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Can God really do anything? It's said he can but I have my doubts,1. I doubt he can teleport people (especially to places that don't exist like video games), 2. I don't think he can make things appear out of thin air (example: Money)

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Ancient Hippy Profile
Ancient Hippy answered
I think the book of Spock, verse 12, talks about teleportation and the book of Kirk, verse 3, discusses things appearing out of thin air. I believe it's called a replicator. 

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Ancient Hippy
Ancient Hippy commented
Yeah man!!!
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Kirk and Spock are definitely the authorities on all things God. After all, they've been out there in the Enterprise and have probably even chatted with the old gent.
Ancient Hippy
Ancient Hippy commented
I'm pretty sure they did Didge. They HAD to have run into him/her somewhere in the universe. They always steered clear of those devilish Cardassians though.
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Didge Doo answered

If God created the Universe and all that is in it, then  he can do anything. And, while Biblical scholars have not yet learned how he performed such a phenomenal feat, Didge's Gospel reveals the ease, and the perfectly natural manner in which it was achieved. The cataclysmic and holy explosion that we euphemistically call the Big Bang was merely a rapid expulsion of Divine Methane.

1:1 In the beginning before all things were created, was a Being who inhabited the All-There-Is; and his name was Aye, for he was One.
1:2 Aye was an Epicurean. Nay, he was THE Epicurean, and his larder was a cornucopia of culinary delights.
1:3 And Aye feasted.
1:4 Without pausing for sleep or rest he ate continuously for six days and six nights, and then he was filled.
1:5 And on the evening of the sixth day he was no longer able to retain all that he had consumed and a mighty explosion occurred.
1:6 The stars were born, and the planets, and all that there is, and they sped from him at enormous speeds, forming constellations in the firmament.
1:7 And Aye collapsed in intoxicated slumber and lo, it was the seventh day.

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Ray Dart answered

It's curious. I've just spent some time on a few of those "christian" websites designed to "educate" and "inform" (in their own "special" way).

It appears that it is difficult to find anything in scripture that definitively says the Judeo-Christian god is omnipotent. It appears that this characteristic of god is an "interpretation" of the texts by religious scholars (a bit like "Christ died for our sins", which also came along after the event).

If you wish to believe in the omnipotence of God, he can do anything. If you don't he can't.

Believe what your conscience tells you to believe.

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Walt O'Reagun
Walt O'Reagun commented
I suppose any being powerful enough to create a universe and all the life within in ... is "all powerful" to those creatures.

Sorta like if cakes were sentient ... and I have the power to manufacture an oven, gather the ingredients, bake a cake, and the power to consume said cake ... While the cake only had the power to replicate itself ... The cake would probably view me as "all powerful". LOL
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Pepper pot answered

Well quantum mechanics say we are energy vibrating at a certain state. Electrons go from an energy state to a positional state, that is pretty awesome. 

Some texts (corpus hermetica)  say that the cosmos is of a lesser state than God, it is imperfect because it is passable and subject to motion, that no where is a "single" passable. That Good is God himself and nowhere else, for passable and motion good becomes bad, imperfect. Hence no natural thing can contain good for it is contained all sides and bound by labours, pains, desires, passions, and errors. The eye cannot see good so cannot behold it. Hence, one must seek with mind and heart."

This is in line with mans "falling" to natural decay and death in the bible, for the desired promise to be like God from a lesser entity. There are many fascinating archetype stories of man falling in love with nature and so cutting himself off from perfection yet able to experience the separateness from God, a bit like when we come out of the birth canal before that we are fulfilled.

As for paper, I mean money...That idea is in the mind (ironically given the usual direction of this topic matter ie God).  How many dollars bills would build you a house and not get soaked by the rain?  Money is an IOU, whether on paper or as the digits on your banking screen. You create labour, not money in of itself, the bank only deals the numbers out and takes its cut, like a card shark. Bankers are parasites, oh for the time when we actually owned property and not deeds and exchanged labour and goods without the middle man. You could say as non believers that just like god money does not exist either, only the idea. You believe paper has value and banks have power, it doesn't and they don't, we do with our labour and we give them their power. 

Rich people admit they do not think like poor people, they make others work to pay for their lifestyle, exactly the same as bankers...and parasites

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Arthur Wright , Florida Paralegal with a BS degree in Social-Psychology, answered

God doesn't give definite solutions but the means for us to work out our own solutions. This is why God and Mother Nature gave us brains, not for God to solve all our problems but to use to figure our own way out or how to ask others for help.  

God won't give you money as we all know how money is the root of all evil and know how God feels about money. Teleport people is a mankind made sci-fi idea so like the songs says, "sometimes Gods best answers are unanswered prayers"  so be very careful what you ask him for  as you may not get it but a means to the ends

John McCann Profile
John McCann answered

To " do anything " this god would first have to exist. Even a deistic god can only be argued for and not supported by any evidence.

strawberry girl Profile
strawberry girl answered
God cannot do what is not actually possible
to be done, like creating a two-sided triangle, or a married bachelor.
Just because words can be strung together this way does not make the
impossible possible - these things are contradictions, they are truly
impossible in reality. Now, what about this rock? A rock would have to
be infinitely large to defeat an infinite amount of lifting power. But
an infinite rock is a contradiction since material objects cannot be
infinite. Only God is infinite. There cannot be two infinites. So the
question is actually asking if God can make a contradiction - which He
cannot.

gotquestions.  Org/God-rock-heavy-lift

Tom  Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

He could make money appear out of thin air if He so chose; and He could also prove to all of humanity conclusively that He exists, but He has chosen a different way to interact with His human creations.

He can do anything that does not involve a contradiction in terms.  (That's another way of saying that truth is the conformity of the mind to that which exists and that truth not only exists, but it is the proper object of study.)

I remember one of the non-standard Easter movies that came out some years ago that spent a little more time on Jesus as a young boy.

He and another boy were playing while Mary and the other mother talked.  The movie ostensibly was focusing on the conversation, but it quickly became clear that what Jesus and the other boy were doing----making figurines or animals out of clay---was the point of the scene.  When the mothers called to the boys to leave, the other boy threw his animal down. Jesus, however, had fashioned a bird out of clay; and rather than throwing it down, he threw it up in the air, at which point it flew away.

The camera caught the impish smile on his face.

I think that God tends to hide two things from most of us---the first is His mirth; the second is His capacity for "insane" generosity.

All is gift from God.  If Hitler became (with God's help) a creation that could exist in Heaven, I could live with that.

Hope This Helps Profile
Hope This Helps answered

"The things impossible with men are possible with God.”- Luke 18:27

But Jehovah does not perform whimsical acts, for the entertainment of humans.  Nor would we expect someone who has made the significant promises he has made, to realistically do so: 

"And he will wipe out every tear from our eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”- Revelation 21:4


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