Question about logic

[drachefly]

Do you mean, in the sense that root is omnipotent, but if you have two users logged in as root, things get hairy?

So God is omnipotent to change the state of the world arbitrarily, and Dark Schneider is not omnipotent, but powerful ENOUGH to immediately undo any change to the world that would cause his own destruction?

That does suggest that Dark Schneider does extend outside of the scope of God's powers, though.

[drachefly]

As for the choosing to use weaker forms, that seems to conflict with the 'God fears DS'

[Kuroneko]

Hmm, you're right. I should have read the follow-up posts more carefully.

[Sriad]

Authorial Messup.

1: If God is truely Omnipotent, he should be able to travel back in time (or sideways, or what the hell ever) to some point when Schneider can't defend himself,

2: If there's a force that can directly oppose him, he isn't omnipotent in the first place QED. This sort of thing comes up a lot in Marvel Comics Cosmic Event of the Summer so many of your less thoughtful nerds tend to ignore it.

Possible solutions:

-God is just kidding around with everyone involved, including the narrator.

-God is omnipotent but fucking stupid.

-God can wield infinite/arbitrarily large power, but not in nuanced ways, and can act with nuance but not employ infinite power. A not-totally clever writer (or translator) could drop the ball and just call such a being "Omnipotent" out of intellectual laziness.

[Ariphaos]

Just so people know, the character I'm talking about is a guy called Dark Schneider.

Bastard!

Err, anyway.

I think the author's intent was that the god in question is near-omnipotent and has the ability to perform things that would require infinite amounts of energy to perform. Schneider has the ability to stop this, whatever it may be (I'm only vaguely familiar with the manga in question).

However, omnipotence still means that such a being could not be stopped, so, ergo the god in question is merely 'nigh omnipotent'.