Omnipotence does not mean the ability to do anything whatsoever, but the ability to do everything that is possible.

Omni - all, potent - powerful/able. All powerful. Having unlimited or universal power. You can of course interpret as you want, but words are words and they have meaning.

I can do everything that's possible for me. Am I omnipotent?

In the Christian biblical sense and beliefs of creation ... God created everything out of nothing ... which implies that they are capable of creating and controlling everything ... the story of Noah is God deciding he didn't like his creation so they hit the reset button and wiped everyone out

So now we live in a world where so many terrible things are happening ... sure there are many good things and good people but there are also an overwhelming number of bad people and bad things making this world very, very uncomfortable ... so where is God? Things are worse (or just as bad) now than they were before the biblical flood ... so why hasn't God stepped in to either make things better - or hit the reset button again.

Which then begs the question of the paradox and asks where is God, what are they doing, and why aren't they doing anything?... and leads to the ultimate question about God ... do they actually exist?

if "omnipotent" doesn't mean "can do literally anything", then "real" doesn't necessarily mean "exists in our reality" either.

You can squirm and manipulate the terms however you'd like, just know that nobody in the right mind would take your words seriously if you do that. If a manual needs to be interpreted, it's a bad manual. Any religion is just a fiction, pretending to be non-fiction. Same kinda thing as horrors with "based on real events" tagline, just turned up a few notches.

If a fiction needs interpretation and head-canons to be coherent, it's a bad fiction. The Bible is just bad from a literary standpoint, fiction or non-fiction. Its authors failed miserably at portraying a being that is so potent, it created literally everything.

I would consider your comment wordplay. Mainly because your arguing semantics while semantics were never the point of the argument.

If a god said to be all powerful but allows for evil to exist it's either not all powerful or evil itself, or both. In any case, why would I want or need such a god?

I know I'm exaggerating myself, but it doesn't affect the argument.

Then what the fuck is the deal with parting the seas, bombing Sodom and Gomorrah, and annihilating humanity ten times over before we came along?

What do you believe is his reason for creating people? He placed the tree of knowledge to give us choice, but in doing so opened the pathway to suffering. Why create beings with free will in the first place and give them the opportunity to hurt themselves or others.

If I bred and trained some puppies to not step on red floor tiles and then put them in a room where stepping on a red floor tile caused them to be set on fire or something, people would (in my opinion rightfully) suggest I was being unnecessarily cruel. I could make plenty of arguments as to why I'm in the right "I'm the reason they're here so I get to decide the conditions of their existence" or "I trained them first so I'm just seeing if they'll follow directions", but I don't think anyone would think I'm in the right. It feels somewhat like that's what god did. He made us fallible and gave us plenty of ways and reasons to fail. What is your interpretation of why?

I think your read on omnipotence is tautological. As a Christian, you are familiar with your god's resume: virgin birth, transubstantiation, worldwide simultaneous flood, resurrections, spontaneous healing of leprosy, temporary parting of the sea, hardening hearts, etc. What is canonically outside of his power?

Also your sentence about god being love and not being able to create... unless... Is not very clear to me. How can infinite love divide itself into unlove?

Ah the Christian apologists final form: "God and the Bible mean whatever I want them to mean whenever it's convenient".

God killed everyone on the planet but that's obviously bad so that story is a myth but all the ones that I want to be true are true.

God says he's omnipotent but that makes his existence impossible so I'll just change the definition of the word omnipotent. Thereby admitting that god isn't even powerful enough to speak clearly in his sacred texts.

Going even further down the rabbit hole and they'll start talking about how they learned ancient Greek and Hebrew just so they can manipulate the text further. God is all powerful but just really bad at translating words in a book.

You're grasping at straws. God does not exist and if it does it is evil.

It depends on who has power over who ... you don't have power or control over your coworker ... they could slap you in face for taking away their cigarettes ... and if they are strong and violent enough, they could punch you in face and knock you out

God may or may not have power over us and if they did, they'd snap their fingers and put us out of existence ... which is why the paradox makes you think ... if God is all powerful, why don't they do things to make things better ... because if they don't, then they don't care ... and if they can't, why call them God?

In this scenario, who's performing an evil act if you're not willing to stop it? The smokers?

You don't have the power to make it so smoking never existed, addiction never existed and evil never existed. Your argument is a false dichotomy.

In the analogy it would be more like if they did not know the existence of smoke and you handed them a pack and then punish them after they fail to stop smoking