Believers: Why do you think god is omnipotent?

I have your answer, but unfortunately it is scriptural. Requesting a Christian to not use scripture in describing God's attributes is like requesting an atheist not to science to prove evolution. Granted, the analogy isn't perfect, but hopefully you see my point.

Essentially, don't atheists go by the assumption the god of the Judeo/Christian faith is a fabrication from man's imagination or primitive explanation of past unexplanable phenomena? There is still a possibility this assumption is wrong, and the Bible is actually the true inspired Word of God, written of course by men based on what God said to them. If God said He was omnipotent and omnipresent, and some prophet wrote it down on a scroll which eventually got compiled into what we now call the Bible, on what other basis would one possibly derive God's attributes from, when the scriptures were written specifically to reveal the attributes of God?

For you, there is no convincing argument. For me, there is. As it is written, so it is.

For those who didn't understand...

God can't create a fence so high that even he can't jump over.

That's the paradox of being omnipotent.

[edit:]Another paradox like that is free will... If God is all-powerful and can create free will, God is still responsible for the creation's actions as God is also all-knowing and could not make something that of what actions God couldn't know as God is also supposed to see 4 dimensions as opposed to 3. At least that's what I've heard.

It is easier to be an atheist than to be a believer. So, you opted the easiest one. Have you noticed that, we prefer to say NO to anything that needs some effort from our part. But we are very fast to say YES to anything that benefits us. One needs to follow the commandments of God, if he believes in his existence; for others, there is no one above their own self and they think and do as they like. Now, such people are increasing on earth since all of thme want to lead their life according to their mind's desires.

Now, since you are an atheist, why should you know about something which you firmly understand that "It does not exist"? If something does not exist, how does it matter to you what people think of it? I can feel your insecurity in life. A man, who lives without God is like a ship, that has lost its control in the midst of an Ocean.

if god wasn't omnipotent he would not be worth worshiping for some people

lets say I'm christian, ok, if a creator god existed, he must be all powerful because he created everything in existence, our existence and everything we could ever know. He is all powerfull in our world, at the very least, and I guess that's what matters

Omnipotence is a thorny issue, but I myself find omniscience harder to reconcile, logically speaking. The only way I can see to approach omniscience is that it must be limited in some manner (i.e. temporally, geographically, et cetera) as otherwise it would be Biblically inconsistent at best, and logically preclude sentience at worst.

If by "believers", you are referring to Christians,

you will find that the Sovereign God has not hesitated to reveal His attributes in His eternal Word, the Bible.

If the Word of God means nothing to you, my words can only mean less than nothing to you.

Your ploy is an old one and really just your death knell.

I am not greater than the God that created me and redeemed me by nailing my sin to the cross.

John 5:41

“I do not accept praise from men."

coz everyone is a part of God

people with more mind power will be thinking that are different from god

people with more heart power able to experience that they are part of the God

so the total of everyone's potency makes god omnipotent.

everyone knowledge is God's knowledge.just like cells in our body

so think that thougts,emotions,feelings,opinions(non physical) are not created by science or scientists,

but man is living on these emotions,thoughts, eetc....(even the non believer of god)

just think from where we are getting these thoughts

Taking away scripture takes away our argument. Scripture says that he is omnipotent and it says it is God inspired so basically, we believe he is omnipotent because he himself told us.

Omni = 'All'

Potent = 'Erection-Capable'

Hmm... (lol).

God has a constant hard-on.

That does explain some of the Old Testament, ROFLMAO.

god cannot be omnipotent.. it is impossible, it brings up far too many paradoxes that cannot be explained. I feel this is a vital flaw in religion. God is impossible.

my two cents.