If so, then He is not all-powerful. If not, then He is not all-powerful. What do you smart Christians think?
2006-12-28 15:52:14 · 11 answers · asked by a sock 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God is all-powerful within the limits of power.
2006-12-28 15:56:04 · answer #1 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Had God, the Glorious been constrained along with being omnipotent, then it would have been possible, but The Almighty Gods essence and attributes have no contrariety.
Just as, God is All Knowing and not ignorant; in the same way God is Omnipotent and not constrained or helpless.
It should be remembered that he whose ability has an extreme, due to the limit ness of its ability it can be a helpless and dependent creature(creation) but not the creator i.e. God.
Gods introduction i.e. Tauheed (Oneness of God) is that there is nothing like God and God, The All Capable is Omnipotent and The Absolute Creator.
Had God been such, so as to make a stone which Allah could not lift, God would have been considered as creation, rather than the creator and it would not have been valid to call God Omnipotent and The Absolute Creator.
But, praise belongs to God only our Lord has, by bringing everything into existence and creating this vast universe told us that our Lords capability has no limit due to which God can be casted as a dependent and helpless creation on any point.
God, ‘The Omnipotent’ is All Capable and with Gods All Capability God is sovereign over everything.”
GOD OUR LORD IS THE CREATOR OF WISDOM
AND NEEDS NOT TO BE A CLEVER GOD.
2006-12-29 01:25:11 · answer #2 · answered by knghts10 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a fairly classic paradox, though I greatly preffer the form, "Can Jesus make a burrito so hot even he can't eat it?".
But really, as a religous question, it doesn't have merit, as, yes, the concept of being all-powerful is contradictory in many ways, it could very well be relevant in our way of being. An all powerful being would likely be fully capable of stripping themselves of their powers, possibly temporarily, to make this possible. Physically, though, lifting a rock, isn't such a good example, as if a being was truly omnipotent, any rock they decided to create with the excess of their power, wouldn't be drawn by gravity to other things. As such, lifting the rock, unless they decided to change how gravity works, would be lifting everything away from the rock, rather than lifting the rock itself.
I'm sure any omnipotent being could of course create a pocket dimension in which they are both incapable of moving something, because within the rules of that existance, there would be no such thing as "lifting" and as such they would still be able to do everything, lifting said rock just becomes something that isn't, similar to how "not being" isn't in this existance.
After all, if something is truly and completely impossible in its every form, then it is excluded from the range of everything described in being able to do everything, as the concept of doing it doesn't exist. If he is all powerful, he could remove this possibility, and this concept, and make a universe in which motion wouldn't make sense, then he would be able to do everything, and yet not move something...
2006-12-29 00:01:25 · answer #3 · answered by yelxeH 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty simple really. If He couldn't lift it He would not be all-powerful, as you said. If He were not all-powerful He would not be God. Therefore this silly question is really asking if God can create a situation wherein He is not God. No. He can't, because by His very nature God is eternal and omnipresent. This has nothing to do with power. There are many things God cannot do because of His nature. He cannot learn, because by His very nature He is all-knowing. But His inability to learn is not due to lack of power, but to presence of perfection. Likewise His inability to cease being God.
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2006-12-29 00:07:01 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this a standard for power test.... Stupid!
God can not do many things as He cannot sleep, He cannot be unjust, He cannot tell a lie, He cannot throw you outside his territory. There are lot of things which God cannot do but this doesnt mean that God is not all powerfull...
God is the mightiest, most powerful, most merciful and most gracious.
2006-12-28 23:58:20 · answer #5 · answered by Proud Muslim 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He made a stone too heavy for Him to lift, so yeah.
You call it your heart. Strangely enough, only YOU have the power to lift it up to Him.
Too bad you won't.
2006-12-28 23:57:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny how you stole that from a recent answer.
And BTW: God can do what ever He wants!
2006-12-28 23:56:41 · answer #7 · answered by Lily P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you've already asked this question. God is Almighty!!
2006-12-28 23:57:39 · answer #8 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fish: but if he is confined to the limits of power than he is not omnipotent.
2006-12-28 23:57:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I swear i recall answering this question yesterday!
2006-12-28 23:55:00 · answer #10 · answered by Dee 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋