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Old 06-21-2011, 11:15 PM   #18
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Default Re: In the beginning

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Originally Posted by Kenneth Latrans View Post
The Hebrew God, worshiped by all Judeo-Christians, is omnipotent.
This is what I'm takking about. Trinitarian issues aside, Catholicism uses the latin omnipotentis to characterize God and this has taken on the connotation of "can do anything", but the original Greek παντοκράτωρ (pantocrator) means all-mighty, strongest of all, and of the highest authority. This is even more empahsized in OT Hebraic culture where G-d is King of the Universe, and while some other gods are false idols like Baal, some are real but lesser powers like the gods of Egypt.

In fact Orthodox Judaism holds, as fair as I can tell in the most common writings and interveiwing other flavors of Jews about it, that as one's station ascends from barbarian to righteous gentile to Jew, from Israelite to Kohan to Levite, from child to adult, from woman to man, etc that there are more and more laws one is responisble for following as one is closer to G-d, and the Elohim themselves are strictly bound by Adonai's standards of goodness and the knowledge of the true nature of connectedness of all things so that they seldom may intervene.
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