Thoughts of a Servant

I download this I Phone application today, but let me first say that Spiritual Warfare has definitely reached a new level.  We are creating technology that advances the spread and accessibility of the gospel, but it is also rapidly increasing the accessibility of lust, temptation and persuasive arguments against Christianity.

This application is a base application for arguments to be used against Christians.  Its a scary app, because if you are not prepared, these arguments can be very daunting and legitimately realistic.  I will look to tackle them not for the blog’s sake, but that I would have prepared an answer in advance should someone need to ask me tough questions.

One of the questions that basically revolved around the disproof of God’s existence:  Since God is omnipotent, he should be able to create a boulder that He would not be able to move– But if he could create something that he cannot move, then he is not omnipotent because he wouldn’t be able to move it.

I was puzzled by this riddle for a while, but I came to a conclusion after much thinking…

Observing that riddle is truth if you look at it as one entity.  But splitting it into separate entities we can make some sense: (1) Can God create a boulder that he cannot move? and (2) then he wouldn’t be omnipotent cause he can’t move it.

First, let me setup the story of the fall.  Compare ourselves, fallen man, as the boulder.  God is still God in this story.  When we fell from Heaven, we were something that God could not touch, could not see, because we were of Evil and God despises Evil.  But God then made a connection through Jesus that would indeed bring us back to him.  In this case, regardless of the impossible gap between Evil and God (us and God), he established a bridge.

Now going back to the riddle, I believe that God could indeed create a boulder that he would not be able to move (as the first part of the riddle)– This would be exactly as we fell from Him and became sinful–  And then he would be able to create the power, or establish the power, to move that boulder, as he created the bridge from man to Heaven.

So in my mind, I think he can do both.  He could indeed create a boulder that would be impossible for Him to move, and then he would be able to establish that power to move it.