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Old 11-26-2005, 10:18 AM   #1
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Default If God is omnipotent why did he create angels?

Why would an omnipotent being need to create his own personal servants and helpers? Furthermore, if you're going to claim that he didn't need to, but did anyways, why?
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Because God is a creator by nature. Because God is loving God and needed a focus of love. Because God wanted the drama. Because God is a proud God and wanted something to be proud about. I have heard all of those in the past. I can make up some more. God is too awesome to talk to human beings directly, so he needed middle management. God needed a heavenly host to create music and deliver inspiring messages. God said, "Heck, why not?" and did it.
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So "God with us" "the Kingdom of Heaven is within you" 'priesthood of all believers and similar are from Greek democratic traditions against Persian heirarchies?

What does this say about the story of Saul and the people wanting a king over them in contrast to the earlier more anarchist traditions?

Has anyone used the clear political views in the Bible as a means of dating portions and where the ideas may have originated?
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Why would an omnipotent being need to create his own personal servants and helpers? Furthermore, if you're going to claim that he didn't need to, but did anyways, why?
Who are you, to tell God (Yahweh, Allah) what He should do, and what He should not do ? The ways of God are unpenetrable.
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As a demonstration of the being's omnipotence.

Next question.
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Who are you, to tell God (Yahweh, Allah) what He should do, and what He should not do ? The ways of God are unpenetrable.
Like an unpenetrable fog that dissapears in the light of the new day?
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Why would an omnipotent being need to create his own personal servants and helpers? Furthermore, if you're going to claim that he didn't need to, but did anyways, why?
As a demonstration of her own free will. A god who don't have free will is not much of a god, and if a god is bound by doing stuff that's sensible, she ain't free.:devil3:

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As a demonstration of the being's omnipotence.

Next question.
But his creation of humans should have been sufficient to demonstrate his omnimpotence.
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But his creation of humans should have been sufficient to demonstrate his omnimpotence.
Hmm. And, I spose, her free will. Still, why should a being with free will have to demonstrate it just the once?

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But his creation of humans should have been sufficient to demonstrate his omnimpotence.
Didn't the angels come first?

Human creation, to my way of thinking, indicates a lack of omnipotence on god's part. Sort of unintelligent design.
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