Sentences with phrase «omnipotence first»

Placing omnipotence first, even before divine goodness and wisdom, is the preference not only of Christianity but also of Judaism and Islam.

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For «I» omnipotence, as it is first defined by Griffin, is a universal statement, and universal statements obviously admit of no exception.

Dr. Gier writes of God's Omnipotence versus our freedom, contending that our freedom, not God's authority is the our first principle.

Hence, only the first interpretation is meaningful, and it can not be used to deduce from the existence of (genuine) moral evil the nonexistence of benevolent omnipotence, since «whether the free men created by God would always do what is right would presumably be up to them» (GPE 271).

First, Camus can not reconcile the fact of evil and suffering with the claim of God's goodness and omnipotence.

For the classical fusion of goodness with omnipotence creates in fact not unity but a profoundly conflicted entity... To heal the internally contradictory religious combination of love and power, power itself first needs recoding.58

In the first place, our omnipotence is illusory, since we are totally dependent upon the earth.

If one asks why God imposed such limitations on his omnipotence, the first reply would be: for the sake of humanity (FG 206).

Faustus Socinus and his followers were the first to break, not only with trinitarianism and the worship of Jesus as literally divine but above all with the one - sided view of God as immutable and merely infinite, also with the tragic error of omnipotence in a sense contradictory of freedom in human beings.

To attempt to use logic to prove how our free will and his omnipotence can coexist in the universe is down right absurd since the first criteria (god's existence) is to be assumed.

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.

First of all, it is an effective freedom, a freedom which can, which is suitable to «this perfect willing of a rational being who at the same time would have omnipotence.»

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.

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?

Aristotle first takes omnipotence, using theological language, and defines the freedom of his first substance in that light.

Now that he's won (referring to himself as «Cyclops the First» is a good sign of where this is going), he feels a sense of... something bothering him in the anti-quiet of omnipotence.