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>>but creating a new system doesn't affect the old one in the slightest.

>The idea of "new doesn't affect old" is an idea based on logical and temporal consistency. God is not bound to those.

I'm not a theologist, but I don't think god recreating the world such that 3 is not prime would affect the discussion if 3 is prime right now.

In fact, I don't think god is even capable of making 3 not prime. Prime numbers are defined such that 3 is prime, it's not possible and a logical contradiction to make 3 composite without changing the definition. And the discussion is about the current definition.

>In fact the current system of odd/even - as well as any other system and law, including the "excluded middle" - can be understood to be God's arbitrary creation

But it's a human creation, god didn't invent parity or formal logic.



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