2007-01-03 05:56:15 · 11 answers · asked by deancoy@sbcglobal.net 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Can god make a rock so big he can't pick it up?
2007-01-03 05:57:16 · answer #1 · answered by superfunkmasta 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Can Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that He Himself can't eat it?
Seriously though...lol...first off, one of the classic definitions of God is that He is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. So to say that "God cannot be in the presence of sin" is a contradiction in terms. In fact, not only is He present, being inherent in all things at all times (omnipresent), but He has known that the sin would be committed from all Eternity (omniscience), and He explicitly authorizes it and participates in it (omnipotence)!
This is the great pitfall of Christian theology - "How can a beneficient God create a world in which evil exists?" All the rambling on about "rebel angels" and "free will" is in direct contradiction to the original idea of God as all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere at once. And there is no arguing out of it. All you can hope to do is bewilder people with theology to the point that they don't care anymore, and blindly accept the traditional self-contradictory explanation on "faith."
2007-01-03 13:57:55 · answer #2 · answered by jonjon418 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You ask the question as if it were a locative. That is the problem. Evil is glorifying anything other that God in act or in thought. God does everything in act and in thought for His glory, yes even what we label "evil". But evil comes from man's thoughts and acts not God's even in the same circumstance, this is called concurrence. And in view of God's reality, He does all things according to HIS intentions, thus no evil anywhere.
2007-01-03 14:23:19 · answer #3 · answered by ἡ ἐκλογὴ 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, great question you ask here. Many have pondered on this one for many years. Its very easy!
Christ came to save the world, not to condemn the world. With His sacrifice on the cross, the passage comes to life where it says "...God can't look upon sin, for His eyes are too pure....', with the death of Jesus upon the cross, God the Father can look upon us "sinners saved by grace" through the eyes of His beloved Son, Jesus.
If you do not have Jesus in your heart, therefore have God the Father and the Holy Spirit; you are not seen by God....period. For you are still in sin. If you are saved by grace, you are seen by the Father through the eyes of His Son.
To answer your question, God knows everything that has happened, happening now, and will happen.
Why then does God not stop this or that from happening? You will have to ask God that question... but my opinion... all things must happen in order for all truth to be revealed.
2007-01-03 14:03:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sin has no place in the presence of GOD.
GOD is in heaven above. Not on the earth below.
What watches over us here it is his holly spirit!!! as promised.
2007-01-03 14:12:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The angels report to Him.
2007-01-03 13:57:55 · answer #6 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Speaking for myself, I detest violence, but I watch the News everyday. I often cry.
2007-01-03 13:59:47 · answer #7 · answered by Lukusmcain// 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That sounds like a trick question.
2007-01-03 13:59:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If God is so powerful, can he turn himself inside-out?
2007-01-03 13:58:32 · answer #9 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Um... god is nonexistent, that's why no one see's anything cool. Everything weird that happens is explainable by science.
2007-01-03 13:58:22 · answer #10 · answered by Cold Fart 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋