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Can God create another God?
self | 2/28/09 | self

Posted on 02/28/2009 5:28:01 AM PST by fproy2222

I have been told, here at FR, that God only creates lesser beings.

Is this because he chooses not to create someone equal to Himself, or is God unable to create someone equal to Himself?


TOPICS: Theology
KEYWORDS: god; godhood
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1 posted on 02/28/2009 5:28:01 AM PST by fproy2222
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What happened before time?


2 posted on 02/28/2009 5:29:08 AM PST by allmost
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To: fproy2222

With all respect, instead of obtaining knowledge about God why don’t you seek to know God. Ask him. He knows more about this than freepers.


3 posted on 02/28/2009 5:29:28 AM PST by lucias_clay
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To: fproy2222

Can He create a hamburger too big for him to eat? if He can then what’s the point?


4 posted on 02/28/2009 5:30:12 AM PST by InvisibleChurch (today's free oxymoron : CNN News)
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To: fproy2222
No, it's simply a logical impossibility.

There cannot exist two omnipotent beings.
5 posted on 02/28/2009 5:30:45 AM PST by mike182d ("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?")
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To: fproy2222

“A man is praised according to his wisdom, but men with warped minds are despised.” Proverbs 12:8


6 posted on 02/28/2009 5:31:47 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: fproy2222

“is God unable to create someone equal to Himself”

Same as “can god create a rock he can’t lift???”

not relevant, not the point, sophistry. if you meant it honestly, then just go read the Bible or do some genuine research, because that kind of question is just dumb.


7 posted on 02/28/2009 5:32:02 AM PST by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: fproy2222

So, if you’ve been told this at FR does that mean you believe it?


8 posted on 02/28/2009 5:33:01 AM PST by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Off Hunting--- for the COLB)
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To: fproy2222

Fred,
It is a logical fallacy to there could be TWO or MORE omnipotent Gods (all powerful).

Neither would then be omnipotent.

ampu

... unless you want to define God down to something less than who He is presented as in the Bible. For instance, if you want to define God as the Greeks did - a pantheon of competing gods who were more powerful than humans, but competing with each other (read the Illiad). The Judeo Christian God is omnipotent.


9 posted on 02/28/2009 5:33:02 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ("I, El Rushbo -- and I say this happily -- have hijacked Obama's honeymoon.")
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To: fproy2222
If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?
10 posted on 02/28/2009 5:33:10 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: mike182d
There cannot exist two omnipotent beings.

put "omnipresent and eternal" in there as well, and that's my sense of it too. But it's nice to think about that hamburger somebody else mentioned.

11 posted on 02/28/2009 5:33:38 AM PST by gusopol3
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Well, there’s always God Jr, Sant0bama.


12 posted on 02/28/2009 5:34:47 AM PST by Paladin2 (No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
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To: lucias_clay

The BEST response: “With all respect, instead of obtaining knowledge about God why don’t you seek to know God”


13 posted on 02/28/2009 5:35:03 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: fproy2222

You mean like a guy that can fill in for him when he’s a vacation?


14 posted on 02/28/2009 5:35:32 AM PST by csvset
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To: mike182d

There cannot exist two omnipotent beings

Ask Satan, he tried it?


15 posted on 02/28/2009 5:36:13 AM PST by buck61
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To: fproy2222

It might be a question that makes no sense. There cannot be two beings who are the most powerful being in the universe.


16 posted on 02/28/2009 5:37:31 AM PST by Brilliant
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That question has all the intellectual depth of a dog chasing its tail.


17 posted on 02/28/2009 5:38:56 AM PST by John 3_19-21 ('Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." G.Orwell)
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The Christian trinity theory defies monotheism by separating God into three separate forms that are co-equal, co-eternal and co-existent elements of one God Head, existing simultaneously.
By separating God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit and considering them three separate deities that are all different God elements of one Triadic God in various simultaneous forms of being, you are considering Polytheism, the belief in multiple God’s.


18 posted on 02/28/2009 5:47:08 AM PST by SouthDixie (We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
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To: fproy2222

One God, one faith, one baptism.
The God of Israel, His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, these three are one Godhead.
Father knows best.


19 posted on 02/28/2009 5:47:22 AM PST by kindred (Conservatives have 4 years to start a new conservative party or lose more elections.)
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To: fproy2222
I have been told, here at FR, that God only creates lesser beings. Is this because he chooses not to create someone equal to Himself, or is God unable to create someone equal to Himself?

Why don't you ask Him? You can toss in the question concerning the numeric value of angels on the head of a pin. Such questions don't really serve any purpose other than as mental wedges aimed at the faithful.

While you are asking questions, stop by your local university physics department and ask them to give you just one explanation for the creation of matter from nothing. If they don't have one, ask them for just one explanation for the infinite existence of matter.

20 posted on 02/28/2009 5:47:30 AM PST by SampleMan (Socialism and Liberty are mutually exclusive.)
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