(more questions once I get an anwser to this)
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ACES! Another post by Fennar:
(the christian) God is reputed to be all powerful, right?(more questions once I get an anwser to this)
*was going to post something here but decided to avoid the flames*
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Fennar's account was hax0red to write:
(the christian) God is reputed to be all powerful, right?
That really depends on who you ask, doesn't it?
Christians say yes.
Non-Christians say no.
Athiests say hua?
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Talonus had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Christian here, and I say not exactly with the Christian God. God is *supposed* to be all powerful, but reading the Bible and other religious texts will lead you to believe s/he's not all powerful, or simply chooses not to excersize his/her power. It depends on how you view the subject.
He "works in mysterious ways".
A general theme of omnipotence is prominent, though.
Well God is suppose to be the one and only true god in this world. So he should claim the fact that he is all powerful. He also works in Judaism(Jewish) and Muslim (I think... or was it Islamic?) so it's not just Christianity that he works in.
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Alleria Qui'farush's account was hax0red to write:
(Note: I'm Catholic)Well God is suppose to be the one and only true god in this world. So he should claim the fact that he is all powerful. He also works in Judaism(Jewish) and Muslim (I think... or was it Islamic?) so it's not just Christianity that he works in.
Islamic.
Think about all the other religions of the world
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Razor impressed everyone with:
Islamic.
Think about all the other religions of the world
All of the other religions in the world basically have more than one god/goddess, so the powers are split. 
quote:Earth!
There was much rejoicing when Alleria Qui'farush said this:
So the powers are split.
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The Black Mage... had this to say about Optimus Prime:
[QUOTE]There was much rejoicing when Alleria Qui'farush said this:
[qb]So the powers are split.
Wind!
quote:I thought Fire was next.
Soldar had this to say about Duck Tales:
Wind!
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As long as I don't get heart.
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Alleria Qui'farush had this to say about Robocop:
All of the other religions in the world basically have more than one god/goddess, so the powers are split.
No, not really. In fact, polytheistic concepts are largely gone from modern religion.
Most worship "minor gods" in the same sense that catholics worship saints and angels.
*sigh*
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Alleria Qui'farush had this to say about Captain Planet:
All of the other religions in the world basically have more than one god/goddess, so the powers are split.
Don't forget those zany non-theists! Buddhism, Jediism, Taoism, and Confuscusism, hurray!
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Alleria Qui'farush was naked while typing this:
All of the other religions in the world basically have more than one god/goddess, so the powers are split.
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Not really, in wicca there is The All which is represented by the God and the Goddess [and then they can be split up into minor deities (spelling)], sorta like ying and yang but they are still part of one whole just different aspects of that so the powers the same no matter which god and/or goddess your dealing with.
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Fennar had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
ok, so there is nothing that (the christian) God cant do, correct?
This is going to be the "can God create a rock so big that even he can't lift it?" question, isn't it?
Well, I know the answer, and it is
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Fennar enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
ok, so there is nothing that (the christian) God cant do, correct?
Ok, in general for religous questions you can't think in terms of black and white Fennar. That applies to most religions, not just Christianity.
And just to anwser your question, pretty much yeah. The real question is, "will he do everything or anything?"
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Fennar wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
ok, so there is nothing that (the christian) God cant do, correct?
to quote the Simpsons: "Short answer, 'yes' with an 'if', long answer 'no' with a 'but.'"
Well, that's a difficult question, you need to elaborate what you mean. If you mean can an omnipotent God do anything possible or concievable, sure, no problem there. I'd even be willing to go a few steps past there, as there are many inconcievable things that should by no means be out of the reach of omnipotence.
If you're including things that are self-contracitory, though, I think you're being silly to require that for omnipotence. For instance, if you define two things as being unable to co-exist, then of course they can't co-exist unless you change their definitions. As an example, if dark were defined as "the absence of light" (which isn't quite the real definition), then light and dark coudn't co-exist, regardless of the presence of omnipotence. If they were "made" to co-exist, then "dark" would no longer match it's own definition, and it could no longer be called dark.
(as an interesting side note, just because we think of something as contradictory doesn't necessarily mean it is. Just a century ago, anyone would have told you that "particle" and "wave" are mutually exclusive concepts: of course, it's turned out they can co-exist after all, though not quite in the forms we imagined them to exist.)
To give the word "Omnipotent" any kind of meaning, we need to take a deeper look at the concepts behind it, and past an overly simplified statement of "can do anything". Only if we do that can we have a meaningful discussion of god.
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