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15. Perhaps God has forsaken omnipotence?

Fri Oct 4, 2024, 11:01 AM

Oct 4

What if God is not omnipotent, what if God has forsaken omnipotence out of love for creation? If God is love, and love is uncontrolling, then God cannot control all events coercively. God might influence us persuasively, but not dictate events like a puppeteer. I think that, since God wants real relationship with real agents who have free will, God gives us freedom, and gives the universe its freedom as well.

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Jon Paul Sydnor

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