To what extent is god's omnipotence a logically coherant concept

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To what extent is the omnipotence god a logically coherent concept?

The attributes of our god state that he as the creator is omnipotent so that should assume that he can do anything that is logically possible but can he do something that is logical like we can. By our definition he should be able to do anything and everything. But is there anything that god can’t do such as: Can god run? As human we have 2 arms and two legs to enable us to run but the other attributes of god contradict each other because if he is all powerful yes he can do anything but by also saying that god has always existed suggest a god like Aristotle a prime mover that exists outside of space and time and therefore can’t have any matter and so can’t run does this mean that we are better than god by being able to do something that he can’t and therefore he isn’t omnipotent.

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The omnipotence of god and the paradoxes it creates were attempted to be solved by Rene Descartes he theorised that god is completely omnipotent and there is nothing that cannot do e.g. create a stone too big for him to lift. Descartes would then go on the say that although he has created a so called object that he cannot lift he would be able to lift because of his omnipotence no matter how logically impossible the instance. This form of omnipotence is similar to the first version of Peter Geach’s theory of omnipotence of the absolutely omnipotent where ...

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