(May 7, 2012 at 5:44 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Also, I've heard it explained several times that Hell is the absence of God's presence. Doesn't this contradict God's omnipresence?
YHWH hasn't always been omnipotent and omniscient. In the OT, he wasn't able to defeat a tribe of people who had chariots of iron. He also had the strength of a wild ox and it took him six whole days to create the universe. He needed a breather and rested for the seventh and reportedly was "refreshed". All this says to me he wasn't always omnipotent.
I think he attained omnipotence when he achieved 20th level as a deity.
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