2007-11-04 21:55:40 · 30 answers · asked by Jeht 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There is no answer to this because the question itself is self-contradicting and has made a wrong premise.
Premise #1: God. (By using the word "God", it is assumed that God is all-powerful which means He can create anything and can move or carry anything.)
Premise #2: God can create a rock so big that He couldn't move it.
Premise #2 is wrong and contradicts premise #1. Therefore, with these two premises, no valid conclusion is possible because the question itself is faulty. This question was designed to trap the answerer into giving an answer that would force a false conclusion that God is not all-powwerful.
My answer is a question:
If a man made a question that he himself couldn't supply a valid answer, could he change the fact that God is all-powerful?
2007-11-04 22:41:06 · answer #1 · answered by t i g s 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some form of this omnipotence paradox has been around since at least the 5th century AD, and there is still no simple answer, without somehow qualifying the omnipotence. Some say it obviously means no being could be omnipotent, while others say asking the question is absurd, because it would assume a weakness of an omnipotent being. A similar question is whether an omnipotent being could take away its own omnipotence. I feel that this is the same realm of questioning as "what came before time" or "what's north of the north pole".
2007-11-05 06:06:41 · answer #2 · answered by Geoff B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer to your question is no...size, deminsions and mass are not relative to objects that God can or will create. Take for example the Pistol Star. Its the largest "known" star in our galaxy and is 100 times more mass than our sun...so much so that it throws off enough matter to create its own nebula. Its facinating to see because its sits behind a cloud of dust so thick that you can see it clearly as the cloud dims it and is really colorful. Check it out...its sits in the core of the milky way but can only be viewed and photographed with an infrared filtered lens.
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/star_collection/pr1997033a/
Yet, odds are this is not the largest body in space...just the largest that we know of. So your question is moot. Allow also the fact that not only can God create, maintain and move large objects...He can also manage the chaos of the cosmos down to the tiniest molecule and trillions of them...confounds the mind doesn't it? Which is prolly why this very un-original question keeps getting asked. People just can't fathom that much power. So we try to limit creation to just a few billion years and cubby hole existance down to few hundred millinia when in fact...eternity and a an all powerful intelligent loving self-existant creator knows you down to the number of hairs on your very head and designed your genetic code. Love in Christ, ~J~
2007-11-05 06:19:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because in the question you have specified that "he couldn't move it" logically he would not be able to move it. Why God would do that i do not know. Also the size of that rock would be huge considering the size of the earth the sun and the other planets out there.
2007-11-05 06:00:57 · answer #4 · answered by Danie 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He would not make a rock too big for Him to move, because He does not do anything outside of His character.
2007-11-05 06:06:42 · answer #5 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If indeed God made that particular rock (as He does all rocks), it is where He wants it, so there would be no need to move it.
2007-11-05 05:59:17 · answer #6 · answered by Ted 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bit of a daft question, if god made a rock he couldnt move then obviously he couldnt move it so why ask if he could, thats if there was such a person in the 1st place and i dont believe there is.
2007-11-05 06:06:51 · answer #7 · answered by minnymouse 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
G-d has wisdom above off all and the beyond and if he makes a rock then he can command to transfom...
I dont think the word Could not is in G-ds Dictionary let alone mine..!
Love Always
2007-11-05 06:00:19 · answer #8 · answered by Apolo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is meant to be above the physical strength , so yes he could move anything theortically . God is a spiritual not a physical being.
2007-11-05 05:58:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
if god makes a rock so huge... he can definitely move it.... when he has the power to make it so huge will he not have the power to move it..?? besides i personally believe that nothing is impossible in his hands.. and everything has a purpose....and even the rock has....
2007-11-05 06:05:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋