What is two things that God can't do??

Answer 1

Sin & Die

Answer 2

Hi Jennie Q,

1) God can not lie. God can not sin. He will keep all His promises in the Bible.

2) God can not love us more than he already does. He gave us His Son Jesus.

Kindly,

Nickster =)

Answer 3

Affect free will. he can help us but he won't make us do something like a mindless zombie.

Justice over all. Sin is a violation of rules, and thus Justice requires a payment for that violation. God himself cannot look past this. However, the loophole is that, someone else can pay the justice for sin, as long as it is accepted. In other words, someone, it doesn't matter who, has to go to jail for the crime. Jesus has taken upon himself all sin, paid Justice, and given us mercy as long as we accept it. if we do then we can get past our sins and return to God.

Answer 4

So what can't He do?

1. It is impossible for God to lie. Can God make two plus two equal five? It is impossible for God to lie, so he is consistent with truth which has absolutes.His standard of right and wrong does not change.

Heb.6:18 He can’t lie = he can’t break a unconditional promise what he says he will fulfill. He is the truth, there is no darkness in him. He cannot go back on His Word.

When he told Abraham to take his only son and put him on the altar, Abraham knew that if God allowed him to have Isaac killed he would have had to raise him up back to life. This is because he already promised Abraham that through Isaac the promises of his Covenant would come.

God can never send another flood over the whole earth like he did in Noah's day. Its not that he doesn't have the ability, He can’t do it because He promised He never would do it again (the rainbow is there to remind us of this truth). God’s nature is inclined to truth which means He keep His promises.

2.Can God make a rock so big that even he can’t lift it? If he can’t lift it then he is not all powerful. Then the rock has become more powerful than God and whatever is more powerful than God is God. God has infinite qualities not finite, God can only do things that are possible he can’t make square circles or a two sided triangle. It is asking God to bring about a logically contradictory state to his own nature.

This is what is called a category mistake to say he can make something he can’t lift. Its like asking a bachelor what his wife’s name is? What does the color yellow taste like. Color doesn’t taste. Its not possible for God to make a rock so big that even he can’t lift it. If he can make it he can lift it. If he can create it , he can destroy it. . It does not show that God has a limit to his power which means he does not possess infinite power. This means whatever he created is under his jurisdiction under his control, it can never have equality.

"Whatever implies being and nonbeing simultaneously is incompatible with the absolute possibility which falls under divine omnipotence. Such a contradiction is not subject to it, not from any impotence in God, but because it simply does not have the nature of being feasible or possible. Whatever, then, does not involve a contradiction is in the realm of the possible with respect to which God is omnipotent. Whatever involves a contradiction is not within the scope of omnipotence because it cannot qualify for possibility. Better, however, to say that it cannot be done, rather than God cannot do it." (T. Aquinas Summa Theologica p. 163-164 , Volume I, ques. 15 ans. 3)

3.Can God stop being God or stop existing? The nature of God is infinite meaning no end. God's unchanging moral character is a moral absolute. This includes holiness, justice, love, mercy and truth. God is who He is forever and is the only constant thing (being) in the universe. Only created things subject to time and space which are of a non eternal substance can change. God could not change if he wanted to (which he would not ) Because he is the highest and ultimate state of perfection. Words fail to describe at this point the state God is in.

4. He is not free to act contrary to his nature that is permanent. Does this mean he is not all powerful? No- it means that as a perfect and unchangeable being His commands and actions are rooted in the ultimate good which flow from his nature. God's moral character does not change. "I the Lord change not "Mal.3:6. There is no shadow of change with God (Jm.1:17).

His nature is eternal. He cannot say tomorrow I’ll act like the devil for a while or sin as man does. What God has been, He will always be, (the I Am). He is completely self sufficient within himself.

5.God cannot sin, Holiness is part of his intrinsic nature, He cannot do otherwise.

6.God cannot learn anything new. Before He created anything He knew all about it. There is no progression in knowledge for God as their is with man. God has no limitations on anything that He can create.

7.God cannot answer every prayer you want but only those that are in accordance to His will being done on earth. He cannot answer prayers that would do the very opposite of His purposes.

8. God is always right-When God does something, it is not right because He did it. It is right because it is right. It is not good because God chose it, therefore it must be good! God chose it because it is good, God wills it because it is good, it’s not good simply because he wills it or chose it to be. God is not arbitrary or capricious. He knows the greater good because he possesses all knowledge. All of nature shows this to be true. Order is of the greater design and objective, chaos is not. To preserve life is the greater good, to take life is not, (exceptions are the rarity). This is because all flow from His moral nature. So while God is all powerful he cannot act or think contrary to his perfect eternal unlimited nature, which is the ultimate moral good.

Isn't good to know there is a being in charge of the whole universe who is perfect in his judgments and choices, keeps His promises and never does wrong. That should be a comfort for those who are for him instead of against him.

Answer 5

Seems he can't make himself visible to everybody or heard by everybody.
Religious people will claim that they can see and hear him ,because THEY are so special ,but nobody really believes them.
Moses conned everybody into believing he talked to God through a "burning bush".
I guess in those days, you didn't even need to make up a good lie; apparently, they just took your word for everything.
Many religious people are still that gullible.

Cool---If someone gives you a chocolate bar ,but tells you that he will kill you if he doesn't like the way you eat it, is that like your "free will"?
Hardly seems "free" to me.

Answer 6

Nothing. God can do anything He wants, whenever He wants, however He wants and no one can stop Him. That is why He's God! He is Almighty, All powerful, and Sovereign.

Answer 7

Father God cannot look upon sin because He is pure and holy...
he can do nothing but act in perfect wisdom amd love... i.e. He cannot lie.

Answer 8

The Bible says God cannot lie. I guess that the other would be that he cannot be unjust.

Answer 9

The answer is nothing. He can do anything, however, there are things He decides not to do.

Answer 10

1) He cannot take rebirth on this earth ;
2) He cannot change the fortune of the person, he has written.

Answer 11

That is a very hard question. God can do anything.