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What could a omnipotent God want with the worship of humans?
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RE: What could a omnipotent God want with the worship of humans?
(November 20, 2014 at 8:30 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: What could a omnipotent God possible want with human worship? I mean he's supposed be basically omni-all with or without us, so why spent so much time and energy obssessing over and obtaining human worship. He is so obsessed, that when he has ten rules to give humans the first three are devoted to him. So again I reiterate the title.

Omnipotence is an interesting concept. Averroes the Islamic Philosopher posed the question 'Is it possible for god to deny himself?' again, invoking the question of Omnipotence (albeit a more refined version of the paradox).

The Theological answer appears to be that god can only do anything within his nature, that is to say, he cannot make 1+1=3. A position reiterated more recently by the Pope, when he said, 'god is not a magician'.

I think all of this is the culmination of years of Theological debate and discussion that has come to a head in this significant shift in Theological positioning, god is no longer the almighty.

If we accept this repositioning of Christian Theology, then any paradox inherent in the concept of Omnipotence, is rendered moot.

A neat bit of re-branding of god worthy of the most devious ad-agencies. God is a commodity that must survive come what may, it would seem that god needs us to survive, just as predicted by the Holy Prophet, Terry Pratchett.

MM
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RE: What could a omnipotent God want with the worship of humans? - by ManMachine - November 20, 2014 at 9:03 am

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