Isn't this an admission by "god" that his creation was flawed and required a correction? And therefore isn't it evidence that "god" is not perfect and thus, not omnipotent?
Can we refrain from beliefs and opinions and focus only on the facts regarding this issue?
2006-07-14 07:13:55 · 13 answers · asked by Truyer 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, when looking at the stories of the Bible logically, it states that the god it talks about cannot possibly be the god that it talks about! In other words, such a being cannot exist in reality. The Bible impeaches itself! Reading the Bible not for moral code or historical fact but for what it is, is the fastest way to atheism.
2006-07-14 07:16:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian, I must say, I am not saying the word Omnipotent is presently defining God. this word Pantokrator was used as All mighty & Omnipotent or all ruleing ,only used as the later once in Revelations 19:6 and this is at the time 0f the Marriage of the Lamb , and in Verse 10 The Testimoney of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy. "Jesus Speaks the word of God". while in the flesh we can change the corse of our own events. we have a choice. Sorry to some of you Christians God has not ordained all events.
2006-07-14 07:32:36 · answer #2 · answered by kritikos43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, there are no facts regarding this issue. There is no objective historical reference of Jesus's life other than the Bible.
As for God sending Jesus to make a correction. You could say the same thing about Noah's Ark. But I'd like to believe that he planned everything all along. At least that's what He tells me when I ask Him.
Some people argue that when God created the world he made it imperfect on purpose. Here is a paragraph from the book, "All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren that illustrates my answer perfectly.
"The creation of man whom God in His foreknowledge knew doomed to sin was an awful index of God's omnipotence. For it would have been a thing of trifling and contemptible ease for Perfection to create mere perfection. To do so would, to speak the truth, be not creation but extension. Separateness is identity and the only way for God to create..man was to make him separate from God Himself, and to be separate from God is to be sinful. The creation of evil is therefore the index of God's glory and His power. That had to be so that the creation of good might be the index of man's glory and power. But by God's help. By His help and in His wisdom."
2006-07-14 07:29:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How can you refrain from beliefs when answering a question about God??? God's creation is and was perfect. Because we as humans were given free will, WE made it imperfect. God allowed Jesus to intervene to save us from ourselves and what we screwed up. To be omnipotent is to be all powerful.....God is that. He can do anything He chooses to do. He chose to give us free will. What we did with His creation was up to us. Unfortunately we don't think as God thinks and our flaws came into play. So the answer would be no....
2006-07-14 07:24:59 · answer #4 · answered by Cathy L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. God created everything, including Satan and humans. Satan brought forth destruction and flawed God's perfect world. God gave humans the freedom of choice but with whatever choice we made there would be consequences. Good or bad depending on those choices. We choose to listen to Satan and dive into doubt, question and belief. (See the book of Genesis).
Because of that we developed our own personal views of who God should be based on what "we" wanted to believe, not what He wanted us to believe and live. As long as it fit our needs we believed it. He choose to come down in Christ Jesus, a human, to show us that he feels for us, not condemns us. Whoever has seen me, has seen the Father (I don't remember the verse).
Being that God is omnipotence why is it so hard to believe that He couldn't also become human?
2006-07-14 07:22:42 · answer #5 · answered by jthoms9800 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-07 22:21:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think serf said it. God is God over time... He can move in and out of time whenever he wants. He sees history enfold before history takes place. God's plan before the beginning of time already included Jesus.... So God is still Omnipotent.
2006-07-14 07:21:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, sorry, I'm going to give you my "belief" based on various theories and religions I have studied.
I don't believe in sin. I think it is a man-made construct.
I believe that Jesus was born and chose to die for us not to save us from our sins (which, would in effect mean He had to save us from God, our creator) but rather to prove the point that He had been teaching all along which was of God's existence and His love for us and that we are to love each other. He died for us to show how serious He was about His teachings on earth.
Unfortunately, I think many of those teachings were lost in translation through generations of stories passed down verbally, and then in the mistranslations of the stories written hundreds of years later who were not eyewitnesses to the actual events.
2006-07-14 07:21:22 · answer #8 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. One could easily argue that creation was designed to require Jesus.
2006-07-14 07:16:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is only one God. One Christ, and One Holy Spirit.
In Greece, and other countries have Zeus, Apollo, Achilles. But, they are not gods!!
2006-07-14 07:20:41 · answer #10 · answered by alfonso 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋