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Is God omnipotent and controls everything?

Is God omnipotent?

  • Yes, God has power over everything and controls everything.

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  • Yes, God has power over everything but doesn't control everything.

    Votes: 23 53.5%
  • No, God doesn't have power over everything.

    Votes: 2 4.7%

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zoidar

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Maybe you can explain why you don’t think God is glorified in all that He does.

It's late here. Got to go to bed. We'll see if I come up with something to say tomorrow. Good night!
 
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Friend, naturally as a Catholic I believe in Aquinas's Five Ways. The assertion was that everything has an affect on something else, not that everything that occurs was caused by something before it. The former is false, the latter is true (except in the case of God, who is eternal).
 
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You may find many of us Reformed to be less rigidly encased in your notion of determinism than you realize. I can't speak for Hammster, but note: God even allows prayers to sway him, he put Moses in place for that very purpose. So Cause-and-effect, in which God is involved, is not necessarily time-sequence dependent, but cause dependent. Have you ever prayed concerning an outcome that you know has already happened, but you don't know what that outcome was? Do you think God is not swayed by such prayers too, and sometimes grants those prayers, from before they were prayed? To timeless God, is OUR "before and after" really relevant?
 
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I have no objections to any of this.
 
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God controls that which He wants to control.
 
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Any concept, (in this case, Omnipotence), is not the same thing in the mind of one that it is in the mind of another another, or more to the point, that it is in the mind of God. Granted none of us see such a thing with the clarity and knowledge God does, but the scriptures are replete with descriptions concerning that very thing, and that, being God's very word! It is (at best) irresponsible to assume that there is no need to increase our knowledge of Omnipotence. But besides that, there is falsehood to expose concerning the nature of God, in the "Omnipotence" that some believe in.

We believers have no pure, complete, notion of Omnipotence which we espouse and cling to as a basis for all our other beliefs. So, we don't have the same notion of Omnipotence, if we "see differently on matters like predestination, foreknowledge, free will, election". And Omnipotence may just be the most important attribute of God we can intellectually pursue.
 
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When Christ was on the cross, was He punished for His sins? No, of course not. He was punished for sins of others. Sin deserves punishment. It shows God’s justice. And God is glorified when He shows any of His attributes.

Maybe you can explain why you don’t think God is glorified in all that He does.

Ok here we go. God is NOT glorified by punishing Jesus! I say this again. God is NOT glorified by punishing Jesus! Jesus, the Son of God was innocent, sinless, and WILLINGLY he bore the sins of the world, our sins, which he didn't have to do, but in love and mercy chose to do. This gives God GLORY! The LOVE of God was manifested in one HOLY sacrifice, His only Son and He was resurrected for our salvation to the JOY of God and and His glory.

This is the GOSPEL, the GOOD news! And they are good news indeed!

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him." /John 3:16-17

For the CROSS is a declaration of God's love to mankind.
 
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Thanks. First question: is God glorified when punishing sin?
 
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Thanks. First question: is God glorified when punishing sin?

No!

God is glorified by saving people from damnation, not from "putting" people there.
 
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It's kind of a tricky question. I would say, bringing about justice glorifies God. The punishment itself does not.
The punishment does, though. It shows God’s hatred for sin. The Son took our punishment as if He has sinned. If you study the cross, all of God’s attributes were on display. And all of His attributes bring Him glory. So Christ being punished for our sin brings Glory to the Father.
 
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I doubt you agree, but two born again Christians can understand scripture totally different. One reason we have all these churches and denominations.
As you’ve said, I do not agree. The problem is that most professing born again Christians are not yet born again. I know in my own life I thought I was born again around 1974. It was wasn’t until around 1990 that it actually happened. There is one truth and all who are in Christ must be taught directly from Him.
 
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