If God made everything and He is all-powerful, and could make up all the rules, then why can't He do anything He wants? Christians say God hates this, and hates that, and could only send His only Son to save the world and can't do anything else. Why can't He?
< STRONG God has made eternal promises/laws that He Himself voluntarily followed in order to be voluntarily consistent.
If God weren't consistent/constant, then the universe would be contradictory, chaotic, all over the place, and not in harmony.
The Bible even says He is constant and always the same.
Imagine an all-powerful being changing all the time. If He were all powerful, and kept changing, then everything would keep changing due to His power. Then nothing in the universe would remain consistent, not even time itself, and hence we can't have a universe like the one we have now.
So it make sense that God would want to be consistent, in order for everything else to have shape, meaning. and distinctions.
With that said, God being consistent, would make consistent and everlasting laws, and perhaps a few laws that He would follow Himself, namely, personal promises, and covenants that requires His obedience to.
So with certain everlasting promises and covenants (if they do exist), that is why God can't do certain things as atheists would complain about.
For example, if God created a system called Justice, human sacredness, and the law that sin can't be satisfied except by perfect blood, then He must send His only Son to die for the sins of others, to be logically consistent with His laws.
>> But this makes Him not all-powerful.
There you go.
< STRONG Not logically.
You wouldn't call a person who is fulfilling a promise powerless and weak, would you now?
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