Why an omnipotent or infinitely powerful God makes more sense than less-omnipotent or finite God
Because 0,1, and Infinity are the parsimonious or simple
Overwhelming majority of theists believe that God is eternal (never beginning and never ending). God has no birth date and no death date. God always existed. So, we already have one infinity (even if you think… this is potential infinity). It would be straight up or self-evidently arbitrary to say that God was born at negative 10^203^758102^293945 and God shall die at 8^6127310545926229091126317757^73213740766 years from now.
Now, ask yourself this - how much beings can God create? Or how much space is there in the reality?
If you say that there is limited space such that God can only create ((10^10)^100)^341275441218 + 7, then that seems straight up arbitrary and self-evidently less parsimonious. So, you have to believe that space is infinite and God can keep creating sentient beings forever and never run out of space or power to create!
Infinite is more simple or parsimonious than these arbitrarily large finite numbers. These large finite numbers cry out SCREAMING for explanation. But infinity does not!
This is also why monotheism is more plausible than polytheism. Because 0,1, and infinity are less arbitrary than finite numbers between them. [Trinity is an issue and requires a good model and I find the eastern orthodox monarchy model to be a good solution to the logical problem of the Trinity. See -
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People who believe in less than omnipotent God needs to answer two critical questions (that I believe are actually unanswerable by the way)
Why is one concrete thing infinite - like God’s eternality. But not God’s power?
Why that finite number?
This is why I find process theology and open theism to be totally implausible.
But there is still more - the things get extremely scary when you think about God (according to process theists) not even having any coercive power. So, God has to woo people to become good instead of punching them on their face to become good. This is just not even remotely plausible because sometimes, when you love someone, and when they are nearly doing something horrible, you do have to slap or punch some sense into them. Sometimes you do have to forcibly hold them so they don’t do something stupid. You cannot just beg them from the side saying “please don’t do this… please don’t do this.” and just keep crying or something.
Some people think even using such physical force or coercive power to protect someone is “abuse”, then my message to them is - “What fundamentally matters is not “whether something is coercive or physically forceful or not,” but whether it maximizes wellbeing or not! You sincerely or genuinely need to develop a thick skin and stop being so sensitive. DO THE GOOD whether it requires physical force or not!”
Process theism and open theism cannot secure universal salvation as efficiently or as quickly and with total assurance as normal neo-classical and classical theism.