From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!zeppo!wheps!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!mhuxm!pyuxjj!pyuxcc!djj Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Paradox Article-I.D.: pyuxcc.339 Posted: Sat Aug 7 17:19:08 1982 Received: Sun Aug 8 00:42:06 1982 Isn't this question (can GOD create something he cannot uncreate) equivalent to the following (from Smullyan's book, I think): What is the result of the following collision: An immovable (by anything!) post is hit by a unstoppable (by anything!) cannonball? The answer is fairly obvious; the two fundamental assumptions are contradictory and cannot both exist at the same time. A similar argument suffices for the GOD problem. If "God is all powerful and can do ANYTHING", "ANYTHING" must include the ability to destroy. Another angle: 1) GOD creates item # 1 which he cannot destroy. 2) GOD creates item # 2 which can destroy item # 1. . . . n) GOD creates item # n which can destroy item # n-1. n+1) GOD can destroy item # n. Waiting for the heat, Dave Johnson BTL - Piscataway (...!mhux*!pyuxcc!djj)