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In the original Greek of the Nicene Creed the word that is
usually translated as 'almighty` is 'pantokratora', which
someone on soc.religion.christian told me is better translated
as 'All Governing'

However, in that, does the All mean the region all/everything
of instead all someones?

I ask since I define my top deity or Deity Goddess as
the ruler of the region all/everything, and I think
She is equivalent to the Nicene Creed God. (I view
Her as having all eight sexual harmonics, which I
discuss on my Salmon on the Thorns webpage, but I
don't include that in Her definition.)

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On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 21:12:56 -0330, David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com>
wrote:

In the original Greek of the Nicene Creed the word that is
usually translated as 'almighty` is 'pantokratora', which
someone on soc.religion.christian told me is better translated
as 'All Governing'

However, in that, does the All mean the region all/everything
of instead all someones?

Almighty is a literal translation of the Greek "pantokrator", but in
English there are two words, with different connotations -- the
Anglo-Saxon "almighty" and bthe Latinate "omnipotent" -- the latter
gets atheists' knickers in several knots.

But "pantokrator" is the Greek translation of the Hebrew "YHWH
Sabaoth", which is also rendered into English as "LORD of Hosts", or,
in one modern translation, "Lord of Heaven's Armies".

In the Old Testament, and in the creed, it indicates that YHWH is
ontologically different from all the gods. The one who is "almighty"
is the maker of all things (not just someones), whether visible (as in
planets, stars, suns, trees, waterfalls, cephalopods, quadrupeds etc)
and invisible (as in gods, demons, angels, fairies, microwaves etc).

It speaks of the difference between creator and creature. See Psalm
81/82.





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