It's obvious He can't be both. Or has God chosen to LIMIT himself. Is so why?
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2007-01-22 05:06:16 · 8 answers · asked by CaveGoat 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think this is one of the most important questions in Theology.
In Theological circles, it's known as "Theodicy," and essentially asks how evil can be reconciled with the supposed benevolent nature of God.
I personally believe in an all-loving, all-present God; God may not prevent suffering, but God is present with us through our suffering, and God ultimately reconciles oppressor and oppressed. That's my read on the Christ story...
2007-01-22 05:17:06 · answer #1 · answered by carwheelsongravel1975 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Obvious He can't be both? I worship a God who IS both. The only limits he has placed on himself was the "humbling" of Jesus in Phil. 2:8. This does not apply to subservience to man's whims in "choosing" or acceptance or any type of authorizing of God's grace. Your link says "no tenets" and yet advocates Arminian theology to the core.
The God I worship IS good, and all-powerful. His ways are not our ways, and this is quite evident in the actions He has taken in history. It doesn't mean He's not good...uncomfortable yes, but absolutely good. And His power is beyond comprehension.
2007-01-22 13:31:31 · answer #2 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. God is all powerful and all good. and God can be all at the same time. God's the one where everything started and will end. you don't seem to understand powers of God because nobody has ever come to know God completely. we don't have that much understanding and knowledge to know God completely. even if we know something about God that we consider very important, it would still be like a drop of water in an ocean. even all saints, prophets didn't/don't know God completely respectively. Only God himself knows God.
2007-01-22 13:59:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is both. God cannot tolerate sin and cannot be near it so Jesus was sent to cleanse us. That way we can approach God. He is all powerful because He created everything and everything and everyone is subject to Him.
2007-01-22 13:17:46 · answer #4 · answered by potatochip 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see how god can possibly be both, god is either all good or all powerful, but not both.
2007-01-22 13:15:54 · answer #5 · answered by Nick F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God can't be good for in the bible it says that he created hell... No good being would create a human knowing full well that it will end up eternally damned.
2007-01-22 13:12:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, He is both and all knowing as well
2007-01-22 13:12:24 · answer #7 · answered by dwayne_barclay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is Both.
2007-01-22 13:09:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋