Isn't the concept of omnipotence a total paradox?

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Isn’t the concept of omnipotence a total paradox?

Every day, at least a couple times, somebody posts something to the tune of "Could God create a boulder so big that he couldn't lift it?", or some other variation of that formula. Most are just shrugged off as someone trying to be funny or clever, but no matter how stupid the intention is, aren't those statements totally accurate with regard to omnipotence? How can omnipotence exist? How can something so paradoxical even be possible? If someone is omnipotent, he COULD create a giant boulder...

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Human logic will never be able to grasp the omnipotence of God and exactly what that means.

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Paradox of freewill vs. omnipotence...part II?

OK let me make this more clear. If an omnipotent being creates something and knows what it will do before he even creates it, then he has in effect done it all himself, so the concept of true "free will" is not really valid. Get it??

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I agree. That is one of the major flaws in any philosophy which tries to claim both a supreme, all powerful...

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A Paradox about the concept of Infinity?

Imagine that in some imaginary place there is infinity red marbles. Now imagine that for every 100 red marbles theirs 1 blue marble. So this means that theirs infinity blue marbles right? But isnt there still more red marbles than blue? Im confused

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No, there are not more red marbles than blue marbles. If we line up all the marbles, for every red marble...

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God is all-powerful, or as theologians put it, “omnipotent”; there is nothing that he cannot do.?

This is part of the definition of “God”. Can God create a stone that is so heavy that he cannot lift it? Either he can or he can’t. If God can’t, then he isn’t all-powerful. If God can’t create a stone that he can...

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Do you think this proves anything? Just because you can't conceive of an answer to it hardly makes it...

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Why do so many people say athiests don't have any proof that God doesn't exist?

Firstly let me clear this up for you guys. In this post whenever I say God (note the capitalization) I am referring the the Judeo-Christian god, the one that is omnibenevolent, omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. I am also trying to prove that God...

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The thick dribbling twatts who come out with that nonsense, are the thick-as-mince swamp people who...

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Why is it that atheists are so often left wing, and religious people right wing ? Isnt that a paradox?

Why is it that atheists are so often left wing, and religious people right wing ? Isnt that a paradox? IT ISNT AS LONG A READ AS IT SEEMS ITS JUST ONE MINUTE OF READING Now I don’t have any stats or anything to prove this, but just from my own experience...

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Darwinian fitness is NOT "the strongest will come out on top, the weak must die, every man for...

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Paradox: objective meaninglessness of concept of similarity?

Has anyone heard of the mathematical "proof" that the concept of similarity is objectively meaningless? A couple of years ago, if I recall correctly, some mathematicians or philosophers showed that because real-world objects have an infinity...

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I think you're thinking about Nelson Goodman, who wrote "Seven strictures on similarity."...

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Why is it that atheists are so often left wing, and religious people right wing ? Isnt that a paradox?

IT ISNT AS LONG A READ AS IT SEEMS ITS JUST ONE MINUTE OF READING Now I don’t have any stats or anything to prove this, but just from my own experience this seems to be the case. Of course there are atheists everywhere in the spectrum, I myself Im an...

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Trust God. Proverbs 3:5,6 SDA

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Why is it that atheists are so often left wing, and religious people right wing ? Isnt that a paradox?

IT ISNT AS LONG A READ AS IT SEEMS ITS JUST ONE MINUTE OF READING Now I don’t have any stats or anything to prove this, but just from my own experience this seems to be the case. Of course there are atheists everywhere in the spectrum, I myself Im an...

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Your ideas about Darwin and evolution are wrong - you need to go over this again. Here's some literature...

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Why is it that atheists are so often left wing, and religious people right wing ? Isnt that a paradox?

IT ISNT AS LONG A READ AS IT SEEMS ITS JUST ONE MINUTE OF READING Now I don’t have any stats or anything to prove this, but just from my own experience this seems to be the case. Of course there are atheists everywhere in the spectrum, I myself Im an...

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