Can god do anything?

Question

Matthew 19:26, Mark 10:27
With God all things are possible.

Luke 1:37
For with God nothing shall be impossible.

Luke 18:27
The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.

Revelation 19:6
The Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

but

Judges 1:19
And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

Mark 6:5
And he could there do no mighty work.

Hebrews 6:18
It was impossible for God to lie.




so, what to believe?

Answer 1

The question should be, 'Can God do anything, without screwing it up?'
The answer,
No!

Answer 2

God is very powerful, loving, and he created you.

Revelation 19:6
"Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roaring of rushing waters and like loud pearls of thunder, shouting:
Hallelujah!
For our Lord God almighty reigns."

Judges 1:19
"And the lord was with the men of Judah. They took possession of the hill country, but they were unable to drive the people from the plains, because they had iron chariots." God had a reason for allowing this not to happen.

Mark 6:5
" He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them."(Try reading mark 6:1-5 and you wil understand what Jesus is saying better. He is trying to get them to understand but they have lack of faith. You only picked out some of the sentence.)

Hebrews 6:5
"God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged."

You got most of the verses against god wrong.

Answer 3

GOD can do anything - except lie, which is a good thing - right?; in a place that despises him he has no power - to enter their hearts I see that; I have no idea why they wrote a limitation about iron.
So I can't help you either as I just believe, and am fine with my belief. I am no body that needs proof of a lot of things.

Answer 4

Judges - Speaking about Judah, not God.
Mark - "...except to lay hands on people and heal them."
Hebrews- Read the whole scripture, not just a part out of the middle.

You are taking parts of scripture out of context and trying to form an idea from half thoughts. Read the verse before and after every quoted verse to see just what or who is written about.

Answer 5

the only thing that God cannot do is act contrary to his own character and nature. for example, titus 1:2 states that he cannot lie. because he is holy he cannot sin. ecause God is holy, righteous and true, and he can don'thing inconsistent with himself, we come to the conclusion that God cannot sin. since holiness, righteousness, and God's other perfections are who God is, if God were to sin, he would cease to be God. the fact that God is "holy, holy, holy" prevents him from doing anything that is unholy, i.e. sinful..

God can do whatever is possible to be done. God cannot do what is not actually possible to be done, like creating a two-sided triangle. just because words can be strung together this way does not make the impossible possible - these things are contradictions, they are truly impossible in reality

Answer 6

Judges 1:19. God was with Judah but it was Judah doing the fighting, and not fully trusting God.

(Matthew Henry commentary - Blue Letter Bible):

The lot of Judah was pretty well cleared of the Canaanites, yet not thoroughly. Those that dwelt in the mountain (the mountains that were round about Jerusalem) were driven out (v. 9, 19), but those in the valley kept their ground against them, having chariots of iron, such as we read of, Jos. 17:16. Here the men of Judah failed, and thereby spoiled the influence which otherwise their example hitherto might have had on the rest of the tribes, who followed them in this instance of their cowardice, rather than in all the other instances of their courage. They had iron chariots, and therefore it was thought not safe to attack them: but had not Israel God on their side, whose chariots are thousands of angels (Ps. 68:17), before whom these iron chariots would be but as stubble to the fire? Had not God expressly promised by the oracle (v. 2) to give them success against the Canaanites in this very expedition, without excepting those that had iron chariots? Yet they suffered their fears to prevail against their faith, they could not trust God under any disadvantages, and therefore durst not face the iron chariots, but meanly withdrew their forces, when with one bold stroke they might have completed their victories; and it proved of pernicious consequence.

Mark 6:5
A couple verses earlier it says they were offended at Him (Christ). They rejected Him.

(Matthew Henry commentary - Blue Letter Bible):

V. Let us see how Christ bore this contempt.

1. He partly excused it, as a common thing, and what might be expected, though not reasonably or justly (v. 4); A prophet is not despised any where but in his own country. Some exceptions there may be to this rule; doubtless many have got over this prejudice, but ordinarily it holds good, that ministers are seldom so acceptable and successful in their own country as among strangers; familiarity in the younger years breeds a contempt, the advancement of one that was an inferior begets envy, and men will hardly set those among the guides of their souls whose fathers they were ready to set with the dogs of their flock; in such a case therefore it must not be thought hard, it is common treatment, it was Christ’s, and wisdom is profitable to direct to other soil.

2. He did some good among them, notwithstanding the slights they put upon him, for he is kind even to the evil and unthankful; He laid his hands upon a few sick folks, and healed them. Note, It is generous, and becoming the followers of Christ, to content themselves with the pleasure and satisfaction of doing good, though they be unjustly denied the praise of it.

3. Yet he could there do no such mighty works, at least not so many, as in other places, because of the unbelief that prevailed among the people, by reason of the prejudices which their leaders instilled into them against Christ, v. 5. It is a strange expression, as if unbelief tied the hands of omnipotence itself; he would have done as many miracles there as he had done elsewhere, but he could not, because people would not make application to him, nor sue for his favours; he could have wrought them, but they forfeited the honour of having them wrought for them. Note, By unbelief and contempt of Christ men stop the current of his favours to them, and put a bar in their own door.

Hebrews 6:18
Amen.

Answer 7

Praise be to God Who lies inside all hidden things, and towards Whom all open things guide. He cannot be seen by the eye of an onlooker, but the eye which does not see Him cannot deny Him while the mind that proves His existence cannot perceive Him. He is so high in sublimity that nothing can be more sublime than He, while in nearness, He is so near that no one can be nearer than He. But his sublimity does not put Him at a distance from anything of His creation, nor does His nearness bring them on equal level to Him. He has not informed (human) wit about the limits of His qualities. Nevertheless, He has not prevented it from securing essential knowledge of Him. So he is such that all signs of existence stand witness for Him till the denying mind also believes in Him. God is sublime beyond what is described by those who liken Him to things or those who deny Him.

Answer 8

Mark 6:5 was because of their unbelief. God cannot work in you because of your unbelief.

Judges 1:19 Unfaithfulness to God's covenant requirements resulted in Israel's inability to draw upon the full extent of His power.

Answer 9

Well, some of your are right about god not being able to cease to exist. As he would have to exist in the first place.

Answer 10

There are some things God CANNOT do:

1. Commit a sin
2. Cease to exist

etc.