“...with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26
We have all heard this verse and believe God can do anything. Then we read other verses like Jeremiah 32:17 and it confirms our belief,
“17 Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:”
But then... Some preacher shares some difficult questions people ask like,
“Can God make a rock so heavy that he can’t lift it?”, and it makes you think a little harder.
I have long believed there are some things God can’t do like interfere with the free will that he gave us. So I set out this afternoon to find biblical evidence of the things God can’t do and this is what I found.
(Please let me know if I missed something).
1: God cannot lie
Titus 1:2 (KJV)
2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Hebrews 6:18 (KJV)
That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie...
Psalm 89:35&37 (KJV)
“35 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie ...37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.”
2: God cannot be tempted
James 1:13 (NKJV)
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
3: God cannot temp man
James 1:13 (NKJV) - Again
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
(This is one lesser example of my previously stated belief that God cannot cause us to go against the free will he gave us).
4: God cannot deny himself
2 Timothy 2:13 (KJV)
13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
5: God could not stay dead
Acts 2:24 (KJV)
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. (Death)
6. God cannot fail
14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.