Sentences with phrase «of omnipotent being»

It is also conceivable that Malick is not so simply attempting to express his reverence for life through the eyes of an omnipotent being no one can fully grasp.

Religion is defined as the belief or worship of an omnipotent being, especially with of Gods.

It is their «concept» of right and wrong we are experiencing and not that of an omnipotent being.

Rule B is meant to entail that it is within the power of an omnipotent being to eliminate all instances of evil.

Since all agree that a world devoid of evil is consistently describable, it is thus supposed that it is within the power of an omnipotent being to bring about a world devoid of evil.

However, if we now agree that Premise X is only metaphysically false (and not logically false), i.e., if we agree that it is only metaphysically impossible (and not logically impossible) for one being's activities to be completely determined by another, given the analysis of «X is omnipotent» with which we have been working, there would be no apparent reason for supposing that it is not within the power of an omnipotent being to completely determine each of the activities of all other beings and thus to bring about a world devoid of evil.

How about you should be smarter than to trust anyone who claims to know the mind of an omnipotent being that does not exist.

There's a big universe out there, but you've got to expand your mind past the arrogant crap that there's some kind of omnipotent being out there that was so negligent as to leave his «prized creations» alone with an agent of «his» biggest nemesis in «Paradise», while they were mentally no more than toddlers, having no «knowledge of good and evil».

not much of an Omnipotent being is he.

Now... if you'd like to discuss the nature of an omnipotent being who finds it necessary to coerce bows out of his own creations, and whether or not such a being deserves to be worshipped by anyone or anything, we can certainly discuss that.

Not exact matches

It is the same omnipotent vibe emerging in dangerous ways in other parts of their lives.

Those that seek to look powerful have no choice but to sacrifice efficiency because the primal response of looking powerful is to look «big,» or omnipotent.

Yet somehow, despite policy failures that are made obvious by the lowest interest rates ever recorded in human history, a persistent narrative still dominates financial markets: all - knowing, omnipotent central bankers are still in full control of the situation and will do «whatever it takes» to maintain order.

I pray to whichever holy name (God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more loving, peaceful creature and that we realize how much time we waste and how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under God, regardless of creed, away debating over who's God is better and discover the error of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children in our own country, or the lack of education, which is exactly what leads to this kind of debate?

Your other mistake here is that you see the essential strangess of the problem but believe that an omnipotent being floating in a void solves the issue of strangeness.

All of the destruction and misery that this supposedly omnipotent and benevolent god promotes and fosters is not in keeping with the type of universe I want to live in.

I treat others the way I would want to be treated, because I know the result of harming others, not because some omnipotent «eye in the sky» is always watching me.

As Far fetched as an omnipotent and all powerful being seeking the adoration of his created people's, who could do ANYTHING to get it, deciding to have his son be born, persecuted and killed, raise him, and have these people eat his body once a week to remember?

I am just pointing out that IF there were a god with even sort of the resume Jehovah has been said to have, ie omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent, and if this god somehow cranked out a human son, that son wouldn't act like the drunken alpha ape described in Revelations.

Church attendance is also for my benefit (omnipotent God already knows i believe in Him), a way for me to take comfort in the shared faith of my neighbors when my belief in the goodness of people starts to slip.

Is your «god» fully in control of events, or do you have one of those less than omnipotent gods...

If God is omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent, etc then the amount of knowledge required to be aware and know something like the magnitude of the possibilities I brought up would be immense, much more in line with the characteristics attributed to God.

Again, you are proposing the existence of an omnipotent, benevolent being.

For comparison, «sacrifice» of a «son» by an «omnipotent» «god» as a requirement to «save» anyone is complete nonsense, as is the entire Christian religion.

======= @Bob «Chad, why is it that your omnipotent skydaddy can't come up with a better means of communication than a book?

For example: «Is the claim that an omnipotent God made man out of dirt retarded or not?»

Keep in mind that this is supposed to be an OMNIPOTENT god, capable of acting in ANY way he chooses.

Chad, why is it that your omnipotent skydaddy can't come up with a better means of communication than a book?

The proprietor of the shop obviously has the right to offer this type of discount, but it's sad that in this backwards, demon - haunted country we're still treating a work of fiction supposedly handed down by an magical, omnipotent being as a framework for a moral life, rather than embracing an objective, secular view of morality.

He is omnipotent but he couldn't think of a better way to accomplish this?

Why is it that your omnipotent skydaddy can't come up with a better means of communication than a book?

Thus one of the more odious characters in the novel, a regime stooge whose job is to break the will of «thought criminals,» explains that if Big Brother and the omnipotent Party say so, two plus two doesn't necessarily equal four: «Sometimes they are five.

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

Conservatives value property for its own sake, of course; but they value it even more because without it all men and women are at the mercy of an omnipotent government.

When an omnipotent, omniscient god could have dealt with the problem in a much more immediate way, does it really make sense to wait a couple of decades for the child to be born, grow up, and start a ministry?

For instance, in the case of Moses, when he confronted God in Exodus 32:11 - 13 after God had threatened to destroy Israel for their sins, Moses confronts God and recounts the promises that God made to Abraham, Isaac, and Israel to multiply them and give them the land as an inheritance forever — and this was exactly what God intended him to do, intercede for God's people — of course God did not forget His promises that He had made to His people, but with the threatening of an omnipotent God, Moses was even more resolved to lead this people in righteousness.

«become as little children, and believe that salvation was, and is, and is to come, in and through the atoning blood of Christ, the Lord Omnipotent.»

Christianity — the belief of «nothing created an omnipotent, omniscient, being out of nothing just to then create the entire universe out of nothing for a specific creature he created from dirt on a specific planet».

An omnipotent force that is beyond our understanding is one answer for how what we know as matter, the building block of everything, came to be.

Surely this is not beyond the abilities of an omnipotent creator.

fred, Any idea how an omniscient omnipotent being that created the 100's of billions of galaxies, ours with 100's of billions of star systems, provided his word to so few humans over the last few millennia?

Your book that is supposed to be the word of your omnipotent god has 2 CONTRADICTORY versions of how it all happened!!!

Many have seen the horrors of war and return knowing that no just, loving, compassionate, omnipotent, and omnipresent being would ever allow those things to occur.

fred, They were atheists as far as your god is concerned, but I think the point was why couldn't an omniscient and omnipotent god have made itself known on all continents before the European invasion of the New Worlds?

«If the New Testament books really were inspired by an omnipotent God, why was He unable to prevent their being changed within decades of being written, by people acting in His name?»

The point is you claim that your god is omniscient and omnipotent so therefore knows of amputees and could heal them, you also claim that prayer works (even though an omniscient god should be aware of all problems).

By definition, something omnipotent will be free of wants or desires or any other emotion.

While no one is happy that he is dead and especially the brutal way he was murdered, it does challenge the notion of an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent god watching and tending its flock.

What's funny, is that believers bestow upon their god, the attributes of being omnibenevolent, omnipotent, and omniscient.

the life of his only son, Jesus ---- I wonder why an omnipotent God would only be able to beget 1 son?