Can a omnipotent being(god) do this challenge?

Question

Omnipotence (literally, "all power") is power with no limits or inexhaustible, in other words, unlimited power.

So, Can God vanish his ability of omnipotence/ turn himself to an ordinary human being? If yes, then how could he return back to his omnipotence form, since it required a omnipotent ability to be omnipotent?If no, then omnipotence has a limit.

this is similar to the omnipotence paradox

Answer 1

If it used its omnipotence to remove its omnipotence, it would no longer be omnipotent, and thus, would be unable to make itself omnipotent again.

Put another way: if it gave up all its powers, it wouldn't have any powers anymore, and would be like you or I, and like you or I, it would be unable to give itself powers again. It would require another omnipotent being to grant it powers again in order to have powers again.

Since it is omnipotent, it has the power to remove its powers. But once those powers are removed, it cannot get them back.

Let's say my hands have the ability to reattach other people's hands that have been cut off. Its magic and the magic is stored in my hands. I also have the ability (like everyone else) to go out, buy a chainsaw and cut off my own hands. But, once I have cut off my own hands, they no longer contain the aforementioned magic ability to reattach hands. Since, by cutting off my own hands, I removed from myself the ability to reattach hands, I cannot reattach my own hands.


Or something like that. It's entirely possible that nothing I just said makes any sense.

Answer 2

I forgot that movie's name. It is the one where there is this cool golden globe looking thing, once humans come in contact with it, what they think starts coming true. And at the end of the movie, they sit together and think that they forget what they know and it happens.

Interesting, isn't it? But the question is, did that funny looking thing lacked any power by not being able to give a human the ability to make thoughts a reality.

Well, that would still make God omnipotent. IMO. But then again I don't believe in God, so, why do i care?

Answer 3

Omnipotence, as a classical Christian description of an attribute of God is not about God having the ability to do whatever he wants. Instead, it is a reference to God not requiring any other being to sustain his own existence-- it is highlighting an infinite qualitative difference between a divine nature and a finite being. In relation to the remainder of your question, classical Christian theology would assert that God cannot act against his own nature-- God cannot cease to be who God is. However, in terms of Christian theology, God did do something akin to what you postulate, by taking on a creaturely nature in the person of Jesus Christ, but Christian theology would assert that God manifested his power in doing so, because by assuming a creaturely nature, God in no way diminished his essential nature.

Of course, this is a particular theological take on your question. You may or may not believe such things, but it demonstrates a way that folks have thought about your question.

However, if you conceive of the attribute of omnipotence, in the manner that you describe, you are running into what is called the "voluntarist" dilemna, which happened as a result of the nominalism of William of Occam and Duns Scotus. In this respect, God's will is seperated from God's nature in an attempt to preserve his absolute power and sovereignty. However, you end up with a God that is capricious, capable of doing things like you describe.

Answer 4

This is what I call a "what if question?" That isn't worth the trouble asking because it just would never be. An omnipotent God would know enough to not turn himself in to a ordinary human.

Answer 5

Is removing omnipotence equal or necessary to the act of becoming human ?

It's not really a paradox any more than it's a proof that we don't know omnipotence when we see it.

Answer 6

Logical argumentation has its limits. If this is an attempt at debunking the Jesus myth, just ask yourself why you bother to debunk such silly stories.

Logic has no end. You think it does, but there's always another argument. Logical argumentation causes an endless cycle of argument. Just adopt a firm ideological principle and stick to that. Reexamine it from time to time (don't be willfully ignorant), but stick to principles. You have to accept that there are some gaps in your logic.

Answer 7

Even if you believe in omnipotence, you have to realize that it must, by its very nature, have limitations. For instance, could God make a stone so large that even he could not lift it?

Answer 8

Usually, as we see in avatars and mahatmas....the omnipotence is there and remains there in the body. It does not leave once a body is assumed. Otherwise, Christ and all of the other mahatmas would have been unable to have done what they did.

Answer 9

Oh thats easy! But I am not going to tell you the secret.

Answer 10

God could do anything, but probably won't do such a thing.