Can an omnipotent God create a rock so heavy he can't lift??
 

Well?

This is the same as could God create a square circle, a logical absurdity

Its not, because creating a stone thats too heavy to lift IS a possibility

Yep, it's called Marcus. I just had a flashback to six months ago there, sorry.

Nice to see that 'When will IloveDC come back' got more replies than this. Guess i'm dealing with idiocy.

What's the story with you Joseph? In a fouler or something?

Not for an omnipotent being it isn't.

Nah, god know what I was expecting from a BB forum lol

Well said, ergo - god is impossible.

It's an old argument, but not heard any argument to refute it ever.

Nothing all-powerful could diminish its own power. From the same a priori reasoning, nothing perfect could be nonexistant. It would be an imperfection.

Which leads to the idea that a god itself is pretty much a contradiction.

Only an empirical contradiction, not a logical one and pure logic exists independently of our senses. I would argue, as some others might, that the statement that God exists is every bit as true as the proposition that a triangle always consists of three sides.

Not the Humans perception of God, or the God of Religion, you are touching at Deism there.

If Im understanding it properly, yeah.

You can make a small snowball, and pick it up, put keep rolling that snowball so it gets bigger and bigger, then you cannot.

Sticks


Slap your self into the Real World



There Is No God
Utter Fact.

Theres no such thing because either way with the scenario it results in something he can't do. Therefore God is not omnipotent.

It a realistic sense, it is impossible to be omnipotent.

First, there is a problem with the premise of the question. While it is true that God can do anything that is consistent with His nature, it is absurd to suggest that He can do everything: God cannot lie (Heb. 6:18), He cannot be tempted (James 1:13), and He cannot cease to exist (Ps. 102:25–27). Furthermore, just as it is impossible to make a one-sided triangle, so it is impossible to make a rock too heavy to be moved. What an all-powerful God can create He can obviously move. Put another way, God can do everything that is logically possible. Finally, we should note that a wide variety of similar questions are raised to undermine the Christian view of God. Thus, it is crucial that we learn to question the question rather than assuming the question is valid.


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MY OPINION:

There is no god.
There are rocks.

And therefore he cannot create what he cannot move - which is the paradox.

I would imagine that the god that you do not believe in did not exist in the first place.

there is no paradox, the question is simply invalid. Your assumption of a valid question is incorrect.

Philosophical answer because otherwise its logic- 1, religion- 0. Comparing it to the triangle argument is ridiculous, because whilst you can't make a 2 sided triangle or whatever, you CAN make a rock thats too heavy, or you can't do it. So either way he isn't omnipotent.

its just a bogus question however you try to dress it up

and a very old one at that