Transplanar

There are two possibilities that I can see if we assume that the Christian God is true:

-Either God is truly all-powerful and is unrestricted by anything whatsoever
-God adheres to certain rules of conduct and law that he can *never* go back on

If it is the first option, then everything that is, was, and will be in the universe is there because God wants it to be there. Just as God wants people to love and be happy, so to does he want to see people burn in hell and suffer forever. This contradicts God's omnibenevolence.

If it is the second option, then God is not all-powerful, and begs the question of where these laws came from.

There is, however, a third option, which is a slight variant of the second:

-God cannot lie (Titus 1:2)

Which one could say also means that he cannot go back on anything he declares (ie "the wages of sin is death"). But this has it's own problems similar to those I just mentioned. Even if God is completely restrained by this (making him not all-powerful), he is still making a choice, and being all-knowing, must be fully aware of and approving of the consequences it carries (thus he is not omnibenevolent).

Thus I don't see how anyone can say that God's laws are absolute without weakening the qualities God is supposed to have.

Toto

While there is one Bible verse mentioned here, I think this would do better in the Existence of God(s) Forum.