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God Being Omnipotent

It is said in the scriptures that God is omnipotent, but in Genesis, it says that God has flesh and bones like a human has, right? How can he be omnipotent and yet have flesh and bones?

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Good question Felipe. I don't have the answer for that but it probably comes from the idea that just because God has a body of flesh and bones doesn't mean he is exactly human. Maybe his body is a little different than ours, even if includes flesh and bones.

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I thought before he was 100% God but after I read Genesis the second time now I figure out he has a human body. (I wasn't reading Genesis properly before, now I do.) I think he has a human body so because of that he will be 60% God and 50% human, right?

Edited: Felipe on 11th Jul, 2012 - 7:10pm

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I am not sure how God having a body is a deturmination of him being omnipotent or not. How does God's power relate to his physical form? Personally I do not think God is omnipotent, and scriture I feel does not say that he is. Infact I feel it says that he is not, especially the PoGP.

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Missionaries have been teaching of God's / Christ's omnipotence a long time, so has the Book of Mormon,

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Yes the BOM does talk about his omnipotent. But the pearl of Great price (POGP) and D&C say different. This is not the time nor space to talk about BOM theology, (which is 19th century Christianity at its best) But this is one of the paradoxes of Mormonism.
Here is how the agruement goes: Omnipotent basically means that God has all power. However the POGP, and Joseph Smith said that God organized the world, and that intelligences and matter are co-eternal with God. Thus if something is co-eternal with God than it has existed as long as God.
Thus if something is co-eternal, God did not create it, thus something has existed independently of God. Therefore there is something that exists independent of God's power, therefore God is not Omnipotent, because he does not have all power over the creation of something that is co-existed with him. To have all power would mean that you had the power to create them.

Mormonism has a limited God, perhaps we lean to process theology. This is why we can say God organized not created Ex nihilo. This is a big difference from LDS and traditional christian theology. Perhaps God is omnipotent but you would have to account with these ideas of Mormon theology that say different.

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What do you mean by that, are you pretending to know the nature of God? Perhaps we try to establish these words for him because we cannot understand his infinite power.

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I am very sure that God has many powers that he holds that we don't even know yet nor understand them. Probably God has so many types of powers that it is almost like he is omnipotent. But now I believe God is not omnipotent. Isiah53, what do you mean by Mormonism has a limited God?

Edited: Felipe on 2nd Jan, 2013 - 9:36pm