essentially omnipotent rather than accidentally so. \ This was essentially the position taken by Augustine of Hippo in his The City of God: \ “ For He is called omnipotent on account of His doing what He wills, not on account of His suffering what He wills not; for if that should befall Him, He would by no means be omnipotent. Wherefore, He cannot do some things for the very reason that He is omnipotent.[19] ” \ Thus Augustine argued that God could not do anything or create any situation that would in effect make God not God. \ Some philosophers maintain that the paradox can be resolved if the definition of omnipotence includes Descartes’ view that an omnipotent being can do the logically impossible. In this scenario, the omnipotent being could create a stone which it cannot lift, but could also then lift the stone anyway. Presumably, such a being could also make the sum 2 + 2 = 5 become mathematically possible or create a square triangle. This attempt to resolve the paradox is problematic in that the definition itself forgoes logical consistency. The paradox may be solved, but at the expense of making the logic a paraconsistent logic. This might not seem like a problem if one is already committed to dialetheism or some other form of logical transcendence. \ Others have argued that (alluding to C.S. Lewis’ argument; see scholastic definition of omnipotence), that when talking about omnipotence, referencing "a rock so heavy that God cannot lift it" is nonsense just as much as referencing "a square circle." So asking "Can God create a rock so heavy that even he cannot lift it?" is just as much nonsense as asking "Can God draw a square circle?" Therefore the question (and therefore the perceived paradox) is meaningless. To address the Omnipotence Paradox; "Can god create a stone so big that he cannot lift it?" The question "Can god create a stone so big that he cannot lift it?" attempts to force only one of two possible answers; they are that "God can create the stone, but cannot lift it" and "God cannot create the stone." At a first glance, this seems to be the case. Thus the answer answers the question. However, the answer depends on a characteristic forced into the argument, that God does not allegedly have. The characteristic here is that God is a robot. God has no choice/no free will. Thus the argument of the omnioptence paradox is fully correct if God has no choice in creating/lifting the stone and by not creating or lifting the stone, his power is diminished somehow -"god exhibits a weakness". But this is precisely the problem. The argument requires that God is forced to both create a stone (that's too heavy for him to lift) and then lift it. It must be remembered that God has free-will. If God has free-will, then he can choose not to lift the stone that is "too heavy for him to lift". The argument is inherently flawed in its use of the word "cannot". This word should be replaced with "choose not". Again, the argument is set up in a way that God as a concept cannot get round basic semantic impossibilities. The real answer to this is that it is the argument that exposes a weakness, and through its weakness, God is weak - the logical outcome of a weak argument. If I asked you to "walk down the street whilst standing still" or if I asked you to "sit down whilst standing up" and any other form of stupidity thereof, what would that say about me? It'd say that, clearly, I had no grasp of either walking, standing, sitting, standing and or/language. What if I were to say, instead, "You can walk down the street or stand still" or "you can sit down or stand up". What then? Your choice would be possible. It is the question that makes the answer impossible. The question is completely false.