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Atheist Argument

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(Version 1 of the "Omnipotence Argument")

The very idea of an “all-powerful being” collapses under its own weight. If God can do anything, then He should be able to create a stone so heavy He cannot lift it. But if He cannot lift it, He is not all-powerful. And if He cannot create it, He is also not all-powerful. Either way, the concept is incoherent.

This paradox isn’t limited to stones. Can God make a square circle? A married bachelor? Can He lie? Can He cease to exist? If the answer is yes, then nonsense is possible. If the answer is no, then His power is limited. In both cases, “omnipotence” becomes meaningless.

Believers often redefine omnipotence as “God can do all things consistent with His nature.” But that’s just admitting there are things He cannot do — logical constraints He cannot break. Which means the very definition of omnipotence is a trick of language, not a reality.

In short: the notion of an all-powerful God collapses into contradiction. If omnipotence is impossible even in theory, then the God who supposedly has it cannot exist.