How he is omnipotent, although there are many things of which he is not capable. -- To be capable of being corrupted, or of lying, is not power, but impotence. God can do nothing by virtue of impotence, and nothing has power against him.
Anselm, 1033-1109, Proslogium, Chapter VII, (Proslogium; Monologium; An Appendix in Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilon; and Cur Deus Homo, trans. Sidney Norton Deane, The Open Court Publishing Co., 1926, p.25)
What does this teach us about God? What are its implications?
That you cannot separate God and his nature?
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