All 4 Uses
omnipotent
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Robinson Crusoe
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- Except what sickness forced from me, I do not remember I had one thought of lifting up my heart towards God, but rather had a certain stupidity of soul, not having the least sense or fear of the Omnipotent Being when in distress, nor of gratitude to him for his deliverances.†
omnipotent = all powerful
- How mercifully can the omnipotent Power comfort his creatures, even in the midst of their greatest calamities?†
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- that he was omnipotent, could do every thing for us, give every thing to us, and take every thing away from us;†
- I had, it seems, one day, been talking to him of the omnipotent power of God, and his infinite abhorrence of sin, insomuch that the Scriptures styled him a consuming fire to all the workers of iniquity; and that it was in his power, whenever he pleased, to destroy all the world in a moment, the greater part of which are continually offending him.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(omnipotent) all powerfulnote: "omni" means "all". It is often said that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent (all powerful, all knowing, and all present; i.e., present everywhere)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)