Sentences with phrase «on omnipotent being»

I always think it funny when people puts limits on a omnipotent being.

If you have on omnipotent being always watching who controls your fate, you are far less inclined to murder indiscriminately.

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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».

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?

Sheila,... but as an omnipotent being, he inflicted all this harm on us, his creations.

It is human arrogance at its finest to believe an omnipotent being has some stock in the outcome of the number of times a ball is on either side of a field.

The problem with free will is, that Christians have insisted on their god being Omniscient, Omnipotent, and Omnibenevolent.

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.

But to the writer God is no longer an anthropomorphic deity in the old sense; he is the one God, omnipotent and altogether righteous, transcendent in majesty and in rightful claim on man's devotion; and his holiness is expressed in his exclusive right to Israel's worship and service.

If god has a plan, and god is omnipotent, that excludes any ability on our part to choose differently.

«Pure evil» is the only label that can be placed on an omnipotent and omniscient deity that creates humans for the sole purpose of eternal tourture.

What would a day be in the Divine circadian cycle of an omnimodal, omnipotent being, 24 hours, 24 billion years, 24 milliseconds??? Nowhere in the Bible coes it say that evolution does not exist within the living realm, but Simon Peter does say that to the I Am»... one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day...» (the Bible DOES recognize the effects of animal husbandry, which is a form of artificially - induced evolution on livestock species, and narrates accounts of Divine intervention to influence it, so you can not factually say that it is outside the realm of Divine probability by biblical accounts, as Divine probability contains, by textbook definition, the sum of the laws of nature.

The essential point is to decide on the fundamentals: a restructuring of society as a League of Leagues, and a reduction of the State to its proper function, which is to maintain unity; or a devouring of an amorphous society by the omnipotent State....

«God existed before there were human beings on Earth, He holds the entire world, believers and non-believers, in His omnipotent hand for eternity.»

God's use of persuasion, as opposed to omnipotent coercion, which is so often attributed to God, is not based on a voluntary self - limitation.

If, he wrote, «the progress of science showed later that that conception of the world [that of Dante's age] rested on no sure foundation», still the fundamental principle remained that the universe, whatever be the order that sustains it in its parts, is the work of the creating and preserving sign of Omnipotent God, who moves and governs all, and whose glory risplende in una parte piu e meno altrove.

for most people (appearently) its just easier to believe an omniscient, omnipotent being wished it to happen... and that hes looking down on us, interceding on our behalf — even when doing so would act against others in the faith.

Where we disagree is that conclusion leads me to realize the non-existence of god since the existence of a good omnipotent god that created us in his image is an obvious logical fallacy; you, on the other - hand prefer to take that information and suspend your rational abilities to allow yourself to continue to believe such a paradox.

On the other hand his control and efficacy operate not by arbitrary (that is to say, independent and «omnipotent») overruling, nor by being the only active elements in the occasion; but by the persuasive molding of new possibilities, by redirecting the pressures of prior actualities, by providing new opportunity for advance, and by offering the «lure» which evokes from each occasion in the ongoing process the movement towards satisfaction of its «subjective aim».

The difference, however is always great: man's existence is totally dependent on God's act of creation whereas God's existence is eternal, infinite, omnipotent and dependent onnothing else.

There are, of course, proper names of God or gods, whether in the polytheistic religions or, as in ancient Israel, where the one omnipotent God, Yahweh, bears a special name because the people is convinced to have had a special experience of him in its history, which characterizes him despite his incomprehensibility and actual namelessness and thus confers a name on him.

Hmmm — a world where an omniscient, omnipotent being allows unspeakable evil to happen on an ongoing basis to people?

If they believe their God is so omnipotent, why do nt they just let him pass his self - serving, hateful judgement himself instead of going around imposing their own wills on people who do nt prescribe to their beliefs.

mzh, why does your omnipotent being rely on something as primitive as a book to get its message out, rather than use more modern and more direct means?

It is Reichenbach's belief, rather, that to determine whether the God of the Bible is omnipotent, we must «see whether the conception of God espoused in its pages meets the criteria specified in (D)» — a complex philosophical definition of omnipotence Reichenbach has earlier defended on extra-biblical grounds (EGG 190 - 91).

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

There's been a misconception on earth for way too long that I am perfect, infallible, omnipotent, yada, yada, yada.

It's the omnipotent, all knowing force with articles on every subject; How do de-stress with meditation, how to make the best pizza (the video is ten seconds long, you need to get on with your day after all!)

I think he is able to be omnipotent, present, and so on, but exercises it only when it affects his people or his purpose.

David Johnston: «The problem with free will is, that Christians have insisted on their god being Omniscient, Omnipotent, and Omnibenevolent.»

How is it that your omnipotent being couldn't do his «salvation» bit without the whole silly Jesus on sticks hoopla?

Griffin points out that in company with a great many other contributors to the recent literature on the problem of evil, Mackie assumes that an omnipotent being is one who can bring about any state of affairs the description of which is logically consistent.

If «X is omnipotent» means «X possesses the logical limit of power,» I suspect that the view most in accord with what Whitehead says in his later writings on metaphysics and religion is that no being is omnipotent.

And note, a being that is omnipotent on this selective view might exist even if Premise X turned out to be meaningless, logically false, or metaphysically false.

My point is that on the surface, at least, the analysis of «X is omnipotent» that goes with Griffin's third position concerning the deficiency of Premise X does not capture the idea of perfect power as understood by Griffin and as generally understood in discussions of this topic.

The conclusion is that the hypothesis is incoherent — no being could have power enough to count as omnipotent on the standard view.

In fact, Twain's Satan comes on like a Calvinist who has lost faith in an omniscient and omnipotent Deity and thus may be a reflection of Twain's own distaste for the Calvinist strain in American Protestantism.

had to reply to your simplistic view of things... remember we are only human yet GOD is perfect, all powerful, all knowing and as humans we will never be able to see things from an omnipotent viewpoint such as GOD's... so remember bad things happen daily and it is GOD's will but who are we to question GOD allmighty when we only think in mindset of humans... do nt let ur foolish pride put a spotlight on ur ignorance...

Modern christian music on the other hand... surely it makes the case there is no such thing as an omnipotent, loving god.

In any case, the process God, though not omnipotent, is not dependent on the world as the world is dependent on him; his ideal purposes are not contingent on events in the world.

The question is whether, at one extreme, the mind of the Universe is all - knowing and omnipotent, or at the other, it is merely that which is superimposed on the point - to - point interactions of the minds of the components as the integrating factor, in much the same relation as that of my mind to the minds of my cells and lower entities in the hierarchy of existence.

«Stand before God on Judgement Day» — I stand before God every day (and unlike you, we donot refer to God as man or woman, God is OMNIPRESCENT, OMNIPOTENT, WITHOUT FORM, FEARLESS, WITHOUT HATRED, TIMELESS)-- every morning we pray to God to bless all (not just me bcoz hello God I am the one praying), and every night we thank God for everything.

PDX — It doesn't take a Genius to realize from my statements that i have read things other than the Bible you moron i have spent many hours reading and listening to scientists about their theories on the big bang, i have listened to ideas from the most revered scientists including Hawking and others, and they all admit that there are holes in their theories, that nothing fully explains their big bang theory, the physics doesn't add up let alone the concept, there are plenty of scientists hard at work trying to make the numbers fit and the theory hold weight but if you ask any of them they can not give you the answers and the reason being... there are none, the theory doesn't work, If by the observable laws of Physics, Matter in this Universe can not be created or destroyed, you can only change its state, i.e. solid to liquid, to gas... to energy... There is no explanation for how an entire reality full of Matter can be created out of nothing... Scientists know this... idiots that are atheists and simply would rather NOT believe that their lives and actions they take within their lifespan are being witnessed by an Omnipotent God do not WANT to believe... but Your belief in God does not change whether or not he exists you will be judged.

After the Firstborn of the Father, while yet a spirit being, had gained power and intelligence that made him like unto God; after he had become, under the Father, the Creator of worlds without number; after he had reigned on the throne of eternal power as the Lord Omnipotent — after all this he yet had to gain a mortal and then an immortal body.

Science however, doesnot support that some omnipotent being infused life on earth.The idea of god creating woman from man's rib is simply ridiculous!

-LSB-...] A Naked Pastor cartoon follow - up on my post The Pastor is Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent HT: My Son Jason -LSB-...]

Proving all doubters wrong, Nigel not only won the PPG Cup at his first attempt, but also made light of the black art of oval racing, to such effect that he was almost omnipotent, he was very unlucky to miss out on a maiden win at the Indianapolis 500 first time out.

I love that idea that an omnipotent being is supposed to be dead set on any particular course of action that has no objective moral or ethical meaning attached to it.

But he is stranded on a distant planet ruled by an omnipotent dandy known as The Grandmaster.

Thanos has already obtained all six Gems on its first page — he is fully omnipotent, and one of the first things he does is kill half of the universe's population with a snap of his fingers.