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Is God omnipotent?

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09-27-2004 7:21 PM 		Reply to: Message 14 by dpardo
09-27-2004 6:59 PM

dpardo
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If we try to define an attribute of his such as omnipotence, we can be frustrated because we don't have a reference to help us understand such a concept.
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If you don't understand what it means why do you use the word omnipotent to describe god.Perhaps you have it wrong.
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"You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place."
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10-03-2004 7:19 PM 		Reply to: Message 36 by General Nazort
10-03-2004 3:04 PM

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Say that God is watching a video of himself. He knows everything he is going to do, but the things he does are still his own choice of free will.
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If god is watching a video of himself then of course he knows what he is going to do in hindsight.If the video faithfully recorded his actions then he has no free will to alter those actions without therefore changing the content of the video he is watching.
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10-03-2004 11:42 PM 		Reply to: Message 38 by General Nazort
10-03-2004 11:17 PM

Hold on there
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Just because you are going to do an action doesn't mean that you did not choose of your own free will to do that action.
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Unforunately the concept of free will allows us to change an action before it occurs which if we were to do so would therefore negate predestination since predestination has the action already mapped out.
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