On Omnipotent
Can God create a stone that he cannot lift?
If god cannot lift a stone, then how can he be all powerful? The same goes for a god that could not create such a stone. This question and others like it are often asked as a counter-argument to an omni-potent god. One problem with arguments along these lines is that they put forward a logical impossibility and demand that it be solved, as if the inablility of the person being asked to solve this impossiblitiy is proof that an omnipotent, omniscient being cannot exist.
Another problem I have is that the argument is often nonsensical and pretends to be without scope. For example, if there were to be a stone the size of the entire universe: what would it be to lift? Usually when something is lifted, it is moved from the point of zero potential in the gravity well, but in the case of this universe sized stone it IS the zero point. The stone would somehow have to be lifted out of itself. If it were to mean simply move it, even the smallest impact would achieve that. But then expand this stone even further to infinite mass, an omnipotent god should be able to generate infinite force required to move it.
So, can God create a stone that he cannot lift?
Mu.
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