Can God Make a Rock So Big He Cannot Lift It?

When I was in the Navy I remember a young lieutenant asking me this “profound” puzzler.  “Can God do anything?  Can He make a rock so big he cannot lift it?”

This is a rather common question asked by pseudo-intellectuals who think they have stumbled across a great chink in the Christian’s belief about the omnipotence of God. The answer to the question is quite simply, “No, there are many things God cannot do.”

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