Can the omnipotent God create a stone which he(she?) him(her?)self Cannot carry?
(Note: blasphemy added by levik. Disregard if offensive)
I find it interesting that this whole debate revolves around the argument of whether God exists as he is described in Christian literature. It is unfortunate that the only reference made is to a single book, namely the Bible. Christians believe so furtively that their take on things is definitive. I wonder; do you (the Christian preachers out there) believe that the rest of the world's religions are maybe just an indication that we all haven't accepted the 'one true faith'? Do you perhaps honestly believe that other religious beliefs are 'inferior' and that soon we will all 'see the light'? What I am getting at is, by all means quote from the Bible, and relay the messages therein. But don't go around believing that one finitely sized book holds all the answers to the universe. Life and faith is about learning and growing in all respects. It should be a dynamic process not constrained by what was put down in paper a few thousand years ago and certainly not proven to be divine. You may challenge that by saying the Bible came from God himself. Can you prove it? It boils down to faith.And I challenge you to prove that one God didn't put all the major religious texts on this earth, just for us to be able to grow and learn from all of them and be able to discern the inherent good qualities of each, and in so doing strengthen ourselves instead of relying on a crutch he provided for us.
And with regards to the paradox (just to justify my thoughts under this puzzle)perhaps consider this ( I certainly won't claim a definitive answer here). God could create an unliftable stone and then lift it, causing existence as we know it to end, only for it, and by association, him, to be recreated anew. To define 'uncarryable'(?) is arbitrary-because we cannot claim to know what anything definitively means. 'Uncarryable' could just mean that if it is carried, all bets are off and can't be explained by our (limited) perception of things...Is anything impossible?
The 'Christian' God
