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Matter impotent
 
 
 
 
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Matter impotent

Is the woodman's axe, which destroys a tree's so-called life, superior to omnipotence? Can a leaden bullet de- prive a man of Life, - that is, of God, who is man's Life? If God is at the mercy of matter, then matter is omnipotent. Such doctrines are "confu- sion worse confounded." If two statements directly con- tradict each other and one is true, the other must be false. Is Science thus contradictory?