• mr_anny@sopuli.xyz
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    24 hours ago

    Is god so powerful can he create a stone so heavy he himself can’t lift it?

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      20 hours ago

      One reply to this is that God can do anything possible.

      Now, ideas about what is possible vary. For example Descartes could not conceive of a triangle where the angles did not add up to 180°. However, even in Descartes’ time it was known that a triangle on a sphere will have angles that add up to more than 180° (you can make a triangle with 3 right angles on a globe and those angles add up to 270°).

      So the idea might be refined to be more that nonsensical things remain nonsensical. As in, you can ask the question, “Can God change the color of a flower to Tuesday?” But even though it is perfectly correct English, it doesn’t make sense, and your question is bogus, not God.

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        20 hours ago

        So basically what you’re saying is god is not infinitely powerful. His powers must obey natural order.

        He’s basically just a human. Not god.