Thursday, June 22, 2017

On God and rocks and such


Can God make a rock so big he can't pick it up?


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But seriously, can God make a rock so heavy he can't lift it?

If He can't, then it would seem that God isn't omniscient (all-powerful) right? Because there is a thing that He can't do.
If He can, then it would seem that God isn't omniscient because there is a rock that could be imagined that He can't lift.


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It's a paradox (something that seems to be self-contradicting, but seems like it has to be possible). And I HATE PARADOXES!

They drive overanalyzers like me CRAZY! The other day my friend asked me this question and followed it up with "I don't know if this is Blasphemy (offensively challenging or lying about God), but if God actually ISN'T omniscient, it does solve a lot of paradoxes." That proposal isn't original, but it does worry me. I've always been told not to put God in a box......... SO LET'S DO IT!

Let's talk about God's relationship with big rocks!


Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." - God made the big rock I'm standing on right now (the Earth) and all the way crazier huge rocks in space (the Heavens).

It also seems to me like God created SPACE AND TIME; how else can there be "THE beginning"?

God seems pretty much more powerful than all those rocks, but let's see if there are some limitations on him later on...

Joshua 10:12-15 (Look it up... I'm serious. You literally have a computer in your hands right now, why haven't you opened another tab yet?) If these verses are taken at face value, which I personally believe they should be, then God has complete power over gravity. A few thousand years ago, people thought all you had to do to make the sun and moon stand still in the sky would be stop the SUN. But now we know the Earth is rotating and spinning around the Sun. The Sun is a tiny speck spinning around the HUGE star at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. And this WHOLE GALAXY and all the other galaxies are spinning around something so far away and so huge we have NO IDEA WHAT IT IS! God froze all of it, Black holes the density of ten billion suns, supernovas, galaxies, etc. for several hours. Then he just started it back moving again



In Matthew 4:3 The Devil tells Jesus to turn some rocks into bread which would totally break the conservative law of energy since bread has WAY more calories than rocks (77 cal per gram vs 4 cal per gram.) And in Matthew 14 Jesus definitely breaks the conservative law of mass and engery when he feeds 5000 people with a fistful of bread.

In the rest of the Bible God parts oceans, heals illnesses in an instant, forgives sins, raises the dead and walks on water. I'm pretty sure there isn't a rock God can't lift!

 So what's the answer to the question? Can God make a rock so big he can't pick it up?
I don't have a problem with saying no. The idea that such a rock could exist puts a limit on how much God can lift. As humans, we can move words around to make sentences that start with "GOD CAN'T" but don't limit Him. Like "God can't make a mistake" "God can't forget about promises He made" "God can't be worse than me at Chess" etc. etc. If God COULD make mistakes, back out of a deal, or be outsmarted by me, THAT would limit His amazing power.

So no. God can't make a rock too big for Him to pick up............ Or maybe He can. I have no idea.

Just remember GOD doesn't fit in your box... And He ROCKS!
This was all building up to that pun. Hope it was worth it. Thanks for sticking around. :0)

  - The Noah