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My first question must be this. Is God love? My answer is YES! Is God’s love unconditional? My answer once more is YES! Is God Omniscience? My answer is YES. Is God omnipresence? My answer once more is YES! And I prefer the CE vs the T at the end. But is God Omnipotence (not omnipotent)? My answer is YES as bookends, but not in the middle. Make sense? Well, here’s how I see it.

To embrace the concept of unconditional love, one has to also embrace the concept of total freedom!

Think about that one for a moment. Who has not wrestled with man’s free will? Who has not questioned why bad things happen to good people? Why must it rain on the just and the unjust (Matt. 5:45)? Why do evil and wicked people have so much money and expensive things? If God is love and God is good, why don’t the righteous (and that definition would be?) prosper and have life much better?

Did God create the universe and doesn’t that prove His omnipotence? My answer is YES! And in the end, whenever that will come, it is the Creator to whom we will ALL return. Spirit will return to Spirit. And the before life and the after life are the book ends of God’s omnipotence. But what about our “time” here on earth? If God is ALL POWERFUL why did he allow the Holocaust? Why did God allow the tsunami? Why, why, why does a Being who is all-powerful allow bad things to happen?

My answer is because God is love! His grace is amazing!

And love must allow for free will, for freedom- while here on earth.

But, when we return to our Source, our true nature, there is but ONE POWER. It’s not really a matter of two powers, except for here on earth as the allegorical story of Adam and Eve tells us when they (who were not historical creatures) ate of the tree of good and evil.

But what about prayer? Can God step in (from where?) and change things? Or is it us aligning ourselves with not what we see that’s temporal, but what really IS and thereby bringing that which appears not, but IS, into reality? Good questions, few answers. So, while God is totally and unequivocally omnipotence in the fourth dimension, the Creator has given us full reign for good or bad (free will) and also told us that we CAN (if we so choose) loose that which is “on the other side” (4th dimension) into “this side” (3rd dimension). But to do so requires of US (not HIM) an intimacy and lifestyle beyond simple religious commandments.

The Creator is “at the door” and for those that “know the knock” (hear His voice) can answer it as co-creators should, do, have, and are: just not nearly as often as we’re able. Those “greater works” are awaiting OUR INITIATIVE, not God’s self-imposed Omnipotence.