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Setting aside that I've never once actually heard those questions asked in good faith, if someone were to ask them in good faith, pointing out that they themselves have created an unanswerable question by placing words together that don't make sense is easy.

What makes a lie a lie? Its untrueness. So if you replace the untrueness with trueness, do you still have a lie? No. Your own usage of those words is incompatible.

What makes a triangle a triangle? Having exactly 3 angles in an enclosed figure, and, therefore, three sides. So if you added a fourth angle, would you still have a triangle? No. Your own usage of those words is incompatible.

The law of noncontradiction does not restrict God. It comes from God. It is a characteristic of God.

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"The law of noncontradiction does not restrict God. It comes from God. It is a characteristic of God."

Does it come from God and is it a characteristic of God?

I'd be curious to hear how you know this.

I would agree, however, that an omnipotent god (if one existed) would not be restricted by anything, including any human conceptions such as logic.

> an omnipotent god (if one existed) would not be restricted by anything, including any human conceptions such as logic.

Logic is not constrained to human conceptions but is objectively valid. One has to keep in mind that logic is based on premises and inferences. Given the premises and inference rules, the conclusion automatically follow.

So a four sided circle cannot exist because we have defined circle to be a particular shape. A valid four sided circle would need a change in the definition of circle itself. But then we're not talking about the same thing anymore. Similarly, the same universe cannot contain both an irresistible force and an immovable object, because of the conflicting definitions of those terms.

Even an omnipotent God is constrained by logic. In a reality without logic, it'd meaningless to try to understand any aspect of reality. God can both exist and not exist at the same time. He can be both Good and Evil. Conscious beings can be both alive and dead. It is hard to see how a illogical universe can retain any meaning that we attribute to God and Creation.

> The law of noncontradiction does not restrict God. It comes from God. It is a characteristic of God.

And that sentence works equally well with two gods, nine gods, and even 400 million gods, of which 200 million have since died.

Stop making up stuff.

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