Why is the Supernatural assumed to be Omnipotent?

I had a thought last night: why is it that the liberal christian explains God as a unifying force of the universe, and this is how he is omnipotent/present/scient? Why do we assume that something “super”-natural is necessarily powerful in our world, that such a thing is capable of large-scale effects?

Maybe this is just my own mistaken assumption of how the supernatural is usually thought about by religious folk. I should wonder what it would be like to have a religion where we believed in unseen forces of spirits that had as much power as a human being, and, perhaps, mortal in their own way as well – just existing in some in-between dimensional brane that makes them impossible to detect yet possible for them to interact with our universe?

Perhaps this is what the older pagan religions were really like. Spirits and gods fighting amongst each other, hierarchies and internal social orders of their own. And then came along Abraham, with a monotheistic religion that seems to be so attractive compared to this alternative for some reason… that I really can’t imagine. This puzzles me…

~ by David on 2008 February 21, Thursday.