God is Benevolent and Omnipotent – how can he be both?

I hate this argument. DOnt get me wrong God's word says that he is kind and just, nut we're talking about the god that killed all but 8 people in the world with a flood. There's more scripture that talks about the wrath of God then there is that points to his love. So he can totally be both.

I like your topic but wants to add to yr discussion.......god take tests when violance,hatred,distrust,pesimistic approach start to flourish..........but when you pass those unseen tests ,only then then other side of the coin i.e Benevolence is visualised..........hope it gave you some clarity!!!!!!!!

Keep reading, hon. The Scriptures also say that all questions will be answered when we meet our Maker. Don't try to understand. Have faith. Maybe the best way to express what I am trying to say is that suffering is the yang to happiness' yen. There cannot be good without bad. God has 3 faces: God the Father (omnipotent), God the Son (benevolent) and God the Holy Spirt (guardian and speaker). This is where faith comes in. Either one believes or one doesn't.

well i do believe in god and that he is omnipotent and benovelent.maybe you dont believe in him,thats why you feel so.i do beileve in him and i know that he i stheer for me whenevr i am in some problem.

Because all feelings we could possibly have would have to be possessed by God.

naah, don belive in em

First of all change the picture It is typed Krishna whereas it is Sri Ram and Sita. Regarding your question, you should read Gita, to why there is so much suffering and pain to human being.

Yes, I agree that God is both..As to an answer to your discussion, to me that lies in what you believe to be true, spiritually and religiously speaking. When God sent Jesus to earth to die for us, his only begotten son, that must have been a very difficult thing for him to 'experience' as far as his love for Jesus~ But he also loved us enough to have put Jesus through such torture and torment on our behalf.. God encompasses all that we know and all that we do not know or could possibly conceive of. It is stated in the bible that we are 'made in his image', and that can be interpreted very easily, and then again, could mean many different things..But all this and so much more depends upon what you believe. The bible means squat to those who view it as simply a collection of books written by man alone, and at it's best, a book of history. Then there are those who beleive the bible was written by man under divine inspiration -man simply being the pen in God's hand-..And depending upon what you believe on the most vague and simple level, takes you to the next steps of your beliefs and the answers to so many questions, so many "Why's?" this world has..I believe God is everything good and all powerful, and other than the answers that can be found in the bible, the reasons behind the "Why's?" will be answered when his time comes to reveal such~

Compassion and suffering are both abundantly showered by God.The only difference is to its degree and as to who gets what in his share. You are what you are to a certain extent, due to your previous actions, whether they are from this life or your previous life. This in addition to the culmination of your deeds at present influences, what you expeience, in the near future or later in life. So, God basicaaly is only giving out results of your actions. Kindness in some form or the other for all your good ones and may be some sort of unhappiness caused to you for some wrong that you did. Please allow him to be the judge because why's and therefore's are too complex for the human mind to understand.

god is both benevolent and omnipotent ......... he can be both because he is god .......... that's why he is god?????

well ano, you are true, don't get worried we work among poor and be the people who suffer. interested be with me. sankarcj@yahoo.com

that is the reason god is enigmatic...no point discussing abt sufferings as it is a relative term and it depends on more than 1 factor