The Black Vault

There is no such thing as "less omnipotent".

All powerful. Or not.

If all powerful, then there is no impossible scenario.

Enter Faith.

So the ability to make all things possible manifest is not omnipotence, it takes all things possible and impossible?

If we confine ourselves to chess, a knight must move in an L shape, two in one direction and one in the perpendicular direction. Chess does not imply that "actual" knights need to move in that way. "True" knights like Luke Skywalker are not limited to moving in an L shape.

By analogy, most of the time, we are confining ourselves to Aristotle's logic. In that logic, omnipotence can't exist for if nothing is impossible then it is impossible that the statement "nothing is impossible" is false. Or, if you prefer, omnipotence can't exist because it would entail that nothing is impossible.

A "truly" omnipotent being, like a "true" knight, is not limited to Aristotelian logic, and its nature is no more dictated by logic than Luke Skywalker's nature is dictated by chess.

If there are tasks that an all-powerful being cannot do, then...

IOW, logic won't be dictating anything an all-powerful being can and can't do.

What if it turns out you are a low self esteem omnipotent being? Then what?

bionic wrote:What if it turns out you are a low self esteem omnipotent being? Then what?

First step would be to try to not go more insane.

like Anjelina's tattoo states..
"that which destroys me, creates me"

Until you find that which creates, creates, and it is much healthier, imo, than using destruction as a method of creation.

pfft..I call bullshite on you..

If you want to stick to destruction as a form of creation, then all I have to say is fly Phoenix, fly....