Yahweh is described as the most-est at a number of things, which can be interpreted as being as good as he needs to be or the most ever possible. Does he need to be "omnipotent" or does he simply need to be stronger than any force that might challenge him? Does he need to be "omniscient" or just smarter than anyone else can ever be? Does he need to be "omnipresent" or just have the ability to peer into our hearts and know our actions and thoughts?
If people are using "omni" attributes in order to solve logical problems, I think it winds up causing more problems than it solves. Everything from the silly (can he create a rock he can't lift?) to the sublime (Epicurus's questions regarding such attributes). And as ever, if the Bible was clear and unambiguous about the matter, it might be easier to figure out who or what god is (or was supposed to be).
If people are using "omni" attributes in order to solve logical problems, I think it winds up causing more problems than it solves. Everything from the silly (can he create a rock he can't lift?) to the sublime (Epicurus's questions regarding such attributes). And as ever, if the Bible was clear and unambiguous about the matter, it might be easier to figure out who or what god is (or was supposed to be).
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
