OMNIDERIGENT adj.
Performing universal action, providing sole and total motivation; all-acting.
Defined first by Vox Day in his
blog VoxPopoli in 2006 in the
post, "Mailvox: on omniderigence"
I certainly did not invent the concept, I merely constructed the word to describe it. It is a word I considered to be required for describing the logical and theological fallacy of those who interpret omniscience + omnipotence to equal X, X being the singular source of will and action in the universe.
It summarizes the
popular idea of God as a detail-oriented puppet master and Man being without free will, merely playing out his assigned role in God’
s grand master Plan. This notion of an encyclopedic Plan reduces every being, great and small, to insignificant sock puppets in God’s grand self-amusement, a concept which strikes me as not only psychologically nonsensical but bordering on the unbearably
silly.
Despite its popularity, omniderigence is, in my
opinion, a demonstrably
anti-Biblical concept. The fact that God knows the number of hairs on a
head or when a sparrow dies does not necessarily require Him to personally pluck them out one-by-one, or
strike down the sparrow on the oak tree instead of the one on the birch.
