God is always able to kill Himself if He wants to?

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Sorry if this has been asked before. Is it true that God is (and always will be) able to kill himself. This is because He is (and always will be) all powerful and he can (and always will be able to) do anything independently if He wants to. God teaches us that He doesn’t kill Himself, because He lives for ever. If He isn’t able to kill himself, He isn’t all powerful?

Is this a solution to the omnipotence paradox? Sorry if this is obvious. The wording I just used is easier for me to understand than other wordings to do with this topic.
 
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Sorry if this has been asked before. Is it true that God is (and always will be) able to kill himself.
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What do you mean by “kill”? It’s hard to interpret your question while applying the same definition for kill that I would use for material beings (ex:bringing cellular processes to an irreversible stop) to beings that are thought of as immaterial.
 
Peter Kreeft said it best when he said, “There are certian things God can not do because He is all good and all powerful. One of them is make Himself not exist.” (It’s from Lee Strobels amazing book, “The Case for Faith”.
 
It’s kind of like God making a rock so big He can’t lift it. Some things even God can’t do.
 
God is eternal and omnipotent. He can “do” anything, except that which is a logical contradiction. For example, God is infinite and eternal. Killing Himself is a contradiction of Himself. The same goes for making a rock so big that even He can’t lift it.
 
This would be contrary to God’s Supreme, Perfect Love for Himself, and thus false. God has a Nature and it is reflected in His Creation. This is a tenant of Catholic theology.

Nominalism has corrupted philosophy to the point where nothing is believed to be true. The Catholic Magisterial authority has advanced Thomism as worthy of belief and capable of defining what we know by Divine Revelation. Modern philosophy fails to lead anywhere but away from truth.

There are several sites offering answers to this type of paradox, Jimmy Akin’s site, and God, obligation, and the Euthyphro dilemma are two quick ones.
 
Computer8 said:
Sorry if this has been asked before. Is it true that God is (and always will be) able to kill himself. This is because He is (and always will be) all powerful and he can (and always will be able to) do anything independently if He wants to. God teaches us that He doesn’t kill Himself, because He lives for ever. If He isn’t able to kill himself, He isn’t all powerful?

Is this a solution to the omnipotence paradox? Sorry if this is obvious. The wording I just used is easier for me to understand than other wordings to do with this topic.
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G-d is absolutely omnipotent. Logic, insofar as it can be said to exist is contingent on G-d. He could have created an anti-logic universe where contradictions are true and consistencies are false. Our inability to understand how such a thing might be done is no barrier to the power of an omnipotent G-d.
 
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What do you mean by “kill”? It’s hard to interpret your question while applying the same definition for kill that I would use for material beings (ex:bringing cellular processes to an irreversible stop) to beings that are thought of as immaterial.
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“Cease to exist” is usually the standard form of this paradox.
 
I think it’s the way that people say that God “can’t do”. It makes me think “not able to” and this is not true. I prefer to say, “doesn’t do” because it implies that “He can” if He wants to. Someone please correct me if this doesn’t make sense. I’m guessing that the wording I prefer to use has the same meaning as the wordings I talk about in the first two sentences of this very post but I’m not quite making sense of those wordings at the moment.

“The one God taught about in the Bible must be good (and not evil) otherwise He would dwell in Hell and not Heaven.”

I’m guessing this statement must also be true?
 
The nature of God would prohibit this. God is a necessary being whereas man is a contingent being. We require something external to ourselves to explain our existence. We exist based on the will of God. We can be annihilated but God cannot. The necessary nature of God prohibits this. It is a radical part of God’s nature that he cannot cease to exist. This can be hard to understand because of the limitations of our mind and experience.
 
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