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    There can be contingent states of affairs that an omnipot... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Omnipotence cannot be analyzed simply as the power to bring about any contingent state of affairs.

    There can be contingent states of affairs that an omnipotent agent is powerless to bring about.

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    It might now be conjectured that omnipotence can be analyzed simply as the power to bring it about that any contingent state of affairs obtains. However, the following list of contingent states of affairs shows that there can be contingent states of affairs that an omnipotent agent is powerless to bring about, and hence that this simple analysis is inadequate:

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