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    It is not the case that Peter Damian argued that God can restore virginity retroactively, suggesting omnipotence may include power over logical and historical necessity.

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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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    • 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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