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    Challenges→The absolute sense of omnipotence (having the power to bring about any state of affairs whatsoever, including necessary and impossible ones) is incoherent.

    P3 misconstrues the relevant counterfactual by assuming necessary truths are metaphysically independent of divine will.

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    • 1.If necessary truths are independent of divine will, God cannot determine logical laws, making divinity subject to external constraints.
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    • 2.Classical theism requires God's omnipotence, which entails power over all truths, including necessary ones.
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    • 3.The counterfactual assumes a distinction between divine will and necessity that undermines God's absolute metaphysical supremacy.
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    • 1.Necessary truths (like logical laws) can be independent of divine will without limiting omnipotence—omnipotence needn't include logical impossibilities.
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    • 2.God's omnipotence is coherently defined as maximal power consistent with logic, not power to violate logical necessity itself.
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    • 3.Assuming divine will determines necessity creates paradoxes (Can God make contradictions true?) that the independence view elegantly avoids.
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