The stone question
Hello Rabbi.
A. Can God create a stone that He cannot lift?
B. Why can't God create logical contradictions? After all, He is omnipotent.
C. What is the definition of omnipotent?
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A. When you ask this question, you are asking someone who assumes that God is omnipotent. Therefore, the term "a stone that God cannot lift" means "a stone that the Almighty cannot lift." But this is a meaningless term, because if He is omnipotent, then there is no such stone. Therefore, the question of whether God can create a stone that He cannot lift contains a contradictory and meaningless term, and hence it is meaningless. Before you ask me to answer it, you should explain to me the terms involved. It is like asking whether He can create a circular triangle. There is no such thing as a circular triangle, and therefore the question is meaningless. It is not that He "cannot" create a circular triangle, but that there is no such thing.
So we can say that God can create a wall that stands up to any shell, and perhaps He can also create a shell that penetrates any wall. But of course He cannot create both together (what matters is what will happen when they meet). And why? Because if there is such a shell then there is no such wall, and vice versa.
third. Omnipotent is one who can do everything imaginable. Therefore, what is unimaginable (because it has no meaning) he cannot create, and there is no harm in his ability here.
on. See previous section. What is confusing is the confusion between "logical law" and "natural law." It is a sharing of the name, but a logical law is not really a law. A law has a legislator, and therefore there is a possibility that this law was not legislated. But in a logical law there is no such possibility. It has no legislator, it is simply true from within itself. There is no law that prohibits a triangle from being round. A triangle is simply not round by its very nature.
Consider the question of whether God can become a man. If so, I will shoot him and kill him. Lest you say that he will not die, he is not a man (because a man dies when he is shot). So the conclusion is that he cannot transform himself into a man. Because the necessity of reality cannot transform into the possibility of reality (since there is a possibility that he will not exist, which contradicts his essence). This is not a violation of his entire ability, since it is a logical contradiction, something that is unthinkable and therefore meaningless.
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