could god

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The correct answer is No, because the object in question is a contradiction, and a contradiction is nothing–it is no thing.

And nothing IS impossible to God.
 
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create a sandwich so big not even he could finish eating it?
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Let us suppose we are discussing a sandwich than which no greater sandwich could be conceived. It follows from this:
  1. The sandwich must nonetheless possess extension in space and time. Therefore, it is not a sandwich with any divine attributes, except for the attribute of existence, should it exist.
  2. Given premise 1, the sandwich would exist contingently, as part of God’s creation.
  3. Given premise 2, the sandwich would be “in” God in a sense, for all contingent things are subsumed by their necessary Cause.
  4. But we here run into a contradiction; for if God could not finish eating the sandwich, it would not be “in” God, and yet it necessarily is “in” God in the sense of being a part of God’s creation which is “in” God.
  5. But a sandwich cannot be “in” God and not “in” God at the same time.
  6. Therefore the sandwich itself cannot be thought of as possessing ontological status as a truly existing thing, and the answer to the question must be no.
  7. The same argument applies also to mustard, horseradish, and all other condiments, even Miracle Whip.
 
Could God make a person who sings so badly they couldn’t get on American Idol even in the “bad auditions” episodes? 😃
 
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