Permanent omnipotence?

[Edwardo Piet]

I haven't read it. But I've seen enough to know what it's like :S

[The Grand Nudger]

There are a few good narratives in it (subject to opinion obviously), nothing that you won't find anywhere else (or done better) in secular literature...but you can hardly fault the authors for that, few thousand years of literature between those stories and our own.

[Edwardo Piet]

Oh, and I'm familiar with the Skeptic's Annotated version.

[Minimalist]

Maybe he needs....

[The Grand Nudger]

Skeptics annotated misses out on some of the more nuanced bits. Cain and abel narrative, pillar of salt...song of solomon..etc.
(of course it would, because fiction is fiction...and anything that attempts to honestly address why fiction is fiction misses out on the best parts of fiction)

[Jackalope]

Well, that's not my question.

If you want my opinion on that: Nowhere. They don't exist. I am saying, if the God of the Bible exists, is there any biblical reason to believe his omnipotence is permanent?

Yes. Wouldn't omnipotence imply the ability to retain one's power? That is, unless one chose to give it up.

[Edwardo Piet]

Yeah, and maybe he chose to give it up?

Maybe for ironic reasons or something along those lines.

Maybe he was going power mad and being all loving acknowledged that and so gave up his power?

[The Grand Nudger]

But couldn't he choose to give it up whilst simultaneously retaining it?

[Edwardo Piet]

Logically contradictory omnipotence is impossible. Only omnipotence within logic is possible.

Omnipotence is the power to do anything, and anything that is logically impossible isn't anything at all, so to only be able to do the logically possible is still omnipotence because you can still do anything that is actually anything. Which is what omnipotence is: the ability to do anything that is actually anything.

[The Grand Nudger]

You mean an omnipotent motherfucker is ultimately subject to the same limitations that I am? What a let-down.