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The God Paradox and the IO/UF conundrum are actually answerable.

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There are two classic God paradoxes.

1) If God is all powerful can he make an object so heavy that he can't lift it?
2) If God is all knowing and all powerful how can there be free will?

There is a third paradox (which actually is used in theology to question which of the two God actually is):
3) If an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object, which must contradict its classification in order to render the occurrence possible?

I am one of those weird people who sits and talks to myself all the time so these things have been discussed at length with myself and I finally think I can explain all three.

1) The term omnipotence is defined as two different things and THIS is why it is unclear which of the two his 'all powerful' aspect is meant to represent. The first definition is that the all powerful being is capable to DO ALL THINGS that can be done but not necessarily have unlimited resources to do them. So, unlike us, God by this definition has the ability to do anything with his physical body (whatever that is) but may not necessarily be unlimited in the quantity of energy, space and time with which he can do them. So if we define all powerful as capable of all things, he actually can make an object so heavy he can't lift it and still be all powerful because he'd create a machine or being to lift it for him instead and thus meet the criteria to be all powerful in this definition. The second definition of all powerful is that the omnipotent being is unlimited in quantity of resources and power but may be limited in the actual power-types they have. So by this definition, God would always be able to lift the heavy object but him being unable to create such a heavy object that he can't lift it would be a form of power he hasn't got. Thus, it comes down to which of the two (unlimited types of power or unlimited quantity of resources in a power type) we are assigning to the term 'all powerful'.

2) If God controls everything, how can there be free will and how is a miracle even an amazing thing since it's simply God breaking the rules of nature/physics that he himself made to make an unthinkable thing occur? Actually this isn't a paradox at all. The issue is that we think God has free will himself and also think that miracles are in any way a 'good' or 'amazing' thing. They are anomalies to probability. If nothing rare occurred, no one would gamble and casinos would never reel in the big bucks. Miracles happen and it's necessary for rare things to happen in order for common things to be common. In simpler terms, a mental disorder is the mental norm if a vast majority of people have it. In fact, to be perfectly crude here shared mental oddities are what make cultural differences and religious differences in the first place. The sharing of an imaginary friend is how any fictional fan base begins and how all religions other than Buddhism originated. So basically a miracle is just an odd thing and odd things are odd since things that happen more often are not odd; it's that simple. So free will and miracles both may or may not be occurring depending what you really thing they are and how 'amazing' you believe they must be.

3) If an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object there are two aspects to the issue that make it a non-sequitur to think there is an issue here. A streamer of League of Legends who specialises in analysis of the game rather than playing it (he plays it but it's not his forte) realised that players who try to be an unstoppable force may get within the top range of players just as much as players who try to be an immovable object. What he then concluded was that the ones who end up in the top 10 of any season are fundamentally immovable objects who punish the unstoppable forces trying to gain momentum at a faster pace than is optimal and then they turn into the unstoppable force because no one can hurt them without being out-traded in damage or out-traded some other way in a macro-sense of the game. In summary, the immovable object is always superior to the unstoppable force because the unstoppable force is only constantly moving as it's dissatisfied with where it currently is and how things currently are making it self-admittedly inferior and unhappy with the current state of things. Up until colliding with the immovable object, the unstoppable force may have felt powerful and invincible but which of the two is actually invincible? Are you invincible just because so far you'd never stopped running? Of course not. So ultimately what will happen is that either the unstoppable force will have to find a way to cower around the immovable object in order to keep on being an unstoppable force OR it can stop at the immovable object and admire that ultimately this is the superior thing to be. There is a reason why Floyd Mayweather defeated Conor Mcgregor and a reason why he has 0 losses. Two very defensive-styled boxers are simply going to avoid facing each other, that is actually part of being a defensive personality and part of remaining as two immovable objects. The aggressive personas of the world seem more 'amazing' at a first glance but in the end statistics and facts count and these 'unstoppable forces' are simply hyperactive wannabe immovable objects who haven't mastered patience yet. Thus, the answer is that the immovable object ends up being the one who remains true to what it is and the unstoppable force will have to 'push' or 'pull' (depending which of the two it is doing) in a way that works around the immovable object.
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  • EvidenceEvidence 814 Pts   -  
    @someone234 - There are two classic God paradoxes.

    Paradoxes are only with gods created by Religions.

    someone234 - 1) If God is all powerful can he make an object so heavy that he can't lift it?

    Only if He made a promise that He will not be able to lift that object. It's just like with Noah:
    Genesis 9:11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: 13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.

    someone234 - 2) If God is all knowing and all powerful how can there be free will?

    What does God being all powerful have to do with my free will? I love the fact that He is all knowing, this means that He is planning ahead how to save me when I screw up.

    someone234 - There is a third paradox (which actually is used in theology to question which of the two God actually is):
    3) If an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object, which must contradict its classification in order to render the occurrence possible?

    Why would that be a paradox? You misrepresent your own question: "which of the two God actually is?"   Well He is both, right? Isn't He both the unstoppable force AND the unmovable object! So what's the problem here? God is an unstoppable force, and no one can ever move Infinite/God. Where would He be moved to, ..  and when, since He is Eternal also!?

    someone234 - I am one of those weird people who sits and talks to myself all the time so these things have been discussed at length with myself

    Me too, so we have a lot in common. Here is where we differ; I believe (that would be faith built on evidence with substance (not blind faith that all these Religions require) that with God, all things are possible, that He can answer anything I ask Him, .. in His time though, not mine.

    someone234 - .. and I finally think I can explain all three.

    Interesting conclusions!

    God bless you.
  • someone234someone234 647 Pts   -  
    @Evidence I don't think God is an unstoppable force. He is inferior to determinism for instance. He is also incapable of free will.
  • EvidenceEvidence 814 Pts   -  
    The answer to the immovable object v. unstoppable force is that they go through each other. Source: Minutephysics


    Only that would make God two individuals, not One. God is both, the immovable and the unstoppable, amongst other things like Infinite, Eternal, etc. .. right?
  • EvidenceEvidence 814 Pts   -  
    @Evidence I don't think God is an unstoppable force. He is inferior to determinism for instance. He is also incapable of free will.


    Determinism has only to do with creation itself and the created, not Infinite and Eternal God.

    Incapable of free will, .. how do you figure? What He says stays, and we, in His created image have a choice too, as you can see billions of people deny Him, deny that He even exists, this proves our free will, but that doesn't do nothing to stop God. Denying God doesn't mean He ceases to exist, it only means you're exercising your free will.
  • MayCaesarMayCaesar 5967 Pts   -  
    1) This depends on the definition of omnipotence we use. Let us consider a few examples:
    • Omnipotence is the ability to take any consequence of actions that can be described in words (or maybe even including actions that cannot).
    In this case, the god should be able to "Make an object so heavy he cannot lift it, and lift this object". Since this is a self-contradictory statement, this kind of omnipotence is impossible logically.
    • Omnipotence is the ability to take a single action that can be described in words (or maybe even one that cannot).
    In this case, the god can undo his omnipotence. He should be able to "Make an object so heavy he cannot lift it", after which he cannot lift that object and, hence, he is no longer omnipotent.
    • Omnipotence is the ability to take a single action out of the space of physically allowable actions.
    In this case, what the god can do depends on what physical actions are allowed. For example, it may be impossible to create an object nobody can live due to the properties of the world - and in this case the god may not be able to do so, while still remaining omnipotent.

    To conclude, "omnipotence" needs clarification, before we can start considering its implications.

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    2) This, again, is tied to the importance of the proper definition of "omniscience" and "omnipotence". Can the god create a being that he cannot control and the future of which he cannot predict? Just as in 1), different definitions of these terms will lead to different answers. Maybe the god can create a "true" random number generation machine the output of which he does not know in advance. Or maybe such a machine is physically and/or logically impossible to create.

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    3) Unstoppable force and immovable object cannot coexist in the same world, since their definitions contradict each other. However, mathematically, if you bend the meaning of these terms slightly, they could exist together.

    Consider the limit of the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4,  ... It is infinity. Now consider the limit of the sequence 5, 10, 15, 20, ... It is, again, infinity. Let the first sequence denote an object mass that increases in time as follows: it equals 1 at 0 seconds, 2 at 0.5 seconds, 3 at 0.75 seconds, 4 at 0.875 seconds, ... Let the first sequence denote a force that increases as 5, 10, 15, 20, ... at the same periods of time. 
    What will the mass and the force equal in 2 seconds? Infinity, in both cases. However, the acceleration equals force divided by mass, and force divided by mass is always 5 for these sequences - hence the acceleration will equal 5, even despite both the mass is infinite (the object is immovable) and the force is infinite (the force is unstoppable).

    Whether this is possible physically depends on how flexible the Universe is with regards to its "internal language" And whether it allows physical infinities like this to exist.
  • someone234someone234 647 Pts   -  
    @MayCaesar You said what I said.
  • FredsnephewFredsnephew 361 Pts   -  
    Evidence said:
    @Evidence I don't think God is an unstoppable force. He is inferior to determinism for instance. He is also incapable of free will.


    Determinism has only to do with creation itself and the created, not Infinite and Eternal God.

    Incapable of free will, .. how do you figure? What He says stays, and we, in His created image have a choice too, as you can see billions of people deny Him, deny that He even exists, this proves our free will, but that doesn't do nothing to stop God. Denying God doesn't mean He ceases to exist, it only means you're exercising your free will.
    It all depends on what the truth of the matter is.
    And no one knows the truth. We only make assumptions.

    The object may be immovable but might be destroyable.
    The force may be unstoppable but might be deflectable.
    It's only word play.
  • EvidenceEvidence 814 Pts   -  
    Evidence said:
    @Evidence I don't think God is an unstoppable force. He is inferior to determinism for instance. He is also incapable of free will.


    Determinism has only to do with creation itself and the created, not Infinite and Eternal God.

    Incapable of free will, .. how do you figure? What He says stays, and we, in His created image have a choice too, as you can see billions of people deny Him, deny that He even exists, this proves our free will, but that doesn't do nothing to stop God. Denying God doesn't mean He ceases to exist, it only means you're exercising your free will.
    It all depends on what the truth of the matter is.
    And no one knows the truth. We only make assumptions.


    @Fredsnephew ;
    If no one knew the truth, truth wouldn't exist. But because we have, and exercise our free will, not knowing or caring about the truth we make assumptions. I read in this book the words of this man, and I tell you he spoke the truth. You probably heard of him, books were written of all that he did and said.

    Evidence said:
    @Evidence I don't think God is an unstoppable force. He is inferior to determinism for instance. He is also incapable of free will.


    Determinism has only to do with creation itself and the created, not Infinite and Eternal God.

    Incapable of free will, .. how do you figure? What He says stays, and we, in His created image have a choice too, as you can see billions of people deny Him, deny that He even exists, this proves our free will, but that doesn't do nothing to stop God. Denying God doesn't mean He ceases to exist, it only means you're exercising your free will.
    The object may be immovable but might be destroyable.
    The force may be unstoppable but might be deflectable.
    It's only word play.

    Infinite/God can neither be moved or destroyed, it's physically and philosophically impossible.

    As far as deflecting the unstoppable force, I guess you are right Fredsnephew,  we do that all the time, started with Adam blaming Eve, and Eve blaming the serpent, .. but like you said, it was only word play, temporary deflection of the consequences.
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