can God make a rock so big, He can't lift it?  the stupid questions...?
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Actually, this question is easily answered by bible doctrine. NO, God cannot. There are many things God can't do. Who ever said God can do anything? God can't hate, at least not literally. God can only "hate" in the sense of an anthropopathic analogy, such as when He was said to "hate" Esau. God can't lie, break a promise, die, hurt, be sad, allow a saved person to enter Hell, allow an unsaved person to enter heaven, or fail to provide logistical grace support to a believer. God can't be unjust, wrong, weak,  stupid, not present, and He cannot change. He cannot fall in love( because He is love 24/7). \n\nBasically God cannot do anything that would violate His essence. His essence is Sovereignty, Righteousness, Justice, Eternal Life, Love, Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Immutability, And Truth. These 10 characteristics describe perfectly the 3 members of the Trinity, and no one else. I'm glad God is bound by who He is.\n\nYou don't need to defend yourself against Christian bashers. God is not worried about them or threatened by them, why should you be? Keep the Faith, Bro!
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it's physically impossible.  that would require force. you cannot make any kind of force with only your mind.
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He's God, so if he chooses not to exist, he can do it. The asker is correct. Hahah!\nRead up about the paradox of creating a stone that cannot be lifted. It's on wikipedia, by the way.
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Yes, He can.  It's called Faith. not proof.\n\nread Heb Ch.11.  22 Faiths.\n\nIt easy to love something you can see.  God wants your love through the faith of believing.\n\nHave a good week.
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Here is something for you to ponder.....\nScientists claim that the earth is millions of years old. They make this claim by studying the layers of the earth (example: The Grand Canyon) If you look at the walls of the grand canyon, you can see many different layers of sediment on the walls of the canyon. The heavier and most dense rocks and solid formations are near the bottom of the canyon itself. The softer, less dense earth materials are nearer to the top of the canyon. Now...they claim this took millions or billions of years to happen.\nHere is a simple experiement to prove that theory wrong. Take a large jar or clear glass container and fill it with water (simulating the great flood of Noahs time) next fill it with sand, rocks, dirt and other earthly materials of your own choice....shake it all up to make a nice mixture. Within mere minutes you will see that the heavier earthly materials like the rocks and clay will sink to the bottom and the softer less dense materials will remain at the top and all of this will occur within minutes, not years. To me, this simple experiemnt is proof that the earth is not billions of years old and that the great flood that God put on this earth happend only a few thousand years ago, just around the time Jesus walked the earth! Think about it! I personally do believe there is a God, but I believe that scientists are wrong when they contemplate the earths age and structure, God does exist, in what form I do not know, but he does exist in some way and I get the feeling he is pissed off at most of us...So have faith my friend....Scientists are not always right by any means, God walked the earth only a few thousand years ago....not billions like scientists claim.
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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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What are you talking about? which god with a little "g" do you serve that would do such a thing? Not the God of all Glory and Creation, Jesus Christ!
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Hello sweet Kayla.. :)\n\nCould Noah's Ark really hold all the animals that were supposed to be preserved from Flood?\n \nA growing number of scientists believe that geological evidence indicates our world has undergone a catastrophic flood. This is causing them to question whether or not the biblical account of Noah's ark could be true. Many people are rereading the Biblical description of the Ark to ascertain the feasibility of such a vessel to fulfill its designated purpose in light of present day knowledge of both zoology and our present day knowledge of shipbuilding.\n \nSize comparison between average size one-story home and Noah's Ark. Illustration from The World that Perished.How big was Noah's Ark?\n\n"And God said unto Noah… Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt though make in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of… the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make in the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side therof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it." (Gen. 6:14-16)\n \nA cubit is the distance between an adult's elbow and tip of the finger, no less than 18-inches [45.72 centimeters]. (Scene from The World that Perished.)Most Hebrew scholars believe the cubit to have been no less than 18 inches long [45.72 centimeters]. This means that the ark would have been at least 450 feet long [137.16 meters], 75 feet wide [22.86 meters] and 45 feet high [13.716000000000001 meters]. Noah's Ark was said to have been the largest sea-going vessel ever built until the late nineteenth century when giant metal ships were first constructed. Its length to width ratio of six to one provided excellent stability on the high seas. In fact, modern shipbuilders say it would have been almost impossible to turn over. In every way, it was admirably suited for riding out the tremendous storms in the year of the flood.\n\nThese dimensions are especially interesting when compared to those given in the mythical, Babylonian account of the Ark. Here the ark is described as a perfect cube, extending 120 cubits in all directions and with nine decks. Such a vessel would spin slowly round and round in the water and from the standpoint of stability, would be a disaster.\n\nWas the ark big enough to hold the number of animals required?\nThe total available floor space on the ark would have been over 100,000 square feet, which would be more floor space than in 20 standard-sized basketball courts.\n \nAssuming an 18-inch cubit [45.72 centimeters], Noah's Ark would have had a cubic volume equal to 569 modern railroad stock cars.The total cubic volume would have been 1,518,000 cubic feet [462,686.4 cubic meters] --that would be equal to the capacity of 569 modern railroad stock cars.\n\nNow comes the question, how many land dwelling air breathing animals would have had to be taken aboard the ark to survive the flood?\n\nAccording to Ernest Mayr, America's leading taxonomist, there are over 1 million species of animals in the world.\n \nGod only provided the Ark for the protection of humans and land-dwelling, air-breathing creatures. A huge number of animals would not need to be taken aboard the Ark because they are water dwellers. Representatives would be expected to survive the catastrophe. With God's protection against extinction during the Deluge, survival would have been assured. (Scene from The World that Perished, a Christian motion picture about the Flood)However, the vast majority of these are capable of surviving in water and would not need to be brought aboard the ark. Noah need make no provision for the 21,000 species of fish or the 1,700 tunicates (marine chordates like sea squirts) found throughout the seas of the world, or the 600 echinode
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Ps. 90:2  "Before the mountains themselves were born, or you proceeded to bring forth as with labor pains the earth and the productive land, even from TIME INDEFINITE TO TIME INDEFINITE you are God." Should we really expect to understand everything about a Person who is so great that He could bring into existance the universe and earth, with all its intricate design and stupendous size???
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What is the point in being a God if you cant draw circular triangles. What kind of a God z dat. God can create rectangular s holes against the cylindirical     c ocks ....        if she likes...\n\n Like square pegs in round holes exactly    ...s,hit away...,\n\n get lost body\n\ndumbass \n\nGod damn you\n\nYou arent a true atheist\nWhat is going on here I really cant understand  Am I a believer? Where is my wine bottle then?
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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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If things were impossible for God, He wouldn't be God.\n\nNow people will turn a question like this into something that would test God (i.e. the famous "if God can do anything, can He create a rock so big He couldn't move it?").  The answer lies in the fact that while He *can* do anything and *nothing* is impossible with Him, he would not do something that contradicts His very nature and being because He is perfect.
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Well. I think your right. god would not do what you described.\nGod, can do many things tho'.\n\nBe sure which god, God you have these feelings from.\n\n.
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Well technically the flooding of the earth was impossible. if the entire earth had flooded we wouldn't have a class of mammals found only in Australia, and certain plants would have been destroyed forever... I mean really could you imagine a cactus under that much water surviving? But to get back on topic... If there is a god, and he is all powerful, the only reason for man to suffer is that God wants man to suffer... For to be all powerful would mean the ability to do anything, even the impossible... So no matter what positive results we get through suffering, God could have given us without us suffering... some of these results may seem logically absurd without our having suffered, but remember, he is supposed to be able to do the impossible, so no matter what reason someone gives for human suffering, we could have easily, without even a thought, done without it...
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It is not impossible at all.\nJust ask any Christian Scientist.
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Interesting how so many people quote a different part of the bible without dealing with the fact that there is a clear contradictino here.\n\nTHis guy posted a verse that says basically, ask and you shall receive. Not "I'll think about it", but you shall receive.  And you all quote verses saying "not so fast".  Well, which is it? Can we move mountains with faith? Only if it's for a good cause? What?
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Um, the cross!No, too close to Thor's hammer and predated Christianity by a few thousand years.Um, a book! No, the Egyptians had several books.How about a resurection prophecy?Naw, can't do that either.We've got Persephone and Osiris and Balder,and tons of others.How about the son of God? No, wait, Hercules! Hmm.Nope,sorry, can't think of a damn thing.