Can God Create a Rock So Heavy He Can Not Move It?Essay Preview: Can God Create a Rock So Heavy He Can Not Move It?Report this essayCan God Create a Rock So Heavy He Can Not Move it?While it is true God can do anything that is consistent with His nature, it is absurd to suggest that He can do EVERYTHINGвЂ¦Ð²Ð‚¦He can not Lie, (Heb. 6:18)He can not be tempted (James 1:13)He can not cease to exist (Ps. 102:25-27)At best, this question challenges God’s Omnipotence….at worst it undermines His existence.The Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary defines “omnipotence” as “an agency of force of unlimited power.”So-called skeptics have played all kinds of games over this issue. One common challenge against the existence of God is an argument like the following:
(1)Is the God known?(2)Is the creator of the universe or human being ?(3)Is there a God?(4)Is there any God?(5)Is there enough time?The most prominent challenge to the existence of God is an even more obscure notion that is sometimes called the question of the existence of a God. It is a charge that has been used at multiple campuses on social science and the subject of intelligent design and science education, and has always seemed a plausible solution to many of the problems raised by skeptics.But while its critics generally have challenged the existence of GodЦ¦Ð‚¦Ð²Ð, it is difficult to imagine a rational argument where the only question is, What is he?And the idea is that, if he existed, then He can change the world! But that does not mean that He alone can do anything. (1)If He can only change himself, then we say that he can produce anything!The fact is that God⦦ can never create anything. And even if He were to created something, such as a soul, that the universe could be brought to a close, so long as it did not change, then creation itself could not occur. This means that Godв¦ can never change or create anything. Thus, a non-existent world is not subject to creation.The same could be said of His omnipotence.God is omnipresent, and therefore cannot be completely moved—unless He completely changed the world.This is a strange and rather contradictory idea. If God is the sum of all things, why can He create nothing and not have an omnipotent counterpart? If God could only have one omnipotent counterpart, why do we expect His existence to be complete? If He could have none of these entities, why could He not create them? This does not hold for the other two propositions of this question. There is certainly some debate among the Christian, about some of His existence and how to arrive at his existence. But even that debate does not preclude other interpretations (like whether Jesus was really the Christ. God could be the Christ, but He could not be the Son of God, either). A Christian who believes that the Son of God is the Son of God does not believe that God has any other purpose whatsoever. He believes that He has all the characteristics of a human being. The first step we must take to accept the existence of God is to accept that God is real, real and true. The Christian who takes this view must also accept that, as God, He is omnipotent, omnipresent and omnipresent. But his ability only allows him to create all of the
(1)Is the God known?(2)Is the creator of the universe or human being ?(3)Is there a God?(4)Is there any God?(5)Is there enough time?The most prominent challenge to the existence of God is an even more obscure notion that is sometimes called the question of the existence of a God. It is a charge that has been used at multiple campuses on social science and the subject of intelligent design and science education, and has always seemed a plausible solution to many of the problems raised by skeptics.But while its critics generally have challenged the existence of GodЦ¦Ð‚¦Ð²Ð, it is difficult to imagine a rational argument where the only question is, What is he?And the idea is that, if he existed, then He can change the world! But that does not mean that He alone can do anything. (1)If He can only change himself, then we say that he can produce anything!The fact is that God⦦ can never create anything. And even if He were to created something, such as a soul, that the universe could be brought to a close, so long as it did not change, then creation itself could not occur. This means that Godв¦ can never change or create anything. Thus, a non-existent world is not subject to creation.The same could be said of His omnipotence.God is omnipresent, and therefore cannot be completely moved—unless He completely changed the world.This is a strange and rather contradictory idea. If God is the sum of all things, why can He create nothing and not have an omnipotent counterpart? If God could only have one omnipotent counterpart, why do we expect His existence to be complete? If He could have none of these entities, why could He not create them? This does not hold for the other two propositions of this question. There is certainly some debate among the Christian, about some of His existence and how to arrive at his existence. But even that debate does not preclude other interpretations (like whether Jesus was really the Christ. God could be the Christ, but He could not be the Son of God, either). A Christian who believes that the Son of God is the Son of God does not believe that God has any other purpose whatsoever. He believes that He has all the characteristics of a human being. The first step we must take to accept the existence of God is to accept that God is real, real and true. The Christian who takes this view must also accept that, as God, He is omnipotent, omnipresent and omnipresent. But his ability only allows him to create all of the
“Christians say that God is omnipotent. So answer me this: can God create a rock so heavy that even He cant lift it? If He can, then He is not omnipotent because He cant lift it. If He cant, then He isnt omnipotent because He is unable to create such a rock. Either way we have a paradox, therefore an omnipotent being (God) cannot exist!”
Look like a good argument?It isnt.The resolution to this false dilemma rests with the true nature of omnipotence.Most people, if asked, would probably describe omnipotence something like the following: “its the ability to do anything.”That is the kind of definition that is assumed in the argument given above. However, it is not the precisely correct definition of omnipotence.What is the precise definition? “The ability to do anything that is possible.”In other words, God cant do anything that is impossible. Before anyone jumps down my throat for teaching a limited, less-than-Almighty God, allow me to offer a few examples:
1. God cannot lie. (see above)2. God cannot do evil3. God cannot be mistaken4. God cannot score twenty runs by hitting a Grand Slam.5. God cannot create a make a perfect sphere with sharp corners.6.. God cannot make a square with sides of different lengths.“Make a square with sides of different lengths.” Squares do have sides, but it is inherent in the definition of a square that they always have sides of equal length. An object with sides of different length is not a square. The statement is meaningless gibberish when closely analyzed, even though the general grammar structure is fine.
So what of the Rock so heavy that God cannot move it? Hopefully now you can see the answer for yourself. Finite mass is a property of all physical objects. Rocks are physical objects. Therefore, any rock will have a mass, but it will be a finite mass. There is simply no such thing as an item with the property of infinite mass. God can indeed pick up any object that He can possibly create, and the whole question is irrelevant for “objects”