Sentences with phrase «omnipotent being require»

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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.

AND it would require that magical particles always existed in order to create the big bang... so basically, you come to us saying, we're stupid for Believing in God, an omnipotent being that Created the Universe and do so by saying the true answer is you should believe in Magical (Always existing) particles that randomly created everything by... exploding.......

It may seem somewhat trite to invoke the freedom of creation as part of the works and ends of divine love, or to argue that the highest good of the creature — divinizing union with God in love — requires a realm of «secondary causality» in which the rational wills of God's creatures are at liberty; nonetheless, whether the traditional explanations of how sin and death have been set loose in the world satisfy one or not, they certainly render the claim that an omnipotent and good God would never allow unjust suffering simply vacuous.

Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of years, rather than having been created in essentially its present form a few thousand years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much more consistent with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can experience working in our own lives.

Reichenbach does state that to believe that the being about which the Bible is written is omnipotent «requires treating some writings as both authoritative and revelatory.