Can God do anything?

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selenah

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If God can do anything, can He create something that He can't overcome? Sorry I'm asking so many questions guys. I'm not an atheist who's trying to have a good laugh or something stupid like that.
 
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selenah said:
If God can do anything, can He create something that He can't overcome? Sorry I'm asking so many questions guys. I'm not an atheist who's trying to have a good laugh or something stupid like that.
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I believe God can do pretty much anything. He can’t make us love him, and perhaps he can’t do paradoxical things like making a rock so big he can’t pick it up.
 
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selenah said:
If God can do anything, can He create something that He can't overcome? Sorry I'm asking so many questions guys. I'm not an atheist who's trying to have a good laugh or something stupid like that.
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Either He can do anything, or He can't. If He can do anything, then something that He can't overcome couldn't possibly exist. Since it can't exist, it's a logically incoherent idea, so it has no meaning. Since it has no meaning, the question itself has no meaning and makes no sense. The question isn't actually asking anything. Just because something can be put into the form of a grammatically correct sentence doesn't mean it represents a logically coherent idea.
 
willfollowsGod

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God can do anything, he can move mountains, islands, and send scorching fire on the Earth on the Day of the Lord, the period of God's wrath on the people who did not believe in Jesus Christ. He is the only one who can change a person's heart, mind, and soul. He is the only one who can spiritually stop a person from committing suicide. He gives a way out of sexual sin. Finally, he created the world and if he can do that, He can do pretty much anything that is pure, righteous, and clean. Nothing evil. He does not force us to love Him, we have the choice.
 
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willfollowsGod said:
God can do anything, he can move mountains, islands, and send scorching fire on the Earth on the Day of the Lord, the period of God's wrath on the people who did not believe in Jesus Christ. He is the only one who can change a person's heart, mind, and soul. He is the only one who can spiritually stop a person from committing suicide. He gives a way out of sexual sin. Finally, he created the world and if he can do that, He can do pretty much anything that is pure, righteous, and clean. Nothing evil. He does not force us to love Him, we have the choice.
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That didn't have anything to do with question.
 
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Trust in the name, I did answer the questions. What I said implied that God would not make something that He couldn't overcome.
 
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willfollowsGod said:
Trust in the name, I did answer the questions. What I said implied that God would not make something that He couldn't overcome.
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Check out what I wrote. You'll see that talking about whether or God would or would not do so is the same thing as talking about nothing at all, because the idea itself is logically incoherent: it's a meaningless idea.
 
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FollowerOfChrist91

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The only thing God cannot do is sin because if God sinned He would cease to be God.
 
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God cant lie
 
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selenah

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@Jisal: shut up
 
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selenah

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You're right, but really?
 
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JisaL said:
Apparently he can't. He still hasn't gotten around to making my genitals larger.
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Just because He hasn't doesn't mean He can't. However, since we know that He can, and we know that He hasn't, and we know that He does whatever He pleases (Psalm 115:3), we can safely infer that He doesn't want to.
 
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trust_in_the_name said:
Just because He hasn't doesn't mean He can't. However, since we know that He can, and we know that He hasn't, and we know that He does whatever He pleases (Psalm 115:3), we can safely infer that He doesn't want to.
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ynohtna

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greetings, I personally do not think that God has any limitations at all. but he may elect not to do things. As to what he can do he is so powerful that he can create an entire universe just by speaking it into existance.

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selenah said:
If God can do anything, can He create something that He can't overcome? Sorry I'm asking so many questions guys. I'm not an atheist who's trying to have a good laugh or something stupid like that.
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Comfort yourself with the assurance that God is perfect love. There is nothing that God's perfect love can't overcome......nothing at all. And He would never consider creating such a thing :)
 
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