CC--Christianese: Omnipotence

--Literally, this means all-powerful.
--There is nothing too great for Him.
--To get a perspective on this, we observe that God created everything that exists from nothing (you sometimes hear this described as ex nihilo, which is just Latin for “from nothing,” so I try to say “from nothing” rather than use an unnecessary Latinism).
--And He did this by speaking. So, the Milky Way, and elephants, and bacteria came into being because God spoke them.

--To attempt to grasp what this means about God’s power, consider an analogy. Is there anything you can’t imagine in your mind? Perhaps there are some limits, but they’re pretty high, right? So you, with your mind, can imagine virtually anything. But in the real world, you have only the tiniest fraction of power to make your ideas come true. Now, one way to think of God’s omnipotence is to talk of His creative power as being so vast that He relates to the physical universe and can manipulate it with the sort of ease we manipulate mere ideas.
--The exertion you might experience in moving your finger to dial a phone is the sort of thing God might use to create a nebula or a herd of antelope with.
--All these metaphors fail, of course. But they start to give a hint of God’s abilities.
--Naturally, therefore, His ability to suspend the laws of nature as we know them and create what we call a miracle (walking on water, raising a dead person) starts to seem almost trivial when we consider the sort of power (or “potency”) God contains.
--That’s why the miracles of the Bible are simultaneously so impressive and yet so trivial. Impressively beyond anything we could do, but trivial compared to the sort of things God can really do.