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Thu 18 Dec, 2003 07:18 pm
Assuming that there is a god and that he is the most powerful being in the entire universe, what would happen if you asked him to create an immovable rock?
If he creates the rock, then he won't be able to move it and all of a sudden the most powerful item in the universe has become the rock.
If he can't make the rock, then he is obviously not all-powerful.
If he decides to take no action, then he leaves philosophers to wonder what could possibly be going on in his mind.
What does he do?
If I were God, I would BECOME that rock. Then conduct business from there.
The rock is merely immovable and has no other properties. How could you possibly conduct business if you no longer have any space for cognitive thinking?
What happens when the irresistable force meets the immovable object?
Wait a minute. I'm God. I don't have to do anything you ask me to do.
Thank you cav, unfortunately I read that one just after I posted a new topic. Oh well, ideas change over time.
rufio wrote:What happens when the irresistable force meets the immovable object?
I seem to not understand a lot of what you have been writing recently, perhaps i'm just a little slow. But what irresistible force are you talking about?
Heck, I've got the answer to rufio's question, high passion and/or divorce.
However, I cannot speak for rufio's definition.
This whole thing was ripped from The Simpsons.
"Could God microwave a burrito so hot, that he couldn't eat it?"
The episode when Homer becomes a stoner.
Let's see...I'm 67 now and I first heard this supposed paradox when I was 10...and have heard it about 500 times since then...
...so I guess that means I will be 68 next year.
True?
Child of the Light wrote:This whole thing was ripped from The Simpsons.
Honestly child, every Simpsons episode is a parody. This paradox has been around for thousands of years and yet somehow Matt Groening managed to invent it even before he was born.
According to great jewish philosophers, the real "answer" to this question is that god wouldn't do anything. He would ignore the question and refuses to even try to create such a rock.
But I want to know what modern minds of today think.
Re: God's Paradox
Individual wrote:Assuming that there is a god and that he is the most powerful being in the entire universe, what would happen if you asked him to create an immovable rock?
If he creates the rock, then he won't be able to move it and all of a sudden the most powerful item in the universe has become the rock.
If he can't make the rock, then he is obviously not all-powerful.
If he decides to take no action, then he leaves philosophers to wonder what could possibly be going on in his mind.
What does he do?
Assuming that there is a god and that he is the most powerful being in the entire universe; How about just making a rock that is immovable to all but Himself?
Because if the rock was movable to god, then it obviously wouldn't be immovable.
Individual wrote:Child of the Light wrote:This whole thing was ripped from The Simpsons.
Honestly child, every Simpsons episode is a parody. This paradox has been around for thousands of years and yet somehow Matt Groening managed to invent it even before he was born.
According to great jewish philosophers, the real "answer" to this question is that god wouldn't do anything. He would ignore the question and refuses to even try to create such a rock.
But I want to know what modern minds of today think.
Haha, the thought of God refusing to make the rock is so funny to me. I imagine him with arms crossed, face all wrinkled up saying "No! I will not create such a rock!"
"...can fit on the head of a pin."
Individual wrote:Because if the rock was movable to god, then it obviously wouldn't be immovable.
Oh, I don't know... It's impossible to walk on water, but God can. How is this different?
Depends how many god orders to. After all, they supposedly have no free will.
And it's not impossible to walk on water for the son of god.
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