IF GOD IT'S THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF EVERYTHING. THE CREATOR!\nCAN GOD CREATES A PLANET SO BIG THAT NO EVEN GOD COULD CARRY IT?
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Read this and substitute mountain, stone, rock whatever with planet.\n\nI am glad that I save these long answers. . . I would hate to type it in again (for the 6th time)\n\nGod and Omnipotence\nThe paradox of the stone, as presented by Wade Savage:\n1. Either God can create a stone that God cannot lift, or God cannot create a stone that God cannot lift – there are no other possibilities. \n2. If God can create a stone that God cannot lift, then there is at least one thing that God cannot do (i.e., lift that stone). \n3. If God cannot create a stone that God cannot lift, then there is at least one thing that God cannot do (i.e., create that stone). \n4. From the combination of 1, 2 and 3, it follows that there is at least one thing that God cannot do. \n5. If God is omnipotent, then God can do anything. \n6. Therefore, God is not omnipotent. \n\nWhat this argument apparently shows is that omnipotence is impossible (or, that the notion of omnipotence is incoherent). Thus, God cannot be omnipotent (as nothing can be).\n\nSuggested solutions to the paradox St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274):\nAquinas defines as “absolutely impossible” any thing where the “predicate is altogether incompatible with the subject” (his example: “man is an ***” (in the non-metaphorical sense)). With this in mind:\nWhatever implies contradiction does not come within the scope of divine omnipotence, because it cannot have the aspect of possibility. Hence it is more appropriate to say that such things cannot be done, than that God cannot do them.\n\nThat is, to be omnipotent involves being able to do all things that are possible. For example, it is not considered a limit to my powers that I cannot draw a square circle. That’s impossible, so it’s no failing that I can’t do it – it cannot be done.\n\nBUT: surely I can make a thing that is too heavy for me to lift, so that task is not impossible, so if God can’t do it, that really is a limit to his power.\n\nGeorge Mavrodes (1926-):\nMavrodes responds that although “a stone too heavy for Simon Cushing to lift” is not a contradictory notion, “a stone too heavy for an omnipotent being to lift” is a contradictory notion.\nMavrodes’s argument in full:\n1. Either God is omnipotent or he is not. \n2. If God is not omnipotent, then the fact that he cannot do something (either make or lift the stone) is unsurprising. \n3. If God is omnipotent, then, by definition, there necessarily cannot be a stone that is too heavy for him to lift (otherwise he would not be omnipotent). \n4. If there necessarily cannot be such a stone, then it is an impossibility. \n5. By Aquinas’s reasoning, even an omnipotent being cannot perform impossibilities. \n6. Therefore, by definition, inability to create a stone too heavy for one to lift is no barrier to being omnipotent. (In fact, only non-omnipotent beings can create objects too heavy for themselves to lift.) \n\nBUT: both Aquinas and Mavrodes assume that God cannot do impossible things. Is this right? Descartes, for one, thought not. Descartes believed God could make 2+2=5. Why? Because otherwise you are suggesting that God is bound by the laws of logic. But if God created the laws of logic, why should he be bound by them? Couldn’t he have made them differently?\n\nHarry Frankfurt:\nHowever, if we assume that God can do impossible things, then God can create a stone too heavy for him to lift (which is supposedly impossible). Furthermore, if he can do that, then he can go one stage further and lift that stone (also impossible – but what’s the difference between doing one impossible thing and doing two?) \nBUT: doesn’t that mean that the stone he created was not a stone too heavy for him to lift, and that we’re back to the situation of him being unable to create such a stone? Not according to Frankfurt:\nIf an omnipotent being can do what is logically impossible, then he can not only create situations which he cannot handle but also, since he is
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I agree with you. There has got to be other planets out there with life on them. And some with intelligent life. It is very self centered for humans to say Earth is the only planet in the whole universe to have life. And yes, for the religious people, God does not have to mention that there other planets with life for it to be true.
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its same like who created God. If God was created, then who created then one "who created God"?? and so on and so on................... NOW THERE HAS TO BE STOP SOMEWHERE, OTHERWISE WE WOULD NOT BE HERE. BUT WE ARE HERE, THAT MEANS GOD IS UNCREATED. where the stop is, we muslims call that being as "God almighty" who is eternal, no beginning no end.\n\n"Say: He is God, The One and Only. "God, the Eternal, Absolute."He begets not, nor is He begotten. And there is none like unto Him." [Al-Qur’an 112:1-4]\n\n..regarding time>> time is a creation of God, which is relative. only God is absolute. time has a beginning, God has no begginning, and God does not exist in SPACE TIME dimension.. but unfortunately our Christian brothers says so that God came in space - time dimension in the form of Jesus peace be upon him. .. see what the scientists says>>>\n\n\n"... if there were a complete set of laws, that would infringe God's freedom to change his mind and intervene in the world. It's a bit like the old paradox: Can God make a stone so heavy that he can't lift it? But the idea that God might want to change his mind is an example of the fallacy, pointed out by St. Augustine, of imagining God as a being existing in time: time is a property only of the universe that God created. Presumably, he knew what he intended when he set it up! " [Page 176, "A brief history of Time" by Stephen Hawkings]\n\nThats what islam believes that God does not exist in time dimension , He is beyond the time dimension. \n\nHOPE THIS ANSWERS, AND I INVITE YOU TO THIS GOD. WHO IS PERFECT AND ABSOLUTE, AND ETERNAL . \n\npeace be on you
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There are those who reason that, because of the very nature of the physical universe, the time must come when the sun will no longer shine and the earth will no longer sustain life. But are they correct? What does the Creator say—the One who brought into existence energy and matter, the One who originated the laws on which our existence depends?\nSolomon penned these words: “A generation is going, and a generation is coming; but the earth is standing even to time indefinite.” But for how long? According to the literal rendering of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, it will be “to time indefinite.” What does that mean?\nAs to what the expression means in connection with the earth, we are not left in doubt. At Psalm 104:5 we are told: “He has founded the earth upon its established places; it will not be made to totter to time indefinite, or forever.\nThus it is regarding the planet Earth on which we live that Jesus Christ taught his followers to pray to God: “Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.”—Matthew 6:9, 10.\n\nJehovah’s will is not for the earth to be inhabited by people who have no regard for its Owner and little love for one another. Long ago he promised: “Evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” (Psalm 37:9, 29) “The inhabited earth to come,” of which the Bible speaks, will be populated by people who fear God and sincerely love their fellowmen. (Hebrews 2:5; compare Luke 10:25-28.) So great will be the changes that take place under God’s heavenly Kingdom that the Bible speaks of “a new earth”—not a different globe, but a new human society that will live amid the paradisaic conditions that mankind’s Creator purposed from the time he began his earthly creation.—Revelation 21:1-5; Genesis 2:7-9, 15.\n\nThe establishing of that “new earth” will, of necessity, be preceded by great destruction—one surpassing anything that mankind has yet experienced. For the good of the earth itself and all who are truly grateful to its Creator, he will “bring to ruin those ruining the earth.” (Revelation 11:17, 18) \n Peter writes that God brought the Deluge “upon a world of ungodly people,” while preserving Noah and his family; in this way “the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water.” (2Pe 2:5; 3:6) It may again be noted that the reference here is not to the destruction of the planet or of the celestial bodies of the universe, but it is restricted to the human sphere, in this case the unrighteous human society. It was that “world” that Noah condemned by his faithful course.
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When God created the universe he created both time and space. Even einstein proved that when the universe 'came into being' that time and space appeared at the smae time. Therefore God cannot be measuerd by time or space since he is outside of them both. Thus he has no beginning or end and he has no physical size since he is outside our physical ability to measure. Being the creator though, means that he can also enter into the creation when he wants to (as in the form of Jesus). In the same way that an architect is not part of the house that he has designed or built but is still able to enter it.
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Well....let's look at this logically:  The universe (including time itself) can be shown to have had a beginning.\n\nIt is unreasonable to believe something could begin to exist without a cause.  Stephen Hawking says this.\n\nThe universe, therefore, requires a cause, just as Genesis 1:1 and Romans 1:20 teach.\n\nNow - this is important to understand:  God, as the creator of time, is outside of time. Since therefore He has no beginning in time, He has always existed, so doesn't need a cause.\n\nGod did not "create Himself".  \n\nThink outside of the box.  Outside of dimensions.  There are many more than the "three" you see.
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yups thats something even i was wondering for quite some time, but then i thought like on earth , its so big seems to be endless\n\nbut then the end you think has a wall and even a wall has another side to it, there surelyis  something on the other side\n\nso for sure we never wou;ld be able to describe it but surely the universe the galaxy is endless\n\nso keep your thinking hat on and just start this journey of imagination of what all could be there.....................a sun,,,,,,,,,,ocean,.,...........aliens with PS1001..........................or an church for an alein god.................
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God is a extertesial being from a supperior race of people that exist only as spirts from a galaxy far away called heaven and created life on earth as hosts for these lost souls until there home planet rebuilds and the spirts are called home then the galaxy that contains Earth will be destroyed. \n\nSource(s):\n\nAn Angel who called himself joe appeared to me and told me he was a messenger from god and told me the truth.Any body want to follow by doctrine and become a member of my church<The Joes Know> Just repeat "The Joes Know" Three times a day while faceing towards the North
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Have you thought of a wonderful god who doesn't have a creator?\nWhat about the beautiful creator who doesn't have his or her own creator as well.\nThe first cause argument is so old and lame.  If you need a creator to explain everything, explain where the creator came from, please.
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dude what the hell is wrong with you? No God wouldnt need any help creating the universe. he would have it created in 1 second with a snap of his finger. and dont you dare question God ever!. God has done nothing wrong to you all he ever does is look after you and this is his thanks.
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God created time. There was no time until God created it. There were no dimensions until He made them. So nothing could exist prior to God because the before and the after were created by God. That's a hard concept to understand, but once you realize all time was created by Him it will make more sense to you. Nothing, empty, and dark were also created by God.
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What you say is extremely true!\n\nIf atheists were to support the assumption of the universe having come into being without any agent, then they are accepting one of two things: one, that it has always existed i.e. that it has no beginning; or two, that nothing produced something. Both of these statements are very difficult to swallow. The only way for them to justify their positions is to say, “We do not know the answer to that,” which is the same answer that religious people are always criticized for when they are asked something about God that they do not know. It is also no better than when believers say that God has no beginning or that prophets produced miracles; in fact, it is worse. \n\nPeople seem to accept that if there was a God, He would be able to do anything; and yet, when they are told that God has no origin, their minds fill with unsettling doubts of how this could be true. They say, “Everything has to have a beginning!” The problem here is that many of them have a false conception of God as having human attributes. The question of God having a beginning is invalid. The very powers and qualities of God enable Him to do the impossible, to bend the rules of logic and physics. So if God can create something out of nothing – a concept which contradicts our rational view of how the world functions – is it so hard to believe that God has always existed? He is the only One without a beginning. It sounds unnatural, but it makes sense. It also gives the only logical – or most logical – explanation of how the universe began. \n\nAs a side note, I've been trying to contact you from before, but it says that you haven't confirmed your email. Anyways, I would love to have conversations with you! My email is soli__man@hotmail.com (2underscores)\n\nPeace be with you
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curse this question god created everything
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God is the Creator of ALL things.  He created Jesus who is considered God's firstborn son because he was the first angel God created.  After that God and Jesus together created everything else.
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If god in fact exists, and actually did create people, then that is a very interesting point.  So basically what you are saying is, either god doesn't exists, or if he does exist then he is irrelevant.  Sweet.\n\n~Kyle
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i know that there is only one God because i have seen Him work in my life in ways that no one or nothing else could possibly do. God is amazing and you just have faith that he is real, he can change your life. do you believe in creation? if so then you must realize how amazing God really is to create such a complex world! He can do anything! i know that God is real because i see it when i look around me.
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I am not a Christian but it would see the answer to the beginning is refering to that of man's exist not God.\n\nAs for what cam first, God or existence, you have to stop thinking linerally.  That is a problem that humans have we think of time as a river or stream.  When thinking of existences of gods we have to think in the realm of all time.