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Could God create a rock he couldn't lift?

Koru

New Member
God has created our world within a construct where various rules apply. Physical rules guard what can and cannot happen. Also, God cannot intervene on our free will. If God had complete control, why would other faiths exist at all? Using this example, we can assume that God can create rules for himself, which he cannot break. For example, God cannot force any man to become a Christian. Therefore, why should this creation differ? If God places the rock knowing he will not be able to lift it, then it would seem he cannot.

However, looking at the question from another perspective, we can see this may not be the case. Even though God's intervention has not been clearly evident in recent history, does this really mean he cannot reverse his own rules whatsoever? It may be that God is simply leaving the rules as they are in order to preserve the freedom and happiness of humanity. So overiding them may be possible if entirley nessecary.

Overall, since the lack of evidence of God's power and the Christian belief that God is all powerful overide each other, the question is impossible to anwer, and relies soley on belief.
 

brooksie

Member
god chooses to give us free will ultamatly he could controll us but he chooses not to.well thats what they say anyway

it is logicly imposible for god to creat a rock so big its inposible for him to lift it. but i thought god wasnt bound by logic so that wouldnt matter. seeing he does logicaly imposible things all the time, makeing the univers out of nothing.

but thats where it goes wrong, if god can do anything then he should be able to creat a world without evil no matter how ilogicaly inpossible it is.

so it seems either he isn allmighty or he isnt all love
 
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