Can a person be omnipotent? If you want to describesomeone who can do absolutely anything, reach for the adjective omnipotent. Omnipotent comes from the Latin words for total (omni) and power (potent). ... On the other hand, if you think that brute force wins, then maybe your idea of ...
By omnipotent, I mean three primary ways scholars and laity have understood the word. Most mean that 1) God exerts all power whatsoever, 2) God can do absolutely anything, or 3) God can control creatures or creation. See my work for citations of leading theologians in the past and presen...
For example, the prefixes syn- and -sym mean “to do something together”: When syn- is added to thesis, it makes synthesis, a “combination of ideas to form a theory or system.” When sym- is added to phony, it makes symphony, meaning “music intended for a full orchestra.” When...
Which has meant I have been buried in e-owls asking the question, ‘”What doessolve et coagulamean?” Beatrice Groves has written something on the subject which I assume will be definitive but MuggleNet.com has been down (waydown, as in “transitioning to new ownership”) so I don’t ...