Why would God need to argue or believe? And don’t tell little kids God is everywhere — oh heck, just don’t! They can be shockingly specific without intending to be rude! But I think God can take or make a joke. He made human beings, didn’t He? (Google many “Farside” cartoons about God. He has yet to smite Gary Larson.)
C. S. Lewis observed that nonsense doesn’t become meaningful simply by prefixing to it the words “God can.” This boils down to asking whether God can make something that cannot exist, which is nonsense. He can’t make a square circle or an odd number that has 2 among its factors, either.
This is also a strawman, because instead of addressing a claim that is actually made (in this case, that God’s power is infinite), it introduces a new and specious claim and refutes that. This is like saying that the set of all real numbers cannot be infinite unless it includes imaginary numbers.
Ida No about 2 years ago
God created himself when he invented division by zero.
Darsan54 Premium Member about 2 years ago
Ask Sean Hannity.
Robert Wilson Premium Member about 2 years ago
Paradox of the stone asks if God could create a stone so large that he couldn’t lift it. And, how many angels could dance on that stone?
Mostly Water Premium Member about 2 years ago
The presence of God is all around us. Interestingly, the absence of God is all around us.
PraiseofFolly about 2 years ago
Why would God need to argue or believe? And don’t tell little kids God is everywhere — oh heck, just don’t! They can be shockingly specific without intending to be rude! But I think God can take or make a joke. He made human beings, didn’t He? (Google many “Farside” cartoons about God. He has yet to smite Gary Larson.)
StephenRice about 2 years ago
C. S. Lewis observed that nonsense doesn’t become meaningful simply by prefixing to it the words “God can.” This boils down to asking whether God can make something that cannot exist, which is nonsense. He can’t make a square circle or an odd number that has 2 among its factors, either.
This is also a strawman, because instead of addressing a claim that is actually made (in this case, that God’s power is infinite), it introduces a new and specious claim and refutes that. This is like saying that the set of all real numbers cannot be infinite unless it includes imaginary numbers.