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    Peter Damian argued that God can restore virginity retroa... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→No agent, not even an omnipotent one, can bring it about that (a) obtains.

    Peter Damian argued that God can restore virginity retroactively, suggesting omnipotence may include power over logical and historical necessity.

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    • 1.Omnipotence logically requires power over all possibilities, including altering past states without changing present facts.
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    • 2.Logical necessity derives from created concepts; God transcends creation and can redefine the framework in which logic operates.
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    • 3.If God cannot alter the past, His power is constrained by time itself—making time a force independent of divine will.
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    • 1.True omnipotence doesn't include logical contradictions; retroactively changing the past while keeping present reality intact is self-contradictory.
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    • 2.If past events can be rewritten while their effects remain, causality becomes meaningless and knowledge becomes impossible.
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    • 3.Grounding omnipotence in ability to violate logic makes the concept unintelligible rather than maximally powerful.
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