Sentences with phrase «omnipotence made»
Christianity is the only religion on earth that has felt that omnipotence made God incomplete.
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The process theist indicts the classical theist for proposing a view of divine omnipotence that makes the problem of evil unsolvable — i.e., renders the notion of divine goodness incoherent.
The classical theist indicts the process theist for «solving» the problem of evil by forfeiting a meaningful notion of divine omnipotence while the process theist indicts the classical theist for proposing a view of divine omnipotence that makes the problem of evil unsolvable.
And the assertion that all suffering, however great, is one or the other makes eminent sense if you believe that God is good and omnipotent, and that God exercises this omnipotence to control events here on earth.
Clearly, the proper expression of omnipotence is to make a statue weep.
If decision - making, or making in general, could not be monopolized then omnipotence in the usual interpretation is a pseudo-idea.
God's allowing the world to exist is made possible by a restraining of divine omnipotence.
His religious difficulty came from the kind of theology he found around him, its habit of identifying words in a book (written by human hands and thought by human brains) with the words of God, also from the habit of playing fast and loose with the dangerously ambiguous concepts of omnipotence and omniscience, and taking these more seriously than any definite affirmation of the freedom of creatures to make decisions that are their own and not God's.
We seek an omnipotence that is like the powers of the world, raised to an ultimate degree, but in Jesus Christ God's power is made perfect in weakness.
But I have found him minimally making what seems the obvious statement to be explored, namely, that the doctrine of omnipotence is the projection onto God of the wish for absolute, controlling power among human beings.
On the other hand, the enormity of suffering by creatures on this earth, and perhaps especially the human suffering of the present century, makes it difficult for us to return to any concept of divine omnipotence in which God stands silently and apathetically beyond the world's evolutionary and historical struggles, able but unwilling to intervene.
Just because your actions illicit an emotional response from someone doesn't make you «more powerful» or removes their omnipotence.
Given the only understanding of omnipotence that makes any sense (the social view), the conclusion is, rather, that not even an omnipotent being could completely determine the activities of other beings and thus guarantee a world lacking evil.
The strengthened version is presupposed by the basic idea at work in the standard view of omnipotence, viz., that if A is omnipotent, A has power sufficient to overpower whatever effort B may make to determine its own activities for itself.
Attempts are made to offer excuses for Luther by pointing out that he never doubted the omnipotence of God and thus determined only narrow limits for the Devil's activities.
Because nonhuman animals are not, by hypothesis, capable of developing such virtues, it is hard to see why a creator who is both omnipotent and benevolent would make them so susceptible to pain (insofar as warning devices are needed, omnipotence could have fashioned nonpainful ones, as pointed out in the book Catch 22).
Even this test would be somewhat unfair to process theism because of religious conditioning by traditional theism, which makes it difficult for many people to take seriously the idea of a God without omnipotence in the traditional sense (see Griffin, God 258 - 59; Griffin, Evil 209 - 13).
It seems to many thoughtful people, in any case, that a God endowed with traditional omnipotence could have made this a far better world, even for the purpose of soul - making, by preventing a wide range of evils that have destroyed or stunted billions of lives throughout human history.
To begin with, omnipotence — as the making of all decisions by one agent — is a pseudo-idea.
«Unfortunately, the common sense objections of the various aspiring candidates to their disqualification in violation of regulation 9 (2) of C.I. 94 were met with insolent language bordering on insults and impunity demonstrating the perceived omnipotence and infallibility of the Commissioner in making her decisions.»
The Law Society of Upper Canada's Personal Management Practice Management Guideline notes that «having a sense of omnipotence or indispensability, making it difficult to cut back on workload or responsibilities,» is a symptom of dysfunction — that your perspective is skewed.
Child rearing practices including lengthy breastfeeding, a focus on early omnipotence and mastery, early autonomy and decision - making, and a focus on kinship that developed obligation, reciprocity and taught children to care for others.