The question came from a friend of a friend; a fellow pilgrim, sojourner, doubter, skeptic, thinker, brother:
If God is omnipotent [all-powerful] can he use this attribute to limit his omniscience [all-knowing] or omnipresence [all- er…present]?
It’s an interesting question, similar to the whole can God create a rock that’s too heavy for him to lift? or (my favorite) can he make a burrito too spicy for him to eat? I think part of the issue here is how we view the idea of attributes. In our Western, scientific, and post-Enlightenment mindset, we often think of people as fully assembled “systems” of interconnected attributes. And so, like the chemical compounds that create our physical bodies, we assume that these attributes are separate things that have come together to make us who we are.
the long way home 