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I do not believe that omnipotent means God can do anything, I believe omnipotent means God is All-Powerful.
God can do anything that is within His nature to do but God cannot do anything.
For example:
God cannot become a man because then God would not be God, God would be a man.
God cannot die because God is not subject to death since God is not a mortal creature.
God cannot write scriptures because God is spirit so He does not have hands.
God can send men to write scriptures on His behalf and that is what God does.
God cannot speak because God does not have a mouth since God is not a human.
God can speak through the Holy Spirit which acts as an intermediary between God and His Messengers.
God cannot have a biological son because God is not a biological creature.
God can have a figurative Son as Jesus was to God who was Jesus' figurative Father.
God cannot have biological children because God is not a biological creature.
God can have figurative children as we all are God's figurative children.
Rather there's no evidence that an omnipotent God exists.
Can God create a stone that He cannot lift?
Answer: no, the Omnipotent One cannot make
such a stone because it is a suicide, and the latter is sin. Any sin is an act of non-existence.
tobacco industry produces cancer cases. It serves the evil authorities
The satan does not exist in God's objective opinion. The satan is not existent.
I am just much stronger than your god.@questfortruth -
The fact that you're still posting might be considered by some to be evidence that G-d is neither omnipotent nor omnibenevolent.
If God is Spirit how could God become flesh, as Christians believe?God can do anything also as it does not go against His Character.
His Character is Light (Fire), Spirit, and Love. According to the bible:
Here are three scriptures that state about God and His character if you are curious:
John 4:24 - God is Spirit
Hebrews 12:29 - God is a consuming fire
1 John 4:7-21 - God is Love
Titus 1:2 - God does not lie
James 1:13-15 God does not tempt
The snake of the Garden of Eden was obviously a minion of evil. The United States presidents who attacked Babylon, Iraq are, according to the bible, obviously Satanic demons from the bottomless pit of hell. Apparently, there are many evil demons.
God won't die from lifting.
If God is Spirit how could God become flesh, as Christians believe?
God becoming flesh would go against God's Character.
I believe that God was manifested in the flesh but that is not the same as being incarnated in the flesh.
The verse below says that God was manifest in the flesh; it does not say that God became flesh.
1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
God would have to take on the nature of a servant to become a man, as Jesus did.God would have to take on the nature of a servant to become a man, as Jesus did.
If God became a man and the man died His soul would live on, so God would not be killed.
Writing scripture is what God inspires humans to do,,,,,,,,,,,,but God could do it if He wanted, He did write the Ten Commandments on stone. He might need practice to write with a pencil however.
God can speak to us through our spirit and in the Bible there are incidents where God spoke in an audible voice.
God can send His Son into the world and use a woman to provide a place for Him to develop and be born as a baby. The man Jesus was the descendant of David through His mother Mary and was and is God's Son.
The Bible tells us that God is the Father of our spirits (Heb 12:9) Our spirits are the living part of us from God, without that we would be chemicals. The New Testament tells us that Jesus and the Father can come and dwell in us when God's Spirit becomes joined to our spirit when we believe that Jesus is the Christ,,,,,,,,the Son of God.
Below is an excerpt from an article that explains what I believe it means.Hello Trailblazer you bring up some interesting questions, but seems you already have the answer of God was manifest in the flesh.
What does manifest mean? What does God manifesting in the flesh mean?
1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.How is the Flesh justified in the spirit ~ that is seen of the of messengers, was preached unto the Gentiles ~ believed on in the world, and received up to glory.
What does all this mean? Maybe more expounding on the rest of the scriptures might make even more so clear the answer here of ~ God being manifest in the flesh.
Below is an excerpt from an article that explains what I believe it means.
“The Christian equivalent to the Bahá'í concept of Manifestation is the concept of incarnation. The word to incarnate means 'to embody in flesh or 'to assume, or exist in, a bodily (esp. a human) form (Oxford English Dictionary). From a Bahá'í point of view, the important question regarding the subject of incarnation is, what does Jesus incarnate? Bahá'ís can certainly say that Jesus incarnated Gods attributes, in the sense that in Jesus, Gods attributes were perfectly reflected and expressed.[4] The Bahá'í scriptures, however, reject the belief that the ineffable essence of the Divinity was ever perfectly and completely contained in a single human body, because the Bahá'í scriptures emphasize the omnipresence and transcendence of the essence of God…..
One can argue that Bahá'u'lláh is asserting that epistemologically the Manifestations are God, for they are the perfect embodiment of all we can know about God; but ontologically they are not God, for they are not identical with God's essence. Perhaps this is the meaning of the words attributed to Jesus in the gospel of John: 'If you had known me, you would have known my Father also' (John 14:7) and 'he who has seen me has seen the Father (John 14:9)…..
The New Testament, similarly, contains statements where Jesus describes Himself as God, and others where He makes a distinction between Himself and God. For example, 'I and the Father are One (John 10:30); and 'the Father is in me, and I am in the Father (John 1038); but on the other hand, 'the Father is greater than I (John 14:28); and 'Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone (Mark 10:18; Luke 18:19). These statements do not contradict, but are complementary if one assumes they assert an epistemological oneness with God, but an ontological separateness from the Unknowable Essence.”?
Jesus Christ in the Bahá'í Writings
1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
I believe I know what this means because it is pretty straightforward, except for the part where it says that God was justified in the Spirit. What do you believe that means?
Firstly, I said nothing about whether or not what I posed represented my personal position. I specifically said "some". Secondly, just for the sake of clarification, you are saying that as an Eastern Orthodox Christian you do not worship the G-d who appears in Hebrew scripture?I am just much stronger than your god.
Personally believe that The Word of God ~ manifest in the flesh named the Lord Jesus Christ according to scriptures. And God was with-in Christ during His ministry and that is why all of the scriptures you are sharing show that Jesus Christ is talking about His Father, and how Jesus Christ and His Father are one together.
How is that possible is the question?
I also believe that Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God ~ Whom is the Son of God. Although I do not believe that Jesus was the biological Son of God, I believe in the Virgin Birth, so I believe that Jesus came into this world through the direct intervention of the Holy Spirit, and that His birth was quite miraculous.Here are some of the scriptures that would be used to back the claim Jesus Christ is expressed image of the invisible God.
Hebrews 1:3 ~ The Son is the radiance of God's glory and representation of his being
Colossians 1:15 - The Son is the image of the invisible God
2 Corinthians 5:10-19 ~ God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself
Matthew 1:23: God with us - through the Son by the spirit
John 14:9 - if you have seen me you have seen the Father ~ (Son as the expressed image of the Father)
These are some scriptures; that would go to support that Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God ~ Whom is the Son of God, according to the scriptures that may be wrong, because some believe that the bible is wrong.
Kind of like everything we know and understand breaks down before we get to the moment of the big bang. Our knowledge is still in infant stages even though we think we know and understand everything.The problem is trying to apply logic to infinities. It just doesn't work. If a deity has infinite anything, that is an end to reasoning.
Judaism's god and Christian God do not coincide. For example, in Judaism god is not Holy Trinity.you are saying that as an Eastern Orthodox Christian you do not worship the G-d who appears in Hebrew scripture?
The natural values become bounded inKind of like everything we know and understand breaks down before we get to the moment of the big bang. Our knowledge is still in infant stages even though we think we know and understand everything.
Can God create a stone that He cannot lift?
Answer: no, the Omnipotent One cannot make
such a stone because it is a suicide, and the latter is sin. Any sin is an act of non-existence.
Because sin is emptiness, the absence of
any meaning, the God of Existence and living
does only existent actions. Satan, the evil spirit of non-existence and death, does the non-existent actions only: he is the father of sin. For example, the tobacco industry produces cancer cases. It serves the evil authorities to depopulate the planet. The satan does not exist in God's objective opinion. The satan is not existent. The satan is the border of our reality, inside satan is Absolute Nothing. It is like a black hole: the hole in our reality. He is there, but he can not be full of life and existence: the sickness is the absence of Health. Thus, sickness does not exist. The satan is absolute sickness.
The question about stone-lifting has hidden meaning, the skeptic asks can God lose divinity, own divine powers. All those Omnipotent Paradox formulations can be put into the question: can God commit suicide? But the answer is no, also because the Christian God is Omnipresent, and so, if He becomes dead in 2021, then He was dead when He was creating the Universe. But that is not possible, because the world exists now. Also because God is not mad and crazy. He is Spirit of Wisdom, mental Health, and Life, and so, can not commit suicide even in principle. He can do only reasonable actions, not the crazy ones. Therefore the German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche with his "God is Dead" must be understood not literally, he was referring to the modern and post-modern apostasy.