if god is infinitely powerful?
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You are assuming that God is limited to what we think of Him.  That is wrong.  God could not do anything that will limit his abilities, including what you ask.\n\nRead this for further clarification:\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 canno
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Then he wouldnt be God anymore.  Is anything actually better than its's creator?  Is the creation bettert than the creator?
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Don't know what you're talking about; God is greater than anyone! Case closed!
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Only if I get to be GOD.\nJK.\nNo way...too oppressive.
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Yes, there is seriously a God.  The fact that you are asking this question is proof of that.
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DISCLAIMER: the following only applies to those who believe in God.  \n\nHere is an even better question as an off shoot from this one: Can God create an immovable object?\n\nIf you say he can, then that means he can't move it, which puts a limit on his power.  But, if you say he can't, because he should be able to move anything, then again you are putting limitations on Him.  It's a real paradox.\n\nJust something to think about...
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There are an infinite number of Gods. Ultimately, They all come from the same source of Divinity, as do we.
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God is all powerful. He (or She) could have done anything.\n\nHowever God in His unlimited love has given US the free will to choose. We choose to accept or reject God's constant offer of spending eternity with Him in heaven. God will respect the choice we make.
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The most powerful thing God can do is not exist.
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Here's another noodle-baker.  If God is all powerful and all-benevolent, why is there evil in the world at all?  Either he is not all powerful (if he were he would have no evil) or else is not all-benevolent. (He could wipe out evil but chooses to allow evil things to happen anyways, something a loving and good God would not allow.)\nTake your pick, either way God is not all-perfect.
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Why do you think that people have that kind of power over God?\n\nIf God loves you, do you think that you can really keep him from you, do you think that is within your power?\n\nIf God loves all people – do you really think that he will condemn them to hell just because they are Jewish?\n\nIs that the action of a loving God?\n\nDo you really think that people have so much power that they can keep God at arms length, just by having a different faith?\n\nI think God is more powerful than that.\n\nRemember, Christ died for everyone’s sins.
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No, because then he wouldn't be omnipotent anymore.  Omnipotent is being all powerful, is controlling everything, so how can you make something you can't control if you are omnipotent?  Perhaps you could, but that would make you not omnipotent anymore at the least.
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God is omnipresent. He is everywhere. You are thinking of God in human terms, and He is most definitely not human.
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God is also omnipotent, which means He knows all, so he could not do something that goes against his nature, or create something that is more powerful than Himself. He is Awesome!
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Explain infity as a concept. Explain that infinity, if existing, results in infinite probabilities. With infinite probabilities, you must accept that it is possible that there is a god. Then explain that conditions in universe exist in almost every possible state. The sheer vastness of it garantees that. Explain that humans are the "most powerful, most intelligent" thing on the planet. Then explain that surely, vanity cannot blind one to think that we are the most powerful things in the universe. The rest is up to faith.\n\nOr, you could just bluntly perform a miracle.
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Indeed there is a God. Let's face it, something cannot come from nothing.
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God says that he IS the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega. By his own Word, he had a beginning. It is simply not for us to understand. We, as humans, are limited in our knowledge. God is omnipotent.