Re: To say God is sovereign...

I agree with you and I believe that is more or less the correct interpretation of things, but what you are describing is not God acting in an all-powerful/omnipotent manner on this Earth right now. Just because God is not acting in an all-powerful/omnipotent manner currently doesn't detract from God's capacity for omnipotence. God can take away man's free will at any time, but as long as God is granting man free will He is not acting in an all-powerful way and that in no way detracts or belittles God. I do agree that God generally guides things in a direction that attempts to lead man back to God but that is not omnipotence. It's funny that if I remember correctly when John talks about the coming of Christ in Revelations, that is when the Lord Omnipotent will reign. Until that time, He certainly has the capacity of omnipotence but gives some of that power to man to make (mainly bad) choices.

I don't expect most people to really get what I am saying because it sounds like I am saying that God changes and we think of God as unchanging. God is unchanging but the ways in which God interacts with His creations does change as His creations change and evolve or devolve. So although God is unchanging, to man it appears as thought God changes but only because man tries to quantify the characteristics of God, which are always through the perception of man. So to man, God is constantly changing, but in actuality God remains unchanging. And in our current state of existence on this Earth, God is not acting in an omnipotent manner and it is not blasphemous to say that, although I would guess that many people might think it sounds blasphemous.