Can God make something so massive that even He can't pick it up?

Question

I smell cranial smoke...

Sophie... Did god tell you this?

witeczek2002.. I hope you come back and reread your answer...

Mystine G... Fine Christian logic sent all the little jewish concentration camp babies to hell, while Hitler if he asked Jeesus to forgive him in his last minute, would go to heaven. GOOD ONE! YOU GO RATIONAL MAN!

(-_-) I agree. Reading and comprehension does not apply outside the bible.

Cinni.. Let's compromise and make violent Y!Love now, you can take over BobBob's world later.

Answer 1

I find it unusual that here the deists say that (a) god is logical, when everywhere else they say that we can't understand its motives for doing anything.

Anyways, here's the logic.

If a god creates something too heavy to be picked up, even by a god, then a god would be unable to pick it up, because the god is omnipotent and has therefore created something he can't pick up. If he is still able to pick it up, that means that he couldn't create a rock that satisfies the conditions.

Great job, people.

Answer 2

I'll assume you're referring to the Judo-Christian God. God is omnipotent, or all-powerful, so creating something that he himself could not lift would be contradictory to his nature.

HOWEVER, who says God is a physical being? And if he is not a physical being on the Earth, He is not limited by gravity or weight like we are. The question is irrelevant because God is outside of our human limitations.

But even if that wasn't the case, no, he could not, because he cannot contradict his nature.

Answer 3

This is a better question: how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

I'm going to go with 15.0869865 which, ironicly enough, is the amount of days left before I take over the world and deal with all you heathen devil Stooges.

Answer 4

No he could not. While this violates the basic idea of omnipotence, that is just a term applied to God nothing more. I think the idea of all-powerful is largely intact despite the paradoxical question.

Answer 5

Even if he existed, the answer would be no. An omnipotent being would be able to create and lift an object of any size. That isn't a limitation of his power unless you consider being unable to life something to be an ability, which it isn't.

Answer 6

NO! If He couldn't pick it up, He wouldn't be omnipotent, and therefore He wouldn't be God. So, what this inane question is actually asking is whether God can create a situation in which He is not God. Obviously, NO!

Answer 7

Do not expect a flamewar over a centuries-old paradox...
The answer is: Yes, God can make such a thing. and then He will pick it up. A paradox shall not limit God Almighty.

Answer 8

oh, man, lights up a ciggy, I was expecting more from you, man, I mean this one was kicked around so much its ribs are blue and bruised, man, I mean is BenGay ?
the smoke you feel, BTW the smoke you feel, is not coming from your cranium, combustion is impossible in a vacuum, man... it can be coming from my, though..
the answer to your question is a definite maybe.
if he could not make, man, he could not lift, man, I mean that much is obvious... if he makes he lifts and versa vice, man, and he already lifted everything, man... I was told this by Cinnamon buns, I mean she is like the Delphin of oracles, Pythia herself, her words speak of chaos theory, man, she does not make sense even if she does, man, ask her a question and see... she will like speak in various tongues, man, and hurl her underware... man... I mean she raises quarks in her backyard and feeds them to Schroedinger cats for supper, she is as ruthless and dull as Heisenberg's high school principal armed with an Occult razor, man... she unfurls her claws (to quote Penfold) and claps with one hand, man, anyhow, the major problem with your question is philosophical, man, and lies in the pharisees (damn!) phrase "pick up", man...
Herr Gott does not play lice (darn!) dice with the cranial macaca you have for a pet, as uncle Albert told us, the answer lies in staged radiation implosion and Monte Carlo theory, man... check it out.. Graff Zeppelin has long ago led us to those occlusions, man, get with the program...
anyhow I hope it helped, man
EDIT: Dr Finch, you go ahead, but take a bar of soap in case you catch sh!t... good luck fishing....

Answer 9

No, God would not make something so massive that He can't pick it up.
God is logical.
Now, man on the other hand...he very well might do something similar. In fact, he has.

Answer 10

Now get a load of bob bob, I think I'll go fishing till the air clears and is breathable.