I need to understand the concept of God in Christianity. Can you help me by answering these questions?

Question

Is God omnipotent?
Is God omniscient?
Is God omnibenevolent?
Is there a time when God does not have these attributes?

Answer 1

and i need to understand the meaning of those words

Answer 2

Q.: Is God omnipotent?

A.: Yes.

Q.: Is God omniscient?

A.: Yes.

Q.: Is God omnibenevolent?

A.: I think of God as, somewhat, a recorder of events, happenings in the world and universe. Though Jesus, the man, can interpret the recorder, the recorder is merely a device to be accessed. God is present, I believe, everywhere the wind blows and not; is He all-powerful? There is nothing Greater. But without Jesus, it is just "nature" to us (humans) -- events good and bad. What we call "nature" may include a lot of the devil's work. I reset God being blamed for everything (natural disasters, illness, etc.). Omnibenevolent? He doesn't hurt people, He doesn't cause bad things to happen (...to good people); I believe He is more a "recorder" - and, at some point, the bad that people deserve will come around to them. The good people will be forgiven and protected through Jesus Christ.


Q.: Is there a time when God does not have these attributes?

A.: It may seem it at times. But if God merely records what goes on in the world and universe, He can not stop the bad (but He does record it). At some point, those "black holes" of love will come around to the people that deserve them. I believe, through Jesus, the power can be "harnessed". I believe the power comes from the people (the masses), through Jesus Christ (the incarnate being) to God. I assume Jesus knows God and how to talk to "Him" and can move "things" (seas, mountains, and smaller needs...) and do "miracles" because that power is "harnessed". (People have a lot of power through prayer, but it has to go through Jesus Christ.)


That's the best I can answer your questions. You're asking some pretty "tight" questions. Good questions!!

Answer 3

I would probably say God is omnipotent and omnisicient, but a straight singleword answer to omnibenevolence is somewhat tough. I believe He loves all of us from Jesus to Satan and everyone in between. But He doesn't love all of our actions. Unfortunately it isn't always possible to separate the person from the actions, they won't always give them up good or bad. So it has become necessary to destroy the evil actions and the only real way to do it and still allow free thinking from his children is to destroy those who continue to do evil. But He does and currently is giving them as much of a chance as He can to redeem themselves through repentance (in the Christian religion anyway).

He isn't allowing the evil to go on in today's world for no reason. He allows it so that those who do evil don't get destroyed until they have had time to hear His message, consider it reasonably, and then decide how they will proceed afterwards.

Answer 4

Hang on, gotta look up those words, sorry, justa minute.
1. Omnipotent: Having unlimited power and authority. All powerful.
2. Omniscient: Knowing all things.
3. Omnibenevolent: A. Omni: A combining form meaning all.
B.Benevolent: Doing or inclined to do good.
AND the ANSWER behind door Number 3 is : "YES"
The I AM is alway's the I AM , HE never, never change's, BUT the Way's HE DEAL's with MANKIND does!!! and that dosen't mean HE has to change to change the Way's of dealing with us.
THINK bout' this: When a Father and Mother bring's up a Baby, they probably change alot (by learning bout' Parent Hood) but their basic Personality's probably don't change that much, BUT THE WAY THEY DEAL WITH THEIR BABY HUMAN BEING DOE's, while he, she is agrowing!!!!! Now ain't that right?????
GOD is the same way, but HE don't have to GROW NONE, HE alway's IS----but HE deal's with US in different way's as we are agrowing, as a RACE(Human Being's), as INDIVIDUAL's as Human Being's and SAVED Human Being's (we start out as Baby Christian's when we get SAVED) so on and so on. Hope this helps!!!
p.s. I know, with GOD being all of those thing's, you gotta have a Whole lot more question's, and they can be answered.........

Answer 5

God is one. He isn't omnipotent, not omniscient, and not omnibenevolent. Don't believe all this. Search for the true religion.

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Answer 6

Omnipotent - Yes.

Omniscient - Yes.

Omnibenevolent - Yes.

Omnipresent - Yes.

Eternal - Yes.

There is no time when God does not have these atributes. If there was a time when God failed to have these attributes - during that time God would cease to be God.

Answer 7

If you consult the dictionary, here is the first definition of God that you will find:

"A being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions." [ref]

Most believers would agree with this definition because they share a remarkably clear and consistent view of God. Yes, there are thousands of minor quibbles about religion. Believers express those quibbles in dozens of denominations -- Presbyterians, Lutherans, Catholics, Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists and such. But at the heart of it all, the belief in God aligns on a set of core ideas that everyone accepts.

What if you were to simply think about what it would mean if there were a perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe? Is it possible for such a being to exist? Epicures thought about it in 300 BCE, and he came up with this:

"The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?"

[See also Proof #31]

In other words, if you sit and think about who God is supposed to be, you realize that such a being is impossible. Ridiculous, in fact.

Take this quote from the Bible. In Matthew 7:7 Jesus says:

Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

The impossibility of God is visible here as well. Based on Jesus' statement, let's assume that you are a child and you are starving in Ethiopia. You pray for food. What would you expect to happen based on Jesus' statement? If God exists as an all-loving, all-knowing and all-powerful parent -- a "father in heaven" -- you would expect God to deliver food to you. In fact, the child should not have to pray. Normal parents provide food to their children without their children having to beg for it. Yet, strangely, on planet Earth today we find tens of millions of people dying of starvation every year.

Another way to approach the impossibility of God is to think about the concept of omniscience. If God is omniscient, then it means that he knows every single thing that happens in the universe, both now and infinitely into the future. Do you have free will in such a universe? Clearly not. God knows everything that will happen to you. Therefore, the instant you were created, God knows whether you are going to heaven or hell. To create someone knowing that that person will be damned to hell for eternity is the epitome of evil.

Here is another way to understand the impossibility of God. If you look at the definition of God, you can see that he is defined as the "originator and ruler of the universe". Why does the universe need an originator -- a creator? Because, according to religious logic, the universe cannot exist unless it has a creator. A believer will say, "nothing can exist unless it is created." However, that satement immediately constructs a contradiction, because we must then wonder who created God. For a believer the answer to that is simple -- "God is the one thing that does not need a creator. God is timeless and has always existed." How can it be that the everything MUST have a creator, while God must NOT? The contradiction in the definition of God is palpable.

As soon as your think about the concept of a perfect, omnipotent, omniscient being, you realize the impossibility of the concept. That impossibility is yet another way to see that God is imaginary.

Answer 8

God is all powerful. - omnipotent.
God is everywhere - yes he can be - omniscient.
Is God always giving? - That is best answered by saying that our God is a just God. and evil will be called to account here or after death. Thankfully, as you know, he gave his son Jesus so that under Christ's blood, he is always blessing us. - Thats not to say do whatever you want though...

God is constant - and doesnt change. So these attributes never will either.

Answer 9

No he is not, otherwise he would not need angels to do his "outside" work. Yes there was a time, that is before the paternal religions ever existed. The time when the maternal religions florished and grew. The earth mother religions. Those religions are alive and well today and are far older that Judaism, Islam or Christianity combinded.

Answer 10

I don't find the concept of God's "omnibenevolence" (sic?) in the Bible. God's characteristics work in harmony with each other. God is love but He hates sin because it is harmful to the people He loves. God is patient and long suffering but if someone doesn't eventually turn from sin He is also a righteous judge who will visit the penalty of their unrepentance upon them.

"Do you suppose, O man--you who judge those who do such things and yet do them yourself--that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. Romans 2:3-8

Answer 11

We are spirit children of God, come to this earth to get bodies and to prove to Him that we will do all that He asks us to do. This test is not to prove to Him so much as it is to prove to US that his judgement is right and just. He knows what we will do and how we will behave but He gave us free will and He will NOT take it away from us. If we ask for guidance He will provide it through the Holy Ghost, the Scriptures, and Prophets. Read the Scriptures and Pray for answers, you will receive them if you pray truthfully.