(March 16, 2013 at 8:27 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 16, 2013 at 1:17 am)whateverist Wrote: I've always thought that setting the bar at "omni-" was just too high.Sometimes I think all the "omni-" words fall into what I call "church-speak", phrases that get used so often they become meaningless. I find it helpful to toy around with the order to see subtle shift in undestanding. What if instead of calling God 'All powerful' we said 'power over all', or suppose instead of 'all knowing' we just say he knows everything there is to know?
To which I always want to ask but what if your god turned out only to be pretty darned powerful, but not over everything. And what if it only knew way more than anyone else but far less than everything. Would you then send it packing for it having failed to live up to your expectation? How could people then (or now for that matter) possibly take the measure of the god you believe in accurately? Are you equipped to make that measurement? Who is?
