Can God create a God more powerful than him?

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Nope. That’s an impossibility, a contradiction in terms, which means it is a nothing.
And nothing IS impossible to God.
 
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Before you ask if God can create a being more powerful than him (There’s nothing more powerful than God by definition) one has to ask if its even possible for there to be two God’s.

The answers is no.

God by definition is the greatest being. God is absolute perfection.

An absolute perfect being lacks nothing that is true to the identity of an absolute perfect being. If there is two of these Gods it would mean that perfection is divided between two distinct beings, therefore God would lack the perfection that the other God has and therefore neither of these Gods would be "absolute perfection". This is of course contradictory to what it means to be God.
 
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These are the kinds of questions that children at Catholic schools ask each other as fun riddles. A popular one is, “Can God lift a rock that’s impossible to lift”, or something like that.

I don’t mean to belittle the question, I don’t know how old you are or what your background is. But yea, those are some fun riddles.
 
OP, been listening to old George Carlin records? :rolleyes:

“Well, it’s a mystery.”
 
Yeah seriously.
This is getting old. Really old.
Want to be an atheist? Be one.
most of us are not.
 
IWantGod said:
Before you ask if God can create a being more powerful than him (There’s nothing more powerful than God by definition) one has to ask if its even possible for there to be two God’s.

The answers is no.

God by definition is the greatest being. God is absolute perfection.

An absolute perfect being lacks nothing that is true to the identity of an absolute perfect being. If there is two of these Gods it would mean that perfection is divided between two distinct beings, therefore God would lack the perfection that the other God has and therefore neither of these Gods would be "absolute perfection". This is of course contradictory to what it means to be God.
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It violates the principle of economy. (Occam’s Razor)
 
Please confirm that this is a serious inquiry and not just trolling. I’m serious, please tell me this is something thats truly nagging you. If so, I’ll be happy to offer my thoughts.
 
God is said to be omnipotent not because He can do the illogical or because we’re attributing to Him some arbitrary level of power, but because He is the First Cause of all things that are and all things that could possibly be. He Himself is the only eternal being of pure actuality (Refer to Aristotle’s First Cause argument and Thomas Aquinas’ Argument From Motion/Change).

Suppose that God could create a being more powerful than Himself. This second being therefore does not exist of His own intrinsic necessity, but is dependent on God for His existence. A consequence of that is that this being was something that God could potentially have not created but chose to actualize, which means that this being is not a being of pure acuality. Furthermore, this second being is is not the First Cause of all things that are and all things that could possibly be, but is limited to being a secondary cause. So if omnipotence is being the First Cause of all things that are and all things that could possibly be, this second being is not omnipotent, it becomes nonsensical to declare this second being to be “more powerful” than God.

Therefore, God cannot create another being more powerful than Himself.
 
truetofaith said:
Why is an Atheist asking about what God ( who he doesn’t believe in ) can create?
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I disagree with this notion. If it becomes a disruption to productive discussion and just harassment that’s one thing. But a former Catholic asking questions about a faith he may have many misunderstandings of…?

Well, he might not be convinced and he might remain highly skeptical, but it doesn’t seem like a bad thing.
 
Wesrock said:
God is said to be omnipotent not because He can do the illogical or because we’re attributing to Him some arbitrary level of power, but because He is the First Cause of all things that are and all things that could possibly be. He Himself is the only eternal being of pure actuality (Refer to Aristotle’s First Cause argument and Thomas Aquinas’ Argument From Motion/Change).

Suppose that God could create a being more powerful than Himself. This second being therefore does not exist of His own intrinsic necessity, but is dependent on God for His existence. A consequence of that is that this being was something that God could potentially have not created but chose to actualize, which means that this being is not a being of pure acuality. Furthermore, this second being is is not the First Cause of all things that are and all things that could possibly be, but is limited to being a secondary cause. So if omnipotence is being the First Cause of all things that are and all things that could possibly be, this second being is not omnipotent, it becomes nonsensical to declare this second being to be “more powerful” than God.

Therefore, God cannot create another being more powerful than Himself.
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