Omnipotence means having unlimited power or being able to do anything.
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Plantinga's view of
omnipotence in fact is much more compatible with Griffin's than it is with Leibniz's.
Does the idolatry lie in our emulation of a divine superpower or in our confusion of God
with omnipotence in the first place?
No more privacy, civil liberties dead and tinpot dictators using the enormous power of a gun and a badge to fulfill their fantasies of
omnipotence as the stuff their bellies with donuts.
To be sure, God is for Jesus almighty, but prayer of petition involves the insight that the concept of
omnipotence by no means lies at man's disposal as a way of viewing reality, that man does not in actual fact possess the knowledge of God as the Almighty.
Jon D. Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School and the author of Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of
Divine Omnipotence (Princeton University Press) and The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity (Yale University Press).
Omnipotence means not the highest power over other expressions of power but sole power.54
Monotheism as religious imperialism is a familiar and easily understandable phenomenon, but, so far as I know, the monotheism of the Old Testament, the defiant faith of a humiliated and crushed people in the sole reality and
sovereign omnipotence of their God, is alike in its quality and consequence unique.
This clarification also allows us to analyze more clearly Griffin's claim that Plantinga commits the «
omnipotence fallacy.»
But with Tuymans — as is made abundantly clear in a powerful new exhibition at Chelsea's David Zwirner Gallery — a creative stance that has previously been pegged as imperious has finally found a theme to fully suit his austere, often detached style: the Moloch -
like omnipotence of corporations.
As
for omnipotence, a being that is the first cause of any change that takes place in the universe, and which causes such a change effortlessly because without changing in itself, can hardly be denied this attribute.
The classical theist has to limit divine
omnipotence only because of points (1) and (2) above.
2014 has already given us a similar premise of a relatively ordinary human developing god - like powers of omniscience and
near omnipotence in Transcendence, a film that Lucy has many conceptual similarities to, including the casting of Morgan Freeman in a supporting role.
When they are thought of through the metaphor of women's breasts, the connotation is even more remote
from omnipotence.
It begins with a rationalistic assumption about the attributes of God — as though we know
what omnipotence and goodness mean — and then we put that concept of God to the test of our experience of evil.
Barth's location of the discussion of
omnipotence under the perfections of freedom rather than the perfections of love proves significant in yet another way.
Griffin's other criticism is related to natural evil: «making
C omnipotence a contingent matter, and limiting its scope to human existence, means that the problem of evil in the subhuman world must be treated in terms of some other principle, and none of these has proved satisfactory» (GPE 272).
In short, Plantinga's response to Mackie is clearly not that evil is compatible with
benevolent omnipotence because all evil is nongenuine.
It encouraged the sense of divine greatness and
even omnipotence, viewing worship as an eminently appropriate response.
It would make sense for the final stone to be the major MacGuffin focus, as the Marvel Heroes try one last - ditch effort to defeat Thanos before he
gains omnipotence.
On the other hand, the proponent of «C»
omnipotence maintains that it is not logically possible for God to unilaterally control the activities of self determining beings, even if such activities are intrinsically possible, and, accordingly, can acknowledge that genuine evil is possible (GPE 269f).
However, our discussion and defense of Plantinga has shown that, when worked out coherently, the classical theist must affirm a notion of
omnipotence practically identical to that of the process theist — i.e., our discussion demonstrates that the classical theist must, like the process theist, acknowledge that human freedom places necessary limits upon God's power in both the moral and natural realms.
15 With all these caveats against
unqualified omnipotence being laid down like stepping stones to a new horizon of view, Origen finally arrived at a provocative conclusion: «we must maintain that even the power of God is finite, and we must not, under pretext of praising him, lose sight of his limitations.»
Let us now turn back the pages of time and visit another kind of challenge to the theistic consensus that has accompanied what we have just been observing, as a concomitant undercurrent — namely, that the God of unqualified and
opposable omnipotence is, in fact, not the living God of scripture at all but is, for all...
Now, when God's enemy stands before Him, He cries to God,
whose omnipotence He knows: «All things are possible with thee; let this cup pass from me» (Mark 14:36).
Aristotle first
takes omnipotence, using theological language, and defines the freedom of his first substance in that light.
If a being manages to collect and combine them all, you have what's called the complete Infinity Gauntlet, which will grant you
unparalleled omnipotence.
The Narrative of Central
Banker Omnipotence does NOT imply that the market will always go up or that central bank policy will always support the market.
Placing
omnipotence first, even before divine goodness and wisdom, is the preference not only of Christianity but also of Judaism and Islam.
Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that
omnipotence made God incomplete.
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