The Greatest Love Ever Shown? [Part 2]

Sometimes people will play philosophical games when they try and disprove God.

They will ask silly questions like... "If God is All Powerful, then could He build a rock so large that He couldn't lift it?"

The people who ask these questions think that they out thought the ALL Wise God...but they really haven't thought much at all!

They are defining what All powerful means...then they are asking God to jump through the hoops...let me explain.

They define "all powerful" as the ability to do anything...and therefore if God couldn't create a rock so big that He couldn't lift it...THEN...He isn't all powerful!

BUT...if God could create a rock so large that He couldn't lift it...THEN...He would still prove to be NOT all powerful...because He couldn't lift it.

The difficulty with this type of questioning...is that God doesn't define "all powerful" as the ability to do anything...period.

The Bible defines God's Almighty power as the ability to do anything He desires to do.

There are things, that God reveals to us in the Bible, that God cannot do! But when you look at these things...they do not weaken Him...or take away from His great power...but magnify it!

God cannot be tempted by evil, God cannot lie, God cannot deny Himself...these are things that God cannot do...and things that God does not want to do.

God's character is unchangingly perfect...and therefore has absolutely no evil in Him to such a pure state that evil CANNOT tempt Him...

God is TRUTH...He is the fountain of truth...the source of truth...and because this is His character...and His character is unchanging...then we conclude from this...that God CANNOT lie!

God is the sole source of life! He is self existent, totally independant, and has existed for all eternity. God CANNOT cease being who HE is.

God CANNOT...nor does HE desire to cease being God...nor could God create another Being exactly like Himself...who was also equally God [the reasons for this should be obvious, the created being would not be eternal, and it therefore would not know all things...and would not be self existent and independant...etc.]

These are some things that the Bible says God CANNOT do...and they magnify and exalt God's great power!

Other then the things that God Himself reveals...God's power is unrestricted.

It is very important for us to understand this...because it will help us understand how great the love of the Jehovah's Witnesses God really is.

Sorry for dragging this out...but I have to get ready for work...so we will have to continue at a later date...