Message from @el pebble
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the capacity to act on 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
still human
stil created
still with potency
This isn’t the catholic view maybe Protestant
The Church holds he is human
a human with divinity
The church holds is human and divine, not a human with divinity if you get the distinction
yes as in he is without sin
the distinction is negligible really
the important part is the human facet
it is a form of potency that God undertook
but this is straying too far from my question
Does the all-powerful God have the capacity to limit his power
not restrain by parameters but to permanently quantify a level to it, thereby severing it from an all-powerful nature
having a sovereign will is a form of power if he were to have the capacity to limit himself, for example to remove his own will, he would not be all powerful
so you are saying he does not have the capacity to do it
the ability to limit oneself is repugnant to his will and therefore his omnipotence
Does he have the capacity to do it
the capacity to limit oneself is antithetical to the concept of omnipotence
@el pebble what do you mean limit His power?