#omnibenevolent

God is also omnipresent (i.e., everywhere-present). This does not mean that because God is so big, part of God is present everywhere. According to divine simplicity, God is wholly present to everything as the sustaining cause of all creation. It also follows that God is omnipotent (i.e., all-powerful). Since His power is identical with His unlimited Being, God has unlimited power to affect change and/or create. God’s omnipotence does not mean He can make square circles and rocks too big for Him to lift. Such ideas are contradictions, and contradictions are not actually possible things in reality. Likewise, we can know that God is omniscient (i.e., all-knowing). God’s knowledge is identical with His Being such that God knows Himself perfectly and how His being can be or is being communicated to His creation. We can also know that God is omnibenevolent (i.e., all-loving) because to love is to will the good of another. As Goodness itself with all knowledge, God can only ever perfectly will our good. Perhaps surprising to some, God is also immutable (i.e., unchangeable). As Pure Act God has no potential to be changed. He does not react to circumstances because nothing catches Him unknowingly. Any change we perceive is found in us, His creation, not in Him. From this it follows that God is also eternal (i.e., not temporal). Time is a measure of change, but God has no potential for change. Therefore, God is not temporal as He has all perfection in His eternal now.

Why Must We Suffer?

By Steven Barto, B.S. Psy., M.T.S. MANY FACTORS TODAY IMPACT how we feel about ourselves and life. We wonder why bad things happen to good people. We question the existence of an all-powerful, benevolent God in the face of seemingly insurmountable evil and social unrest. America is embroiled in doubt and fear, depression and anxiety, hopelessness and a loss of meaning; caught in a national angst…

God, argue theists, is omnipotent in the sense that there is nothing impossible for Him to do. He can bring it about that any state of affairs obtains (to take place). God’s power is such that if He wills or endeavors to do something that it can’t fail to happen. I will try to answer the question of ‘can God(s) be omnipotent’ in two ways. First, by examining omnipotence as a single property.…