Is there something God cannot do?

Answer 1

If you believe there is something god (at least as presented by the religions of the book) cannot do - even sin - then you erase the possibility of god by acknowlwedging he is not all powerful.

If god has limits imposed upon his power he is not omnipotent and therefore is not god. Because the question immediately becomes "what limits god's power?" What is more powerful than god that it can impose limits on god's field of action?

Answer 2

No, there is nothing God cannot do. God may not choose to do a lot of things. he gave us all free will and that means we are capable of doing good or evil as we choose. That is my opinion. Not everything we ask God would be good for us or the world and since Adam and Eve were given paradise and were told to not eat of the fruit of life and they disobeyed and ate from it , we have been at the mercy of that knowledge. God supplied us with all we would ever need or want on this earth but because of knowledge we also have greed and many other negative feelings and that has made the wealth and abundance of the earth a commodity which is wanted by those that put their faith in things, money and possessions and has caused the earth to become unbalanced. The few have the most and the many have the least. So, the plan of God to let us live in paradise was destroyed because of disobedience and all that came with it. That also is my opinion.

Answer 3

God cannot disobey his own Law (as in Leviticus and Deuteronomy) which he made up on the basis of what he thought was best for the man (and the woman) he created. When one's own moral code is in confilt with God's divine Law there will inevitably be confusion and chaos in some or all aspects of the person's life. However, it can be worked out. God wrestled with Jacob. It's ok and in fact good to wrestle with God at times.

Answer 4

You know whats funny about this question. If God can do everything, then there is nothing God can do. So basically it's impossible for God to not do anything! If it's impossible for God to not do anything, than that is something God can't do lol......confused?

Answer 5

God cannot rid mankind of evil. Past works have shown that when humans have gotten too corrupt, God wipes them out, like the flood in the story of Noah's Ark. This shows that God cannot rid mankind of all of its evils.

Answer 6

God cannot impinge on our free will. Though this is a choice on his part, he cannot impinge upon our free will without becoming evil himself, and since God loves good and cannot be anything else, it stands to reason.

However, quetsions about boulders bigger than He can lift, and whatnot all seem to try to antrhopomorphize God, and to place human limits on his abilities and ways of dealing with situations.

Answer 7

He can't force anyone to believe in Him if they don't want to. He leaves that up to people's common sense. Look around you at the perfection of nature and you must understand that it didn't just happen on its own. If I drop my cellphone and it shatters into pieces and I put all the pieces into a box and leave them there for billions of years, would the pieces go back together by themselves? Everything you need to make a cellphone is in the box, but something has to put them together just right. Why then would anyone believe that the universe in all its complexity just came together by itself?

Answer 8

He can't destroy himself because in doing so he would destroy his power and his almightyness (???) and would no longer exist. At the same time, he should be able to do everything because he's almighty... When he destroys himself he should be able to exist again if that is his will, but he already destroyed himself with all his might so... This is obviously a paradox.

Answer 9

God cannot create a rock that is too heavy for him to lift, because then he wouldn't be able to lift the rock, so the whole "He can do anything" is irrevalent. Ha!

Answer 10

Prevent religious intolerance