Wouldn't it be cool to be omnipotent? You could make anybody fall in love with you. You could teleport all your enemies to the moon and then blow it up. You could do that awesome lightning thing that Palpatine does in Return of the Jedi (and Jedi only, because I have to assume the first thing you'd do as an omnipotent being is erase the prequels from existence).
You'd be so awesomely powerful you could create something that you yourself couldn't destroy!
...er wait what?
Well, could you or couldn't you? You'd have to be able to, right, because otherwise you wouldn't actually be omnipotent. But then, once you did, there would be something that you can't destroy, so you wouldn't be omnipotent anyway.
A logical ubergod would be asking right about now, "why the hells I just created would I want to create something I can't destroy," and the answer is shut up that's not part of the question.
You might, for example, want to create a gigantic meteor to wipe out all life on earth and you don't want to be bothered by a last-minute conscience attack, so you make the meteor indestructable. So why not just blow up the planet?
Maybe you decide to unleash a Terminator on the planet, one you want to be unable to destroy because, again, last-minute conscience attacks have wrecked many an awesome sadistic plan. You could teleport it somewhere else if you had a conscience attack, so you'll have to make it so that you can't effect it at all. But then you could create a new Earth, teleport all the survivors to it, and send the old one hurtling into the sun with the Terminator still on board.
The question you actually need to ask is "can an omnipotent being cease to be omnipotent," and the answer is obviously yes, they can do anything, and once they've ceased being omnipotent they're no longer omnipotent so there's no paradox.
In conclusion, Mackie was an idiot.
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