Is there anything God can not do?

[Flat Earth Kyle]

Can God create a rock so heavy that he can not lift it?

 

[outhouse]

Can God create a rock so heavy that he can not lift it?

before you can prove what god cannot do.

You have to prove what he can

 

[Riverwolf]

If something is logically impossible, then of course God cannot do it.

However, AFAIK, there is one thing God cannot do: separate Himself from us.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

If something is logically impossible, then of course God cannot do it.

Does this include creating matter?

 

[K.Venugopal]

Can God create a rock so heavy that he can not lift it?

For this God must become something other than Himself. Well, He does it all the time. That's what creation is all about. He becomes creation, which is not Him. Yet, because it is He who became creation, it is Him. Thus God plays the game of duality, which is a hide-and-seek game. When we seek and find Him, the game is over. Only to be played again some other day.

 

[horizon_mj1]

For this God must become something other than Himself. Well, He does it all the time. That's what creation is all about. He becomes creation, which is not Him. Yet, because it is He who became creation, it is Him. Thus God plays the game of duality, which is a hide-and-seek game. When we seek and find Him, the game is over. Only to be played again some other day.

I absolutely love this perception!!!:angel2:

 

[K.Venugopal]

...there is one thing God cannot do: separate Himself from us.

To put it another way, God cannot create life for the simple reason He is life. And since all existence is life, there is neither a creator nor a creation one separate from the other.

 

[Riverwolf]

Does this include creating matter?

If matter cannot be created from nothing, then yes. However, I don't believe He did; matter was either created out of Him (which I believe), or has always existed in some state, either with God, or on its own sans God.

Is matter, as energy, unable to be created?

 

[Landerage]

I believe God created space and time, so basically he can create and "uncreate" everything seeing that for something to be created means that it exists in certain conditions in a specific time and place, however God "exists" outside of time and space so that means he can do just about everything! I hope someone understood what I mean

 

[Many Sages One Truth]

Can God create a rock so heavy that he can not lift it?

I don't believe personal gods are all powerful, so this isn't an issue for me, if I say I don't know. I really don't know if God can or not.

 

[Sunstone]

God cannot make a missing arm or leg grow back. At least he never has.

 

[Sunstone]

Does this include creating matter?

On what rational grounds do you believe creating matter is illogical?

 

[PolyHedral]

On what rational grounds do you believe creating matter is illogical?

Presumably on the basis that it's never been done before.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

If matter cannot be created from nothing, then yes. However, I don't believe He did; matter was either created out of Him (which I believe), or has always existed in some state, either with God, or on its own sans God.

Is matter, as energy, unable to be created?

Yes as states the first law of Thermodynamics.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

On what rational grounds do you believe creating matter is illogical?

1st Law of Thermo

 

[Gjallarhorn]

1st Law of Thermo

Uh, that law only applies to things within a system. God is normally assumed to be outside the system.

 

[The Sum of Awe]

Uh, that law only applies to things within a system. God is normally assumed to be outside the system.

Depends on the God,

Then again, the God that is outside the system, wouldn't it be able to get out of paradoxes that rest within this system?

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Depends on the God,

Then again, the God that is outside the system, wouldn't it be able to get out of paradoxes that rest within this system?

Regardless of the system, math is constant. It's how we examine the idea of hyperdimensional space in scientific ways: via equations.

If a god exists within a system, then it never created energy or matter, because to do so it would have to exist first. It would arise with the rest of the matter and energy. For a god to create the universe (the common idea), it would have to exist outside the created system, initially.

 

[outhouse]

God cannot make a missing arm or leg grow back. At least he never has.

Nor can he show himself to modern man

Nor can he make a sound to modern man

Nor can he make any public announcement

Nor can he write, probably cant read either

Nor can he stop tsunamis

Nor can he stop earthquakes

Nor can he stop volcanos




he cant do anything really, what I want to know is what can he do??

 

[Flat Earth Kyle]

On what rational grounds do you believe creating matter is illogical?

I don't think God ever created matter. He organized it.