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Dear My Twin 14

 I don't believe God is omnipotent - at least not the way it's generally talked about.  The way in most Evangelical circles, the ones I've been in anyway, God's omnipotence is talked about as a kind of causal  machine. Everything that happens is directly because God makes  it happen, even evil.  For example, this understanding of omnipotence means that God caused  my rape to happen. That God caused  Adam and Eve to take the apple.  That every evil that has happened, will happen, is caused at it's root, by God's omnipotent power at work, maybe in the background, but absolutely caused  by God.  This belief stems from John Calvin, one of the reformers contemporary to Martin Luther. Calvinism had a resurgence in the American church in the 1950's and again in the 80's with the "Young, Restless and Reformed" movement. (Which IMO, is about as stupid as it sounds.) God being the root cause of all evil is excused theologically with two arguments:...