How far reaching are God's powers?

[MilesAbbott81]

Plantinga didn't apply his concept to God, but it would seem to follow that if a human is not worthy of moral praise or blame if the only choices available to them are morally good ones, that God is therefore not deserving of moral praise or blame for his actions either, as God is restricted to only making good choices as well.  If that's true, then God is punishing people for not acknowledging the value of Christ's sacrifice when, in fact, Christ's sacrifice has no moral value.  It would be like punishing people from not praising a thermostat for turning on the heat.  God's punishing us would be immoral, which is inconsistent with a good God.

I did read your entire post, just pasting this part to cut down on size.

Plantinga's concept is completely reasonable from a carnal perspective, but it fails to take into account the sin nature, which prevents us from being able to choose good. That is why we don't have free will. We're capable of choosing good if God provides the grace to do so, which He often does even for the impenitent sinner, but our default is to do evil.

People are likely to argue this point, because we often look at the "good" we've done through a biased lens, one that wants to see oneself as good in nature instead of the unbiased lens that sees the sin nature. The Lord has revealed to me that many things I've done and thought were good were actually evil, something I couldn't realize until given the grace to do so.

God has no restrictions. He could certainly make evil choices if He chose to. Again, He is God, and therefore free to do as He pleases. But it's not in His nature to do evil, therefore He doesn't do evil.

I think the issue with your argument is that you see God as a concept and not as a person. He is a person, with emotions and thoughts, not some robot programmed to do or not to do things. One can't really apply the same arguments and theories to Him in the same way we can apply them to ourselves, though, because we're the ones being worked on (made in His image), not Him. He isn't going through a process, He is performing the process. It's a simple distinction but relevant.