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So I was talking with my friend Nick about the omnipotence paradox:
i.e. "could an omnipotent being create a rock that was so heavy even he could not lift it?"
the argument is that:
if God can create such a rock, his omnipotence is flawed because God cannot lift the rock.
if God cannot create such a rock, his omnipotence is flawed, his omnipotence is flawed because God cannot create the rock.
At first, the question left me dumbfounded. I was confused, choked for an answer, trying to explain how such a simple question could completely disprove thousands of years of a God portrayed as completely omnipotent by more than one religion.
But after much deliberation, I realized:
God created everything we know and beyond.
One of the most common misconception that all people make about God is that he cannot transcend human traits, despite the fact that Jesus was both fully man and fully God. One God is divided into three parts; God the father, God the son (Jesus), and God the holy spirit, and even God the son was able to break physical law on several occasions- i.e. Walking on Water (Matthew 13). If God was able to defy scientific law as a human, then God must transcend human feelings and scientific law as a higher being.
God cannot create a stone so great that even he could not lift it, because God created weight, gravity, and all physical law by which everything in the universe must abide. The omnipotence paradox is flawed because everything in the universe is underneath God, and the laws he created.
i.e. "could an omnipotent being create a rock that was so heavy even he could not lift it?"
the argument is that:
if God can create such a rock, his omnipotence is flawed because God cannot lift the rock.
if God cannot create such a rock, his omnipotence is flawed, his omnipotence is flawed because God cannot create the rock.
At first, the question left me dumbfounded. I was confused, choked for an answer, trying to explain how such a simple question could completely disprove thousands of years of a God portrayed as completely omnipotent by more than one religion.
But after much deliberation, I realized:
God created everything we know and beyond.
One of the most common misconception that all people make about God is that he cannot transcend human traits, despite the fact that Jesus was both fully man and fully God. One God is divided into three parts; God the father, God the son (Jesus), and God the holy spirit, and even God the son was able to break physical law on several occasions- i.e. Walking on Water (Matthew 13). If God was able to defy scientific law as a human, then God must transcend human feelings and scientific law as a higher being.
God cannot create a stone so great that even he could not lift it, because God created weight, gravity, and all physical law by which everything in the universe must abide. The omnipotence paradox is flawed because everything in the universe is underneath God, and the laws he created.