Is God omnipotent?

Question

So many people on here ask if God can create a rock so heavy that he himself cannot lift it. I'm wondering why people even ask this when the logic of it all proves otherwise.

Answer 1

GE 4:16 Cain went away from the presence of the Lord
JE: 23:23-24 A man cannot hide from God.God fills heaven and earth.

GE 6:4 there were giants before the flood
GE 7:21 all creatures but noah and family were killed in the flood.
NU 13:33 there were giants ( Nephilim) after the flood
Goliath is also a giant.

GE 17:15-16 God blesses marriage of Abraham and SarahGE 20:11-12 " she is really my sister, daughter of my father but not my mother she will be my wife"
DE 27:30-23 Cursed is the man who sleeps with his sister the daughter of his father or his mother

Exodus: why do the jews have to mark their houses with blood for God's angel to pass them over?
Proverbs 15:3 the eyes of the lord are everywhere keeping watch on the wicked and the good
and the capper:
DT 18:20-22 a false prophet is one whos words do not come true death is required
EZ 14:9 a prophet who is decieved is decieved by God himself. death is still required isn't it????


Vin

Answer 2

It's an old philosophical riddle: the question of the irresistible force and the immovable object. In theory, an omnipotent thing should be able to create an object that is immovable. If he can't create something that is immovable, then he isn't omnipotent. However, if he is omnipotent, he should be capable of moving anything; he should be an irresistible force. If his force can be resisted, then he isn't omnipotent. Either way, it proves that he can't possibly be omnipotent simply because omnipotence in and of itself is an illogical concept.

However, arguments like that are completely abstract, a type of mental masturbation, and have no relation to reality, in my opinion. Then again, I think the Intelligent Design argument of God's existence is malarkey, too. I see no point in arguing about the omnipotence, the intelligence, or even the existence of something so incomprehensible to the human mind that it cannot make itself known to us except through the outdated, narrow-minded, inconsistent ramblings written for and by a bunch of gullible shepherds and fisherman in the Middle East two thousand years ago. The very fact that we insist on calling God "He" when the idea of attributing gender to whatever it is that created the universe is proof of the fact that our understanding of this "God" thing is limited by our language, our intelligence, and our experience. We may as well be ants talking about the ant farm keeper.

Answer 3

Besides the omnipotent rock paradox, i always wonder about the benevolent God. Does god do things because he's benevolent? If yes, then what he wills is because he's right. but...

If he's benevolent, how could he allow 6 million of his chosen people to be incinerated by Hitler, or why did he allow Truman to vaporize 200,000 Japanese men, women and children or Stalin to kill 30m Christians? If he was also omnipotent AND benevolent, then these events could not have happened.

If you counter that man's "free will" caused those events to happen, so don't blame God, then can it be said God is not omnipotent AND benevolent, because he allowed man's free will to reign?

And further, the mere existence of evil in the world makes the existence of a benign god impossible: if god were omnipotent, he could eliminate evil and if he were benign, he would want to do so...another way of saying this:

If god is able to prevent evil but is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not benevolent.

If god is willing to prevent evil but is not able to prevent evil, then he is not omnipotent.

Evil is either in occordance with god's intention or contrary to it. Thus, either god cannot prevent evil or he does not want to prevent evil.

THEREFORE, it follows that god is either not omnipotent or he is not benevolent. He cannot be both omnipotent and benevolent.

Answer 4

The is a great question that I believe can be answered when you can answer another question. How big is the rock that is so big that god himself can not lift? Or What is infinite + 1?

You are asking a finite question with a infinite answer. In order for God to make a object so big that he would not be able to lift he would have to make himself finite. The concepts are connected.

Answer 5

Remember, when dealing with God, we leave logic in the back shed.

Not everything in the world is logical- although Mr. Spock may be troubled at this fact.

Yes, God is omnipotent.

I have noticed, however, the ubiquitous nature of this question- as well as others pertaining to free will. 'Twould be invigorating if people asked new questions.

Answer 6

Can God create a rock so heavy that He Himself cannot lift it?

This question is based on the false perception that God CAN do anything; when the reality is that God WILL NOT do everything that is possible in OUR imagination.

We do not think the way God thinks...

Isaiah 55.8, 9

"For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts."

Man is NOWHERE near the level of God's intelligence; and to ask such questions reveal the depth of man's ignorance regarding God and His TRUE nature.

When man realizes who God truly is, and humbles himself to learn from God (Who is willing to teach those who are willing to learn), man can learn some incredible things about God from God Himself.

James 1.5

"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him."

As for your question, were I to read it in the context of your statement that follows the question, I would take the question to be rhetorical. Whether that is true or not, I would answer your question in the context of my belief that God exists, and therefore God is "obviously" All Powerful in the context of my belief that God created existence from Himself - the expression of Omnipotence.

Answer 7

If he is all powerful, then aren't you saying you have no power? That dwelves into an entirely different subject altogether, whether humans have free will? If they do, aren't you saying that God can't control you, which says that he isn't omnipotent? If he does have power over everything, then how did Adam and Eve eat from the tree of knowlege? Gaaaahhh!!!

Answer 8

If God were not omnipotent, what would make him God? Would YOU worship someone who didn't have it all under control? God, by very definition, must be omnipotent. That whole rock debate is just ridiculous.

Answer 9

Wow, that is a puzzle! My understanding is that there are some things God can't do--he cannot lie, because that would be a negation of what he is. He is always true to his nature, and his truthfulness is absolute. With regard to the rock question, I don't have an answer.

Answer 10

Omnipotence is part of how we define God...