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1. get@glee.li (get@glee.li)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 16:58:52 JST get@glee.li
   can god create a penis that he cannot fit in his ass
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   • MercurialBlack (mercurialblack@pleroma.mercurial.blog)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 00:34:15 JST MercurialBlack

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     @get https://pleroma.mercurial.blog/notice/AXlXgdD0q5GMw5abvk
   • get@glee.li (get@glee.li)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 00:34:15 JST get@glee.li

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     @MercurialBlack I saw this earlier, it made me think to apply the argument to a penis and anal
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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 00:36:01 JST Machismo

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     @scarlet @get @MercurialBlack If you are talking about Jesus, the human, of course. He was bound by the same constraints as us. But if you are talking about God in all His divine power, the question is meaningless: It makes as much sense as asking if He can create a rock too purple for Him to lift.
   • Scarlet :02_dance: (scarlet@bae.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 00:36:02 JST Scarlet :02_dance:

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     @MercurialBlack @get
     "All things are possible" implies that impossible things become possible too for god. Personally, I'm fine to chalk it up to language being imperfect and that the phrase "all things are possible" should actually be said as "all possible things are possible with god", which sounds a lot less spectacular.
   • Scarlet :02_dance: (scarlet@bae.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 01:05:03 JST Scarlet :02_dance:

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     @Zerglingman @get @MercurialBlack
     >It makes as much sense as asking if He can create a rock too purple for Him to lift
     I'm not 100% sure what you mean by that. I can definitely envision a rock too purple to lift. I can simply imagine a rock radiating so much purple light that's not only blinding, but it physically hurts to look in it's direction. And even if you close your eyes, it's purple light is so powerful, that it still passes through your eyelids and causes you pain. So if you can't even be near the purple rock because of the pain it causes you, you obviously couldn't lift it.
     
     Sure, you can write down a sentence that makes no semantic sense, let alone logical sense. And then you can say "well obviously that doesn't apply to god". My point is just that the phrase "all things are possible with god" inherently implies that even nonsensical, illogical and impossible things are possible with god, and it would be better if people rephrased it to something like "all possible things are possible with god", so that it gets rid of future misunderstandings, so that people don't have address such statements that are illogical or nonsensical.
     
     But even so we're still left with the issue that we still wouldn't know what would or wouldn't qualify as logically possible for a god. It would seem logically impossible to us for a human to walk on water, and yet the Bible claims god can do so. So the door will always be open to questioning if a particular statement really is logically impossible, or if it only seems logically impossible because we don't have enough information about the entirety of existence.
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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 01:05:29 JST Machismo

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     @scarlet @get @MercurialBlack Maybe, just maybe, all things are possible for God.
   • Scarlet :02_dance: (scarlet@bae.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 01:07:17 JST Scarlet :02_dance:

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     @Zerglingman @get @MercurialBlack
     Even the illogical things? Then your position is that the omnipotent god can indeed create a rock so purple that he can't lift.
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   • Scarlet :02_dance: (scarlet@bae.st)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 01:08:08 JST Scarlet :02_dance:

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     @Zerglingman @MercurialBlack @get
     P.S. I do love the creativity of "a rock so purple..."
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   • Machismo (zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 21-Jul-2023 01:08:22 JST Machismo

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     • MercurialBlack
     @scarlet @get @MercurialBlack I heard it from someone else years ago on facebook.