2007-03-03 10:56:57 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No question is ever stupid.
And paradoxes and puzzles and questions and tests all serve the same purpose; to determine to others what something or someone is or is not.
In other words, the question you are truly asking is "What are the limitations of 'God'? If man has limits, does God have limits?"
The answer is thus: God has limits but not necessarily the same limits as man. For God, 2+2=4 because the ideas represented are universal (2 angels plus 2 angels = 4 angels, 2 particles of etheric force plus 2 particles of etheric force = 4 particles of etheric force) but because man has limitations specific to the realm which he inhabits, 'God' (or at least the entity called God) does not have those limitations so God can 'transgress' those limitations.
However, while it is true that God cannot make a stone God can't lift, it is also true that God can make a stone God won't lift, within a certain set period of time that is.
Some answers are only knowable (by thus I mean understandable) after a certain amount of time or experience has passed, since some answers are understood only after others have been grasped and accepted (how can you learn calculus if you can't multiply 2x4?)
The deeper you go, the more complex the answers get.
2007-03-03 11:57:00 · answer #1 · answered by Khnopff71 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is not a paradox at all, it is a made up question that is used in semantics called a double bind. It is that same as asking a man "have you stopped beating your wife?"
Peace and Blessings,
Imam Salim
2007-03-03 19:21:21 · answer #2 · answered by إمام سليم چشتي 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He can do that, but then he wouldn't be able to move the stone. Or else he can't make a stone like that. So he's not allpowerful. Big whoop, known it for years, cause HE DOES NOT EXIST! At least, like Christianity describes him.
2007-03-03 19:02:37 · answer #3 · answered by Jedi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a religious problem, it's a logic and semantics problem.
If that's not good enough, then I'd tell you God is powerful enough to know where to put the rock in the first place.
2007-03-03 19:01:14 · answer #4 · answered by Mr. Bad Day 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oye................... I want to kill myself that is so old. Same with the "Can God make a square circle"
God cant make something greater than him, since you cannot make something greater than Infinite. Infinity + 1 is the exact same number you began with: Infinite. You cannot have something greater than it.
And for a square circle............... How much power would you need to make a square circle? The answer is that it doesn't matter how much power you have, it is simply an impossibility to make a square circle. All the power conceivable couldn't do it simply because it is illogical.
2007-03-03 19:03:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure he could do it without being stuck in a paradox.
2007-03-03 19:02:58 · answer #6 · answered by woooof ! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god dosnt lift stones
he moves minds
universes at will
this has been answered a thousand times
a simple question for simple minds
2007-03-03 19:02:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Firstly, the word for excess is too NOT to!
Secondly God can move mountains, so nothing is too big for Him to lift.
Thirdly, define BIG!
2007-03-03 19:01:24 · answer #8 · answered by Modern Major General 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Could God create a Christian SOOO delusional, that even HE would be appalled to be "worshipped" by them?
2007-03-03 19:01:56 · answer #9 · answered by Loathe thy neighbor. 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Please! Let's go to phase 2. Could a God almighty create a God Almighty?
2007-03-03 19:01:35 · answer #10 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋