I thought God was omnipotent and that there was nothing he couldn't do.>>>Ghost of a Rider
I do not limit the creator to any of my reasoning's, but rather agree with His intents and purposes relating to our relationship with Him.
Your reasoning is to limit God or box Him into something that you yourself can not understand, testing your limits of spiritual understanding.
By saying he couldn't save his creation without condemning it first with strict laws we have no hope of abiding by, you're saying there's at least one thing he can't do.
No, I'm saying that in order for us to have god like qualities, basically being able to reason between two opposites, Good and evil, the only possible way to do that was by separation and then inclusion.
It has to do with the only one God and not many.
In implementing the Ten Commandments, the separation is sealed accomplishing four things; 1. Seal the separation of all humanity via death by condemnation and 2. Give us a moral compass to abide by. 3. Allows God to be the sole liberator/Savior 4. Draws all mankind unto Himself via His Son by grace.
All done as part of the creation process of which none of it is out of His control as you presumed. Omnipotence is omnipotence. If he's omnipotent then he can save his creation any way he wants to. If he can't, he's not omnipotent.
Again, a lack of spiritual understanding.
You tell me that the ten commandments have an inherent moral purpose but instead of telling me what that purpose is, you simply tell me that violating them puts us out of favor. That's not a moral purpose. For example, murder is wrong and immoral: Why? God must have had a reason for deeming murder as immoral. What was it?
Explained above in the four things or purposes of the Ten Commandments.
Murder is just one of the ten. Even if you never committed a murder you still have 9 more commandments to contend with, let alone the thoughts of your mind against any of the Ten would still condemn you.
So it comes down to God's love of His creation that when He decided to create us, He also included in it our salvation.
Do you still see limits there?
Blessings, AJ