Can God make a sandwich so big even he can't finish it?
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Oh, I love the "can God make an X so big he can't Y it" fallacy. Just to be clear, I believe in a God that is logically but not de facto omnipotent. But let's look at this argument. (This analsys ripped off from a philosopher named Davies.)
This only works if you're talking about a classically omnipotent God, right? I mean, this is supposed to be a challenge to omnipotency, if I understand it correctly. Well, omnipotency means all powerful, or having the ability ot do anyhing. Part of having the ability to do anything would be the ability to eat any size sandwich, no matter how big. (Or to close any suitcase, no matter how full, or to lift any rock, no matter how hudsony.) So, to break this down logically, the question is, can a being that can eat any size sandwich (God) create a sandwich too big for him to eat, and you see we have a logical fallacy. A sandwich so big that a being who can eat any size sandwich can't eat it is a logical impossibility. This is no more a challenge to classical omnipotency than God's inability to make a square circle or to write good smooth jazz. Omnipotency is not limited by the inability to do the logically impossible.
