Can God create a rock he cannot lift?

So, if you’ve read my other posts, you know I went to a debate recently where an atheist was involved. To be honest, this question didn’t come up, and I’m rather surprised by that. There was a section of the debate where the audience was able to send in questions for any of the speakers, and it seemed like the atheist speaker had a small following of atheists with him that had pre-decided upon questions to send in. That’s the way it felt at least as there seemed to be an unusual number of questions for the atheist speaker that led to him going on for lengths at a time about his basic thoughts on various topics that had nothing to do with the debate at all. In fact, many of the questions really just didn’t sound like questions that a christian or a Jew would have put forth.

Anyway, back on topic. the question of ‘Can God create a rock that he cannot lift’ never came up. And this was surprising. I’ve always viewed this question as a trivial nuisance that didn’t even deserve real serious, actual, thought. Now that I’ve spent some time thinking about it, I’ve discovered that this little question has some surprising depth and insight into the nature of God and can be quite a thought provoking question when taken seriously.

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