An Omnipotent God has not chosen for me to worship him. I can only choose to worship a God who has given me sovereignty over my own soul. A God like that is not omnipotent. If there is an Omnipotent God then He chooses who does and doesn’t worship Him. That God has not inclined me to do so.
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Latter Day Sinner 
12 responses to “Omnipotent”
Would you want to worship an omnipotent God? Could you even choose to do so or not if your God is omnipotent?
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That’s kind of the point. If the actual God has complete sovereignty then I have none. He would do all the choosing. “God has a plan for your life” is admitting that the person doesn’t. Maybe they don’t even want one. Maybe they cling to an Omnipotent God because it absolves them of choice and puts the consequences of their choice into a higher power.
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I prefer the real God.
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And I don’t claim to know which version of God is the real one.
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If the omnipotent God was real, then you wouldn’t have to wonder.
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I wonder because
1) I just read the passages in the Book of Mormon that directly call Jesus Christ The Lord God Omnipotent.
2) Omnipotence is a traditional designation for God in many other traditions.
And
3) Free Will might be an illusion.
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If God is omnipotent, then either He controls everything and that’s why life is so fucked up or He neglects things and that’s why life is so fucked up. Either way, it would be reassuring to blame everything on an All powerful God.
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Yes the Problem of Evil is a thing too.
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If God is Omnipotent, He is all the good and all the evil all at the same time.
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I prefer an all good God to an all powerful God. I think they are mutually exclusive. I’ve met a lot of people that reconcile or at least think they reconcile those two aspects.
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If an all power God were all good, there would be no bad.
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I agree but we are outnumbered by a lot of Jews, Christians, and Muslims who think otherwise. Let me put it this way. My preference for what sort of God I am willing to worship has no bearing on what sort of God actually is or isn’t. If God is Omnibenevolent I will choose to honor and follow him. On the other hand if God is Omnipotent then I do not make that choice and like I said to begin with He does not make that choice for me.
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