i don't think god is always omnipotent, because god is so omnipotent that he can even turn off his omnipotent powers sometimes.
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Well, I suppose it's a sort of solution to the 'If God is all powerful can he make a rock so big that he himself can't move it?" argument.
"i don't think god is always omnipotent, because god is so omnipotent that he can even turn off his omnipotent powers sometimes."
See, if you had said, "God sometimes chooses not to use his omnipotent powers," you might have had me. I could accept that. To use an example from another fictional source, Superman has super-speed, but sometimes Clark Kent just walks from place to place. So, okay, I'd accept that.
However, if you think about what you said, it doesn't make sense. If God were to turn his omnipotent powers off, then how would he be able to turn them back on? See, once he's no longer omnipotent, he's powerless. Get it?
"Sorry, I can't help you, I've turned off my omnipotence"
"So you're not omnipotent?"
"Nope, not right now!"
"Well then, you're not really omnipotent, are you?"
"No."
"So WHAT THE FUCK?"
"WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN"
If Satan asked God to make a boulder so big that God couldn't lift it one of two things would happen: God could do it and he's not omnipotent because he should be able to lift anything, or he can't make a boulder that big and is therefore not omnipotent because he should be able to make anything.
Somehow I don't think that's what you ment.
Edit: darn you solomongrundy.
OWCH!!
Dammit, you made me *facepalm*, and I was in the middle of chopping vegetables!
*rushes to the emergency room*
I accidentally my entire omnipotence.
Also, he might be able to turn parts of his power on and off, but can he turn off his ability to turn them back on? OTOH perhaps this has happened already, which would explain the sharp decline in the quality of miracles in recent times.
Every time I think I've seen the bottom of human stupidity, I come across a post like this.
How do these people not drown in the shower.
... poe?
Please be poe...
To: Technical Support
From: YHWH_alpha_omega
Subject: Omnipotence problem
I have encountered a serious problem which I hope you can help me with. This morning, while running a simulation involving a huge rock, I accidentally uninstalled the omnipotence.exe file from my copy of "GodPowers - Millennium Edition", causing the application to lock me out. Now I find I am unable to reinstall the application; and the backup disk I created seems to have a will of its own, refusing to recognise my administrator password.
I really hope you can help me, as I use GodPowers to handle all my work, and I'm stuck without it. To be precise, I'm stuck underneath a huge rock that I am unable to lift.
Re: Average Guy
If he turns off his omnipotence, he won't be omnipotent enough to turn them back on again, dick.
Why do you call him/her "dick"? He/she hasn't stated anything at all offensive; he/she just stated a paradox...
god is so omnipotent that he can even turn off his omnipotent powers sometimes.
Huh. Maybe that's what happened; he turned off his shit after making everything and was never able to get it back. We know what a tremendous fuck-up he is.
Confused?
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