Friday, October 16, 2020

Paradox of the stone

I here record my favorite answer to the paradox involving God’s omnipotence and a stone. I saw it somewhere on the Internet before and cannot find a source for it now, so here it is as I can best remember it. It went something like...

Can God create a stone so heavy that even he cannot lift it?

Either God can do logically self-contradictory things, or he cannot.

If he cannot, then he cannot create such a stone, since it is incoherently described – nothing could be too heavy to be lifted by an omnipotent being.

If he can, though, then yes, he can create such a stone – but then, of course, he can also lift the stone that he cannot lift.

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