Shadee Elmasry – Why An All Powerful God Can Only Be One

01 March 2019

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The speaker discusses the concept of "redundancy" and how it can arise when two gods are involved in a situation. They suggest that if the gods agree to create something simultaneously, they may not be able to gather into two powerful gods. The speaker warns that this may cause conflict and confusion.

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If you had two gods, then two things could happen. Either they

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agree or they disagree. If they disagree, then they're not Gods

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because no one could stand in front of God. Right? Then they

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have a quarrel and fight. Well, that means there's not omnipotent.

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He's not all powerful, right? There's someone's fighting him and

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struggling against him. And if they agree, and two gods are

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creating everything at the same time and working together, then in

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fact, they're redundant. And if they agree to divide the work,

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then they're not all powerful because you're not doing

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everything. Okay, you got one doing one part and one another, do

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another part. So logically speaking, the idea of a God must

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be that there's only one okay. Otherwise, omnipotence cannot

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gather into two, all powerful cannot be in to do so. Either they

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share the work they do it simultaneously or they fight over

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it either way, it denies omnipotence.

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