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The Reason Why God Cannot Exist

This is the reason why God cannot exist....


Question: Can God heat up a burrito so hot that even he cannot bear to eat it?



That's all, that's the answer to whether or not God can exist. The answer is no.
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Rob said…
ah The Simpsons...but you should probably note this a pop-culture reference and not an original philosophical argument.



Possible (imperfect) responses:

+God doesn't necessarily need to be Omnipotent...that is just a Western conception
+God isn't anthropomorphic so this question doesn't apply
+God could lift a boulder that is too heavy to lift (or eat a buritto that is too hot to eat) by making it not as heavy...
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FlyFreeForever said…
Oh, let's see... yes that's where it came from. You'd be surprized what they come up with.

The point of the question was to explain that absolutes rarely if ever exist. Absolute power, absolute knowledge, or in my opinion absolute deity.

And whose to say if one god or another does exist whether or not he/she/it is anthropomorphic. I'm sure if most gods we worship (by doctrine alone) have some capability to take human form.

And yes he could cool the burrito off, but that distracts from the argument made by the question. That there cannot be an all-powerful, omnipotent overlord, there are just simply too many impossible absolutes created.

But, if that argument isn't suitable let's give a second...

If God is the Creator then he is like our father. He is also the creator of concepts like good and just and thereby has the capibility to be completely good and just himself. Then we are given free will, as I would think God himself would have too. Why then did God create Satan? He would've known already that Satan would betray him. But more so, how could Satan betray him if there was no force in existance to tempt him to betray God? I'm quite sure that that Bible believes that Satan did this of his own accord. But it seems to me impossible.
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