Omnipotence

The state of being **supremely almighty and all-powerful**.

## Summary

**Omnipotence** (from Latin: Omni Potens, "all power") is a quality most commonly attributed to deities in monotheistic religions. The concept of Omnipotence has been represented in a myriad of vastly different ways: Pantheism, where being Omnipotent is synonymous with being one with everything; Agnosticism, which postulates that God and the Omnipotence it possesses are incomprehensible; Monotheism, where there can only be one Omnipotent Being, which is God; etc., all of which have differing views on the attributes of Omnipotence and hence their 'level of power'. Some philosophers claim that Omnipotence can do that which is only confined within the realms of human logic, while others claim that Omnipotence can do anything and everything, no matter how contradictory. However, due to the nature of this concept, the existence of Omnipotence is impossible to prove, much less fictional characters possessing Omnipotence.

Due to the innumerable variations of Omnipotence that exist, this page will only delve into the most inconceivable variation of Omnipotence, thus also making it the most 'powerful' version of the concept, which will be referred to later on as **"True Omnipotence**.

### Principles of True Omnipotence

**Absolutely Everything**; It can do and be whatever it wills to absolutely anything and everything infinitely, and that still wouldn't be an infinitesimal fraction of its power. Omnipotence encompasses everything imaginable, unimaginable, possible, impossible, existent, non-existent, known, unknown, thinkable, unthinkable, created, uncreated, discovered, undiscovered, fictional, nonfictional, perceived, unperceived, conceivable, unconceivable, etc., and even everything beyond itd, uncreated, discovered, undiscovered, fictional, nonfictional, perceived, unperceived, conceivable, unconceivable, etc., and even everything beyond it. Additionally, since our "everything", including the concept of omnipotence and God, is a human construct, omnipotence would transcend infinitely far beyond all of humanity's thoughts, imaginations, conceptualizations, etc. In other words, its power reaches anything, even things that are outside of humanity's collective knowledge and limitless imagination.

**Only One**; Due to its nature, there can only be one omnipotent being. Suppose omnipotence is split into parts, and each of these parts is omnipotent. As an omnipotent entity would be able to do absolutely anything, any slightest opposition between each part would lead to successfully negating the doing, and hence the result is that nothing happens until there is unity. But that is the same as one omnipotence, thus removing the distinction between splitting and not splitting omnipotence into multiples. In short, there can be only one omnipotent being, as another of equal power and authority would act as a limit to each other, making both not fully omnipotent.

**No Limits**; Omnipotence doesn't have a limit to its scope of reach. It transcends anything—fiction, all of humanity, consciousness, awareness, dimensions, axioms, inaccessible cardinals, cosmological structures, concepts, logic, and even transcendence itself. Anything that can and ever will be conceptualised by humans, and whatever that can't, wouldn't be limits for an omnipotent being. Because of this, omnipotent beings must be eternal, having existed since the beginning or before the beginning, as if there were a time where an omnipotent being didn't exist, that would be a limit for an omnipotent being, making it not omnipotent in the first place.

If it can create a being more powerful than itself, then that being would be a limit, making the omnipotent being not omnipotent in the first place. Transcending omnipotence would have the exact same outcome as well. This also applies to the aforementioned situation of there being two omnipotent beings.

Omnipotent is the ultimate end-all of everything, meaning that there is no "beyond omnipotence," no matter how much logic a being is stated to transcend. Suppose again that there was a being that was "beyond omnipotence", Whatever is being transcended was never omnipotent in the first place, and the "beyond omnipotent" being would be omnipotent in its place. This cycle can repeat itself forever. An infinite "beyond omnipotence" And the end result would still be, without exception, omnipotence.

**Trans-Fictional**; Omnipotence is fundamentally a trans-fictional concept, meaning no fictional character, place, item, or concept can ever be truly omnipotent regardless of how many statements or feats its author provides, whether it's their character transcending fiction, viewing the real world as mere thoughts, their character being incomprehensible to the human mind and thus any of its concepts (including omnipotence), or asserting that me typing this very sentence itself is somehow the result of their character's meddling, said entity will never be considered to be truly omnipotent. This is due to the simple fact that their very nature acts as a limitation that can and will never be overcome.

**Illogical**; Omnipotence is a concept that is beyond human comprehension, and language or any other form of communication isn't enough to fully describe it; any attempt to perceive or attribute meaning or understanding to it would dull its absoluteness. Since the dawn of this concept as an attribute to God, many paradoxes have emerged from philosophers and theologians coming up with different interpretations for what it means for a subject to be omnipotent, giving rise to 'types' of omnipotence, with the two most well-known types being logical and illogical omnipotence. True omnipotence is where one is unconstrained by logic, doing the impossible, such as "bigger than infinity", "making a squared circle" or "beyond omnipotence". Moreover, logic is but a human construct at the end of the day, and a hypothetical truly omnipotent being would obviously be unaffected by the conceptions of humans. Any definable trait or aspect of omnipotence only represents an inconceivable fraction of its true nature. The act of imposing a definition on something of this calibre is equivalent to diminishing it. True omnipotence is a concept that is ultimately incomprehensible to the human mind, as humans, and similarly any other sentient being, have limitations to their imagination and perception that severely impede their capability to conceive the true nature of omnipotence.

**Eternity**; It is for this reason that omnipotence is impossible to achieve. An omnipotent being must exist since any conceivable 'beginnings' for the simple reason that any period that an omnipotent being isn't omnipotent makes the omnipotence it possesses not absolute.

## Notes

#### Omnipotence in Fiction

* Strictly speaking, Omnipotents in fiction often have human-like personalities, so they are not Omnipotent. However, they are often the sole absolute almighty in their setting, so they are close enough to represent Omnipotence.

* Its one and only wielder (there can be only one in each fictional continuity, hence the "Above All") is fundamentally invincible, completely immune to all other powers, and able to defeat the combined might of all creation and its mightiest beings just by wanting it without the slightest effort.

#### In Trans-Fictional Theories

* If there are many Omnipotent beings in the multiverse, then they would fundamentally be the same being, representing the individuality of their respective universes and the unity of the infinite cosmos of other realities.

* Thus being a more True Omnipotent being by the universal concept and the principals of Omnipotence.

* Omnipotent beings can only apply their power in their respective fictions.

* At first observation, it seems reasonable to conclude that Omnipotence **can't** be achieved via other powers or otherwise, yet fiction is prone to ambivalence on that "law". We don't know if Omnipotence is reachable with other powers due to the illogical nature of Omnipotence itself, and although in-universe Omnipotence can sometimes be reached with non-Omnipotent means because of in-universe laws or the verse's local metaphysics and context, it can't be said the same for true Omnipotence, for which the answer is that we do not know and likely never will.