God is certainly considered by the faithful to be omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and of course omni-warm and omni-fuzzy.
Can a Supreme Being Be All-Present?Since the Almighty is a physical being, after all He utters sounds and causes things to happen, and as such, cannot be in all places at all times. That’s just total nonsense. Scratch omnipresent.
Can a Supreme Being Be All-Knowing? Hardly! If such a being is omniscient, what's the point in the whole creation business? There's no fun or satisfaction to a creation if you know to the tiniest detail, exactly what will happen at each and every moment to everything, everyone, and everywhere. Would your life be worth living if at say age 10, you had absolute knowledge of the future and knew exactly what each and every future second would be like for you in advance? So a Supreme Being created Adam and Eve, but since that Supreme Being is alleged to be an all-knowing deity, then He knew even then what would happen in the Garden of Eden, so why bother instructing Adam and Eve not to eat forbidden fruit? What would be the point? That's why people don't usually want to be told the resolution to a film they haven't yet seen. If you're told before-the-fact whodunit, why see the film or read the novel?
That applies equally to that final Biblical New Testament Book of Revelation. The Bible is the Almighty's Holy Word. Revelation is therefore the Almighty's Holy Word. Everything that is to come is spelt out in detail. The ending is not in doubt. How the ending is achieved is not in doubt. The Almighty knows all of this in advance. Satan, being a literate sort of entity, knows all of this as well. Therefore, what's the point in enacting out the scenario? If everyone has to go through the fixed Revelation scenario, then that confirms everything is predestined and that there is no such thing as Free Will despite the Almighty's utterances to the contrary. Just like in a novel or a film, the plot plays out the exact same each and every time. The characters have no choice but to follow the plot line - they have no Free Will. Scratch omniscient.
Can a Supreme Deity Be All-Powerful? Hardly! If such a Deity can not prevent evil, then that Deity is not omnipotent. If that Deity can prevent evil, but chooses not to, then that Deity is hardly benevolent. If that Deity allows evil to exist in humans, and that Deity created humans, then that Deity must share some responsibility for that evil. It's akin to parents having to shoulder responsibility if their child or children runs amuck.
The Almighty is not omnipotent since not even He can get around the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics, which states that it is impossible to know simultaneously any particle's precise position and trajectory.
Presumably, the Almighty, like gravity waves, and anything comprised of mass and/or energy can't operate at faster than light speed. If our Supreme Being wants to smite you down, and He is ten light-years away, then you're safe for a decade before His bolt of lightning hits you.
If the Almighty exists in a physical location within the Universe, then He can't know about an event until the light (or other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum; or gravity) from that event reaches Him. Since light has a finite speed, the Almighty is in the 'dark' as it were until the light and information it contains reaches Him. For example, if the Almighty is residing on Planet Earth, and for some reason our Sun goes supernova, the Almighty (as well as the rest of humanity) won't know about it for other eight-plus minutes - the time it takes light to reach Earth from the Sun.
Not even a Supreme Being can change the past. I mean, there are any number of instances where to correct some mistake; it would have been easier to backtrack in time and undo something, like going back in time and posting a "No Trespassing: Keep Out: Serpents Will Be Shot On Sight: This Means You" sign at the entrance to the Garden of Eden.
Nor can a Supreme Being accomplish something that is self-contradictory, like creating a spherical cube or a cubical sphere! Can a deity, any deity draw more than one straight line between two points on a flat piece of paper. I think not.
If the Almighty is so omnipotent, why did He need to rest on the Seventh Day? Scratch omnipotent.
Is the Almighty an All-Loving, Merciful, Compassionate, and Forgiving Deity? Yes you say? You have got to be joking! Have those spouting off such nonsense actually read the Old Testament? From the universal flood, to Sodom and Gomorrah , to the tenth plague, to the invasion of the Land of Canaan
The Almighty does in fact have one 'All' quality. He's an all-nothing. The Almighty, the supernatural deity, doesn't exist.
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