Thread: The Rock God Cannot Lift - Paradox, or not?

Apologies if this has been discussed, the automated thread search doesn't show anything relevant to it, although I have seen it brought up in a few threads as a way of "Explaining" why God doesn't exist.

Anyway, the question goes:

"Can God create a rock that he cannot lift?"

Presumably, this is supposed to be a Paradox, because if God was all powerful, then he'd be able to lift the rock, but upon lifting it, he would've failed to create a rock he couldn't lift. Both contradict his ability to be "All Powerful", and supposedly disprove him.

There are other arguments similar such as "A wall he can't jump" or "an object he can't push" and so on.


Honestly, I think people should stop bringing out that argument. To me, its such a simple problem to solve:

If God is all powerful, then it stands to reason that he's capable of creating a being/object more powerful than himself. Because of that, one could conclude that it would be possible for him to create a rock too heavy to lift, under the premise that the rock itself is now an object more powerful than himself.

The problem most people have with this, is they want to keep remaining under the assumption that God must remain "on top". We are simply introducing a new variable to the equation. God no longer remains the most powerful being/object in the universe, but rather, the 2nd most powerful. Still as powerful as ever, its just, there is now an object capable of resisting his influence on it.


So, for those who still like to break out this argument, please, just think about the question/statement logically, and realize that it is indeed possible if we assume that God exists and is All powerful like the claims. The Statement/Question proves nothing to help the argument against God's existence.