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    Process theology (Whitehead, Hartshorne) holds that genui... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A divine person is essentially eternally omnipotent and exists necessarily.

    Process theology (Whitehead, Hartshorne) holds that genuine divinity entails creative responsiveness to the world, which is incompatible with immutable omnipotence.

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    • 1.Genuine love requires responsiveness to the beloved's actual choices, not predetermined outcomes. God's love is most authentic when truly responsive.
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    • 2.A being that cannot be affected by anything lacks relationality. True divinity should involve genuine relationship with creation, requiring mutual influence.
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    • 3.Classical omnipotence rendering all events necessary makes evil and suffering God's direct responsibility, not creatures'. Process theology better preserves moral coherence.
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    • 1.If God can be affected by the world's events, God's perfection is contingent on creation's cooperation. This makes divinity dependent rather than transcendent.
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    • 2.Process theology's limited God struggles to explain why this God deserves worship or prayer. Perfect power constrained by metaphysical limits seems less divine.
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    • 3.The claim that immutability contradicts responsiveness conflates logical consistency with responsiveness. God could be immutably responsive without changing properties.
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