Message from @el pebble
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What do you mean
He can decide to act within parameters that’s he sets
Such as not killing everyone for their sins
No idea if that’s what you mean though
@lachlan 🥀 limiting as in his power having limitations
the potential of his power
in my view the ability to limit oneself is in itself a limitation
for example, god cannot sin because the ability to sin is itself a limitation
if there is something God cannot do then that is a limitation
but i want an answer to my question
can God limit his own power
no
because the ability to limit onself is a limitation
just like the ability for me to shoot myself in the kneecaps is a limitation
but you have the power to do it
if God does not have the power to limit himself then he is not all powerful
if i can blow my own kneecaps off and cripple myself i am more powerful?
the power to limit oneself is a limitation
you dont seem to understand
i think i will wait for the answer of the intelligent person i asked
why am i more powerful if i am able to blow my own kneecaps off?
It is about the ability to actualize a potential
your question is completely disparate
your definition of power can not be applied to god then
Yes it can, because God is interpreted as pure actuality in terms of actuality and potential
it is entirely the definition at hand
at least in the scholastic western world
as I was asking a christians
Omnipotence is perfect power, free from all mere potentiality
because it is pure actuality
no unresolved potential
so
Does God have the capacity to apply limitation to his own power
the transition from possibility to actuality or from act to potentiality, occurs only in creatures
why
it exists in things that arent alive
matter and form
when it is said that God can or could do a thing, the terms are not to be understood in the sense in which they are applied to created causes, but as conveying the idea of a being, the range of Whose activity is limited only by His sovereign will
By saying the God cannot transition to a state of potentiality denies Christ's existence
lol no it does not
It does
Christ was a human with divinity