Sentence examples for omnipotent deity from inspiring English sources
Religion sometimes revolted him and his fellow men seemed to him "more like the image of a brute beast than of that omnipotent deity".
The Kikuyu, who refer to the mountain as Kirinyaga, or Kere-Nyaga ("Mountain of Whiteness"), traditionally revere it as home to their omnipotent deity Ngai.
After his meticulous description of each biological object or process, Paley draws again and again the same conclusion only an omniscient and omnipotent deity could account for these marvels and for the enormous diversity of inventions that they entail.
It seems that, for an omnipotent deity, it would have been no big deal to whip up the amazing variety of life on earth, what with being omnipotent and all.
And modern churchmen and theologians are subtle, these days, at the explanation of no explanation: they admit that random suffering on this scale cannot be theologically solved, or even comprehended; the Archbishop of Canterbury was eloquent on how such events precisely ought to disturb the faith of those who believe that the world has been created, and is guided, by an omnipotent deity.
In the era before that disaster, evil was thought to come in three varieties — natural, metaphysical, or moral — and inquiry into the concept of evil was dominated by theodicy, which is the attempt to reconcile a good and omnipotent deity with evil in the world.
It was "the unhappy child of a turn from the Gods to man", born as we shifted from a belief in predestination and omnipotent deities to reasoned thought as the best way of making sense of a life.
Flying in the face of a pagan world with myriad deities, Abraham, an itinerant herdsman, audaciously proclaimed belief in one unseen yet omnipotent God.
Being omnipotent, God has no weakness.
If an omnipotent God is powerless to do evil, then how can he be omnipotent?
Even if the analogy were apt, he pointed out, the most one could infer from it would be a superior craftsman, not an omnipotent and perfect deity.
