Classical attributes of God are omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. Some have rightly wondered how anything possessing those traits can have being. I mean, to be able to do anything and to be able to know everything and to be everywhere at once would make such an entity a nonentity because it would be in all and through all forever. It would be everything and not a distinct entity.
Some believe that God has limitations, while others suggest that such a theory is making God in man's own image. Limitations bring suffering. The person who thinks that God suffers through sorrow or anger or any such separating emotions, must necessarily hold that God has limitations.
It does seem to me that there is a compromise scenario in which God has the omnis but also limitations, each in their context. If our universe is indeed the hologram that some physicists believe it is, then it is quite understandable how there could be a programmer that would have the complete run of it at all times. In the context of the universe, he would be omniscient and omnipresent and omnipotent. In his own reality though, he would have limitations and be a distinct being.
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