Can anything be 'beyond' God?

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Simple question.

Is there any ‘thing’, ‘concept’, ‘existence’, dharma, etc. that is beyond God?

Or is God the one who is beyond everything?
 
All possibility originates with God because he is the original reality, he is the reason there is something rather than nothing. So, i don’t think its possible for anything to be beyond God unless it’s something that contradicts God’s nature.
 
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Nope. God is that than which nothing greater can be thought–St. Anselm
 
Depends what you mean by Beyond I guess.

Is logical absurdity “beyond” God? (Can God create a table so heavy that He can’t lift it?)
 
Sin is not of God. Satan believes it to beyond God in some way. Pride allowed our first parents and allows every one of us to agree with the snake’s psychosis.
There is a dharma that blocks the fulfillment of God as the total union of all the knowing in Jungian belief structures. This lie has root in truth as sin keeps us from realizing our part in the body of Christ.
There is nothing beyond or greater than true God. We build many images of false Gods which are dumb and blind hollow concepts. There is much more beyond these idols. Find God and find truth and go beyond where your holiness is now.
 
There is no way to know for sure.

Any arguments for or against the proposition are dependent on premises which are based in speculation about the nature of reality.
 
No. God is being and existence itself. Whatever has being or exists outside of God is something caused or created by God.
 
CatholicHere_Hi said:
Simple question.

Is there any ‘thing’, ‘concept’, ‘existence’, dharma, etc. that is beyond God?

Or is God the one who is beyond everything?
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It depends how you’re using the question.

For example: can God create billions of souls with truly free will and simultaneously have all of those souls truly choose him and enter the Beatific Vision? The consensus is: no.

God can’t make a square circle or a round square, etc, albeit there are some who argue against this.

There is no reality or state of being that hasn’t been conceived of by God from eternity to eternity.
 
I would think that anything not in G-d’s nature is beyond G-d, whether evil, sin, absurdity, human failings, death, etc. Judaism prefers to define G-d as what He is not and cannot be.
 
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