Can the omnipotent God create a stone which he(she?) him(her?)self Cannot carry?

(Note: blasphemy added by levik. Disregard if offensive)

If we think about what gives something, eg. a stone, its weight then we all realise that a source of gravity would be required. Mass is the source of gravity. God is (if you believe in him/her or not is irrelevent to this discussion if you take it to be rhetoric) an infinite being with infinite power. This means that to be in a situatuion where he/she could not lift something he/she would have to be under the influence of an infinite source of gravity. This is the important bit. The size or mass of the stone does not matter (no pun intended!) it is the source of gravity giving it its weight (weight is the force due to gravity acting on the stone stopping you from lifting it). God, it seems would have to create a mass of infinite value whose gravity he/she would have to push the stone away from. God is an infinite being so would have infinity amount of time to do so thus it follows that eventually at some time infinity and some mass infinity he would not be able to push the stone away from the source of gravity.

Posted by ben on 2003-12-10 19:16:16