The Case For A Creator

Con is using what is called the omnipotence paradox: "If God were to truly possess omnipotence, then by definition, he cannot have a limit, for that would contradict the denotation of 'omnipotence'. But, this argument postulates why this is in fact, sophistry. If God does not have a limit, then God would be able to create a God that is more powerful than itself. If God cannot, then God is not truly omnipotent. Yet, if God can, then it would completely contradict the definition of God - nothing can be greater or equally great when in comparison to God." But this paradox assumes a wrong definition of omnipotence (all-powerful) Omnipotent does not mean that God can do anything at all but, rather, that He can do anything that"s possible according to his nature. For example the Bible tells us that God cannot lie (Hebrew 6:18 ASV : that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us) Surely this isn't because he lacks power the power to do so, or because he doesn"t know how to; rather, it is because his holiness make it impossible for him to lie. Lying would contradict his own nature, for God is truth (John 14:6). God can only do those things that are consistent with his nature. He cannot lie because it is against his nature. Note being able to lie does not mean his in not all powerful. The point is that GOd cannot do something that is in violation of his own existence or nature. Omnipotence is not the ability to do anything conceivable, but the ability to do anything consistent with God"s nature and consistent with his desire. What critics, evolutionists, and atheists are doing is they are trying to get God to be illogical. They want to use illogic to prove that God doesn't exist because of logic. This doesn't work and the paradox and argument are invalid. I would like to repeat my earlier argument and add a few sources: "For my next argument I would like to bypass my argument and say somehow the Earth and everything came into existence. Then what? Astronomer and Mathematician Fred Hoyle calculated the odds for a one-cell animals to emerge by chance, and the result was a 1 in 10^40,000 chance. He concluded that the odds for a complex human to emerge by chance were too high to calculate. Biophysicist Dr. Harold Morowitz calculated the time it would take for simple bacteria to reassemble after all the chemical bonds are broken. The answer was 10^100,000,000,000 years. So the claim that human being were emerged by chance is invalid, therefore there is a greater being that made us." http://infidels.org... https://www.jashow.org... http://www.truenews.org... For my next argument I would like to use the term problem with evil. Many people ask themselves if God is just, loving, etc. why would he allow tsunamis, cancer, murder, etc. This is a common misunderstanding and in fact it is what caused Steve Jobs to back away from God and become an atheist. My response is that God does not cause evil, he allow evil to exist. For example lets look at the law of gravity. God created the law of gravity as a mechanism to sustain life on earth. If a person jumps from a building and dies, did God kill that person? No, the law of gravity did! Also good cannot exist without evil. Good and evil, according to this position, are relative terms, like up and down or past and future; we cannot have one or the other, we have to have both.