The question on the poll to the right- 'is God omnipotent?' was meant to address the seeming paradox that God could be so powerful that His actions and past could both fulfill scripture AND match science as we currently understand it (or will, in the future). In other words, if God is so powerful as to be beyond human understanding, then it might be possible that science doesn't contradict Him, but, in fact, is consistent with even scripture- but obviously in ways we don't yet (and maybe never will) understand.
If that is a possibility, then perhaps many of the doctrinal things Christians argue about or debate with secularists is trivial. Take, for instance, whether God made the Earth in 6 days or 6 billion. Does it really matter? And, if it does matter, then is it safe to say that God, being all-powerful, could have both created the world according to scripture AND consistent with how scientists believe it happened? And if that is a possibility then we might have a little more in common with atheists than we might care to admit.
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Is God omnipotent?
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