Ok, if you read my other thread I just started, you know what's happening with me. If not: I'm on another forum and I'm debating with a couple of non-believers about religion.
One of them said this: "There are a number of classic insolvable tasks to demonstrate this. The most famous of all is - could God make a rock so heavy that God himself could not lift it? If he cannot, then there is something he cannot do - he cannot make the rock heavy enough. But if he can, then there is still something he cannot do - he cannot lift the rock. Either way he fails.
Another - can God make a genuine £10 note? Of course not - because by definition, a note is only genuine if it is printed by the Royal Mint. God might be able to make a copy that is atom-by-atom perfect, but so long as it is him that is making it, it is just a perfect fake.
The pithiest one I have ever come across is this : can God make a mistake? If he can then he is not perfect. If he cannot, then there is something he cannot do.
All these arguments were created to apply to religion, by the way. Specifically to prove that the Christian god is a logical impossibility."
What should I say???
One of them said this: "There are a number of classic insolvable tasks to demonstrate this. The most famous of all is - could God make a rock so heavy that God himself could not lift it? If he cannot, then there is something he cannot do - he cannot make the rock heavy enough. But if he can, then there is still something he cannot do - he cannot lift the rock. Either way he fails.
Another - can God make a genuine £10 note? Of course not - because by definition, a note is only genuine if it is printed by the Royal Mint. God might be able to make a copy that is atom-by-atom perfect, but so long as it is him that is making it, it is just a perfect fake.
The pithiest one I have ever come across is this : can God make a mistake? If he can then he is not perfect. If he cannot, then there is something he cannot do.
All these arguments were created to apply to religion, by the way. Specifically to prove that the Christian god is a logical impossibility."
What should I say???