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Omnipotent, Responses to omnipotence, God's existence is prior to…
Omnipotent
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Potential LImitations
"God is not man , that he should lie." - choosing not to lie, or physically can't.
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Can God ride a bicycle? If God is not embodied it's hard to see how he could. Why can't he be embodied? No reason why he can't
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A perfectly good and powerful God would not have created evil: is there some flaw/limitation somewhere that caused it to happen?
Biblical references
"But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases." - Psalm 115:3 - he has the power to do whatever he wants
"And God said "Let there be light" and there was light" - Genesis 1:3 - he wishes it into existence, his power shaped the universe as we know it.
"Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; His understanding is beyond measure." - Psalm 147:5
"I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son" - Genesis 18:10 - physical omnipotence, ability to create life and take it away
"who then can be saved?" Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible"
"And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings." - Acts 17:26 - predeterminism, he has the power to dictate the lives of everyone
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Responses to omnipotence
Logical paradoxes are the result of the limitations of human thinking and language
- John Macquarrie and Thomas Aquinas
God is not omnipotent per se, but is 'unsurpassably great'
A.N. Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne
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God could make 2+2 = 5 because God is the supreme perfection and therefore has no limitations.
Descartes states that although we may not be able to understand how a God exists (because we are limited by human understanding), God can see how to be self-contradictory because he is omnipotent.
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