Is there anything God can not do? Yes!

United States
December 20, 2007 12:13am CST
Yes because God can not LIE, it is not within his character to lie. He has no evil and lying is evil. Yes we lie of course all humans have sin but God has no sin. Do you believe in this statement? Why or why not?
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@urbandekay (18278)
20 Dec 07
More importantly that God choosing not to lie is, cna God do the logically impossible? Can he make a round square? Can he speak a sentence that is both completely false and completely true? all the best urban
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• United States
20 Dec 07
Duck Billed Platypus - Well I guess this may have to be filed under "Do not tempt the Lord thy God.
Now this is the idea! To make it round would be to make the square disappear. Hmmmmmm.... That is a head scratcher but look at the Duck Billed Platypus. Maybe the Duck Billed Platypus came from a discussion like this in heaven?!? HAHA!! Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...... HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!
@urbandekay (18278)
21 Dec 07
God is generally held to be omnipotent, which means he is possessed of all potentials, he can be and do anything, therefore if you deny he can do the logically impossible then you deny his omnipotence. all the best urban
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• United States
21 Dec 07
No, God cannot do the logically impossible. Does this mean that the LORD is not powerful because He cannot do certain things? No! Even omnipotence is subject to holiness and TRUTH. God cannot do things which are contrary to His own nature. For example, God cannot lie or learn anything new. What this means is that He can do whatever He desires in order to accomplish His plan and purpose.
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• Philippines
20 Dec 07
There's nothing impossible to God, God can do everything and of course He can also lie but He does not. I hope people could see the difference because if there's something God cannot do and impossible for Him to do then we cannot say that there's nothing impossible to God.
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• United States
20 Dec 07
There is no way that God can lie. The reason that God cannot lie is because to lie is to sin and sin cannot exist in the presence of God. So if God were to lie God would no longer exist, therefore as soon as God thought about lieing he would no longer be God since as the Scriptures state, "If thine eyes sins against you pluck it out as it is better to enter heaven with one eye than not at all." Sin cannot exist in the presence of God and if God were to lie he would not exist.
• United States
21 Dec 07
Therefore, Yes He can not lie because lying is a sin and God has no sin...and thus Lying is impossible for God to do...
@SEOGUY (906)
• United States
23 Dec 07
God can not look on sin becouse he hates sin, not that he can not sin. God chooses not to sin as is therfor perfect becouse he does not CHOOSE to sin. God created all things including what we call evil. Noone creates but God, Satan did not create it he choose it, as man chooses to sin. At one time we read in the first book of the bible after the flood man was still sinning, even after promissing not to destroy mankind and the earth agin God thought to destroy man, but remimbered his promiss and repented of the sin he thought to do to man. So god thought about breaking his promiss to man wich would be lieing, he thought about destroying all mankind, wich would have been a sin aginst man. But he CHOOSE not to, that is why he is holy. It is not that sin can not exist befor God as we read Satan goes befor him constantly to accuse us, it is that we sinners are not able to stand before him and him look upon us for all our sins. This is why a sacrifice for our sins were needed for God to be able to see us without our sins. With God all things are possible, just not all things probable
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@Ohara_1983 (4117)
• Kuwait
20 Dec 07
yup im agree with you, that he can do anything except lying, as we all know that satan who make those thing lie is fron lucifer not from god,as per one of friend told that he can revield the people who lie to truth.
• United States
21 Dec 07
Thank you for your response. Lucifer is Satan. For he all he tempts us with is sin, he has but lies and things that are false for us. It is God who is our Saviour. He is the Father of Truth. He cannot sin and He is the Captain of our souls, the Author and Finisher of our faith.
• United States
20 Dec 07
Yes you are absolutely right. God cannot lie due to the fact that if he were to lie he could not exist as there can be no sin in the presence of God, therefore God would ceace to exist. But there are other things that God cannot do as well. God cannot sin, God cannot perform carnal acts, God cannot be defeated, God cannot stop loving, God cannot do anything against his nature since to do anything outside of his nature would make him a liar as the scriptures say that God is the same today, tomorrow, and forever, and as stated above a lie would end his existance. Thank you for the thought provoking discussion and HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!
• United States
20 Dec 07
As omnipotent, yeah sure he could recreate himself such as he did with the Savior, but here comes the flaw in this.... Being OMNISCIENT he would have to know his purpose so for him to split in order to sin would make it sin for the original as well as he aided in the process of sin thus no longer GOD. Yes Theology is a very hard and difficult study that I have taken up. I have reverence for all of the religions of the world although I ascribe to none. I have put in a lot of study and this was one of my test questions long ago and that is the only reason I could answer it. Theology is a continued cycle of proofs and counter proofs, beliefs, dogmas, creeds, etc... and it truly is a pain in the backside to study unless you are studying just one (ie: Orthodox Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Catholicism, etc...) and even then when you get past the dogmas, creeds and beliefs it can still get rather confusing. I studied Comparative Religion which can get real confusing. Thank you for the reply and HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!
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@urbandekay (18278)
20 Dec 07
except of course if God is omnipotent he can choose to exist twice simultaneously, with the same consciousness. One existence could then sin, and, according to you, then cease to exist but since both existences of God have the same consciousness the other existence of God would be have experienced sinning and to all intents and purposes lied. Hard stuff theology. Presume not the heavens to scan, the real study of mankind is man all the best urban
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• United States
21 Dec 07
Exist twice simultaneously? Did I not say that there are things that God cannot do? Even if God could do what you say I know for a fact He would not do something so utterly stupid. There are things that God cannot do. Omnipotence does not mean being able to do whatever you want, for even omnipotence is subject to its own holiness and truth.
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@apsara60 (6610)
• Israel
20 Dec 07
Yes I believe in this because this is what makes him God.......!!! we human beings are not God because we make mistakes, we lie, we get attracted towards all those things that lead us to commit sins and that is what keeps us human.......if we would not lie, rob, hurt, kill, commit sins, then we will be as good as God. Since God cannot lie and cannot commit sin, He is God.......and that is why we should believe in him and try to follow his path......obviously we cannot become God but at least it will make us good human being.
• United States
21 Dec 07
Yes, we can't be all good because only God can be. We as humans that means all humans are sinners. We have committed to doing sin or creating sin because that is within our nature just as lying and being good is within God's nature...What we can do to become a better human being is to follow Him and walk with him...We can only become better humans but we can not be a perfect being...no one is perfect except God...
• United States
16 Aug 08
God can lie if He wanted to, I suppose, but when God lies, it's not evil. This is something our tiny litte peabrains cannot understand of course. From what I can understand, everything that goes on in this material world also goes on in the spiritual world, however in the spiritual world all is pure and uncontaminated. All activities are meant for the pleasure of God, not ourselves. Here in this material world, everything we do is for our own selves. All evil means is that we forget our true positions, evil is ignorance. Of course that dosn't mean we can go out and "lie" for God, either. A true pure soul never lies, no matter what the consequence. All humans have the opportunity to cleanse themselves of "evil," it is within our power to do this. And that's the Truth!
@AshleyHasan (1024)
• India
25 Jun 08
YES I absolutely beleive in this statement GOD CAN NOT LIE. He has no evil . If he lies then he his not considered to be God.
@Neriz69 (1093)
• Philippines
24 Jun 08
You are right there my friend. Another thing that God cannot do is to break His own promise. He keeps all His promises for as long as we do our part of the bargain. So if we do not receive His graces it's because of us and not Him.
• Philippines
7 Jan 08
I firmly believe that God cannot lie. He will never be a God of falsehood only the God of truth. I think it is improper to even think that God can lie.
@SEOGUY (906)
• United States
23 Dec 07
No, you are wrong, God can do anything, encluding lie. What makes him diferent and holy is that he chooses not to. Lucky for his creation that he chooses not to do evil. It is even possible for God to repent as we read in genasis that "God thought to destory his creation man becouse everything man did was evil, but remebered his promis and repented of the evil he thought to do aginst man".
@baileycows (3665)
• United States
25 Jun 08
LOL! You got me. When I first read the discussion I was like NO! Then you said Yes! and it got me curious. You just don't think about that when that question is asked because your thinking more on the lines of healing and such I think.
@awapak (1275)
• Pakistan
23 Jul 08
Yes,you are right God Almighty cannot tell lie and cheat.It is below His dignity.He has also decided not to forgive any polytheist,who has not recognized and worshiped Him alone in this world.............This is given in the final divine book,the Holy Quran.
• Canada
24 Jun 08
He can also not be real