If god is all powerful...?
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Because He didn't "program" us to be robots.
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It is written that God gave man the power of reason,,and the power to question his own creator,,,,,so the answer could be,,,that human kind,,,was been given limitless power to interfere with Gods will.\nthe more we question,,,the closer we get to God.
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Nope. God is Almighty!
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Do you mean, Is it only insane people that feel that they are 'all together'?  If that is what you mean, I would say 'No'. The average life has its stresses, but since we are in the religion section let me say that God is a God of peace and he gives it to us through the brave actions of the Prince of Peace.
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God is always present, all-knowing and all-powerful.  He knew her before she even existed because he made her.
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That would be close.  Would God have a handicap?  Or, better yet, would God need a handicap?
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Yes.  God can do anything including things that seem impossible to you and me.   I cannot concieve how he would do it, but then I am not God.  I can concieve, however, that an all powerful God could will himself unable to pick up a grain of sand (I know you were thinking of something a little larger).  And since He is all powerful, He could will Himself able to pick it up when it suited His plan.  I know this is lame circular logic, but so was your question.
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God says He's a jealous God and I imagine He knows more about Himself than I do.\n\nConsider this: God is supreme.  He is GOD.  He wasn't invented by man, or He wouldn't be God.  He is all-knowing when we obviously aren't.  He's all-powerful when we obviously aren't.  He has always existed when we obviously were born not all that long ago.  He is holy and we definitely aren't.  He is GOD and is infinitely more awe-inspiring than we are.  Basically, He is worthy of praise.  He deserves it.  Just like kings and royalty get respect, He should get just as much and more.  He created us, we didn't make ourselves.  So imagine all that; imagine what the word "God" infers.\n\nAnd then read Exodus 20:2-5: "'Iam the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.  You shall have no other gods before Me.  You shall not make for yourself a carved image...you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.  For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God...."  \n\nIf God is really God, He has some claims on us.  Because we are not God.  We are His creation.  And one of those claims He has on us is that we worship His awesomeness.  I mean, imagine your favorite singer, actor, writer, athlete, and then imagine you trying to tell the media that, no, YOU are better than this person when obviously you stink next to their talent!  That is how we act as humans most of the time.  We don't give God His due.  And He has a right to be jealous.  Don't know if that answers your question, but that kind of jealousy is righteous.  Ours is petty.
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God is the light of the heaven & earth he is the creater of them & everything else. Almiyty, Powerfull and the Greatest. No one can imagen him.he have all the good adjectev in the world.
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The curious as well as the critics of Christianity ask this question. If God is all-powerful and all loving, then why does He permit evil and suffering in the world? Various answers have been given but permanently settling the issue is impossible because so many of our answers raise further questions. Nevertheless, our lack of ability to answer the question perfectly does not mean that we cannot offer solutions. Of course, I do not assume to be able to answer these questions definitively, but I can offer some solutions.\n     First of all, it is possible that God has reasons for allowing evil to exist that we simply cannot understand. In this the Christian can have confidence in God knowing that His ways are above our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9). As the Bible says, the just shall live by faith (Hab. 2:4).\n     Second, God may be letting evil run its course in order to prove that evil is evil and that suffering, which is the unfortunate product of evil, is further proof that anything contrary to God’s will is bad, harmful, painful, and leads to death. \n     God gave Adam dominion over the world (Gen. 1:28). When he rebelled against God, he set in motion an entire series of events and changed the very nature of man and creation. Both were affected by sin. Creation was no longer a paradise, but bore thorns and thistles (Gen. 3:17-18; Rom. 8:22). People became sinful (Rom. 5:12; Eph. 2:3), who were haters of God (Rom. 3:19-12), etc. The only conclusion to such a situation is death. Jesus said, "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened" (Matt. 24:22). \n     Sin is rebellion against God and His created order. But God has not left us alone in this fallen world. He continued to enter this world, pointing us to Himself, to truth, to morality, purity, and love. He used the evil of the world (liars, perjurers, the envious, etc), to bring His Son to the cross so that we might have the opportunity of eternal life. In this, God has not stepped away from fallen creation, but has stepped into it by becoming Jesus. God works within the fallen world to affect change and He uses fallen people to accomplish His will. In this, He is proving His sovereignty over evil, suffering, and rebellious people, proving that sin and evil are utterly futile, and that He is worthy of honor and glory.\n     A third possible reason that God is letting evil occur is so that on the day of judgment, the condemned will have no right to say that their sentence is unjust. God is not stopping people from exercising their free will. Think about this: If someone said that God should stop evil and suffering, then should God then stop all evil and suffering? If God only stopped some of it, then we would still be asking the same question of why it exists. So, if we want God to stop evil and suffering, then He must stop all of it. We have no problem with this when it means stopping a catastrophe, or a murder, or a rape. But what about when someone thinks of something evil? Evil is evil whether it is acted out or not. Hatred and bigotry in someone’s heart is wrong. If it is wrong, and if God is to stop all evil, then He must stop that person from thinking his own thoughts. To do that, God must remove his freedom of thought. Furthermore, which person on the earth has not thought something evil? God would be required, then, to stop all people from exercising their free will. This is something God has chosen not to do. Therefore, we could say that one of the reasons that God permits evil and suffering is because of man’s free will.\n     Fourth, it is quite possible that God uses the suffering to do good. In other words, He produces patience through tribulation (Rom. 5:3). Or He may desire to save someone through it. Take for example, the account of Joseph who was sold into slavery by His brothers. What they did was wrong and Joseph suffered greatly for it. But, later, God raise
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Hmm, yeah, that's a very interesting point! Why not just trust "god" to protect him? Now, would that be a sin? Because if it was gods will for him to die, than he's preventing that from happening, right? but if god was "almighty" then he could give him a heart attack or something...but then if he's that powerful, why the need for bulletproof...round and round we go....I need chocolate!  :) smart question btw!
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God always was.  That is how powerful he is.  He was always there.\n\nGod's name is Jesus.\n\nBelieve in Jesus and he will help you through all your problems.
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the basic premise of the question is in itself wrong, GOD aint everyone and everything, it is a part of him in each one of us and in things around us.\n\nso clearly a part cannot equal the whole entity, hence our pea brains as compared to HIS all encompassing knowledgeable self. \n\nso the situation you described is justified.\n\nas simple as that dear.
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I'll check out the book you mentioned in the other thread but sounds a little too fundie for me. And sorry that you didn't like all the "mights" in my previous answer :)\n\nMonotheistic God = all knowing + all powerful\nIn some monotheist traditions the one God is all knowing/all powerful but not all. So Monotheistic God = all knowning +all powerful isn't always true and would be the first "might" in your own logic chain, might be all powerful might not.\n\nall knowing = knowledge of what you will do\nThe very fact that your using the word "will" implies that this one God who might be all powerful/knowing exists inside time. Our own studies have shown that the farther you are from a center of gravity, like the earth for instance, the slower time passes relative to someone nearer the center. So would this monotheistic god know what we "will" do or merely what we did? That is the second "might" in your logic chain.\n\nknowing what you will do = 0 choices\nThat is one way of looking at it, IF god exists inside time and IF he is really all knowning which isn't a must outside of the Judeo-Christian tradition (and isn't true across all groups within the tradition). Another way of looking at it is that knowing what you will do equates to already knowing what you chose to do. \n\n0 choices = 0 power\nThe power to choose? I'm not even sure what you mean here, the truth of the statement would seem to hinge on your definition of "power". Since power is a relative term it might be true if alot of other mights are met earlier in the process your laying out.\n\nomniscience = impotence\nWhat? Omniscience = knowledge of all things, whether real or apparent knowledge. = absolute power, not impotence. Or do you mean we're impotent? Impotent being the lack of strength to do anything?\n\nAre you a programmer by chance?\nHave you ever thought about the universe being one big program that is being compiled? The code was entered and is now being put together into a set form that was determined by the code? It sounds like what your describing, in which case we are all part of the program. Which means we dont' really need free will, we're doing exactly what we were meant to do. The reason there is a stigma attached to that kind of philosophy is that it justifies horrendous acts which are anti-social. Hitler for instance was doing just what he was supposed to, and so were Churchill and Roosevelt when they put him down. \n\nThat was a fun one to work through, I hope you got a little out of my answer. I honestly tried to answer it as best I could in the time taken.\n\nTake it easy,\nArmus
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"If God is good and all-powerful, why does evil exist in this world?"\n\nTime to bust out the big words:  Theodicy.\n\nTheodicy:  "an explanation for the presence of evil and suffering that is consistent with the nature and character of God."\n\nBoy, I'm not sure where to start.  There's so many points to make and I'm not sure how to organize my thoughts....but here goes nothing.  This is my theodicy:\n---------------------------------------------------------\nFirst, let's start by defining "evil."  Evil is not a force or a created thing, so it would be faulty to use the circular logic that either God created evil (meaning God isn't good) or that God isn't the Creator of everything (since He didn't create evil).\n\nEvil is the absence of good, much like rust on a car.  God, by giving us free will, allowed us to "create" evil by choosing against Him.  For, if God is good, then to choose against Him would by evil and the consequences would be death (since God gives life).  Just as darkness is the absence of light, so evil is the absence of good.\n\nSometimes evil is the perversion of good.  Cancer is a good non-moral example.  It's a harmful mutation of otherwise healthy cells.  Whether evil twists good or flat-out rejects it, the results are the same.\n\nEvil is not God's fault.  He created only good and we distorted it, which is evil.\n\nEnough on this topic.  I'm leaving a few loose ends and there's much more to say on this, but I would be getting off track.\n\nSecond, let's point out a major implication of the question.  Anyone who asks our topic question for today is demonstrating the influence of Christianity on western thinking.  Hindus don't ask this question.  Animists don't grapple with it.  To them, the gods themselves are evil and corrupt and evil is to be an expected, embraced part of this world.  Suck it up and live with it.  It's the ying and the yang.  The Dark Side and the Light Side of the Force.  It's still the same Force.\n\nBut by asking the question, you are saying that there is a definite "evil" in this world that can be defined and identified.  There's something wrong and not right.  There is injustice.  And you presume that whoever this God fellow is, it's supposed to be His job to oppose this stuff and He's doing a lousy job.\n\nThis is a Christian worldview:  that evil is not normal and should be opposed.  The Red Cross, Salvation Army, etc. are Christian influences in our society.  There is something in us as human beings that desires to fight injustice, help the suffering, etc.  This would make sense if we are made in God's image... but I'm getting off track again.  Let's move to the third point.\n\nThe question is usually vague and impersonal.  What I mean is that people who ask this question usually have in mind for God to go over and fix that mess in Iraq, or do something about sweat shops and child labor in China.  Why doesn't He oppose child pornography, or hold to account genocide in Africa?\n\nBut they don't want God to interfere with the sin and evil in their own hearts and lives.\n\nSee, for God to come in judgment, He would have to be fully just and judge all...  and this brings me to my final point.\n\nThe question neglects another key element of God's character.  Yes, He is good.  Yes, He is omnipotent.  But He is also merciful.  This may seem like a contradiction (i.e., why would He then allow suffering?), but let me explain.\n\nGod holds back His judgment with patient love in order to give us time to repent and be set right.  The painful side of this is that we also then have more time choose evil.  But the day will come when He will judge the earth.  The sweat shop owners will be held to account...and so will you and I.  God is good.  He is perfect, holy, and righteous.  He is pure.  He opposes evil.  We all have evil in our lives:  the t
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Not if there really is a God.
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God is so powerful, he can even cause Internet trolls to (oh so cleverly, they think) copy and paste into Yahoo Answers some clever riddle they found on the Internet about big rocks or hot burritos; it is easy of course to frame up some nonsense question, a poor man's version of an Escher drawing, and demand that God fulfill it.\n\nThis one fails more easily than most, at least in terms of a Christian response. Here's how God, if he were not mindful of his own words to not "put the Lord your God to the test," could work it:\n\n1. God the Father creates a one ton rock, and drops it in Galilee.\n\n2. Christ the Son tries to move it using only natural means, and since Christ is both Fully God and Fully Man, his natural-only efforts, being human, do not succeed.\n\nVoila; copy-paste Internet troll foiled!!