Bible Question:
A God conundrum... Is God all powerful? Can God do anything S/He wants? Can God do anything Man can do? Can God commit Sin? Can God do evil? How can God Sin, or do evil, if S/He is all good? How is it NOT a contradiction? If God cannot Sin, or do evil, then dosen't that mean S/He is not all powerfull? If God cannot commit evil, then dosen't that imply that Man is able to do something God is not? If God CAN commit Sin or do evil, how do we know S/He dosen't? If God cannot do certain things, how do we know what S/He can do? I know I have asked several questions, but it is a line of inquery that has been troubling me as of late. Any help or guidance that might resolve these questions would help- be it this religion, or another. thanks in advance Clark |
Bible Answer: God Can't Do Everything Gregory Koukl (Notice: The following quotation is part of a follow-up to an earlier discussion with the same author, Gregory Koukl. To read the entire transcript, please go to the website given at the end of this posting. --kalos) John's argument was this: You say that God is omnipotent and He is also perfectly good. Those are in contradiction. Why? Because omnipotent means He is able to do anything, which would include being able to do immoral things. But a perfectly good creature would not be able to do so, and so you Christians are essentially saying that God is able to do immoral things and He is not able to do immoral things at the same time. This is a violation of the Law of Non- contradiction, therefore it falsifies the Christian's point of view at this particular point. That is his argument. The solution is quite simple. He had misconstrued or misunderstood what Christians mean by the term "omnipotent." We do not mean that God can do everything. One thing that is specifically denied in the Christian revelation, the Bible, is that God can do evil. That is denied. He cannot do evil. So Christians hold that God is omnipotent, but what that entails is not the belief that He can do everything, because some things He can't. He can't commit evil, for example. So there's no contradiction in the Christian's view that God is omnipotent and He is good. This is a transcript of a commentary from the radio show (http://www.str.org/radio/index.htm) "Stand to Reason," with Gregory Koukl To read the entire transcript go to (www.str.org/free/commentaries/theology/gcde.htm) |
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