Sentences with phrase «independent omnipotent being»

If this were not the case, then Satan would have the powers of an independent omnipotent being, something Christian doctrine doesn't allow.

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God is «the Omnipotent» (AH 2.5.4), free and independent, «the Lord Omnipotent» (4.17.3,5).9 And this is especially reflected in God's act of initial creation.
On the other hand his control and efficacy operate not by arbitrary (that is to say, independent and «omnipotent») overruling, nor by being the only active elements in the occasion; but by the persuasive molding of new possibilities, by redirecting the pressures of prior actualities, by providing new opportunity for advance, and by offering the «lure» which evokes from each occasion in the ongoing process the movement towards satisfaction of its «subjective aim».
Unless you claim to be able to provide a systemic framework of thought, independent of an omnipotent creator, that can explain why our reality is bound by certain fundamental rules that we can not break.
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