In the case that God is omnipotent, this means that God is capable of doing anything. Once that is said, attempting to define any further distinct qualitites about God such as "all loving" are negated by the first assumption that God is all powerful for if itrue, then it follows that God is all loving and not all loving simultaneously. It's a paradox.
The point is that I think that God is logical to the extent that it is all powerful. That is a logical statement, isn't it? The contrary; "God exists, but is not all powerful" I don't understand. If God is not all powerful, then it may be the highest being, but we would not know that. An omnipotent if it exists is the One; there is no greater being.
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And on we walked. Suddenly we heard a voice crying, "This is the sea. This is the deep sea. This is the vast and mighty sea." And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell, listening to its murmur.
And my soul said, "Let us pass on. He is the realist, who turns his back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment."
—Gibran Khalil Gibran, “The Greater Sea.” |