God is a spirit. As a first step towards forming a modestly better idea of Him, imagine your body away and think of your soul existing and functioning bodiless; without parts, not occupying space, immortal, knowing, loving, deciding, acting. All these things are true of God. But our soul is not God’s equal, it is only His image. For God is infinite: we are not. God is without limit or boundary or end. Whatever perfection there is, God has it totally.
“Can God make a weight so heavy that He cannot lift it?” asks the unbeliever; thinking he has us cornered. If we say “yes,” then God cannot lift it; if we say “no” then God cannot make it. Our reply is that God can indeed do all things, but a self-contradiction is not a thing. God cannot make a four-sided triangle, because the terms contradict each other: a four-sided triangle is meaningless; it is not a thing at all, it is nothing. A weight that an almighty Being cannot lift is as much a contradiction in terms as a four-sided triangle. It too is nothing. And (to give an old text a new emphasis) nothing is impossible to God.
In Christ, Ken.
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