will anyone else try? If god is omnipotent and eternal could he commit suicide?

Question

qualifications: there really are none, however it seems there is a lack of understanding of the english language prevalent among the very ones who speak it. so for those who cannot read carefully and understand: 1) the question IS valid as written, it presupposes nothing.
2) it is NOT a paradox, conundrum, unanswerable riddle, catch-22, relevant syllogism or play on words.
3) it IS philosophical in nature, much more so than waxing on the ratio of fire to earth in the human spirit, or the merits of anarchy and nihilism.
4)it is NOT the 2500 repeat of the question this year, but the first posing (i scanned all 292 related entries at the time of this writing and only 2 others were even vaguely similar, and that was conceptually (one by wesley2711 and the other by muckracker in the form of hot burritos))
5)I certainly recognize the inherent difficulties in dealing with concepts related to infinity and all resultant derivations thereof, (and usually the inherent futility as well!)

Answer 1

hmmm....short answer : yes

since you say god is omnipotent (having unlimited or universal power or force; all-powerful), yes he can commit suicide.

as you say god is eternal (without beginning or end; lasting forever; always existing), he will exist regardless of whether he commit suicide or not.

Answer 2

hmmm...god?...God?...what do you mean by this? You state there are no presuppositions, so lets try to figure out what you mean.

Surely it can not be the Judea-christian God, for that presupposes a lot. You must also not mean god by any other religion found on this world. You must understand god as the infinite experience. For one, you admit this under your 5th qualification; and two, it is the only applicable definition with no presuppositions.

The conditions you give to god are eternal and omnipotent. To the best of my knowledge, I know nothing that has these qualities. Do you know of anything that is eternal? omnipotent? You surely do not. If you do, it would require faith.

So, god is that which can not be explained through reason. Thus, any answer to your question will not be philosophical in nature, but rather theological speculation.

To paraphrase Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason: using pure reason, one can not prove the existence of God, nor the non-existence of God. Nor can we authentically discuss suicide within god.

Thus, the only possible answer is.....we can not know.

Any other formulation would require assumptions, vague definitions, and inadequate use of the English language.

Answer 3

I suppose he couldn't because as it seems God is immortal, but even if he did the ideas are that maybe the world would decay or someone else would take up God's place, and maybe it's already happened, which could place a religious reason for the major exacerbations in the world. I think this could be somehow interlinked with the ideas on the Apocalypse and Armageddon, etc. as in either God would inevitably win any kind of war or he would come to committing suicide anyway.

Answer 4

This question is litterally nonsense. As Wittgenstein has stated in his Treatise upon the logical philosophy "Of that which cannot be spoken of, I must remain silent." Anything conceivable is relative to the finite world. An all-powerful, eternal God could not be conceived of let alone would foolish people be able to place human-all-too human limitations upon it, death is but a relative illusion, it is apparent change.

Answer 5

think of approximately it. To devote suicide, as according to the definition on planet earth, you'll be alive, additionally as according to the definition on earth. Are you asserting that God is beneficial by utilising the existence and loss of life technique ? If God is all-powerful and eternal, as you're saying, then God could be above existence and loss of life. for my section, God is regardless of guided the formation of the universe, and each thing in, and previous, it:Nature. God did no longer create policies of habit for human beings. God in simple terms created cohesion interior the cosmos.

Answer 6

He could if he didnt know himself as God at the time. Lets just say he thought he was only human, and was completely identified with his human ephemeral nature. If he was so immersed in this illusion, he could most definitely kill and commit suicide to that particular form of himself, but he would not die, for he is eternal.

Answer 7

Your question presupposes that God’s existence is a contingent existence such as ours. For example, we need our brains in order to stay alive. Thus, we have the option of blowing our heads off and ceasing to exist. But if God exists, by definition, He must not rely on anything to stay in existence. Ergo, if God exists He cannot cease to exist by committing suicide.

God’s inability to commit suicide does not contradict His omnipotent status any more than our inability to think two thoughts simultaneously contradicts our “wise” status as homo sapiens. Likewise, the inability of fish to fly or birds to swim is no indictment of their prowess. In short, you confuse the nature of God with His omni potency when conflate His inability to contradict His nature with some defect in His power. – Albert Cipriani the Traditional Catholic

Answer 8

God can't die, by suicide or other means (except, as Nietzsche said) by the empirical world view. It isn't because he lacks the power to do. It's because the attributes "alive" and "dead" are nonsensical when applied to an aspatial, atemporal, and immaterial "being."

Somewhat related to this ... it's worth noting that anyone who believes in an afterlife does not believe that s/he will die.

Answer 9

Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm not trying to be a smart-butt. It seems you answered your own question. God could not be eternal if he could committed suicide, because he would cease to exist and therefore not be eternal. And he couldn't be omnipotent (all powerful) if something could kill him.

Answer 10

no he couldn't suicide is something that could only be done by the living, you might as well be asking if a fully aware of itself ghost, could the ghost kill itself, however, it would probably be in his power to cast himself into the living, and then kill himself, this in itself is a paradox in my beliefs simply b/c those people that kill him or herself do not go into heaven, and how could a living being that is god, that commited suicide, not go to heaven?!?! it is a very interesting thought