Omnipotence is the quality of having unlimited power.Monotheistic religions generally attribute omnipotence only to the deity of their faith. But if God doesn’t know what we know, God is not all knowing, and the concept of God is contradictory.
But even if we accept, for the sake of argument, Aquinas’ explanation, there are other problems to contend with. The idea is grounded in Plato's oft-overlooked statement that "being is power." Other animals never do it except to satisfy their hunger, or in the rage of combat ….
Can God die? Therefore, an all-good, all-knowing, all-loving, all powerful God does not exist. (I shall here ignore the argument that God knows what it is like to be human through Christ, because the doctrine of the Incarnation presents us with its own formidable difficulties: Was Christ really and fully human? You may attribute miracles to him, but not nonsense. No animal ever torments another for the mere purpose of tormenting, but man does it, and it is this that constitutes the diabolical feature in his character which is so much worse than the merely animal. This view is known as The most popular works espousing this point are from All the above stated claims of power are each based on scriptural grounds and upon According to the Hindu philosophy the essence of God or So presuming there is a god-like entity consciently taking actions, we cannot comprehend the limits of a deity's powers.Since the current laws of physics are only known to be valid in this universe, it is possible that the laws of physics are different in parallel universes, giving a God-like entity more power. These positions include, but are not limited to, the following: In the Christian belief, he created the universe and the earth we live in. Indeed, the production of secondary causes, capable of accomplishing certain effects, requires greater power than the direct accomplishment of these same effects. It evidently would be a world very different from the one we currently inhabit, but a possible world all the same. According to the well-known Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga, “To create creatures capable of moral good, [God] must create creatures capable of moral evil; and He can’t give these creatures the freedom to perform evil and at the same time prevent them from doing so.” However, this does not explain so-called physical evil (suffering) caused by nonhuman causes (famines, earthquakes, etc.). Philosophy of Religion: Chapter 6. Leaving aside the highly implausible idea that God knows all the facts in the universe, no matter how trivial or useless (Saint Jerome thought it was beneath the dignity of God to concern Himself with such base questions as how many fleas are born or die every moment), if God knows all there is to know, then He knows at least as much as we know. If God The way out of this dilemma is usually to argue, as Saint Thomas Aquinas did, that God cannot do self-contradictory things. Brad Thomas. Or we may say, that the knowledge or will of God, according as it is the effective principle, has the notion of power contained in it. Hence, God could not exist. Omnipotence is perfect power, free from all mere potentiality.
effect, has real existence; and I hold that the definition of being is simply power.Power is influence, and perfect power is perfect influence ... power must be exercised upon something, at least if by power we mean influence, control; but the something controlled cannot be absolutely inert, since the merely passive, that which has no active tendency of its own, is nothing; yet if the something acted upon is itself partly active, then there must be some resistance, however slight, to the "absolute" power, and how can power which is resisted be absolute?For example, though someone might control a lump of jelly-pudding almost completely, the inability of that pudding to stage any resistance renders that person's power rather unimpressive. Hence, although God does not bring into external being all that He is able to accomplish, His power must not be understood as passing through successive stages before its effect is accomplished. The transition from possibility to actuality or from act to potentiality, occurs only in creatures. God cannot be both omniscient and morally perfect. The Problem of Evil.