before anyone complains, yes this is a quote of homer simpson, but im just curious for the answeres...
2007-11-13 04:32:36 · 12 answers · asked by Smoking Frog 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It is questions like this, not the stupid irrelevant questions that foolish people ask, that we should be asking are searching for the answers.
2007-11-13 07:17:52 · answer #1 · answered by Prisoner of Grace 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reason #1,932 why I'm an atheist: the very notion of a god is an exercise in logical contradiction.
The example you cite, a variation on the old question of "can god make a stone so heavy that even he couldn't lift it," simply demonstrates the inherent logical contradiction of omnipotence. Some have replied that god wouldn't do such a thing because it just isn't in his nature to do something like that, but isn't a limitation on one's will also a limitation on one's power? It is the will, after all, that controls the power.
One can construct similar arguments showing the inherent logical contradictions of omniscience (being all-knowing), omnipresence (being everywhere at once), and omnibenevolence (being all good). Even monotheism runs into trouble: people believe in the gods of many religions, and yet most every god claims that he and only he is the one real god.
I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that all the available evidence and logic point to gods being nothing more than products of the human mind.
2007-11-13 12:55:01 · answer #2 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is only one of the many circular arguments found within the idea of God. This will always be a problem as the same problem exists in all human created concepts, material, religious or otherwise. Thinking is inherently dualistic and can only produce a series of contradictions and paradoxes.
2007-11-13 12:54:06 · answer #3 · answered by @@@@@@@@ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This seems to be a paradox, but it isn't. The problem lies not with the idea of complete power, but in the question. The question asks total power to limit itself; you ask God to do one thing (make an impossibly hot burrito) then do something contradictory (make the burrito not impossibly hot).
2007-11-13 12:39:46 · answer #4 · answered by slinkywizzard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it is like this one: if God is omniscient and omnipresent, could He create a God-less vacuum?
It is really a ko-an --- a trick question that belongs to a guru's bag of tricks used in order to ascertain just where you are spiritually.....in other words, your reaction will tell if you are full of anger .... or if you have some humor ... or if .... if you really do not need it at all !!!
Nest trick ???
2007-11-13 12:44:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
george carlin in the 70s asked could god make a rock so big that he himself could not move it. from the class clown albumn, (that was vinyl to you homer simpson fans)
2007-11-13 12:52:17 · answer #6 · answered by Thomas G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does God even have to eat? And, side point, did you know that an iceberg has more heat energy than a cup of coffee?
2007-11-13 12:40:28 · answer #7 · answered by dustinkinney007 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well actually if u think of it it has a underlying meaning.of if god is invincible yet also all power full could he harm or kill himself.
and so raises the question is it possible for god to die.
id say yes.
2007-11-13 12:38:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This question is ridiculous and condescending. Drink.
2007-11-13 12:37:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't eat.
2007-11-13 13:14:36 · answer #10 · answered by fishpike 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋