Can God exist and not exist at the same time?

Question

If God is all-powerful, then there is nothing he can't do.
If there is nothing he can't do, then isn't it true that the answer to the question "can God exist and not exist at the same time?" must be "yes?"

In addition, isn't an omnipotent God perfectly capable of existing in an infinite number of forms, and no form at all, at the same time?

I'm not asking if he ACTUALLY does this. I'm asking if he could if he wanted to.

Please identify your religion, or other designation, in your answer.

For those of you who said "no" (particularly the one who said it's a silly question) -- if the answer is no, then isn't God, as a result, no longer "all powerful"? Isn't he then just "almost all powerful?" After all, we found something that he can't do.

As for the Zen master hitting me over the head and saying "Mu!" Why? I was only asking if God "could" do it. Can he or can't he? I think it's okay to say no, it would just necessarily follow, however, that God is not all-powerful, since there's something he could not do.

As for the "Christ follower" - that's just great. But what I said was not "unChristian." I asked if God COULD do that. I didn't ask if he ACTUALLY, in fact, both existed and didn't exist. If God is all powerful, then can't he do ANYTHING?

I like the answer "Schroedinger's God" -- that's exactly where I was going with this. It's a quantum God!

Oh, as for the "don't waste your time thinking about it, you have to make up your own damn mind" comment...... I don't know about you, but I can only make up my mind by thinking about something.

If the deity could not create a circle with four straight lines, then isn't he something less than omnipotent? Look, God created the whole universe. Circles and squares did not exist before he made them the way they are. If he wanted to make circles have four square lines he could very well have done that, right? So if he could have created the laws/rules of the universe differently at the time, why can't he do so now?

Justsyd -- you missed it. I did not say that he did, in fact, both exist and not exist at the same time. I asked if he was "capable" of doing that. See the difference? And, you asked "how" he could both exist and not exist at the same time? By exiting the universe. As God, the creater of the universe, surely he is not subject to the laws of physics that he himself created, correct? So, he could just leave and disappear, choosing to pop back into existence at some other time. Can't he? Is he not all powerful? (and I'm NOT bashing God or Christianity by saying this -- I find it is more of a reason to believe in a God that has this kind of power -- it makes no sense to me for God to have limitations)

Truthsayer.... you thought my question was the "most dumbest""? Hello pot, this is kettle...... anyway, you didn't answer the question, which is surprising considerig you claim to know what your talking about when it comes to the Lord.

Dodo -- you answered a question that I did not pose.

Answer 1

Schroedingers God?

Answer 2

those questions are complicated to respond to because we stay in a universe the position each and every thing is reason and result and we haven't any way of proving this stuff and may want to in elementary words use our restricted information of our personal universe and good judgment to attempt to go back up with an answer. the tremendous Bang theory is widely used by technique of maximum scientists and this theory says that the universe got here into lifestyles at a particular aspect of time. So the universe we stay in isn't everlasting so shall we wish some outdoors pressure. The essence of God is that he's undying, area a lot less, and immaterial. because God is undying he has no starting up and has no end. He has continuously existed and could continuously exist. with the objective to make experience of this you've to assert that both the universe or God is the uncaused, first reason. the tremendous bang theory says that our universe got here into lifestyles at a particular aspect so God is the uncaused, first reason. we are able to not answer those questions even as we are alive so we are able to parent out later on.

Answer 3

This has got to be the most dumbest question I have ever read.

Dare I ask,where in the world do you people come up with such foolish stuff to ask about God and what makes you think that you are going to get an intelligent answer from anyone on YA?

I'm willing to bet that the person that you give the 10pts. to for answering this question don't know anything about God then they do about anyone else except what they want to believe and if you give me the 10pts. then I know that you are just wanting to insult me because of what I have said here and unlike these irreligious thugs that you cater to and that cheers you on here at YA,I know what I'm talking about when I talk about the Lord.

Answer 4

If you assume a being exists beyond the confines of human logical, temporal, and spatial constraints then yes. This question then really becomes a question of what it is to exist. Of course an all powerful God would not be beholden to human limitations.

Don't waste your time thinking about it, it's rather unimportant. As they say, you have to make up your own damn mind.

Answer 5

The answer is yes, of course. He/She already is. You have all kinds of gods existing in peoples minds all the while atheists believe in none. Both are believed throughout the world so both exist.

I am an agnostic. I do not believe in any formal religion. What we do know, is we come from earth. That this planet has given us life. We cannot prove or disprove of any god or gods.

Answer 6

God the Almighty just exists, and only exists. He was always there and will always be there. The concept of infinity is something we humans can not grasp, especially since we believe all things have a beginning. Yet God has no beginning. Interesting, no?

Answer 7

You're stating your own facts and conclusions and asking for us to agree with you. How does something exist and not exist at the same time? By matter of opinion. Even if you say that He exists and doesn't exist at the same time, it's still your version of the truth - Buddhist.

Answer 8

No. Just as a deity could not create a circle with four straight sides.

Answer 9

Please read my words carefully:
If you see footmark in the sand, you'll say that someone passed from here...
If you see a piece of dog sh*t on the ground, you'll say that a dog passed from here...
So what about the enormous universe, the sky, stars, planets, earth and all the beauty in it, doesn't it lead to that someone made it?!!!

Some people say that everything is created by itself after the big-bang... I won't ask you about what caused the big-bang, but I'll ask you a simple question:
If you take all the letters of the alphabet, multiples of them, and you threw them randomly on the floor. Do you expect (by a chance of one in infinity) to get a poem like shakespear's??!!

Can't you see how organized our universe is, the planets, the eco-system on earth, look even in your own body... Can you control your heart-beat? Can you control your breath while you're sleeping? Who stopped your eye-lashes from growing after reaching a certain length? Who told the baby turtles to move towards the sea and not to the earth after they come out of their eggs? Who taught the bird how to make nests?

My friend, think with your heart and brain. If you're still lost, think about the following:

Do you know how to play safe?
Your point:
If there's no God and you do all what you want in life, then nothing will happen to you after life. But if there was God and you were mistaken, then you'll blame yourself FOREVER...

Believer's point:
If there's God and I followed His commands in life, then I'll be in Heaven after life FOREVER. But if there was no God and we're mistaken, then nothing bad will happen to us after life...

Now you know how to play-safe, in case you're not convinced?

Answer 10

This is an example of where a Zen master would hit you over the head with a stick and say 'Mu!'.