Not exact matches
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.
This clarification also
allows us to analyze more clearly Griffin's claim that Plantinga commits the «
omnipotence fallacy.»
Omnipotence has not been
allowed to be redefined by Love.
Preachers who
allow themselves a playful measure of «pastoral
omnipotence» over the text - as - object stand to discover things in and through it that elude their more timorous colleagues, he says.
If there is a God that would
allow this (and painful cancer deaths of children, or the Holocaust, or genocide, or...) I don't think much of his caring or
omnipotence.
God's
allowing the world to exist is made possible by a restraining of divine
omnipotence.
In the passage immediately following his six «sentence discussion of the Fifth Way, Aquinas explains the connection: «As Augustine says, since God is the highest good, He would not
allow any evil to exist in His works unless His
omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.
Rather it affirms first and always that God, the determining Power governing my individual life, can be rightly called omnipotent only if I experience this power in my own life, only if God
allows me to realize it as fact, if He reveals to me His
omnipotence.
The «unconditional love» between a parent who
allows herself to be negated and a child in
omnipotence is, in the mind of the child, love between one who exists (the child) and who does not exist (the parent).
Not a religion and not
allowing omnipotence to any God in particular (practitioners often practice hoodoo while observing their own particular religious beliefs), hoodoo is rich with spirits, one such being the «dark man» or devil who bares a striking resemblance to Ruby's own «dyboù».