The Law of Non-Contradiction
Now let us apply the law of non contradiction to the deity of Jesus.
1) God does not die
2) Jesus died
3) If Jesus is God then God both died and does not die.
4) The Undeniable Law of Non-Contradiction says that it cannot be the case that God died and does not die.
5) Therefore we are left with the case that Jesus is not God.
By invoking the law of non-contradiction, I regret to say that you have built your argument on sand. The law is unverifiable, unfalseifiable, begs the question, is circular, and also most importantly in the way you use it irrelevant. It is far from self-evident, as you claim.
Here is a counter-example, which I cribbed from the following link.
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/phenom/old/lawnon.html
Light (l) is both a particle (P) and a wave (W). It makes sense to then say that (for all l) not (l is P and l is not P) and this statement is true because light is both a particle and not a particle.
But there is a more basic problem. "Not P" and "P" contradict each other, but only if "P" is "something". For example, do the following statements contradict each other? (a). All bobbles are jhjtssda. (b). All ghgad are bobbles. The answer is: who knows, as the sentences are incoherent. The same is true with metaphysical statements. Such statements leave us with neither affirming nor denying. They cannot be answered at all.
Now, let's apply the law to your propositions by simply asking whether God (p1) = Jesus (p2) and whether die in reference to p1 = die in reference to p2. In the absence of certainly about those asserted logical equivalences, it seems evident that the law of non-contradiction has no relevancy to the propositions you are trying to disprove. These propositions (or their rebuttal) may not be meaningless statements, but they are outside of what logic can tell us.
1) God does not die
2) Jesus died
3) If Jesus is God then God both died and does not die.
4) The Undeniable Law of Non-Contradiction says that it cannot be the case that God died and does not die.
5) Therefore we are left with the case that Jesus is not God.
By invoking the law of non-contradiction, I regret to say that you have built your argument on sand. The law is unverifiable, unfalseifiable, begs the question, is circular, and also most importantly in the way you use it irrelevant. It is far from self-evident, as you claim.
Here is a counter-example, which I cribbed from the following link.
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/phenom/old/lawnon.html
Light (l) is both a particle (P) and a wave (W). It makes sense to then say that (for all l) not (l is P and l is not P) and this statement is true because light is both a particle and not a particle.
But there is a more basic problem. "Not P" and "P" contradict each other, but only if "P" is "something". For example, do the following statements contradict each other? (a). All bobbles are jhjtssda. (b). All ghgad are bobbles. The answer is: who knows, as the sentences are incoherent. The same is true with metaphysical statements. Such statements leave us with neither affirming nor denying. They cannot be answered at all.
Now, let's apply the law to your propositions by simply asking whether God (p1) = Jesus (p2) and whether die in reference to p1 = die in reference to p2. In the absence of certainly about those asserted logical equivalences, it seems evident that the law of non-contradiction has no relevancy to the propositions you are trying to disprove. These propositions (or their rebuttal) may not be meaningless statements, but they are outside of what logic can tell us.
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