can he create something he can't do? and if he can't because he can do anything, that's something he can't do, right?
2007-05-07 09:32:14 · 10 answers · asked by rt1290 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
WRONG! God cannot do anything. The limitation is found in the passage, "What is impossible for man, is possible for God." Period. We, meaning our limitation, is the boundary.
Remember, God cannot stop being God. God cannot contradict is own word. (I am not a man who can lie.) God cannnot become finite. etc.
Thus, creation must be these things for God. For this reason we were created, to be everything that God cannot be. God is having the experience of infinity. That means anything that can happen can happen.
2007-05-07 09:37:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The way to tackle this logic problem is to take God out of it. Because when you mention God, most people throw logic out the window.
So, someone can do anything, including creating something he can't do, or can't he do that, but then it's something he can't do.
The way to look at this is to analyze the absolutes used in the question. "Can do anything" and "can't be done". Neither is ever an actual absolute, so the problem is all in the words.
2007-05-07 16:41:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to classical Christian theology, God cannot do anything, he is limited by his own nature. This means that God cannot become something other than who he is, God cannot act against his essential nature to become evil, or create a reality that is equal to himself.
The understanding that God can do anything, in other words, that his will overshadows or can overcome his nature, is called "voluntarism." This is a theological movement that sought to preserve the sovereignty of God's will, but had the unfortunate result of rendering God to be capricious and untrustworthy.
2007-05-07 17:28:13 · answer #3 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"God" doesn't create obsticals for his entertainment pleasure. He creates life. Plain and simple. He's subject to the laws of the universe, he can create and he can destroy. Action/Cause - Effect/Consequence. The only thing that separates him from us is that he is perfect in his creations and perfect in his actions. He doesn't create something by mistake. And his actions are pure and calculated.
Then again, this all depends on who or what God is to you.
I guess I really have my own beliefs all together. I've done a lot of research on many different religions and taken from each one the values that I thought were important to living a good life, which mostly, are common sense values coupled with common sense morals. I don't go to church, nor do I feel it's an imperative step in order to appreciate life or all that is available to us. I don't feel its important to worship anyone or anything, because where I do believe that God is all knowing, I don't believe that he wants us to grovel at his feet. I think it's more that he wants to see what we're able to accomplish here, and what choices we make without being subject to any specific laws of the universe, as he is. I don't believe God has freedom of choice. I believe he can only create. But he is so perfect that his creations are never in vane and are never flawed. They are never made with malice. They are simply made to keep all his other creations in check and in balance.
So I guess in short, the answer is no. God couldn't create something he couldn't do. Not because he's imperfect. But because he is absolute perfection. He doesn't create for himself. He doesn't create for us. He creates to fill the void of nothingness. He creates beauty. He creates life. Nothing more. Nothing less.
2007-05-07 17:09:53 · answer #4 · answered by Randi 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Doesn't it go: If there was a being that was all-powerful and could anything, could it create a door that even it couldn't open?
And the answer is yes, it could.
If it can do anything, then of course it can make a door that can't be opened, by even it.
2007-05-07 16:44:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is not a puzzle. It's just word play. I like word play. But I'd have to say that God isn't necessarily a "he" or a "she" and the question is an example of personification.
2007-05-07 16:52:47 · answer #6 · answered by Stephen M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes he did....he created "the man with a free will" and he ordered himself not to control it....
he cannot interfere with this answer for example
good day
2007-05-07 18:40:53 · answer #7 · answered by PLUTO 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A paradox, eh? Even mythological beings have their limitations...
2007-05-07 16:39:47 · answer #8 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it's nice that your thinking about God....
2007-05-07 16:37:43 · answer #9 · answered by David 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
why would he want to, answer that
2007-05-07 17:00:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋