What would you ask a person who knew everything?

[Ziggy Stardust]

Say you met a person who knew EVERYTHING. You tested this fact and know it to be true. You're ready to ask him/her for all the answers to questions that you've ever wanted to know. What do you ask?

For the sake of argument, we'll say that the limit on questions is '10' and there is no limit on the time/length of the answers you might be given.

Are you happy?

Reason being that being bereft of the chance to learn and experience new things must be a bummer.

How do I convert the most people to Christianity possible so they don't go to Hell?

I'll give you some friendly advice. I don't think your current solution of spamming every thread with attempting to do this works and is in fact counter productive. You will get thumbs up from peers, but you will alienate those who did not ask to be subjected to it. Even distancing them more from your intended goal. Keep it to a thread where people come on their own account and are more willing to listen. Advertise that thread in your sig so people know where to go.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Are you happy?

Reason being that being bereft of the chance to learn and experience new things must be a bummer.

If only there were only 10 things I didn't know

 

[AlpsStranger]

I'm changing my vote.

I would settle for asking the person who knew everything the results of the 2012 elections. The suspense is killing me and I'd rather just rip that band-aid off, hair and all.

 

[GhostWriter16]

I'll give you some friendly advice. I don't think your current solution of spamming every thread with attempting to do this works and is in fact counter productive. You will get thumbs up from peers, but you will alienate those who did not ask to be subjected to it. Even distancing them more from your intended goal. Keep it to a thread where people come on their own account and are more willing to listen. Advertise that thread in your sig so people know where to go.

That was actually my serious answer to the question.

Guess I shouldn't bother

 

[Old Hippy]

I'd ask God why he did not get a degree in Communications so that he could clearly communicate with his flock.... maybe ask... if the creative writing course was just not doing it

 

[Valka D'Ur]

What form of Christianity is the closest to the one you taught? (Since this person is Jesus Christ, duh.)

How do I convert the most people to Christianity possible so they don't go to Hell?

Can you take me back 1 million years into the past (The answer to this one is no)

Since Jesus never referred to his own teachings as "Christianity" (that would have been the sin of pride to name it after himself), he wouldn't know what you were talking about. And once you explained it to him, he would probably be really annoyed by your second question, since there are 47,833,907,549,823 different brand names of Christianity. You might just annoy him so much that he would send you back a million years (why couldn't he - isn't he God/Jesus Who Can Do Everything?) - right into the company of a not-very-friendly pride of carnivores and let you pray your way out.

 

[GhostWriter16]

Since Jesus never referred to his own teachings as "Christianity" (that would have been the sin of pride to name it after himself), he wouldn't know what you were talking about. And once you explained it to him, he would probably be really annoyed by your second question, since there are 47,833,907,549,823 different brand names of Christianity. You might just annoy him so much that he would send you back a million years (why couldn't he - isn't he God/Jesus Who Can Do Everything?) - right into the company of a not-very-friendly pride of carnivores and let you pray your way out.

Jesus wasn't that vengeful But in all seriousness, the insinuation was that, since Earth is less than 10,000 years old, I can't go back 1 million

 

[Souron]

Usually ceationists assert that there had to be a time before God created the heavens and the earth. It was an empty time, but a time none the less.

 

[GhostWriter16]

Usually ceationists assert that there had to be a time before God created the heavens and the earth. It was an empty time, but a time none the less.

Define "Time."

Since I believe God is outside it, there would have been no time before Genesis 1:1, unless God had a different universe before this one.

Now what is between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2 is an interesting question.

 

[Souron]

It is indeed possible, and in fact consistant with the Big Bang model, that time had a beginning. However, many people have a dificult time imagining and accepting this idea. They are always tempted to ask "what was before the beginning" and expect there to be an answer.

However, a different univerce could not have come before this one if time had a beginning; that would be a contradiction. It would mean the beginning is not really the beginning, and that other so called "universe" would be part of our own past.

 

[Mise]

Jesus wasn't that vengeful But in all seriousness, the insinuation was that, since Earth is less than 10,000 years old, I can't go back 1 million

God can create 1,000,000 years worth of history for you to go back into, if he's truly omnipotent.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

It is indeed possible, and in fact consistant with the Big Bang model, that time had a beginning. However, many people have a dificult time imagining and accepting this idea. They are always tempted to ask "what was before the beginning" and expect there to be an answer.

However, a different univerce could not have come before this one if time had a beginning; that would be a contradiction. It would mean the beginning is not really the beginning, and that other so called "universe" would be part of our own past.

Been a while for me, but isn't time a part of the characteristics of one universe? While another universe may not have that characteristic?

So what I'm asking is, can this universe, with the occurrence of time be caused by another universe (like it happens in the membrane theory) where time does not exist?

I'm asking out of ignorance. I can see how a membrane collision causes enormous amounts of energy which can be converted to matter, but I'm not sure whether such an equation exists for time as well.

 

[Borachio]

God can create 1,000,000 years worth of history for you to go back into, if he's truly omnipotent.

Yup. Come to think of it, what can't God do?

Clearly he can do all things impossible, since by definition any miracle is impossible.

So what is there, beyond the possible and the impossible, that God can't do?

Hmmm.

 

[Flying Pig]

The impossible things that God can't do are to the tune of 'creating a rock that he can't lift', or 'draw a square circle'.

 

[Borachio]

Nay. That's just silly. For of course God can do both those. Look over there. He just did.

Crazy I know, but don't blame me.

That's omnipotence for you.

 

[Oruc]

I would ask where and how he learned everything

 

[GhostWriter16]

Nay. That's just silly. For of course God can do both those. Look over there. He just did.

Crazy I know, but don't blame me.

That's omnipotence for you.

You should chat with Plotinus about that, but generally God can't do the logically impossible, at least I think that's what Plotinus said is the case in most definitions of omnipotence.

Noting that "Impossible" doesn't mean simply stuff that we can't conceive of, but actually impossible. For instance, a rock that an omnipotent being can't lift cannot exist, so he can't make one, because he could lift it since he's omnipotent.

A "Square circle" are two diifferent words we invented combined in an implausible combination. A "Square" has four sides. A "Circle" has none whatsoever. So how can something have four sides and none at the same time? That's a logical contradiction.

So yeah, I think Flying Pig is right, although that's probably a really complex question that Plotinus could explain well...

 

[Traitorfish]

I think the key to omnipotence is freedom from causality, rather than freedom from possibility. An omnipotent can bring about any possible state of affairs without reference to any previously existing state of affairs, but the new state of affairs must be within the terms of possibility as determined by the universe in which it exists.

 

[AlpsStranger]

What form of Christianity is the closest to the one you taught? (Since this person is Jesus Christ, duh.)

How do I convert the most people to Christianity possible so they don't go to Hell?

Can you take me back 1 million years into the past (The answer to this one is no)

I'm not sure why GhostWriter16 even needs to talk to this person since he already knows everything

 

[Global Skeptic]

I think the key to omnipotence is freedom from causality, rather than freedom from possibility. An omnipotent can bring about any possible state of affairs without reference to any previously existing state of affairs, but the new state of affairs must be within the terms of possibility as determined by the universe in which it exists.

Yes, that might be so, but since God created the universe God could create the Universe so that God could do it.
The problem is this; if God is beyond/before everything, then God is before logic. If we then claim God is logic, then we have claimed God is limited, because there is something beyond God's reach, namely the illogical.