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
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