God is not all-powerful

This argument is used in the debate : Does God exist?.

This argument is an objection to : There is too much suffering and injustice for there to be a god.

Summary

The term "almighty" used in Bibles translates the Hebrew expression: "He who says: 'Enough'" (reference: Catherine Challier, preface to Le concept de Dieu après Auschwitz).

The notion of power is relational: x is powerful if it can act on y. The notion of "omnipotence" is contradictory: it would mean a power that nothing can limit. Yet any existence outside such a power would be a limit to this omnipotence (see Hans Jonas, Le concept de Dieu après Auschwitz).

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