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Thomas Jay Oord: the Death of Omnipotence!

Homebrewed Christianity

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Absolute Authority and the Politics of Evil

The traditional idea of omnipotence is that God chooses to give us free will and then chooses not to interfere in that free will. So this is a more robust metaphysical version of this where you don't have this contingency where God could have done otherwise but didn't, right? Instead you have this idea that all reality has this power of self-determination and God can't control the decisions of free creatures. And I think absolute authority as we see all around us is an excuse that many people want to give for doing horrible things.

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