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An implicit question here: how can omnipotent God relate to anything at all that he might create without in some sense limiting himself?

(I've tended to think that necessity... of relational persona, is also the answer to God's apparent ignorances and changes of mind, expressed in the OT as well as in the life of Jesus.)

I suppose that in the view of some, such a post should be relegated to the "Religion" forum, a greater limitation than is necessary, IMHO. (I haven't seen much fruitful discussion there, either; much 'channelling' of famoous theologians that I find much too limiting.)

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An implicit question here: how can omnipotent God relate to anything at all that he might create without in some sense limiting himself?

God is sovereign, which means a human being can only act within the limits that God has set for man. Man has free will but only within the confines of God's sovereignty. For example, no man can come to embrace and worship and love the true and living God unless God Himself reveals Himself in a personal way to that person. It is man who is limited. It is impossible for any man to "reason" his way to God.

You can't start with the finite particulars of the world we live in and reason one's way to the infinite. You must first start with the infinite (revelation) and reason your way down. That is why objectivists cannot name a logical coherent source for moral absolutes.