THE IMPOSSIBLE GOD? Part Two.

Ben Elves
Ben Elves
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

2- God is all powerful- the “impossible rock” creation argument: The second Paradox

Perhaps God cannot control evil, and is not as powerful as is claimed.

Perhaps God has his limitations. In a way it would make sense, and in some ways the world could be explained a little more easily. There is of course the idea “Does He really care?”, but a more valid point for now is; does He have the power to act if He does care?

Does the claim that God is all-powerful have any validity? There is one small and very simple piece of circular logic which refutes the claim. It goes like this:

“If God is all-powerful, then He can do anything. So he could make an enormous rock; one that was so big and heavy, even he could not move it or exercise any control over it. Yet if He could not move or control it, then that proves He is not all-powerful”

I admit here that sometimes mind-bending circular logic can be easily stumbled across in a pub when you have friends as odd as mine. It makes me wonder what sort of bar they have in the Vatican.

Anyway, if God could not make such a rock, then that too proves he is not all-powerful.

Another pint please barman, and when I have drunk it I will ask…. “What if he already made such a rock…and it is Earth?”

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