How is God omnipotent?

Answer 1

* adjective: having unlimited power Christians believe that Christ is the third person of the Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). As Christians believe that God is omnipotent, then, by definition, Christ must be omnipotent too. According to the Gospel of John, Jesus appears not to be Omnipotent..

5:19Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, 5:30. "I can of mine own self do nothing" and these and other verses like these often cause confusion among some people which helped lead to heretical sects such as the Jehovah's Witnesses and other groups who deny the divinity of Christ. Sadly there are those who interpret the English translation in an incorrect manner simply because the English translation at face value is often ambiguous. The above examples can suggest that Jesus is subservient to God and Jesus is rather impotent (rather than omnipotent) without God. And this is what the JWs and others have latched on to to support their beliefs. However, when analysing the original Greek of the New Testament, a correct translation should read something like the "message" translation below: 19-20So Jesus explained himself at length. "I'm telling you this straight. The Son can't independently do a thing, only what he sees the Father doing. What the Father does, the Son does. The Father loves the Son and includes him in everything he is doing. or the NIV: "Jesus gave them this answer: I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, to your amazement he will show him even greater things than these. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. Moreover, the Father judges no-one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son,that all may honour the Son just as they honour the Father. He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father, who sent him." In this passage it is absolutely clear that Jesus is confirming his position within the Trinitarian God. Jesus alone is not God and neither is the Father. Whatever the Father does - Jesus does as he is part of that Trinity. It also makes clear that Jesus will be judge - not God the Father which would put jesus 'above' the Father if this was taken at face value. Furthermore we are commanded to honour (correct translation = worship) the Son as we worship the Father. Confusion can easily arise if one takes isolated verses out of context, like at the start of this answer, (as do the JWs and others) where their overall contextual meanings can be misconstrued. It is also easy to be misled if one accepts a translation (however good - and there are some very poor translations out there!) over the original Greek. If one makes the commitment to study The Bible under someone who is well versed in the origins and the original Greek versions, one can only come to one conclusion. Jesus was part of the Trinitarian God and therefore Omnipotent.

Answer 2

A:Believers say that God is omnipotent because he created the world and can do anything he wishes to do. Sceptics ask about the Problem of Evil and Suffering.

This says that if God is omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly good and the sole creator of the world, then why is there evil and suffering? The problem can only be resolved if at least one of these propositions is false. Therefore if God is omnipotent, he is either not omniscient and is therefore unaware of all the evil in the world, or he is not all-good and is unconcerned about all the evil in the world.

Answer:

One needs only to look at themselves and the world around them to see that an all powerful Creator is at work. The Scripture tells us our Creator is all powerful. But many refuse to accept this fact and challenge the Creator God about evil and suffering. All they really need to do is to honestly look at how most all evil and suffering begins - by people themselves primarily and at times by something called 'time and chance' or probability in the Book of Ecclesiastes.

God did not make mankind to be automatons/robots where He decides everything. No, He desires humans after the fall in the Garden to learn and develop His character of Love and Righteousness on our own via the gift of free will -or, as it is more popularly called, freedom of choice. God granted this freedom to our first human parents, Adam and Eve, at creation. But over the millennia we have proven ourselves to be woefully inept stewards of this precious gift and its far-reaching responsibility resulting in the enormous evil and suffering in this world.

At certain times, God does intercede to prevent evil leaders from taking mankind off the path of His Plan for our Salvation - King Nebuchadnezzar is a good example in the Book of Daniel. Though He makes minor adjustments, man must decide or choose on his own - the way of God or the way of this world and its god Satan.