Is god all powerful? You'd say Yes, so have a look at my question:
If I'd ask god weither he could make a rock that he couldn't lift, what would he answer? If yes, than he can make a rock that he can not lift, so that means his powers are limited, because he can not lift the rock.
If god answer No, than the answer is obvious => he can not make a rock that he can not lift, so he is not all powerful.
What does this contradiction mean? That an all powerful god can not exist? Yes.
Now I am wondered what kind of irrational answers I'm about to receive...
2007-07-24 05:47:44 · 14 answers · asked by CarpeDiem 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You can't draw a square circle. Does that mean artists can't exist?
2007-07-24 05:53:46 · answer #1 · answered by ptbc 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, i'll try not to give you an irational answer, haha.
ehm, you're point is in fact true. there is no being as an all powerfull creature.
Human brain has a need for religion, and thus created a higher being to explain natures behavior.
but as man evolved, he didn't worshipped nature anymore, he created a human like, fictional, God. an because there is no real God, he can't be all powerfull.
It's not bad to believe in somehting, wether it is in sience, or in a godlike creature, as long as you don't forget to reason things out. We are, after all, nothing more than animals, evolved into modern man. and it is normal that we can't comprehend everything, because nature is far ahead of us, but we can open our minds, and descover how things work. I can't understand why people want to close their eyes, and believe that something created it all. How can you rely on it, how can you wake up, and believe that all this beauty is a creation of a dominant creature, which gives you irational rules.
regards..
and for those who keep blessing me all the time, please stop with it, God damned America, because it was you silly religion that destroyed the pre-colombian culture and sickened the world by thirst for power.
2007-07-24 19:55:43 · answer #2 · answered by Kikkertje 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do not believe in god either, yet, i can conceive of god, especially the one you are referencing.
Her is the deal. You think your intellect encompasses all known things. that there is nothing that can exceed the grasp of consciousness and reason.
I propose to you that there are things / places your mind cannot comprehend or know. For instance. Explaining color to a blind person who has never seen. Their world is very "concrete".
Similarly, there are realms and dynamics that exceed the function of the mind. Your instance of logical incongruity can reasonably be transcended, but not logic as logic fails to exerience the reality where god can be all powerful and create a rock it can't lift and remain all powerful.
Now whether or not the mind can experiance that reality is another question. Having had perceptual experiences that escaped the grasp of intellect and logic i can substantiate the idea of experiences and actualities existing that exceed our abilities to "understand" given the context and structure of our minds. Perhaps you have or will as well.
What I find most encouraging about this is that while i enjoy and hold my self accountable to reason and logic, that there is more out there and someday i hope to encounter it again. It realy is too cool to be engulfed by mystery.
2007-07-24 06:12:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If he were to make a rock he couldn't lift he'd crush it and carry the pieces
2007-07-24 05:52:56 · answer #4 · answered by Gods child 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God. Doesn't. Play. With. Rocks.
If he made a big rock, maybe you could lift it...
2007-07-24 05:50:36 · answer #5 · answered by Maus 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
GOD holding the whole earth rock,s and all
2007-07-24 05:53:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why does it matter so much that God make a rock? I guess I don't completly understand your question, can you please use another example.
And why are you assuming that you will get irrational answers?
2007-07-24 05:51:29 · answer #7 · answered by Summer B 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If a computer keyboard was punched to type a silly question on Yahoo answers.
and you were not there, to hear it.
Did the keyboard make a noise????????
2007-07-24 05:55:26 · answer #8 · answered by john 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They respond with, "God can do all logical things within his nature." But this is true of any being so I wonder why we still call God omnipotent..
2007-07-24 05:51:08 · answer #9 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think you might be mixing the discussion of Spirit with matter. Spiritually speaking matter doesn't matter.
2007-07-24 05:53:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋