tuart rambled: "If I read you right, you are saying that omnipotence is
dependent on our
assumptions. No offense, but that is kind of arrogant, and I'm sure you know
the
old 'ass of you and me' joke. What else could omnipotence mean, than all
power,
supreme control, absolute jurisdiction over all creation. I fear you are
making
the classic mistake of ascribing human limitation to the divine province. I
mean
no offence, John, we are all somewhat guilty of it. Christ said, Ye shall
know
the truth, and the truth shall set you free. Do you not feel that God is
truly
omnipotent? It may be easier to understand omnipotence if you allow the
other
qualities associated with the supreme being, omniscience, and omnipresence,
or
the all-knowing, the only true knowledge, the only true intelligence, even
the
only Mind, and all-presence, the only presence, the true being of being,
that
which Paul spoke of in which 'we live, and move and have our being'. I do
not
think that God tries to control our thoughts a
nd actions, but that we don't always listen for and acknowledge the true
thoughts, or the liberating wisdom and intelligence which He is steadily
supplying us with. That is why He sent His son for our salvation, so we
might
learn, through the Wayshower, how to better listen and obey the call of
omnipotent wisdom and intelligence, which brings the light of salvation, and
which is the benefit of having 'that mind in us which was also in Christ
Jesus'."
I'm sure the above holds together for you, my friend. It does not for me.
Many words; little content. Sorry.
One may ascribe omnipotence to God if he wishes. The advocates of Open
Theism seem to have a pretty good argument against it.
Let me, for argument's sake, assume omnipotence, in which I neither believe
nor disbelievem BTW.
Assuming onnipotence on the part of God, it seems easy to also assume he
chooses not to exercise that omnipotence in some instances.
And that was all I said. That he does so seems (to me) irrefutable.
Burgy
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