Would He have to wait for it to cool down or could He just conjure a very localized snow storm above the coffee cup? If the answer is no, then does that mean He can't brew coffee very well, or that no coffee could burn His tongue, no matter how hot? Help please!
2007-08-10 09:03:37 · 17 answers · asked by TubThumpin 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Could God make a crack rock so big, even he could not smoke it?
2007-08-10 09:17:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I fear those Christians out there who think your question is idiotic have simply failed to spot that you have just asked a question as profound as the Mysteries of the Holy Trinity, the Problem of Evil, and the nature of Free Will, all of which have kept theologians busy for about 2000 years.
How can the 3 persons of the Trinity be exactly the same Being, the One True God, yet simutaneously be 3 completely different Beings? Answer: It's a Mystery (with a capital M, which apparently solves the problem). Or perhaps it was a Mystery, until shrinks discovered Multiple Personality Disorder.
Why does an all-powerful perfectly good God allow Evil to happen in the world? Answer: he has to allow us Free Will. Presumably insurance company small print should stop blasphemously calling earthquakes Acts-Of-God and start calling them Acts-Of-Human-Free-Will.
How can your Will be said to be Free if an omniscient God already knows with absolute certainty what choices your Will is going to make? (Don't ask me. I'm sure your nearest theologian knows the answer, but I neither know nor care).
Now to your Cup Of Coffee. Accepting Christian assurances that Jesus is an all-powerful God, I suspect the answer is pretty self-evident: Jesus can both brew and indeed drink a cup too hot for him to be able to drink, but the way this apparent contradiction is resolved is a Mystery too profound to be understood by our foolish and presumptuous minds, especially those of us unbelievers.
Of course an alternative answer was suggested by Saint Thomas Aquinas who claimed that Omnipotence did not require God to be able to do things that were logically self-contradictory, and specifically that God could not create a triangle whose internal angles exceeded 180 degrees. In Broca's Brain, Carl Sagan said that was strange, because he had no difficulty producing such a triangle (on a curved surface). I might add that real world triangles can (almost?) never have exactly 180 degrees, because of imperfections, quantum uncertainties, and so on. But I suspect both Sagan and Aquinas were cheating, Sagan by changing the rules after the game had been played (in this case by changing the meaning of the word 'triangle'), and Aquinas because much of his writing makes me suspect that he was an unbeliever just pretending to be a Christian to avoid getting himself and his books pointessly burnt at the stake, though I can't be entirely sure of this (and life is too short for me to waste it trying to find out). For instance, his Five Proofs of the Existence of God sounds very Christian, but starts off by pointing out that it is impossible to persuade an unbeliever who refuses to make any initial concessions whatsoever, which can well be read as 'never concede anything to the crazy loonies or you're doomed'. There are other examples.
My own favourite Mystery is: How can an all-powerful perfectly good God inflict or permit people to suffer eternal agony in Hell? But I've already discussed that at length elsewhere, and Yahoo's freedom-loving moderators deleted my last attempt to discuss it here, so if you're interested then you'll just have to look it up at this link: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christianity_As_Unwitting_DevilWorship
2007-08-10 10:25:03 · answer #2 · answered by tlhslobus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is perfect. Jesus stopped the sea with the power invested in him by god. So if God told jesus to make a cup of coffee so hot he couldn't drink it he would since he is an image of perfection. Then if god told him to make a snow storm he would. If he didnt that simply means that he wasnt comanded to by god. I'm sure that the perfect man could make a perfect cup of coffee.
2007-08-10 09:34:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus could in fact create a cup of coffee that is hotter than any sun, and could in fact drink that coffee due to the fact that he could Resurrect himself after burning himself to death with infinitely hot coffee.
2007-08-10 09:11:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. 'God' is omnipotent, he could make the coffee any temperature he wished. However, there would be nothing he could not drink, either. The coffee would probably evaporate before God could not drink it... Unless God changed the laws of physics... Which obviously he could. The answer though, is 'No'. Now: does God exist?
2016-05-19 01:03:36 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tubthumpin, your question runs contrary to the Savior's teachings about hot drinks. He does not drink coffee or tea as attested in Section 89 of the Doctrine and Covenants.
I fail to understand the urgency of this question. I see it as ten points you've donated for nothing.
2007-08-10 09:38:40 · answer #6 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you are a comedy writer, find another job. The concept of spirituality is simply complex. The problem you present here is one of essence.
2007-08-10 09:19:54 · answer #7 · answered by art a 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And if he runs out of water, is he unable to conjure wine?
2007-08-10 09:08:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let this cup of coffee pass, TubThumpin, let it pass.
Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, as it is your question.
2007-08-10 09:06:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Perfect question for a Friday afternoon.
::grabbing water bottle on desk::
DRINK
2007-08-10 09:11:53 · answer #10 · answered by Char 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋