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Bible Question: I
have a problem with your response to the "Can
God create a rock that he cannot move?" answer. It forgets
the important part of the question that you considered an assumption
of just the opposite. The way it is supposed to be goes like "If
God is almighty, can he create a rock (mountain) that is too big
for even him to move?" Though quotes from the Bible are always
nice, as it's a bit of a mainstay for Christianity (who'da thought),
it
does not work at all with this question. It's like saying God is
real because the Bible says so; you won't convince or prove anything
with that. Neither will quoting off St. Thomas Aquinas about human
inability to fathom God's superduperness. So the answer to the question
has to be no. Therefore the implication is that God isn't Almighty,
because he cannot do something that would contradict himself. Again,
an obvious case of the Law of Non-contradiction. Saying God is without
limits is simply wrong, and humankind's existence alone is enough
to prove that.
Bible Answer: The
question is designed to prove that God is not
almighty and is in fact limited. The question is biased from the
start. There are two potential answers to the question.
First Answer. The
first answer says that God is not powerful enough to create something that He
is not powerful enough to lift. Either way God is defeated. The question is not
a fair question. It does not seek truth!
Second
Answer. The
question challenges God to make a rock that is
too big for Him to move. How big would
this rock have to be? Would
the
rock
need to big as Mt. Everest? Would the rock need to be as big
the earth? Maybe the rock would have to be bigger than our solar
system or bigger than the universe. How big would the rock need to
be? Is it possible that God is so Almighty that no matter how big
the rock, He can always move it? If so, that is an
Almighty God !!!!!!!!!
Conclusion: The
question does not seek to determine
if there is a God that is almighty.
The question seeks only a negative
answer. It is flawed.
God is Almighty. There is nothing
that He cannot do! No matter
how big the rock He can always
move it. I would not want a
God that is limited in some silly
fashion.
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