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In God the Father Almighty, Erickson develops a sturdy exposition of the doctrine of God, beginning with an introductory discussion of the doctrine’s importance. He then interacts extensively with criticisms brought against the traditional view of God by pluralism, process theology, and free will theism. After evaluating the positive and negative elements in each of these views, Erickson offers a...

or swear on something greater than himself (Heb. 6:13, 18). So it would seem that omnipotence does not require God’s ability to do absolutely anything.11 Many philosophical theologians contend that the problem may be resolved simply by recognizing that the problem is illusory, because a description of a self-contradictory action does not really describe any thing. It is a collection of words, but there is no reality corresponding to the symbols. Swinburne says that those who claim that God should
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