God's Omnipotence: The Paradox Of The Stone

Aside from the fact that he is able to save us from hell he created the Universe instantly and perfectly. Thats a lot of power! Demonstrating a great amount of power he made the stars the sun the earth and everything in it. The very first verse of the bible, which is 100% true, clearly says, ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The Odyssey gods are definitely not infinitely powerful because it took them a really long time to create a non perfect world and they were the ones who introduced sin into the world not human beings. Surprisingly when the gods want someone dead it takes them a long time to do it because their power is limited. When Poseidon, mad at Odysseus, tried to kill Odysseus in chapter 9 in the Odyssey but he fail multiple times. Since all the gods power is divided he only controlled the sea. So the gods had no power compared to the never ending power of

I found that Lewis' argument for God’s omnipotence being limited to that which is possible intriguing, but if I may be bold not wholly biblical. Lewis’ argument is that God’s power is limited to that which is “intrinsically possible,” that Is things in which He has established as law. However, he does not to assume that miracles do not occur, for miracles could be described as God suspending the reality of His laws, not simultaneously acting in two opposing ways. For it is not as though God's “power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense.” Nonsense is precisely described by Lewis as an “intrinsic impossibly."An example of an intrinsic impossibility that Lewis explains is that, “God can give a creature free will and at the same time withhold free will from it.” What he reckons from this statement is that one is saying nothing at all if what he is saying is

Yet even with the power of omniscience limited in such a manner, certain logical impossibilities remain, such as the one queried in the title. In response to this, I turn to an argument posited by Thomas Aquinas, namely that an omniscient being can do anything so long as its subject is compatible with its predicate, and it

Joy Harjo’s “Remember” seems at first to be a simple plea from an unidentified speaker that the listener (standing in for all people) “remember.” “Remember you are this universe and this / universe is you” (lines 21-22), says the speaker. Throughout the poem, the speaker tells the listener to remember sixteen times; “remember” is an anaphora, a repetitive command by the speaker that seems to indicate that “remembering” is what the poem is about. Look deeper, though, and the poem seems to be about the interconnectedness of all things, and understanding that people, nature (plants and animals), the earth and sky, and the universe are all connected and related to each other. Look even deeper, though, and the essence of the poem becomes obvious:

Being all powerful means he can execute and accomplish any given task, meaning God in truth can fix and change anything and everything for the better. And if God is all-knowing, then God should already know the outcome and destination of every single individual in the world. Lastly, if God is all caring then he is looking for our best interest. God wants us to live comfortably among each other. And if we do in truth live comfortably and everyone lives comfortably among one another then. It would enable a world where wars are extinguished, along with crime and poverty. But that is not the case. God willingly watch us live our lives miserably in an even more miserable world. A world where humans, animals are placed in a chain; where our very own survival is based upon fitness. So in actuality this happens to be false, and if this is false then god is not genuinely all-caring. If god is actually all-knowing, all-powerful, all-caring, he would do something about this. He has the power to intervene and change things but for reasons unknown chooses otherwise

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The traditional God in the Judeo-Christian tradition is known to be as an “Omni-God” possessing particular divine attributes such as omniscient, which means he knows everything he is also omnipotent, or all powerful. God has also been said to be also he is omnipresence which means he exists in all places and present everywhere, however there are many philosophical arguments on whether if any of that is actually true or if there is a God at all. This paper argues that it is not possible to know whether the traditional God exists or not. While there have been philosophers such as Aquinas, Anselm, Paley and Kierkegaard who are for god and present strong argument, likewise philosopher like Nietzsche and arguments like the problem of evil both make valid point on why God isn’t real.

Cleanthes in his response believes that a God like this, one that’s power is not limitless, can rule the present universe

Therefore, it is not the case that God is an omnipotent and wholly good being.

In this paper, we will discuss only 5 of these attributes: omnipotence, immutability, impassibility, timelessness and omniscience. Gregory Boyd summarizes these 5 attributes in his book Is God to Blame? (pp 42-43)

Social Stability is Not Worth Sacrificing Everything Ha Pham La Quinta High School English 12: EWRC Mr. Johnston March 10, 2024. Social Stability is Not Worth Sacrificing Everything Social stability is undeniably a crucial element in human life, but is it worth sacrificing everything else? In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the World State establishes social stability by controlling almost every aspect of its citizens. In this dystopian future envisioned by Huxley, people are not born but rather manufactured through advanced science and technology and are sorted into a caste system before they are even alive.

The argument against the existence of God is incompatible with the existence of an all-loving, all-powerful God.

I posit that God if [He] does exist is ageless, timeless, omniscient, and omnipresent insofar as He exists in a dimension outside time and three-dimensional space. Because of that, and given the limits of epistemic accessibility, it seems rather impossible to say with certainty what about God is objectively true. In fact, to say anything more than that outside of what is possibly or probably the case concerning God, is akin to poetry, a series of metaphors characterizing a hyper-dimensional being. In fact, it seems odd to attach a gender to the Divine, much less an anthropomorphic form with such certainty. From hereafter, I propose that we refer to God as either an ‘It’ or, if one felt so inclined, seeing as only a mother could incubate life prior to birth, I propose

Before we begin our journey into the analysis of omnipotence, we need to frame this term within a particular definition, so that our discussion of the word will stay focused and clear. The word omnipotent itself means something having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force. Or in more modern and easy to understand terms: all-powerful. However, there is a caveat to such a simple definition. If we impose the meaning of the word omnipotence itself as the functional definition of one of God’s divine attributes, we encounter some problems. These problems were recognized early on in church history. The first problem that I will address is whether divine omnipotence means the ability to do anything, or whether it means the ability to a particular set of things. “But how art thou omnipotent, if thou art not capable of all things?” According to Anselm, we need to distinguish acts of doing into two categories. One category is the act of doing something that is powerful. The second category is the act of doing something that is impotent, or showing weakness. When a being performs an act that is impotent, it also gives the forces which are contrary to that being greater power over itself. An example that Anselm gives to demonstrate an impotent act is the ability to become corrupted. Being corruptible is worse than being incorruptible. When you are corruptible,

Parry associates sheol as “the realm of the dead” or “the dead zone”. It is “inaccessible to the living”. For him, YHWH represents the living that gives life to people, and death is the “opposite of the living God”. So when Korah and his company decide to rebel against Moses and Aaron, YHWH opened up the ground and swallowed the wicked men; they went “down alive into sheol”. This shows how YHWH punishes those who distance themselves from Him, the living, by sending them away to Sheol that “devours the earth”. Parry describes these wicked men who “cannot remember God … they are cut off”.