It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.

Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.

Thank you.

 

Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.

 

Omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence...

page: 1
0

log in

join
share:

posted on Apr, 27 2007 @ 05:55 PM
link   
does the bible actually attribute any of these properties to god? does it actually tell us that god can do anything god feels like doing? does it say god knows everything? does it say god is everywhere?

sure, it says god is powerful as it says god could create a whole universe
but where does it say that god is omni^3?



posted on Apr, 27 2007 @ 06:42 PM
link   
I don't have an answer for that question, but I find it interesting that all three all-powerful words begin with the "om" that in Hindu tradition is the first sound.



posted on Apr, 28 2007 @ 07:06 AM
link   
Hi madness,

I think the usual answer to this is to acknowledge that no, the bible doesn't use that terminology per se. It is rather a philosophical or theological construct to make sense out of the power and knowledge of God that is portrayed in the bible.

It is similar to the concept of the trinity in Christian theology I think. Although all three "persons" of the trinity seem to be mentioned, it took hundreds of years of later theological speculation to come up with a doctrine to make sense of that. (Not that the doctrine truly makes sense, just in an official sort of way).



 
0

log in

join