Blessed is He in whose hand is the dominion, and He is over all things competent.
Who created death and life to test you which of you is best in deed and He is the Exalted
in Might, the Forgiving.
He Who created seven heavens one above another.
You do not see any fault in the creation of the Most Gracious.
So look again; can you see any flaw?
Then look again.
Your vision will return to you humbled while it is fatigued.
Does man not consider that We created him from a minute quantity of semen.
Then behold!
He is an opponent clear.
And he sets forth examples for Us and forgets his own creation.
He says, "Who will give life to the bones while they are decomposed?"
Say, "He will give them life who produced them the first time; And He is All-Knower
of every creation.
Is it not He Who created the heavens and the earth Able to create the like of them.
Yes, indeed!
He is the Supreme Creator, the All-Knower.
His Command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it, "Be," and it is.
So exalted is He in Whose hand is the dominion of all things, and to Him you will be returned.
O mankind God wanted this evolved human being.
This is the time when you can understand God in a way like never before.
This age of technology apparently turned you away from God but it is actually a blessing
in disguise.
This age of knowledge is the age when you can have a true understanding of God totally
with logic and wisdom no need of blind faith anymore.
In part 6 and 9 of this program I started this topic and gave you a summary of arguments
for the Non existence and existence of God.
Now lets finalize all this one by one.
Starting with the Contingency argument that all beings are contingent i.e subject to chance
and dependent, meaning that it is possible for them not to exist.
If everything can possibly not exist, there must have been a time when nothing existed.
As things exist now, there must exist a being with necessary existence, regarded as God.
In other words, if everything could die, then, given enough time, everything would eventually
die.
But in that case nothing could start up again.
We would have universal death.
For a being that has ceased to exist, cannot cause itself or anything else, to begin to
exist again.
But because this universal death has not happened and things do exist, there must be a being
that is eternal.
If the universe has an explanation of its existence than that explanation is an external
transcendent personal cause.
Because the cause of the universe must be greater than the universe itself.
Think of the universe all of space and time so the cause of the universe must be beyond
space and time, therefore it cannot be physical or material.
Now there are only two kinds of things that could possibly fit that description, either
an abstract object or else an intelligent being.
But abstract objects can't cause anything so it must be an intelligent being i.e God.
The whole universe is a vast, interlocking chain of things that come into existence.
We would not be here without billions of causes from the Big Bang, through the forming of
stars and galaxies, and the evolution of the life on planet earth, to the marriages of
our ancestors.
To understand more consider you need a DVD for your DVD Player.
You ask your friend whether he has it.
He says no, he has to get it from his father.
What if his father says he has to get it from his friend, who in turn say that he has to
get it from his son, and the process go on until infinity.
No one actually has the Dvd.
In that case, you will never get it.
However long or short the chain of borrowers may be, you will get it only if someone actually
has it and does not have to borrow it.
The existence of all creation is like this.
If there is no first cause i.e no being who has existence by his own nature, and does
not have to borrow it from someone else, then this mere existence of all that exist can
never be passed down the chain to others and no one will ever get it.
You remember in Part 6 I presented omnipotence paradox which states that If an omnipotent
being is able to perform any action then it should be able to create a task that it is
unable to perform.
Hence, this being cannot perform all actions.
I told you that there are different versions of this like can God create a rock so big
that He cannot move it?
Or can God create a being more powerful than Himself?"
Or Can God create a prison so secure that he cannot escape from it?"
If yes for all of the above questions: than God's power is limited because it cannot
lift the stone or escape from the prison or another being is more powerful than him.
If No: than again that being's power is limited, because it cannot create the stone, the prison
or a powerful being than Him.
So it seems that omnipotence is an inherently paradoxical idea.
How should we understand, then, divine omnipotence in such a way as to avoid these paradoxes?
First, we need to ask ourselves, "Can God act in ways that are contrary to his own nature?"
For example, could God create another God and prostrate and worship him?
Could God commit stealing, adultery or lying?
These are obviously not things that God could do.
God cannot act contrary to his own nature.
So such actions are usually exempted from divine omnipotence.
To say that God is omnipotent or almighty doesn't mean he can contradict his own nature.
Most prominent theists respond that God's power is exercised only through His nature,
and God will never violate his nature.
There are certain things which are logical impossibilities?
And it is absurd to ask God to do such things.
Like can God make a square circle?
Can God make a married bachelor?
Can God make a round triangle?
These sorts of things are also usually exempted from God's omnipotence.
Indeed, when you think about it, these really aren't things at all.
There isn't any such thing as a married bachelor.
There is no such thing as a round triangle.
These are just combinations of words which, when put together, are incoherent combinations.
They are just logical contradictions.
Therefore, to say that God cannot do logical contradictions is not to say that there is
something that God can't do because these aren't really things at all.
Thus, to say that God can't bring about a logical contradiction is not really to inhibit
God's omnipotence at all.
Despite the flawed assumptions some christians theologists say that the Christian God is
able to solve the paradox.
A god such as Allah, or any other god that is not triune will still fall into this paradox,
for they are not able to humble themselves in the way, that the Triune Christian God
is able to solve the paradox.
They proposed the solution that The Christian God is unique because he is a trinity of three
divine persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Note that all three persons are distinct but they are not to be divided in the being of
God.
For instance, Jesus is not 1/3 of God, rather, Jesus is God.
God the Father is not 1/3 of God, but he is God.
The Holy Spirit is not 1/3 of God, but rather, he is God.
All three persons are fully the being of God, despite being distinct.
They say that Jesus Christ, who is fully God, humbled himself and became a human and likewise,
had our human limitations, but he is able to revert to his eternal state to lift any
rock at any time.
So God the father can create a rock which he cannot lift but Jesus the son can lift
it thus solving the Paradox.
Now there are many flaws in this solution and further it is only solving one part of
the paradox.
While I presented above all the issues and absurdities with these type of paradoxes even
than I am here solving all five paradoxes: that God can create a stone so heavy that
he cannot lift, a prison He cannot escape and a being more powerful than himself and
in spite of all this also retain His omnipotence by first creating the rock, then creating
a prison, then putting himself inside it, and than creating a being more powerful than
himself whose duration is outside of time and whose total life span is zero in time
which without consuming anytime lift the stone break the prison vanishes and disappears forever.
In this way God can perform all the tasks and in no point of time he was junior or less
in power to anyone.
Similarly for the other paradox is it possible for God to lie?
Solution is Yes by saying this sentence "I can Lie" thus both things cancel each other.
That is God can speak a lie by speaking this 3 word sentence "I can lie".
So the purpose is fulfilled as because the sentence "I can Lie" is a lie so it means
He cannot Lie.
Thus fulfilling the task and simultaneously preserving His Goodness.
Similarly can God create a circle which is a square.
Solution is Yes he can create a circle in another world where people call it a square.
I already told you that God can only do logical things.
And that is not a limitation for God because illogical things are not something that one
should be able to do.
And that God cannot act contrary to his own nature.
It is written clearly in Last Scripture that "you will never find in the way & nature
of God any change, and you will never find in the way & nature of God any alteration"
O people do not argue about God which you donot know.
Your Lord is the light of the heavens and the earth.
Two things fill my heart with surprise, admiration and wonder the starry sky above me and the
human conscious.
O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory in the heavens.
When I consider your heaven the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you
have set in place.
What is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?
You have made them a little lower than God, And You crown them with glory and honor.
You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
all flocks and herds and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in
the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all
the earth!
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