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I recently heard an interesting philosophical question. If God is omnipotent, can be make a stone so heavy that even god can’t lift it? If not or if he can, in both ways god isn’t omnipotent. How can this paradox be solved?👑🌍⚡👁️

Oh that is very simple if you simply flip the question. If God is omnipotent, can He make Himself weak? The answer is yes and each of us is the evidence. God has become the stone and the  blade of grass, God has shut Himself in the mind of man. God has limited Himself in the atom and the  stone. So the answer is that He can make Himself so weak as not to be able to lift even a little stone. This understanding is consistent with the Hindu understanding of creation wherein God has become everything including the stone and the ant that cannot lift it. But He is equally the Power driving the stars and the drift of the galaxies. The artificial and apparently paradoxical question stems from the Christian and Islamic idea of God who is outside and other than creation and has somehow made this world that is other than He. But such a God doesn’t exist. He is a figment of human mind and its imaginations and hence the question itself is based on wrong premises and hence false. 

Affectionately,

Alok Da

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