Someone asked me this today, and he said, if God can, He's not all powerful, and if he can't He's not all powerful. How should I respond to this question?
2006-09-29 18:42:34 · 7 answers · asked by Rubberchicken 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ask him, "What is a rock?"
He will have to define a rock as being an object with spatial dimensions (width, height, depth) and mass.
Then ask, "Is the thing you are asking God to create a rock?" The logical answer is no based on the definition of a a rock -- it can't be infinitely large if it is going to have dimensions and mass. So the question is illogical.
It is similar to the question, "Can God make a 4-sided triangle?" That question is illogical, so it can prove nothing.
2006-09-29 18:52:43 · answer #1 · answered by The1andOnlyMule 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is everything..........it is impossible for anything to exist outside of the infinite.
The question assumes that there is something separate from God. If you start off with a flawed assumption you get a flawed question.
God did not create, God is. It would be more accurate to say God made the universe possible by separating the everything into parts that could exist in relation to one another.
How would everything lift itself if there is nothing that exists for everything to push against or lift? How can God "lift" something (which implies a limit on the infinite, a boundary that separates the rock from God) which is also God.
2006-09-29 19:00:07 · answer #2 · answered by thewolfskoll 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. If there was a rock God could not lift, then by definiton He would not be God. Therefore what you are really asking is whether God can create a situation in which He is not God. The answer to that question is NO.
2006-09-29 18:45:57 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By doing a search for the million posts of this question and picking form among the many answers provided therein.
2006-09-29 18:45:31 · answer #4 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is no, god cannot go against his own nature.
2006-09-29 18:48:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that rock is in Pat Robertson's head, or is it Fallwell's?
2006-09-29 18:46:11 · answer #6 · answered by Hernan Cortes 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but what would be the point?
2006-09-29 18:45:47 · answer #7 · answered by sangheilizim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋