God doesn't exist.?

Question

If God is all powerful, he should be able to create a stone too heavy for himself to lift. YET... if he cannot lift this stone, he is not all powerful.. YET if he cannot create this stone, he is not all powerful... etc. Discuss.

Answer 1

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 2

This one's been overdone horribly.

All-powerful is overinterpreted by non-Christians to mean 'capable of all things', which is an incorrect definition. All-powerful also includes a concept of the nature of things... that God could not, if he existed (which he doesn't), create a circle with four equal and straight sides and no curves -- this is the nature of a square, not a circle.

I'm an atheist and even I grasp this concept. You're gonna have to do better to defeat the jesus-crispies.

Answer 3

you are implying that God is a seperate, powerful being. This is a common concept of God, but that is all it is--a concept. There are other God concepts as well-for example, that God is All That Is--not seperate, not apart from anything! All creation comes from God and is God, because the only thing God has to create things from is God. Therefore, God is ever creating, ever evolving, intimately connected with everything.

Answer 4

Using stones is a strange analogy.He does create every thing and is probably made of energy and cares less about lifting stones.He does so much more and you should leave him be

Answer 5

(sigh)

I just discussed this one. But let's do it again...

So, you say, "If God is all powerful, he should be able to create a stone too heavy for himself to lift."

Sorry, you just disqualified yourself, by self-contradiction.
You said that if God can do anything, there must be something He can't do (as in lift your rock).
But you had just said He *could* by giving as your premise, your "given", (as you said, "If"), that He could do anything.

So basically, God exists more than you do. :)
QED

Barjesse37

Answer 6

Ooh! Word play!!

1) Creation by God the most wonderful thing that has ever happened.

2) The greater the handicap of a creator is, the more incredible his work is.

3) The greatest handicap would to be non-existent.

4) Because God's creation is the most incredible/miraculous/wonderful, God himself is non-existent!

Answer 7

To suggest that God can bring something into creation that is beyond his control is really underestimating him. Anything God can bring into existence, he has authority over. There is nothing he cant create that he cant control.

That scenario depends upon the philosophical assumption that if God cannot create something out of his control makes him less then omniscient and I think that assumption is quite stupid.

Answer 8

Argue with yourself. If you don't begin to become a Christian then you are the one who might miss out. NOT ME.

Study these scriptures and see what you think. To become a Christian:
1. We must HEAR GOD’s WORD. - Romans 10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
2. We are told to BELIEVE. - To the Prison guard in Acts 16:31 Paul and Silas said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household."
3. We must REPENT (turn from) of our sins. - Acts 17:30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.
4. We are told to CONFESS CHRIST before men. - Matthew 10:32 "Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.
5. We are to enter the waters and BE BAPTIZED. - Mark 16:16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
6. We are told to CONTINUE TO BE FAITHFUL until death. - Revelation 2:10b Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Send me a note if you have questions. I am anxious to hear from you. Have a Great day.
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Answer 9

What you have here is not a question about what God can or cannot do, but a mangled bit of logic, which presents two mutually exclusive possibilities.

This is not at all a theological argument, just sloppy thinking.

Answer 10

This is an old question. The truth is, god couldent be truly omnipotent but most christians realise that.

Sorry bud, but i dont think you'll be converting anyone to athiesim today.