Bridge of Reason

Is God Omnipotent? ‘The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah ; ‘Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?’ Jer.32:27 An omnipotent God is a God who is infinitely powerful, for whom nothing is too hard. It is often thought this means there is nothing God cannot do. That sometimes prompts the question, ’Can God make a rock so big he can’t lift it?’ Here we come across something God can’t do; God cannot do something that is self-contradictory. He can’t make something that limits his own power.   He can only do things that are logically possible. Jesus taught his disciples, ‘Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, ‘Who then can be saved?’ But Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossib...