Christians: Since you have said you can go against your own nature, why can't God? Are you more powerful?

Question

You all said you can do it in my last question. You also say God can't. If God is omnipotent, couldn't he do it too?

My previous question:
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If your head explodes from this, maybe it will let in the light.

Jon M: But if it's self-contradiction then how is it that you can do it?

Q&A Queen: It doesn't matter why. CAN he?

Steve: You said "It is not power or strength to go against one's nature. It is weakness....It is because we are not perfect that we CAN go against our nature. My nature is to sin..."

So, your nature is to sin, and you can only go against your nature by having a weakness. So the only way you can avoid sin is by having a weakness? What? Wouldn't avoiding sin take strength? Plus, isn't God omnipotent. He'd be able to go against his nature if he wanted to.

thegreatbrandoni: So you disagree with your fellow Christians who say God can't go against his nature?

Christian_me: Yep. That's what I want to hear, because it means God can turn evil if he wants. Thanks for making my point.

Answer 1

No. Just weaker. As I said in your first question, omnipotence doesn't encompass self-contradiction.

God deals in reality. He doesn't have a live pink sequined unicorn because they don't exist except in our imaginations. How does not dealing with unreality -- like divine self-contradiction -- take away from God's omnipotence?

Answer 2

If we weren't created we would share an uncomplicated ancestry with cockroaches of direction it may be a certainty set in concrete and previous any debate or question that we would be in simple terms trash. i'm undecided if we've the fee-useful technologies to break down, separate, kit and sell the climate of our bodies so as that on the subject of no longer being created we could a minimum of have some well worth posthumously. Created in God's image potential having a spirit and able to becoming possibilities. God of direction being completely holy never sins. we can the two stay in accordance to our layout (to be holy additionally) or in layout-violation which potential sin of direction, some thing we weren't designed for.

Answer 3

Revelation 3:20 (Amplified Bible)
20Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears and listens to and heeds My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will eat with him, and he [will eat] with Me.

Revelation 22:17 (New International Version)
17The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.

So, those who hear and answer in the affirmative,
those are the ones who drink and eat of eternal
life and those are the ones who are changed
and sealed by the power of the Holy Spirit!

Ok - I read the question a different way, lol,
I thought you were saying why isn't God powerful
enough to go against OUR sinful nature, and
of course, He can, but we have to choose.
He waits for us to hear.

Of course He is perfect and does not need to
change, we are the ones who need to change
and God changes us! We change ourselves
only to the extent we can (not much), but God
gives us strength as well as eternal life (salvation).
We are spiritually dead until God brings us
to spiritual life, then we can see things that
pertain to God a lot more clearly!

Answer 4

The idea of a Christian God is a god who is all-powerful, all-good, all-knowing, and perfect.

Given that he is believed to be perfect, there would be no need for him to go against this nature, since in order to go against his nature, he would become less than perfect, and he wouldn't be God.

It's not that we are more powerful, it's just that we are not perfect, therefore we can go against an imperfect nature in an attempt to obtain perfection (despite never really achieving this).

Answer 5

It is not power or strength to go against one's nature. It is weakness. God is an absolute; He is the measure; He is the rule. He said Himself "I am the LORD your God; I change not." It is because we are not perfect that we CAN go against our nature. My nature is to sin, but through HIS power, if I will be "strong in the Lord and the power of His might," I can rise above my nature, and be re-made into a new creation.

Answer 6

Sorry .For some needs you will also go against nature .IT DOESN'T MATTER. But the thing to be have in mind is "work is important if it is necessary for human survive . You are using the computer just to ask this questions. Do you know how much will this effects for the nature after the usage and thrown out . so please think that how can save this nature by all this problems not to ask don't invent or to discover .THANK YOU

Answer 7

Hey buddy You make some of the silliest questions. Does god have a nature? I don't know what that means. This one is even dumber than the infinitely forgiving one where you were too dense to understand my answer and you responded with some ridiculous summary that fit your simpleton logic trap.

Answer 8

You are putting earthly limitations on the supernatural. We can fight against our nature, which is to be sinful, but the power of the Holy Spirit is what allows us to go against our nature, not our own power. Does that mean that a non-believer can't choose not to do something? No, it means that the desire to daily go against what we naturally want to do and the ability to carry that desire out on a daiy basis is divinely inspired. E.g. before I was saved, I didn't have a problem drinking, doing drugs, sleeping around, if it felt good, I did it. It was in my nature to do so. After salvation I began to see those things as God sees them, not as I see them. They went from being a fun thing to do to being something that made me feel dirty or unclean.
So, to answer your question, we cannot go against our nature without divine intervention. God won't go against His nature because He has no desire to!

Answer 9

Short answer.

God is perfect in Love, Justice, Wisdom & Power. Why WOULD God go against his nature? Where's the need?

Humans on the other hand are totally IMperfect. We are by nature flawed and must go against that nature to do right.

Answer 10

You forget one thing........God is not "Natural"......He is "Supernatural" and perfect in every way. That's why God never changes.........Big difference! ......God's ways are vastly different from man's. He tells us: ". . . My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways . . . For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9).