ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concept of a (personal) God who is omnipotent in the way in which need him to be omnipotent is coherent. He is able to produce any possible future state of affairs, including evil ones, and was able to produce any possible past state of affairs. Perhaps some illusory limitation upon God's omnipotence is suggested by the use of the word 'do' in the sentence 'God can do anything'. God can, it may be supposed, bring about everything that is logically possible. Whether God can take away his own omnipotence depends upon how the word 'God' is defined. If 'God' is defined as being omnipotent at the moment of speaking, God cannot take away his own omnipotence and remain 'God' at that moment, just as a bachelor cannot get married and remain a bachelor. But he will properly be called 'God' at the time when he was omnipotent.
