Can GOD make a stone so heavy she cannot lift it?

Answer 1

What you are asking is ... if God is all powerful, can God create something impossible? If you want to look at the writing of St. Augustine and St. Thomas of Aquinas, you will find your question answered ... basically the answer is with God all things are possible and the impossible is not impossible for God. And God won't waste time with making things that are false.

There is a lot of theological speculation in the past 50 or so years with God as male and God as female.

Answer 2

Most philosophers would probably say that God could not do the logically impossible: make a round square, create a creature with free will while guaranteeing that this creature will never chose to do evil. Examples will take the form, "If this, then not this (or necessarily this). God cannot make 2 + 2 = 5 given a base 10 number system. If the questioner is imagining God traditionally, as the supreme being, then God could not create a stone she could not lift, because a God who could not lift a particular stone would be something less than the supreme being. (God cannot do the logically impossible.) God could make a stone and then choose not to lift it, but . . .

Answer 3

"The omnipotence paradox is actually a family of related paradoxes having to do with the question of what an omnipotent being can do, especially whether or not a being that is able to perform all actions can perform an action that would limit its own ability to perform actions. If the being can perform such actions, then it can limit its own ability to perform actions and hence it cannot perform all actions. If it cannot limit its own actions, then it could never have performed all actions.[2] This paradox is often formulated in terms of the God of the Abrahamic religions, though this is not a requirement. One version of omnipotence paradox is the so-called paradox of the stone: "Could an omnipotent being create a stone so heavy that even that being could not lift it?" If so, then it seems that the being could cease to be omnipotent; if not, it seems that the being was not omnipotent to begin with.[3]
Some philosophers, such as J. L Cowan, see this paradox as a reason to reject the possibility of any absolutely omnipotent entity.[4] Others, such as Thomas Aquinas, assert that the paradox arises from a misunderstanding of the concept of omnipotence.[5] The paradox can indeed be viewed as a straightforward logical impossibility, in that it frames an inability ("cannot lift it") as an attribute of total ability (omnipotence), rather than its absence or negation.
Still others, such as René Descartes, argue that God is absolutely omnipotent, despite the apparent problem.[6] In addition, some philosophers have considered the assumption that a being is either omnipotent or non-omnipotent to be a false dilemma, as it neglects the possibility of varying degrees of omnipotence.[7] Some modern approaches to the problem have involved semantic debates over whether language — and therefore philosophy — can meaningfully address the concept of omnipotence itself.[8]
To analyze the omnipotence paradox rigorously, a precise definition of omnipotence must be established. The common definition, "all powerful", is not specific enough to deal with the issues raised by the paradox. Several other versions of the paradox have been advanced besides the "heavy stone", which has problems with respect to modern physics."

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Answer 4

If by design, the stone that cannot be lifted, then it cannot be lifted. Can there be a round square? Nope. Because by design a circle can never be square.

Because God is all powerful there are some things He can't do. He can't make mistakes. He can't do any wrong. He can't be weak. Precisely because He is all powerful, he can't do some things.

Answer 5

Yes. The only thing God cannot do is go against God's own will/law. If it is God's will that the stone cannot be lifted, then even God cannot lift it.

Answer 6

This question cannot be answered because it is a paradox, which makes the question meaningless. The paradox comes from the assumption that 'God is omnipotent'. The only thing we can do to answer this question is to modify the original assumption to, let's say 'God is omnipotent within logical limits' or something in that vein. Of course, the theological answer is given as 'You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.'" (Matthew 4:5-7). A more comprehensive treatment of this problem is given at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipotence_paradox

Answer 7

No God cannot, and that only proves God's infinite power. God can take every element ever roll it into one and still lift it. This attempted paradox is flawed in that it tries to assess power by limiting it. How can an inability to do something be seen as power?

Answer 8

For those of you reading YES GOD is a She & He , masculine and femine. If you look in any religion there has always been a femine figure . If God or Goddess created something then they should beable to lift it.

Answer 9

God is abstract. A stone is concrete. That's kind of like asking, "Can love move mountains?"

Answer 10

Your question doesn't make sense to me? ? ?
I'm sure God could lift anything, but I don't know who GOD is or what "she" can lift.