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What are the 3 Omni words?

In order to describe God's attributes, or characteristics, theologians use three important terms: omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence.

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Omnipotent God

The idea of an omnipotent god refers to a deity who is infinitely powerful. According to this approach to conceptualizing God, there is nothing that an omnipotent god cannot do. Most monotheistic traditions posit their god as the creator of the universe and the ultimate authority who can bend the entirety of creation to his will. Interestingly, omnipotence raises a paradox that philosophers have worked to solve for centuries. The paradox is if God is able to do anything, can he create a stone that is too heavy for him to lift? A simple yes or no answer to the question leads to problems with omnipotence. If yes, then there is something that God cannot do: he cannot lift the stone. If no, then there is something that God cannot do: he cannot create such a stone. St. Thomas Aquinas resolved this paradox by limiting God's omnipotence to the creation of possible situations. René Descartes resolved it differently by stating that God can create such a stone and lift it.

Examples of an Omnipotent God

The Christian Bible is full of examples of an omnipotent god. In the first book of the Bible, God's omnipotence is on full display. The opening lines of the King James Version of the Bible are: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:1-1:10) God is powerful enough to create the entire universe, and he continues to display his power throughout the remainder of the text.

Omniscient God

Another important tenet of the approach to God in most monotheistic religions is that God is omniscient, meaning that God is all-knowing. Unlike omnipotence, there is less scriptural precedent in Christianity to explicitly suggest omniscience. However, Christians and members of other Abrahamic religions still typically consider God omniscient because it follows logically from other elements of their conception of him. A perfect, all-powerful being should also have access to infinite knowledge because lacking knowledge would make God less powerful and less perfect. Omniscience presents fewer philosophical problems than omnipotence, but some mathematicians working with set theory have raised some objections. According to most monotheistic theologies, God knows everything about all moments in time, past, present, and future.

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Is it 0 0 or infinity?

Similarly, expressions like 0/0 are undefined. But the limit of some expressions may take such forms when the variable takes a certain value and these are called indeterminate. Thus 1/0 is not infinity and 0/0 is not indeterminate, since division by zero is not defined.

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September 06, 2012 02:12 am | Updated 02:12 am IST

This is to clear the confusion over the answer given by a mathematics lecturer to Justice Markandey Katju (on what is one divided by zero) and the letters in response to the article “Professor, teach thyself” (Sept. 3). In mathematics, anything divided by zero is not defined (and not infinity). But ‘limit’ (1/x); x->0 is well defined and is equal to infinity (it is the basic concept of limits). Now this statement is most commonly (though not correctly) referred to as 1/0 = infinity and is so common in mathematics and physics that people working/studying in this field take limits to be obvious. This is what the lecturer might have had in mind. In any case, the intellect of a person cannot be tested by posing one question to him.

Ravi Mohan,

Roorkee

In mathematics, expressions like 1/0 are undefined. But the limit of the expression 1/x as x tends to zero is infinity. Similarly, expressions like 0/0 are undefined. But the limit of some expressions may take such forms when the variable takes a certain value and these are called indeterminate. Thus 1/0 is not infinity and 0/0 is not indeterminate, since division by zero is not defined. When something is not defined, one should not ask what its value is. Justice Katju deserves all praise for voicing his concern over the education system prevailing in India. But it appears that he does not know the distinction between the concepts of infinity and indeterminate. It would be better for such persons to avoid saying things like ‘he was unfit to teach even in an intermediate college.’ Please do not underestimate the calibre of professors.

P. Sundaram,

Pollachi

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