Can God crete a rock that is too heavy for him to lift?

Answer 1

Good question, and one I've never heard before. How'd you think of it?

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Answer 2

Who knows. God works in mysterious ways.
But why would he want to build a rock to heavy for him to lift?
I think he could. If he wanted to, I'm sure he would.
But. Then I think God could do something cooler like blast the rock into tiny pieces of sand. Or make the rock melt to a river of lava. Or shrink it to make it the smallest, most dense, heaviest penny in the world. (that's my creativity speaking there.)
Or then God could create arms that can lift things to heavy to lift, to lift it in a supernatural crazy ridiculous way...

Basically, if he can do anything, yeah it includes huge rocks to heavy to lift. But stretch the mind and see that there are ways around things besides picking things up to lift them.

Answer 3

Crete...isn't that a Greek Island??

Answer 4

Stop it with the stupid logical fallacies already.

That is a paradox. That's like adding infinity and infinity together.

The point is that God cannot do something that is a violation of His own existence and nature. Therefore, He cannot make a rock so big he can't pick up, or make something bigger than Himself, etc. But, not being able to do this does not mean He is not God nor that He is not omnipotent. Omnipotence is not the ability to do anything conceivable, but the ability to do anything consistent with His nature and consistent with His desire within the realm of His unlimited and universal power which we do not possess. This does not mean He can violate His own nature. If He did something inconsistent with His nature, then He would be self contradictory. If God were self contradictory, He would not be true. Likewise, if He did something that violated his nature, like make a rock so big He can't pick it up, He would also not be true since that would be a self contradiction. Since truth is not self contradictory, as neither is God, if He were not true, then He would not be God. But God is true and not self contradictory, therefore, God cannot do something that violates His own nature.
Another way to look at it is realize that in order for God to make something so big He couldn't pick it up, He would have to make a rock bigger than Himself. Since He is infinite in size, He would have to make something that would be bigger than Himself. Since it is His nature to be the biggest thing in existence because He created all things, He cannot violate His own nature by making a rock that is larger than He.
Also, since a rock, by definition, is not infinitely big, then it isn't logically possible to make a rock, something that is finite in size, be infinite in size (no longer a rock) since only God is infinite in size. At dictionary.com, a rock is defined as a "Relatively hard, naturally formed mineral or petrified matter; stone. a) A relatively small piece or fragment of such material. b) A relatively large body of such material, as a cliff or peak. c) A naturally formed aggregate of mineral matter constituting a significant part of the earth's crust." A rock, by definition is not infinitely large. So, to say that the rock must be so big that God cannot pick it up is to say that the rock is no longer a rock.

Answer 5

Well, yes. But as soon as he creates it, he can became as strong as necessary to lift it.

Maybe the Holy Spirit can gets of its lazy behind and help out too.

Answer 6

I'm taking a drink on behalf of the Christians for this one.

*drink*

Answer 7

no. there is nothing that GOD can create that would be to heavy for HIM to lift or move or anything else. GOD is all powerful and has all strenght

Answer 8

Look! It's the atheist version of Pascal's Wager...

I'll take one for the Christians, here...

*drink*

Answer 9

Yes then He'll crush it and carry the pieces

Answer 10

ah, the omnipotence paradox. love this question. the answer is no because there's no god to begin with.