@petewxyz saidI think, personally, Christianity struggles in a number of areas due to attributing their God with some very unyielding qualities.
The question seems to be how does an omnipotent parent still be a parent? Of course they could just do it all for you themselves and never let you experience figuring it out for yourself, but would that be a successful father?
If God was, say, just omnipotent, then they could point at evil in the world and say God 'is' powerful enough to stop it, He just chooses not to. Similarly, if God was soley omnibenevolent they could point at evil in the world and say God wants to stop it but lacks the ability to do so. However, my imbuing God with both omnipotence and omnibenevolence we are suddenly presented with a God who can stop evil and wants to stop it, but fails to act. (We are then presented with the 'free will' argument which fails to explain how an innocent has used their freewill to contract a terminal disease or be the victim of an earthquake etc - Or worse still that this omnibenevolent deity has allowed such suffering as some kind of a test).
Now, when we also throw omniscience into the mix the Christian position really does become untenable.
-Removed-Not really. I know it is easy to reply to the wrong person but don't think I have ever done that during my time on this site. And that's the truth of it.
We were discussing omniscience and Pete responded with a musing on omnipotence. I said he had craftily moved from one to the other. Appears only you took that seriously and not the tongue in cheek way it was intended. Perhaps you needed an emoticon to differentiate?
So, unless you are accusing me of lying, accept that and move on.