This thread is an exercise in circular logic and best viewed from a distance:
God can create anything. God can do anything.
Making this point, you accept there is God; God himself made these
claims in revelation
Can God create a stone so big He cannot lift Himself?
1. This is a question against the
claim: it questions the truth of the claim and should best be put to the one who made the claim i.e. God himself.
2. the question in itself is contradictory and contradictions do not exist. ( or in other words God has not allowed contradictions in this world to exist simultaneously)
3. For better understanding of the question among us humans, we can expand the question structure such as:
a) an artist claims he can paint anything, (so the question put to him is) " b) can you paint anything that you cannot handle?
Now you can see that the question is only rhetorical; first, the artist's claim did not mean about the things which he/she does not deal with; second, if the artist cannot handle something, why will he/she paint it? third, If his/her claim is true, then why will he/she not able to handle it?...........
And the last (but not the least),
you challenge the artist's claim considering him/her a lair and you can do this because you are as a human being equal to him/her; but, any such question put to God mean you are challenging God's claim and by doing so you also imply that you yourself are equal to God. Now I and anybody with some reason can understand why God will put a few feet flesh and blood in hell; you secretly (and some even openly) claim to be God's equal, now being so powerful, you should get out of his creation i.e. hell. (my prayer for all humanity, "May Allah save all of us from His punishment")
I think many people can answer this better than I have done as it is neither new nor extra-ordinary logic and this particular question is probably taught to 3rd year of Darse-Nazami (religious course) students (during their 8-year course in madrassa.)
Now the answer is inline existence of God in the first step of the circular logic, what about those who do not believe in any existence of God?
Imam ghazali ( a prominent scholar in history) gave an anecdote about scientific mind, but I fear that it will not get through the moderators, so I am giving a very ordinary logic:
There can only be two primary hypothetical realities; Hypothetical reality 1.There is no God Hypothetical reality 2. There is God
Consider 'Hypothetical reality 1', "If there is no god, believers and non- believers are equal". Both of the groups are living the maximum and enjoying the life, in the end you will perish and we will perish, so no loss to any one. (this is logic only; I know for myself that the serenity, calmness of life in general and family life in particular and the pleasure of hear the Sufi possess is incomparable to earthly enjoyment- I know it because I was an atheist, then a bookish muslim before becoming a Practicing Sufi Muslim)
Consider 'Hypothetical reality 2', "If there is God, we Sufi will meet our beloved i.e. God and bookish Muslims will enter paradise,. but what the non-believers will do? where will they go?"
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Aeronaut or any other Mod Please approve this post too as you allowed the qusetion. Thanks
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