eternal truths but He no longer has that power. Another problem is that in creating and freely choosing to subject Himself to the laws of logic, God creates things that depend on Him for their character and existence but which He cannot control, which are both dependent and independent of Him. Further, the notion that God can create the laws of logic and then be subject to them is a strange one. La Croix obviously presents it to refute the incoherence charge brought on by the claim that God can do the logically impossible and change the laws of logic. But it is really no easier to swallow as the notion it refutes. It seems to me that in trying to attribute to Descartes a picture of a God who cannot do the logically impossible, La Croix paints a picture of a God who has His own new set of difficulties. ...
