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Old 04-30-2009, 10:47 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by impaul99 View Post

In mathematical terms I could see this being possible if God created a copy of himself first...Since Infinity + Infinity = Infinity it's mathematically doable. He then took the cloned version of himself and with the cloned versions permission did 2 things:
1) Took away 100% free will, giving him only 20% lets say.
2) Made the cloned part forget that he is a copy of God and therefore 100% in control, otherwise without the forgetting the experiment wouldn't work.
I know this is still a fun topic to ponder but mathematically it cannot be done.
In the world of Transfinite numbers that rule is true about the lower infinities. But the highest infinity - The Absolute Infinite - which would be the one representing God cannot be manipulated with math.
There is a thing called the "Reflection Principle" which says any description you have of the Absolute is only a reflection of the actual thing. So it can't be used to make conclusive statements. In math god is unknowable.

Still a good intellectual topic.
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