God's omnipotence

[Emeraldragon]

I’m fairly new here; I’ve only been a member for a week or so. I don’t know if I’m doing this right or not. I skimmed over the rules and the sticky, and it all seemed pretty logical stuff. Let me know if I’m doing something wrong in the making of this thread, and I will definately try to do better in the future.

Before progressing, I want to say that I’ve realized I wrote quite a bit in this post. I’ll put the unnecessary information in the color blue. Don’t feel like you need to read it all. You can probably understand my question by just briefly scimming what I’ve written.
Okay, now to the question at hand. I’m a member of another online forum. Many members there are older than I, and of a different belief. Needless to say, religious debates surface from time to time. Different questions or challenges are made towards the Catholic/Christian beliefs.

I am usually one of the members who most actively voices his faith. I’m proud to be Catholic. I usually find myself coming into threads discussing such things as cloning and whether or not God exists. I want to help everyone understand what the truth is and why I believe it to be the truth.

Having said this, I can’t always do that.

Okay, now that you have been caught up on the situation (sorry for the eyesore I can ask my question.

I will quote the challenge posted by this person:

Such blind sighted foolishness.
What a great way to get brainwashed.
I’m not being mean, but I hear that from EVERY religious person I know.
I’d love to hear how god is with me right now.
Shoot somebody.
I wanna see what you’ll give me.

(…)

It’s just that religion doesn’t really let you have an opinion, and I must say I am not fond of that.
I’m not being rude.
I just want an answer.
And I know he’s “everywhere”.
I just want to see if anyone will tell me why and such.

What should I tell him?

Our religion is a revealed religion, meaning God gradually revealed Himself to us over a period of thousands of years. We didn’t just come to the conclusion that there must be a God by looking at nature.

God’s omnipotence is one of His perfections; since God is a perfect Being, omnipotence is inherent.

Of course, stating something like this would open the question, “Why does God have to be perfect?” or something along those lines.

Anyway, I just thought I’d bring this dilema here and see if I could get any help in answering it.

Thanks a ton for your help and time!

God bless,

 

[FightingFat]

We encounter God every day through love. God is love, and when we feel loved, we feel God.

As for the religion aspect: Many, many people, in fact most people, in every place and at every time, have felt there is something beyond themselves and they have reached out to this something.

Christianity (and Judaeism) is the record of the intersection of our eternal search for the irreducible seed of eternity that resides in everyone of us and God’s reaching out through eternity to us in love, manifest in His actions on earth and culminating in the incarnation of His Holy Word.

 

[Emeraldragon]

We encounter God every day through love. God is love, and when we feel loved, we feel God.

As for the religion aspect: Many, many people, in fact most people, in every place and at every time, have felt there is something beyond themselves and they have reached out to this something.

Christianity (and Judaeism) is the record of the intersection of our eternal search for the irreducible seed of eternity that resides in everyone of us and God’s reaching out through eternity to us in love, manifest in His actions on earth and culminating in the incarnation of His Holy Word.

Thanks so much for the reply! I want to read it over a few times and try to digest it before I bring it to him.

Thanks again!

 

[FightingFat]

Any timne friend!

 

[Nickkname]

God must be omnipotent because he is a god. (Not saying there are more gods than him). A god is a supernatural being. Angels and men and organisms are natural beings (angels are not super-natural, because they are not perfect). A supernatural beings is not a being who is spiritual, but rather, a being who surpasses all natural beings in every quality. (If a supernatural being was super-natural because it was simply spiritual, than angels would be gods and men would be demi-gods). Therefore, God must be omnipotent. Natural beings are potent. God can create something out of nothing; natural beings cannot.