Can God make a stone larger than God can lift?

This logic puzzle was a topic of discussion in my local sauna.

Some might use it as proof that there can't be a God.

Here's my take on the question.

There are some assumptions behind this question. Like the assumption that any god would have to be able to do all things.

Who says God has to be able to do all things? Can't we have "God Limited?" God.Ltd? We have Lloyds Of London Ltd. Maybe God can't do everything. How do we know?

You say, "what?" God Limited?" "A god that can't do all things?"

Well, I guess that's possible. Still, that god would be able to do enough things.

Enough.

Maybe that's all it takes. Like the concept of "enough" versus "always striving to make more money."

Then I read the report of some travel writer describing a huge mansion in which he stated, "God couldn't even afford to live there."

We tend to view so many things in extremes. Especially things like gods. They have to be "perfect," or they can't exist. They have to be "all powerful," or they can't exist.

Those are all assumptions.

It's interesting to look at our assumptions.

I am remembering my last blog entry about religion. I wondered about the assumption that God always has to write in rigid stone. Writing in stone rather than writing in (for instance) Wikipedia. Yes, ever changeable Wikipedia. Updated always to meet changing needs.

There's a connection in the word "stone."

For some reason we often think in terms of "stone" when we think about God. "God can't make a stone larger than God can lift." "God casts all his laws in stone."

Rigid stone.

Maybe we think this way because we will find that God is "stoned on marijuana" when we get to heaven.

Oh, people are going to hate me for saying that, and I don't even use marijuana myself.

I just think that "lack of flexibility in our thinking" kills God.

Lack of flexibility kills God, or at least kills our concept of God.

Yes, it doesn't seem possible that God could ever "make a stone larger than God could lift," but we are stumbling in our own limited logic.

Believers and non believers stumbling.

We make pronouncements about the divine, but we really have a lot more to discover.