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If He is, how is He omnipotent?
If is self-contradictory that God is subject to anything created.If He is, how is He omnipotent?
McHugh, J. (1911). Omnipotence. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11251c.htmOmnipotence is the power of God to effect whatever is not intrinsically impossible. These last words of the definition do not imply any imperfection, since a power that extends to every possibility must be perfect. The universality of the object of the Divine power is not merely relative but absolute, so that the true nature of omnipotence is not clearly expressed by saying that God can do all things that are possible to Him; it requires the further statement that all things are possible to God. The intrinsically impossible is the self-contradictory, and its mutually exclusive elements could result only in nothingness.
You’re speaking of two distinct things that may both be called “natural law”. Please explain and contrast what you mean - what is this that you say is a pagan invention?In Judaism we are told natural law is a pagan invention…
Or are you referring to the natural laws of the universe?
Just to speak to this specific question… That will depend on your theological school of thought. As a Thomist, I’d say God is omnipotent because he is cause of all things real and possible. No thing could exist unless God was its cause. Therefore, only God has the underived power to cause all things real and possible. But to have the power to cause all possible things is what it means to be omnipotent.If He is, how is He omnipotent?
Is Divine Law the same as Natural Law? Thanks…You’re speaking of two distinct things that may both be called “natural law”. Please explain and contrast what you mean - what is this that you say is a pagan invention?
Hmmmm… I’m not sure that you explained what that natural law is, so I still don’t understand the distinction you’re making.The Ancient Greeks believed that we are ethically guided by the virtue of natural law apart from the influence of deities. Judaism does not believe in the natural law of mankind but rather in the Torah Law (the 613 commandments), which is not based on the former.
In my understanding:Is Divine Law the same as Natural Law? Thanks…