What is a physical impossibility for God?
DAVEH: Did you ever read the SCREWTAPE LETTERS,
Judy? At one point, Screwtape (the devil) tells Wormwood that humans are
too quick to attribute their all their ills to him, effectively suggesting
that sometime humans give credit to where credit isn't due.
The book you refer to DH is the fantasy of CSL, I go
to a higher authority which tells me that illness is not
a blessing; it also reveals to me who it is
that implements the curse but not without God's permission I
might add.
I think
the same can be said of God. Sometimes we assume he does things he
really doesn't. In this case, by suggesting God can do the impossible
might just be painting God into a corner from which he would prefer not to
be.
How is that DH? I don't make up things that
paint God into any corner; I am speaking of things that He has
done already; things he has recorded in His Word by
His Spirit.
You asked the question.....What is a
physical impossibility for God?........and the obvious answer is
that which you have undoubtedly heard before.....Can God create a rock to
heavy for him to lift? Would you agree that doing so
is a physical impossibility for God,
Judy?
Only if God were a man with limitations but since He
is not a man that He should lie and He is not a man who is
limited by fleshly weakness all He has to do is speak to the rock and it will move
just as He spoke the worlds into existence.
I
prefer to believe God operates within the laws of his creation.
His son was born under the Mosaic Law but even He
circumvented physical laws constantly by walking on water
and commanding a storm along with rebuking
death.
Those laws define him and all his creation, and I do not think God
could/would break those laws, but is capable of using them in ways of which we
are unaware in order to perform miracles that confound his Adversary.
God is transcendent DH and his adversary is well
aware of who is boss.
Judy Taylor wrote:
Just this morning I read this interaction between
DaveH and KevinD (I think) ...
KD: That is explained by the fire and brimstone imagery
that is in reality endless torment.
a fire which cannot
be consumed, even an unquenchable fire
DAVEH:
More imagery that is physically an
impossibility. Fire can be extinguished, whereas
mental torment can go on forever.
So tell me - What is a physical impossibility
for God? The same God who delivered what he had
promised to Abraham and
Sarah when they were 90 and 100yrs old respectively. A God who was
able to roll back the Red Sea until his people crossed and afterward
kept them in the desert for 40yrs
feeding them with manna from heaven and
keeping their clothes from wearing out and their feet from
swelling. The same God who stopped the sun for 24
hours and caused an axe head to float on water
The God who energized
His prophet causing him to run for 25 miles in front of Jezebels'
chariot and
had the ravens feed
him while he rested and regrouped in a cave.
Tell me - what would be too difficult for a
God like this and how can the feeble efforts of
man explain
Him?
Conor: Might we hear from you on this? Frame
this in whatever fashion suits you.
Lance
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