so..................

...CAN god create a boulder so huge that even he can't move it?

a riddle so complex that even he can't solve it?
a blue spot that is red?
a square circle?


[god IS omnipotent (all-powerful), isn't he? ...
"And the sun stood still, and the moon halted, till the people had vengeance on their enemies"]

 

Yes,
yes,
and yes

and oh yes.

 

really!


is god all-powerful, then?
unable to move a boulder?

 

yes, thats right he is powerful enough to not be able to move a boulder.

 

I would ask, what would be the purpose for doing those things?

A better question would be to ask, why are we here? That is a BIG question! What I have come up with is this. We sense that we are here, our parents are here(our were here at one time), all the amimals are here, they strive to continue to live and have their young so their kind can continue to exist. They do not ask why. Humans, however do ask why. This can ultimately cause problems in having a successful family. The reality is that our nature is different from animals. In order to continue on with our kind, we must conduct ourselves in a certain why. Now days, if we anger the wrong people, nukes could destroy everyone. This is why the people of the world have to realize that the key to our survival is a combination of sacred rules like the Ten Commandments, the golden rule, and understanding are needed. We have to accept what IS, before we can fully understand why.

 

As a joke.

 

How about....

"Can God micormave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it"

-Homer "pothead" Simpson

 

dan... yes, what would be the purpose of creating a square circle? i don't know. why would a god create a human race? i don't know. boredom, perhaps? play?

as for the rest of your comments, i don't see their relevance. you're saying that because humans question their existence (unlike animals), we need rules and commandments to exist properly.
i accept that i AM (something); i do not understand why, nor do i expect to any time soon. this is not my issue.

i was questioning the nature of god, and god's relationship to logic.
if god can screw himself over by making a boulder so heavy (because he's all-powerful),
that even he can't lift it (not all-powerful),
we have a dilemma.

this thread is more of a joke, because i haven't seen these dusty old questions around here before.
peace!

 

duh

 

I was trying to get you and others to think about God in a less joking manner.

 

answer the questions, goof!

 

Yes.

 

The Christian God? Well, if he is real, then yeah, I think he could make a boulder so big he couldn't lift it in the conventional way, but he would find a clever way to, maybe a pulley system? . Kind of like what he supposedly did with Justice. He created justice right? And not even he could violate the rules of justice and allow a sinner into Heaven, so he found a clever way around justice and allowed Jesus satisfy justice.

I don't believe in all this, I'm just using Christian logic.

 

That was the answer, poof!

 

Can you make a square circle? Better questioning seems to be in order. Since we are composed of God, and since God dwells in us, what ridiculously magnificent thing can any of us do?

I have heard of a man who built a door using a single, multi-ton boulder. The door was placed on a pivot in such a way that it can be pushed open with one finger.

 

no, i cannot make a square circle, because it it outside the realm of logic in which i exist. so if i am composed of god, i expect god to also exist within this realm of logic. so following this: no, god also cannot make a square circle?

haha... that's crazy. how does that work?

 

So maybe that's why God made round circles.

The door worked simply on balance. Actually, it was something I saw on TV; maybe on Ripley's.

 

A square circle (or squircle) is a 2 d plane formation in higher dimensional mathematics.

You have your standard x,y,z axis, with an additional axis that is along the direction r0 (r not) perpendicular to the plane of the circle. Movement along the r0 axis is simply distortion (or shape change) when viewed from the standard 3 dimensional universe (the squircle does not change positions (in the x,y,z axis) with movement along the r0 axis). A shape that is elongated along the r0 axis can appear as a square within a circle or a square around a circle in the standard 3 dimensional reference frame, depending on the length of the object upon the r0 axis.

Although the shape appears to be a square within a circle from the 3d reference point, it is actually a single mathematically calculatable object- a squircle. Say we are viewing only a single point on the r0 axis where the squircle looks like a square, we can move ourselves along the r0 axis and view the squircle from a different point and it will look like a circle.

Of course this means that every circle is a square when we travel along the r0 axis to view it from the point along that axis in which it is a square.

Neat ehh?

 

^hahahaha.... i'm totally going to have to look that up.
you're my hero kharakov.

lol

 

You can ask Dr.Math (just cut and paste my post and ask the validity of it, or if there is a better way to explain it than I did). I think there is some math questions place where they answer questions... if that makes sense?