2007-12-24 23:00:40 · 9 answers · asked by mario v 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
MARIO V- That was a very thought provoking and interesting paradox scenario you presented. I enjoyed it! Did you come up with that yourself, or are you sharing it from another website? If so, please share that too.
What you have presented is a common paradox that attempts, quite effectively, to prove that God can't be omnipotent.
This is an argument for atheism, your fence scenario, claiming that the concept of God is incoherent, that there are logical problems with the existence of such a being, and that God therefore cannot exist.
Your fence scenario is similar to the paradox of the stone:
Can God create a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it?
Either he can or he can’t. If he can’t, the argument goes, then there is something that he cannot do, namely create the stone, and therefore he is not omnipotent. If he can, it continues, then there is also something that he cannot do, namely lift the stone, and therefore he is not omnipotent.
Either way, then, God is not omnipotent. A being that is not omnipotent, though, is not God. God, therefore, does not exist.
I really enjoyed your fence scenario...good job!
2007-12-24 23:26:52 · answer #1 · answered by Gellen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question is coming from your mind with certain idea about God. The idea that he can do every thing. The idea that he is an entity. A personality. Hence first you need to remove the idea about God. God is not your idea nor He can conform or fit to your idea. For God to be God, do you think he need to pass your tests? In that case, you will be the God and not Him. God is a reality. You first need to know what God is. Once you come closer to Him, your questions will disappear. In fact you that exist as an ego will disappear. Because your existence is false. I will quote some verses from Quran to give you some insight about God. But this still will not take you to God. You need to discover for yourself.
Say: He is Allah, the One and Only;Allah, the Eternal, Absolute;He begetteth not, nor is He begotten;And there is none like unto Him.
Behold! In the creation of the heavens and the earth; in the alternation of the Night and the Day; in the sailing of the ships through the Ocean for the profit of mankind; in the rain which Allah sends down from the skies, and the life which He gives therewith to an earth that is dead; in the beasts of all kinds that He scatters through the earth; in the change of the winds and the clouds which they trail like their slaves between the sky and the earth, (here) indeed are Signs for a people that are wise.
2007-12-25 07:22:14 · answer #2 · answered by mkhan666 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're obviously better than God at that. And to think, God cannot cross it without your permission. I'm speaking of the barricade that you've built in your mind and heart that blocks your inner vision and blinds your inner sight.
2007-12-25 07:05:36 · answer #3 · answered by jaicee 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
2007-12-25 07:32:18 · answer #4 · answered by ROBERT P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to God everything is possible
2007-12-25 07:29:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hahaha! I love it.
2007-12-25 07:03:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
free will
2007-12-25 07:05:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't think so, anyway what would be the point?
2007-12-25 07:04:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, there is a hole. So he could. :)
2007-12-25 07:07:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋