Sentences with phrase «omnipotence means»

If God is «omnipotent in the sense of being the only power there is... where there is not competing power, omnipotence means little... The power that counts is the power to influence the exercise of power by others.»

Omnipotence means not the highest power over other expressions of power but sole power.54

Not exact matches

The goal of omnipotence must be replaced by the desire to be Omni - Efficax, which, in the Latin means all - efficient, or all - effective.

You also misunderstand what omnipotence (all powerful) means, allowing an enti ty under your omnipotence to do something that is contrary to your desire for them, does not mean God isnt omnipotent.

By the omnipotence of God... I do not mean the potentiality by which he could do many things which he does not, but the active power by which he potently works all in all....

Facts will never render decisions between ill - conceived alternatives; and the meaning of such terms as omnipotence or goodness depends in second - type theism upon a number of conceptions which have not been clearly considered in the classic discussions (such as the marvelous one in Hume's Dialogues) of the relations of such terms to the facts of evil.

Nearly half a century on, in his wittily entitled Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes (1984), Hartshorne reviewed two meanings of «all - powerful»: the traditional, of course — the (benevolent) tyrant ideal of absolute, all determining, irresistible power18 — and what he previously had identified as the greatest possible power in a universe of multiple centers of power: «The only livable doctrine of divine power is that it influences all that happens but determines nothing in its concrete particularity.»

Other concepts are also discussed: The meaning of the Word «God, Monotheism, «God» defined, God's existence, Polytheism, Arguments for existence of God, Omnipotence, Omniscience, Immanence and Transcendence, Creation, and God as personal.

Hence we shall do well to think of the divine omnipotence as meaning cosmic Love's supreme capacity to work in and through, as well as with, the world, indefatigably and indefeasibly.

Take any traditional objection to accepting the old Platonic analogy of God as the World Soul and it can be shown that the objection stands or falls with aspects of a tradition which philosophy has been moving away from since the middle ages — for instance ideas of sheer infinity, sheer immutability, also what is usually meant by omnipotence.

By «God», of course you mean the deity character in the collection of mythologies known as the bible and by «His Word», you clearly mean the words written by men (but of course they were magically dictated by the deity character because, despite its omnipotence, it was incapable of simply «poofing» «His Word» into existence in the same manner alleged for the rest of the universe).

According to the experiential definition, the omnipotence of God simply means that the experience of change, dependence, order, value, and imperfection reflect the nature of all possible existence.

Omnipotence does not mean God's sheer existence as «almighty power without qualification.

The world stands under a curse, even if the man does not recognize it and tries to find his way in the world by the use of his reason, even if he seeks to understand it by means of the concepts of God and of omnipotence.

This phrase, «God can do all things,» is rightly understood to mean that God can do all things that are possible; and for this reason He is said to be omnipotent... God is called omnipotent because He can do all things that are possible absolutely... everything that does not imply a contradiction in terms, is numbered amongst those possible things, in respect of which God is called omnipotent: whereas whatever implies contradiction does not come within the scope of divine omnipotence, because it can not have the aspect of possibility.

It is difficult to see how he could be wrong in declaring that «omnipotence» can not mean that God is literally all - powerful.

Man has departed from God; he does not see God's activity in the everyday events of the world; the thought of omnipotence is to him an empty speculation which gains meaning only if he sees God's miracles.

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.

Their positive meaning is lit up only by the fact that in this act He is this God and therefore the true God, distinguished from all false gods by the fact that they are not capable of this act, that they have not in fact accomplished it, that their supposed glory and honour and eternity and omnipotence not only do not include but exclude their self - humiliation.

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.

But he clearly doesn't mean by this that the concept of omnipotence he attributes to God is derived solely from biblical statements, for he immediately adds that «unfortunately, Scripture contains no explicit statement concerning God's omnipotence, nor does it discuss the issue in any philosophical way.»

Origen went on to argue that divine omnipotence had no meaning for him unless everything that existed subsisted in some way in the divine.

72 Further along, he explicitly affirmed that «the omnipotence of God is the power of love... To say that God is omnipotent can only mean that nothing diminishes his love.»

66 He rightly observed that God «is omnicompetent, that he can appropriately deal with any circumstance that arises; nothing can ultimately defeat or destroy him,» 67 but he believed this is only a working out of the inherent meaning of omnipotence while, elsewhere, he gave that word its far more classical tonalities.

First, Divine Omnipotence: God creates and shapes us through the process of evolution: how can we suppose, or fear, that He will arbitrarily interfere with the very means whereby He fulfills His purpose?

I have also explained that potentiality here does not mean what most have meant by omnipotence, as though God could, as it were, say «Let there be such - and - such,» and there would be such - and - such.

It means that the Son will soon shed the impotence of his humanity and regain the omnipotence of his divinity and be back with the Father who has guided and protected him while he lived as a human being on earth.

Omnipotence does nt mean the ability to do things that are logically impossible (God cant for example do evil)

==================== @LinCA «You said, «Omnipotence does nt mean the ability to do things that are logically impossible (God cant for example do evil)» So when god created everything, it didn't also create evil?

We can not identify him by referring to some formal characteristic like righteousness or love (for everything depends upon the particular concrete meaning of such a term: other «Gods» have been thought of as loving and righteous, not to mention omnipotence, omniscience, and the rest).

You said, «Omnipotence does nt mean the ability to do things that are logically impossible (God cant for example do evil)» So when god created everything, it didn't also create evil?