The logical consequences of omnipotence

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This is aimed at atheists.

Atheists... Please explain how God is omnipotent or not.

missluckie26 thinks getting any sense out of you is like pulling teeth.

My contention in making this thread is that it doesn't matter in a binary sense, but that if god is omnipotent, then by necessity all the apologetics theists use to excuse the immorality of god's actions are nullified; an omnipotent god is by definition either disinterested in us, or actively malevolent against us, if he doesn't act to disable all suffering. And that if he's not omnipotent, then there's a lot of false advertising going on.

Certainly the latter argument is less strong, but it does have the advantage of forcing the theist who answers to define their religious figure more strongly than they usually would. Religion thrives on vagueness, which you can see in many of the answers one gets to these types of questions; questioning, the expanding knowledge pool that we have, causes religious positions to retreat. Christianity operates on the back foot. The whole concept is a softer version of the god of the gaps; it exists in faith, but the more we know, the less there is to have faith in.