Sentences with phrase «with omnipotent power»

But the subtext of your message is that YOU with YOUR omnipotent power have condemned me to HELL (your words).

A sight of the awesome greatness of God may overpower our strength and be more than we can endure; but if the moral beauty of God be hid, the enmity of the heart will remain in its full strength, no love can be enkindled, [our will] will not be effectual... but will remain inflexible; whereas the first glimpse of the moral and spiritual glory of God shining into the heart produces all these affects, as it were with omnipotent power, which nothing can withstand.

Not exact matches

«Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from th» ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th» Omnipotent to arms.»

People have rejected theism because they held untenable the idea of a mind not subject to change or to interaction with other beings, or a mind omnipotent in the sense that its power was all the power in existence, or a mind having precise knowledge of details of the future (or of all times from the standpoint of eternity), or a mind creating a first state of the cosmos at a finite time in the past, or knowing all suffering although it did not itself suffer, or an all - embracing mind which in no sense could be identified with the universe, or one which could in every sense be identified with it.

If god does exist and does bestow the act of freewill and is also bound to never, never interfere with that freewill (except for the exceptions in the bible, like basically forcing the pharoh to hold the jews as slaves even after a number of plagues), his omnipotent nature is underminded that he can't even have the power to force anyone to act the way he wants.

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.

Is not the transcendent, omnipotent, impassible symbol of God the quintessential embodiment of the solitary ruling male ego, above the fray, perfectly happy in himself, filled with power in the face of the obstreperousness of others?

If we are led to Jesus Christ so that he might offer us access to God, then our relationship with God does not command cowering prostration before the power and might of a distant, omnipotent God; rather, it invites trust, joy and thankfulness in the presence of the fountain of every good thing.

12 He wrote of «the impossible problem of reconciling infinite benevolence and justice with infinite power in the Creator of such a world as this,» 13 and concluded: «the notion of a providential government by an omnipotent Being for the good of his creatures must be entirely dismissed.»

Backing away from the monopolistic and standard views, I should think that the first diminutive would be this: With respect to any finite being, an omnipotent being has power to completely determine some of its activities (e.g., its walking activities), but does not have power sufficient to completely determine all of its activities (e.g., not its talking activities).

However, if we now agree that Premise X is only metaphysically false (and not logically false), i.e., if we agree that it is only metaphysically impossible (and not logically impossible) for one being's activities to be completely determined by another, given the analysis of «X is omnipotent» with which we have been working, there would be no apparent reason for supposing that it is not within the power of an omnipotent being to completely determine each of the activities of all other beings and thus to bring about a world devoid of evil.

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.

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.

I have insisted that beginning with a preformed notion of divine power that includes omnipotent control of all that becomes simply does not allow any notion of divine love to be shoehorned in.

And with a crisis as huge as the mad Titan Thanos seeking the omnipotent power bestowed upon any person who manages to collect all six Infinity Stones, it's a perfect time for Marvel Studios to dip a toe into that most hallowed of comic book traditions: the death of a major hero.

And what is perhaps most annoying is the inconsistency of Satan's powers, in some scenes omnipotent and in others getting his ass whipped with hardly an effort.

A new Mario & Luigi RPG will be released this summer, and will take place within Luigi's dreams, giving him near omnipotent powers to play with.