Re: prove this statement with math?

Ο "Stephen Montgomery-Smith" <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> έγραψε στο μήνυμα
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> In relation to this, in Titus 1:12 of the Bible, the Apostle Paul makes
> a reference to the famous Cretan liar paradox, but writing it in a style
> as if to suggest that he simply doesn't get it.

Which is an altered version of the Epimenides Paradox:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EpimenidesParadox.html

> I'm not sure whether this is Paul being a bit dim, Paul is making a
> rather subtle joke, or the Holy Spirit is subtly telling the rest of the
> world just what He thinks of statements like "Could an omnipotent God
> create an object so heavy that He cannot lift it?". My sense is that
> Pascal was alluding to the third explanation.

The original version, as far as I can recall, has a *Cretan* saying this,
thus creating the paradox. The difference is that in Titus, Paul simply uses
it as an example of laziness and ungreatfulness. No paradox is implied,
since Paul was not a Cretan.

However, I am a Cretan, so you might want to double check the above :-)

> Stephen
--
I. N. Galidakis
http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/jgal/
Eventually, _everything_ is understandable

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