If God is omnipotent and all powerful, can he create a weight so heavy that even he can't lift it?

Answer 1

its a paradox there is no answer so dont ask it as a question it is ment to be a thought to reflect on. like whats the sound of one hand clapping

Answer 2

NO he cant. Your question however really is and dont pretend its not, is as follows; If God is sooooooooooo powerful how come he cant do something?

Youre entire premise is off. Your premise is that not being able to do something implies imperfection. In this light you can see the absurdity of your premise. For say I could NOT do wrong, would i be imperfect, so not being able to do something is not always bad. Say again if a basketball player could never miss would he be imprefect, NO bec. the ultimate level of a basketball player is to get the ball in the hoop.

With this we can truly see how off your attack is. God is not subject to physical laws, meaning to physicallity itself. If he were to be he would truly be imprefect as everything physical is subject to destruction by its nature. With that let us take the act of lifting, a physical phenomina, when we say god lifts something its metaphorical bec lifiting is a physical process and god is beyond the physical.

Now since physical things are subject to destruction that which is beyond and not subject to the physical is MORE PERFECT. So yes God cannot create a rock he cant lift, but that is a perfection, a perfection that GOD is above physicallity and its laws. The fact that God cannot do a contradiction is a perfection, the fact that everyhtign he creates he must have total dominion over and cant create that which he doesnt IS NOT a imperfection. To say otherwise is equivalent of saying the fact that I cannot do something incorrect is imperfect.

Answer 3

If that was his intention then I'm sure God could do that. Some may say that he could change it if he decided later on that he did want to lift it. But that would violate the original intended purpose. Also God is unchanging. I don't believe that God would create something like that in our universe. From what I have seen of God's work it seems to me that the things that he has created have the purpose of enabling one thing to produce another thing. Everything he created has an intended purpose. I don't believe that he would create something that would interfere with his own progress.

Answer 4

He could, and because he is all powerful he can lift it. Lets say that he an currently lift 9x90000k Tons, and he makes something far heavier, his powers will "upgrade," if you will, to a higher standard. And thus making his powers limitless to anything. You see God just sits around and does this, he challenges himself, he doesn't care about anything else, why should he?

Answer 5

of course! He only has to create another god that can lift the weight

Answer 6

No, the act of lifting in itself is an act performed by humans, something God is not. God is not some large human being...he is a presence.

Answer 7

Your assuming that God is limited by gravity. God spoke and then there was light, do you honestly think that the One who can speak the universe into existence has any limitations whatsoever. The physical laws of our universe do not coincide with the spiritual laws of Gods.

Answer 8

he did... he created the universe....it is the heaviest thing simply because anything else would have to exist in the universe and therefore be part of the universe....and he can't lift simply because there is no one handle that picks up all of the universe

Answer 9

He has and no he can't lift it since it is God himself

Answer 10

God is logic.

If He contradicts himself, the universe ends. But God doesn't. Ha!

Answer 11

Ah, but the REAL question should be: "Can God ask a question so heavy you can't answer it?"