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.
