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Is God able to deny himself?

"omni" means "all" and "potent" means "powerful" or "mighty", so both are accurate, since they mean the same thing. But your point about what some mean by "omnipotent" is worth delving into. @Gary K, can you explain, in few words, what you mean by "omnipotent"? @Clete, can you tell us what...

Right. If we instead retain our flawed understanding of God, then we disagree with scripture. This is the problem with just saying the omni's are the most important characteristics of God. They might be, but I can't see that from the scriptures that say "God is love" or "God is light" or "God is...

Ok, so you see "circumcision" as applying to Israel, right? So which was Peter called a hypocrite for? 1. For not keeping the law himself, or 2. For saying he was going to the circumcision only, but then he went to the Gentiles in Gal 2:14?

[Mal 1:2 KJV] I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, [Mal 1:3 KJV] And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. [Rom 9:13 KJV] As it is...

Assuming the Almanac is accurate and comprehensive: 1. Yes, you're correct. 2. Nobody in the future has any power over anything that will happen, 3. God has no power aver anything that will happen (He can't change the Almanac and the Almanac can't be wrong). And, the book of Jonah could never...

I don't see "mystery" in Eph 1:4. I do see it several verses later: [Eph 1:9 KJV] Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: [Eph 1:10 KJV] That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one...

No, the "if" is 2 verses earlier: [Jer 23:22 KJV] But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. Those verses are talking about false prophets, who say everything is fine...

What does it mean to be "a God at hand" vs "a God far off"? If God is "at hand" for the Israelites, because He is their God (and not other peoples' God), doesn't it mean that He is near to His people, but not necessarily near to other peoples? If God is looking for someone, surely he won't be...

Isn't that a limitation on God, that there never be any limitations on God? God has limited Himself in numerous ways: "I am not a man that I should lie." "I change not...lest you be consumed." "He humbled Himself, and became obedient even unto death." Now, we know about these limitations...

If God has always known every thing we'd ever do, then everything we'll ever do was decided before we existed, so if we are punished for what was decided about us before we existed, God is immoral.

Yes. Sorry for not responding back then. I don't always remember to go back and reply to everything. I don't understand why you take my words as if God didn't have perfect knowledge of the past and present in that case. What He didn't know, just like He didn't know with Abraham and Isaac's...

This is what we've been arguing about. I don't know that I agree with you that's what the bible teaches. Yes, I agree. Yes, I agree. See above where I didn't agree with you. :rolleyes: Ok.

GPS takes both general and special relativity into account every day. This link is a paper written by Van Flandern that discusses GPS, relativity, and some related subjects. Here's the relevant paragraph: To offset these two effects [general and special relativity effects], the GPS engineers...

No, I can't. That's why I keep bringing up these questions, because it doesn't make sense that God would not know something, but He knows He doesn't know it, and He knows how bad it is (without knowing about it), so that He can then deal with it at the proper time. Well, that's one way to...

Sure. But the non-vacuum seems to be filled with creatures that are not so holy that they can handle perversity, while God cannot. This doesn't make sense to me. Yes, that is possible. And it's possible that angels are watching and reporting everything to Him. Perhaps there's a threshold...when...

How does He know what He doesn't know and needs to find out? This is not an off-the-wall question. I asked my teenaged daughter this question, and she said, "He would have to know what He doesn't know, in order to know whether He needed to know it or not." You're the one who is suggesting it is...

How does He know what He needs to know if He doesn't know all? This seems like a legitimate question to me. Follow me on this...if God has not determined to know all about a particular person, then that person does something that warrants God's attention (good or bad). If God isn't "paying...

You're probably right that the "good" is not necessarily for that believer, as it would appear to him in this life. For instance, the martyrs being fed to lions would not experience the good in this life. But that doesn't mean it isn't counted as good for them in some way leading into the next...

Been there, done that. Thanks for persevering on this. Jesus sent them out two by two, [Mar 6:7 KJV] And he called [unto him] the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits; It's the parallel passage to the one are talking about. Yes, but He...