Divine Omnipotence and Divine Omniscience: A Reply to Michael Martin |
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| Authors: | Noreen E. Johnson |
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| Affiliation: | (1) University of Minnesota Law School, 1849 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA |
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| Abstract: | In Atheism: A Philosophical Justification, Michael Martin argues that to posit a God that is both omnipotent and omniscient is philosophically incoherent. I challenge this argument by proposing that a God who is necessarily omniscient is more powerful than a God who is contingently omniscient. I then argue that being omnipotent entails being omniscient by showing that for an all-powerful being to be all-powerful in any meaningful way, it must possess complete knowledge about all states of affairs and thus must be understood to be omniscient. |
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| Keywords: | Omnipotence Omniscience Theism |
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