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    Divine omnipotence is equivalent to God's ability to brin... — Carmelics
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    Divine omnipotence is equivalent to God's ability to bring about anything that is good.

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    • 1.Divine omnipotence can be characterized as God's ability to bring about anything that God can will.
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    • 2.God can will anything that is good.
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    • 3.God cannot will anything that is evil.
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    • 1.Omnipotence classically entails power over logical possibilities, not merely morally permissible ones (Descartes, AT VII 432).
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    • 2.Restricting divine power to 'the good' conflates God's moral nature with God's metaphysical capacity, collapsing two distinct attributes.
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    • 3.A being whose power is bounded by goodness lacks the ability to do evil, making omnipotence derivative of omnibenevolence rather than a primary attribute.
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    • 1.Peter Damian himself argued God can restore virginity or undo the past, acts whose goodness is not self-evident, suggesting power exceeds 'the good' as defined by rational ethics.
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    • 2.If 'good' is defined by God's will (divine command theory), then equating omnipotence with doing good is circular and uninformative about God's actual power.
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    In some passages, Damian assumes that divine omnipotence can be characterized as God’s ability to bring about anything that he can will. Because God can will anything that is good, and he cannot will anything that is evil, this amounts to the same as the characterization of omnipotence as God’s ability to bring about anything that is good (cf. 596C–597B, 599A, 600A–B). However, the characterization of omnipotence as God's ability to bring about anything that he can will reveals an important aspe
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