God does not possess the power to be powerless therefore he is all powerfull..... this inconsistency becomes clearly consistent with the truth that to be All-powerful is to be "not powerless.....
Having unlimited or absolute power or authority or being Omnipotent includes the ability to not be able to act in a powerless fashion nor fashion anything more powerful than the most powerful.
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"the ability to not be able"
That is lack of ability, not a power. I am not able to do lots of things, so do I have lots of abilities?
All the issue of omnipotence is just wrong from the start. I would accept (for the sake of argument) omnipotence in the sense of "being much more powerful than we" as for example, humans controlling laboratory mouses, but in no way "speaking a word and that becoming reality"
So the ultimate power in the universe is ultimately all powerful because anything less powerful than ultimate power would be not powerless to secede its power to the ultimate power that's so powerful as to show all those less powerful how powerful its power really is in relation to that which may be less powerful but only when considering a static definition of power that may, in its purest form, be all powerful because without the ability to be all powerful one may not have the power to understand the ultimate power that the all powerful has?
Jesus.
Seriously, though, WtR is a troll. Why else would he regularly read FSTDT? He commented on some of his original entries, right from the very beginning. I'm onto you, Mr. "Witness the REAL and the REAL will witness you!"
God reminds me of the superheroes I would make up when I was little. Invincible, unstoppable, all-knowing and all-powerful, and thus incredibly DUMB and UNINTERESTING.
@WITNESS THE RETARD
"God does not possess the power to be powerless therefore he is all powerfull"
In other words he is not powerless, therefore he is all powerfull.
"If you are not powerless it doesn't make you omnipotent."
An idiotic contradiction to your very argument.
"You have said the darndest thing. Are you a so-called fundie?"
Obliviousness to the said idiotic contradiction as well as the apt application of the term fundie in your case.
"If you cannot make an intelligent rebuttal please refrain from making yourself seem absolutely disconnected from reality."
Now take a look at what you've wrote and consider following your own advice, numbnuts.
Wait, so God if God does not possess the power to be powerless, that would mean he is powerless to be powerless.
But since God is not able to act in a powerless fashion, even about being powerless, he can't in fact be powerless to be powerless. Therefore he does have the power to be powerless, therefore he can in fact be powerless and hence not all powerful.
So by being all powerful and therefore not able to be powerless to be powerless, God obviously has the power to be powerless and is therefore not omnipotent.
Simples.
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