The dilemma of affirming
a powerful God who is also a God of love can not be resolved by starting on the power side of the issue.
Why would you worship an all -
powerful God who failed to stop such a tragedy?
We serve a gracious and
powerful God who is all about redeeming our mistakes for His glory.
Not exact matches
«Hand of
God,» the TV debut of filmmaker Marc Forster («Monster's Ball»), will star Ron Perlman («Sons of Anarchy») as a
powerful judge
who suffers a mental breakdown and goes on a vigilante quest to find the rapist
who tore his family apart.
At Fortune Magazine's «Most
Powerful Women» dinner in Palo Alto, Calif., businesswoman Marissa Mayer,
who was criticized for juggling a short maternity leave and her new role as Yahoo's CEO, says she has found balance by «ruthlessly prioritizing»
God, family and then Yahoo, citing legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi.
Solution: Either Jesus returns and straightens up, or
God gives us a new
powerful pious monarch
who destroys the current evil power elite, and supports again the Christian Church.
«But if I had a sponsor
who was just another person, a person
who is fallible, telling me to stay clean, it's just not as
powerful as
God telling me that.»
What gets me is that Christians can love a
God who would do that or think it's okay and also that they think it makes any sense that this all
powerful God can only manage to save a tiny, miniscule amount of the people he's created.
There are states in the US where to hold a legislative office you are required to swear you believe in an all
powerful god etc. (mostly the south,
who seem to think separation of church and state is a suggestion).
For this reason
God sends them a
powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned
who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
20 million indigenous Native Mexicans died from European brought diseases, (
who justifies it by saying they were bringing the «faith»... the Holocaust... the Somalian famine... the African genocides... yeah, there is a
god, there really really is, and it is all
powerful, just really busy somewhere else.
Who are we to criticize an all knowing, all caring, all
powerful, ever present
God?
which all fits with an all
powerful all knowing
God who after making humans Genesis 6:6 says «6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.»
This global compilation of traditional wisdom shows that none of the great, classical religious traditions conceived of
God as a mere intelligent Designer, or as a First Cause within nature, or as a highly moral Personality
who happens to be divine as well, or any kind of all -
powerful agent that has a primus inter pares relationship with other, less
powerful Superbeings and Incredibles.
God is the
powerful, immaterial, spaceless, timeless Being
who brought space - time and material into existence.
Unable to deal with that you need some kind of explanation, so you've decided there is an all -
powerful, all - knowing sentient being you call
God who is responsible for, well, pretty much anything you can't explain with more verifiable causes.
If by
God is meant a Being, supremely conscious, all - knowing, all -
powerful, completely self - sufficient,
who determines all things by divine moral purpose, the answer is again No.
Under pressure from
powerful special interests
who manipulate the language of «rights» and «freedom» in ways that contradict «the laws of Nature's
God,» our atheocratic government now deems itself competent to rewrite the
God - given definitions of marriage and the family.
On the other hand, a
God who is all - good, all - knowing, all - present, all -
powerful, and eternal definitely does not exist, because bad things happen sometimes.
So let me get this straight, it's far fetched for us to NOT have been created by a
God and that's illogical but you believe there's a heaven and hell, a mystical deity
who watches over us yet fails to intervene in bloodshed that occurs daily in his name, this deity is all
powerful but for some reason can't do anything more than a coin toss could and for some reason everything he can do is limited to exactly the same domain as nature (EX:
God can never regenerate a missing limb)?
We have a
God who is all
powerful and yet He chooses to intervene and restore health only sometimes.
You are
God, the one
who is all ‑
powerful, all ‑ knowing, and all ‑ good?
The idea of a «devil»
who is an opponent of «
God» is derived from a Persian idea and it only makes sense if both the «good» entity and the «evil» entity were equally
powerful.
Rev 1:8 «I am the Alpha and the Omega,» 33 says the Lord
God — the one
who is, and
who was, and
who is still to come — the All -
Powerful — Job 36:26 — Yes,
God is great — beyond our knowledge!
May
God forgive us, his churchpeople, for using our social capital to attract to our churches those
who are
powerful and rich while we ignore those
who might seem a burden — those whose humble worship surely pleases
God.
There are so many other views on
who / what
God is, and all they can do is attack the most logically inconsistent one (that there's an all - knowing, all -
powerful, all - loving
God that personally cares about every detail of your personal life).
Yet how can human prayer possibly change the mind of
God,
Who is eternal, all - knowing and all -
powerful?
Chronologically,
God who is the all
powerful creator of the universe and earth, creates man like him.
A process
God who is associated with the total self - actualization of all individuals would be limited, benevolent and
powerful.
It's
powerful how outlawed we can feel - the small minority
who have sought
God on the matter - and
who will only do as HE says, not as a» church fellowship» demands.
And certainly not the princes and rulers
who like to play
God — not even the
powerful ones.
The Jews faced a difficult and momentous dilemma: either the accumulated miseries of Israel were due to Yahweh's failure as a
powerful god, or else he was the one true God who, with righteous judgment, had decreed their national distress as punishme
god, or else he was the one true
God who, with righteous judgment, had decreed their national distress as punishme
God who, with righteous judgment, had decreed their national distress as punishment.
Those
who wait, then, live in the faith that the
God who created and sustains,
who is incomparable,
who overturns the plans of the most
powerful princes of this world — that this
God will do / is doing / has done the restorative and renewing work for child, woman and man.
Now
God is
powerful enough to save whoever he wants yet allows those
who would cause a little one to stumble to go ahead and trip the little guy up.
He said the pessimist in him mocked his receipt of a degree in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty, in a world increasingly dominated by force, by violence, by fraud, by injustice, by avarice — in a word, by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people
who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without
God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist) in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's
powerful landowners to continue to live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed in the fields live sublives in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»
Those taken into Babylonian captivity, as well as those left behind, now had even greater temptations placed before them to abandon faith in their
God, and to turn after other
gods who were clearly more
powerful and victorious.
An interesting perspective... because we can still wonder whether the entire universe is controlled by an alien being
who might at any moment do something for which there has been no precedent in all of human memory... we could still see beyond that practically all -
powerful being a being that we could rightfully know to be
God even to that other being to whom we are at their mercy.
Of course man is all
powerful, depending on the culture and the multiple
gods, it is man
who decides what powers they have in their culture.
Oftentimes those of us
who are privileged and
powerful want a
God who sanctions our own complicity in unjust social orders or our exploitation of other forms of life.
It doesn't matter if they are as
powerful as princes,
God helps those
who meditate on Scripture.
As a
god who is, according to your belief, immortal and
powerful enough to have created the Universe, the whole Jesus sacrifice thing makes absolutely no sense.
When Job continually protests his innocence they accuse him of insulting the character of
God who, because He is
powerful and good, would only let bad things happen to bad people.
I do not believe an all -
powerful god would give us a fundamentally flawed bible and condemn everyone
who failed to guess the right answers.
It is not a bit of a stretch but an act of total blind faith to believe in Evolution Dan, in fact it take more faith to believe in that than in an all knowing, all
powerful creator
God who said I created all things.
The surprise lies in the word «help» (Hebrew ezer), because the Bible always uses this word for someone
who is more
powerful; often a warrior or for
God himself (Psalm 115:9 - 11).
According to believers,
God is an all -
powerful being
who has the divine, magical power to do anything.
So, your all loving, all
powerful, forgiving and understanding
god is sitting by watching the likes of Ghandi, Anne Frank, Einstein, and untold billions of little children
who had the unforunate bad luck to be born in a non-Christian family and be taken before their time get tormented for all eternity?
It's a greater fantasy NOT to believe that there is an all
powerful invisible
god somewhere in the universe
who knows everything, can do anything, hears everyone's thoughts, etc, or that someone died and rose from the dead three days later (this same person was born of a virgin), or that someone spoke to
god via a burning bush, or that one old man,
who lived to be 900 years old, built a boat that held two of every animal on the earth to survive a worldwide flood?
So
god,
who is perfect and all
powerful, created man to have a corrupt nature?
God is all
powerful and therefore there is no hell or satan... those
who do wrong such as killing out of their own free will are simply neglected upon death and those
who live good lives will rejoice.