Denial of fulfillments
Why, according to Judaism, can God not fulfill Himself? In essence, by denying fulfillments, we are essentially limiting God’s ability to limit Himself within rain. I did not find Maimonides addressing this question. He mainly says that God cannot be put in a cage of limited rain, but in essence, in this way we have nullified God’s ability to limit Himself, and have subtracted from His infinity!
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First, who said he couldn’t?
Second, not every limitation on him contradicts his entire ability. Suppose he were to turn himself into a material being and then I would burn him. Would he disappear from the world? If so, then it is impossible because it is a necessity of reality. If not, then he did not truly become material. This consideration shows that turning God into a material being is a logical contradiction, and therefore the fact that he cannot do this does not undermine his entire ability. He also cannot make a circular triangle. We have already dealt with this here tirelessly in the past (search for logical constraints, or the laws of logic, or the stone that God cannot lift, or the problem of evil in the world).
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