God's attributes and abilities
Aren't the attributes that define God sometimes contradictory? Or too human?
For the sake of the matter, he is described as angry, and since he knows what will happen, he shouldn't be angry (anger in the context of the surprise that he expected something different and then gets angry and "doesn't understand" why they didn't listen to him). Although if you define that he doesn't know the future, then it's not contradictory, but it seems that a lot of "abilities" are being removed from him. Even if he is not defined as omnipotent in the absolute sense of the word, the definition would be much more than just – he can do almost everything except for a few "marginal" things.
He cannot see into the future,
He cannot make himself disappear (assuming he is something infinite and indestructible)
He cannot regret things he does (assuming at least that he knows everything, so he should always make good choices).
Even in the moral context, there are contradictory qualities – if he is defined as someone who can prevent injustices and does not do so, then he is immoral, and if he cannot, then this too is among the other things he 'cannot'.
In the human context throughout history, it seems that many human qualities have been shed from him (in the past he was portrayed as something huge, sublime, omnipotent, angry, happy, and sad).
It has become a much more abstract and obscure concept than ever before, making it extremely difficult to "work" with it. Simply put, it has no substance…
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