i just want to ask if God can make a Rock that he can't lift?
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well, technically yes. Then he'll give himself the power to lift the rock. SO, in my thoughts, he will not have the power to lift the rock only for a moment, until he decides to move it.
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Easy, he can't.\n\nBut that is not too difficult to see once you realize that there is no God in the first place.\n\nThere are other contradictions as well. For example, God is supposed to be omniscient (all-knowing) as well as omnipotent. So if He knows everything He knows the future. So He knows what He will do in the future. So how can He be omnipotent if He can't do something other than what He knows He will do. He is not powerful enough to overcome His own foreknowledge.\n\nGod is supposed to be omnibenevolent, all-loving (in my opinion the weakest of all Christian characterizations of God). If so, God is not powerful enough to control His own emotions. He can't "not love" something.
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God is so powerful, he can even cause Internet trolls to (oh so cleverly, they think) copy and paste into Yahoo Answers some clever riddle they found on the Internet about big rocks or hot burritos; it is easy of course to frame up some nonsense question, a poor man's version of an Escher drawing, and demand that God fulfill it.\n\nThis one fails more easily than most, at least in terms of a Christian response. Here's how God, if he were not mindful of his own words to not "put the Lord your God to the test," could work it:\n\n1. God the Father creates a one ton rock, and drops it in Galilee.\n\n2. Christ the Son tries to move it using only natural means, and since Christ is both Fully God and Fully Man, his natural-only efforts, being human, do not succeed.\n\nVoila; copy-paste Internet troll foiled!!
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Yes he can but he can always ask Jesus to lift it.
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Ofcourse!! I believe God could do anything. With GOd everything is possible. You ask me how do i know? trust me i know God will never ever want to see you hurt, although there are times where you may feel things are on top of ur head and ur world is upside down, and you wonder why God isnt doing anything about it? i believe hes waiting for the right time to fix our mess, because he sees if he fixes it wont be good for you later on. Im not very good with explaining but i hope you get what i mean. God bless you and help you with ur friendship.\n(i myself is losing a preciouse friend of mine...but i know God will help me through.)
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The short answer: Yes, and then he can move it.\n\nThe long answer as to how: God can define a primary way for him to interact with the universe... an Avatar so to speak. This Avatar can be of the same class of some other group of objects in the universe... for example, people. This class could have a defined upper limit to what they can lift. He can then make a rock larger than this limit. Therefore, this is a rock that God cannot lift through the predefined mechanism for him to interact with the universe. He can then interact with the universe in another way to lift the rock.\n\nIt's like a programmer working with a game he's writing. Can he make an enemy so powerful that he can't overcome it? Yes! Then he can open a memory editor or install a cheat or whatever, and overcome it.
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You are asking if the creation can change it's form No... but the Creator can do what he wishes when he wishes.  Being God he's allowed.  This is very simple God decided the best way to show his children what's up is to be "born of the virgin Mary and become man"  \n\nHonestly this is the equivilant of a 5 year old asking his parents... if you can stay up till midnight on a weekday so can I... What we, as the creation, can and cannot do doesn't apply to God ... because he's older wiser stronger bigger and he's in charge
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Yes. Let me work this through logically as I see it.\n\nGod created you in his own image - meaning that you are infinite in potential and creative power. (You also have free will. Cool.)\n\nThen you chose this setting* to experience your power. In heaven / nirvana / afterlife, it's kind of dull... everything is unified and perfect, and there's so much love, there's no way to experience it. So you created this place with your infinite power, and you caused yourself to temporarily forget who you are. So here you are, wandering down the street wearing a coat and completely unaware that you have these infinite powers. Right?\n\n(*This "setting" is whatever reality you're experiencing right now. I don't need to go into detail.)\n\nSo you come upon a big rock. You look at the rock and the first thought that enters your mind is "Man, there's no way I'm going to be able to lift that." And - poof - you've created that experience, based on your creative thought, which was based on an assumption that you set there voluntarily. So you go to try to lift the rock using the only strength you know you have: your physical muscles. You fail. No surprise.\n\nNow back up: You've tried to lift the stone. You and God are actually one and the same, but you don't realize this. You created the stone in the first place. So yes, God is all-powerful and he created this Universe, and he has created a stone that he then experienced not being able to lift. That isn't to say that you can NEVER lift the stone... just that you have experienced not-lifting-ness.\n\nJust as your logic is based on assumptions which are based on your observations, MY logic (which I use here) is based on assumptions which are based on MY observations. Given the assumptions that I have made, does my logic make sense?\n\nContact me if you're curious.
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oh great I knew one day some one would ask this ? lol... well i a wood chuck cant chuck would so if a wood chuck could chuck wood it cant it is impossible lol
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Wow that is amazing.  I never knew this.  I am going to look that up when I get home and read about it.\n\nAs far as my answer to your question - I do not believe god can do it because I don't believe the bible...\n\nstill you have an interesting point
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LOL sorry I wasn't aware of that relic. Has it been scientifically studied? Or is it off limits to everyone like the ark in ethiopia?\nHell, we could do that, then implant it in a virgin and bingo, homemade holyman. I guess scientists work in mysterious ways too. LOL
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That my friend, is impossible.\n\nThere is NO hell.  yet.\n\nThere is NO heaven.   yet.\n\n\n\n\nGo figure.
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If you understood how crucifiction worked you would know that "waking up" three days later from that kind of turture and beatings wouldn't be possible.  Even if by some miracle he did wake up he wouldn't have had the strength to move the stone which estimates say weighed over 10 tons.
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God doesn't "manipulate" matters. God created everything. HE MADE the forces. HE doesn't need any force to do anything. God's will goes. But in order for us to grasp things, HE creates and changes our surrounding according to what we call the laws of physics. But sometimes, to restore our faith, he makes miracles, which don't really bow to the laws of physics.
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What you say just isn't true for many people.  People don't refuse faith; faith just doesn't exist for many people, especially thoughtful, rational-type people.  And you already know that it's not true that God always gives when asked; lots of times He doesn't.\n\nRE: Your Email (Yahoo wouln't let me respond directly):\n\nThanks Jenny.  I've read lots of the Bible growing up.  I have not decided "he doesn't exist."  But if He exists, he has not given me Faith.  To the contrary, He has given me a brain and a heart that do not lead me to Faith, even reading the Bible.  Who knows why, but that's the situation.  I can act like I have Faith, I can pretend I have Faith, but it would be a lie, and I can't just manufacture real Faith.  I'm sure it's very comforting to have Faith (regardless of whether it's well placed).
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Of coures he could!!The Rock can do any thing!
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LOL I like Mainworry's answer...not!\nCreate anything living without using matter that already exists.\nHe's right, I can't we all can't.... yet!\nBut maybe we will Create matter, out of energy one day.\nThen what will he say.\nBut I know something I can create right now...GOD.\nYes I can create GOD In my own image.