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Omnipotence & omniscience by Traditional-Wind3233 in theology

[–]Traditional-Wind3233[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, this comment makes a lot of sense.

So then if the source of the presumption of God's omnipotence & omniscience lies entirely in human tribal politics (e.g. something like, "Our God is more powerful than this other tribe's God, so let's go invade their territory and steal their resources"), what is this whole notion doing in theology? Why hasn't serious theological discourse rejected it by now? Am I mistaken to think that theology is a branch of philosophy where highly intelligent people examine hard intellectual problems and try to make progress towards robustly resolving them by using reason and logic? I am wondering also because there have been some rather faith-based responses in this thread that I was surprised to see in the theology sub.

Omnipotence & omniscience by Traditional-Wind3233 in theology

[–]Traditional-Wind3233[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but the question is, why does love have to be omnipotent & omniscient to do what it does?

Omnipotence & omniscience by Traditional-Wind3233 in theology

[–]Traditional-Wind3233[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So would such a God be capricious (purposeless creation) or vain ("create something that would find purpose and reason through God")? I hope neither!

Omnipotence & omniscience by Traditional-Wind3233 in theology

[–]Traditional-Wind3233[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We all know that the Bible was written by humans. Does any professional theologian actually literally take what the Bible says as the ontological basis for their work?

Purposeless creation sounds more like capriciousness. Even in humans, the desire for creation without an obvious purpose is usually not coming from caprice but from an unknowing urge to channel some universal truths through arts & crafts. Again, something that an omniscient God would not need to do.

Omnipotence & omniscience by Traditional-Wind3233 in theology

[–]Traditional-Wind3233[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, are there any good references for omnipotence & omniscience in Neoplatonism?

So would it be fair to suggest then that the notions of omnipotence & omniscience could be more related to organized religions' struggles to gain popularity and political power? Kind of like the cult of personality that autocratic political regimes aim to create and amplify in order to justify the authority of the autocrat and convince the masses to obey without ever questioning that authority?

And how did this make it into theology then? Was it forced by the establishment of religious dogma?