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    It is not the case that Zeus cannot cause a person to be born before that person's parents.

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    • 1.Divine omnipotence, as articulated by Descartes, extends even to eternal truths and logical necessities, which God freely ordained.
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    • 2.If God created the laws of logic, God is not bound by them, making 'logical impossibility' an insufficient constraint on divine power.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The concept of 'parents' is indexically defined relative to a causal order that an omnipotent God could restructure entirely.
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    • 2.If God can reorder the causal structure of time itself, then the relational fact 'born before parents' may dissolve rather than persist as a genuine constraint.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Zeus's power is limited to what is logically possible.
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    • 2.Causing a person to be born before that person's parents is logically impossible.
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