The Return
Reporter: “It has been argued that God could not create a rock so heavy that he’d be unable to lift it, for, doing so would disprove his omnipotence. Here tonight we have a man who claims to be able to resolve the paradox, claims all required to do so is to understand how God is depicted in the bible, and whose offer to resolve was the challenge he posted online several weeks ago and is the reason for this gathering tonight.”
“Gathered are theists and atheists alike, all intrigued by this mystery figure that all that is known of him being his name, David Khan, and that though from Iran originally now resides in London. Here comes speaker of this union, Percy Albrite, to give the introduction.”
PA:”Good evening Ladies and gentlemen and welcome to our union. Several weeks ago a challenge appeared on social media, a challenge to an argument held by many skeptics as to the idea of God, by those who believe the concept incoherent, claiming that this particular argument can be resolved by simply being attentive to the picture of God provided by the bible; this despite the fact that many, myself included, hold this particular argument against God’s omnipotence as sound. Can our David Khan resolve the heavy rock paradox in Gods favour, well, we welcome him to the stage now to find out”
[applause and boos]
DK: “Hello there ladies and gentlemen, brothers, sisters, and from the very bottom of my heart many thanks for this invitation. So, Can God create a rock so heavy that he himself, the all powerful, be unable to lift it? If God he should be able to and yet by doing so would disprove himself as omnipotent, we requiring a solution showing God can create such a rock that he isn’t and is able to lift!. It appears an impossible dilemma, but in the bible it written that Nothing is impossible for God. So, ok, let us resolve this paradox and let us do so by turning to the one place that could offer answer and yet which has been overlooked as locus for just those.
I am a Christian man, Xhrist, he is what my belief is pinned to and is the very point from which answer may come. Well, look, in the bible it is written that he was born as a blessing and it was the world that was blessed by his becoming, the world which holds him as God incarnate. He was a simple man from humble origins and yet capable of great feats, of miracles, so, what can we take from this? Well we take that God was born a man. Ofcourse, Jesus did pray, so was he the one true God? On thinking I perform mental speech which I hear, I both hearer and speaker, so too it was with Xhrist with the exception that his other hearing Self was the universe, father and son as the One. Now we can resolve our paradox:
By the father all in existence came into such, rocks included. At birth our god child would not have been able to lift many a rock, with age, though, comes increased strength and so rock lifting ability, and once invested with his full godly power? Well, it is written that the winds even obeyed his command and so surely it not impossible that he would have been able to turn this giant rock earth around on its axis? Paradox resolved, but I’m here to perform a miracle, not to give a public exercising of intelligence, so let me tackle this from another angle:
It is written, Ye are Gods, and I want you brethren to prove this to yourselves. What do we mean by “rock”? We mean a heavy load that carried is burdensome. It is written that in the beginning one doubt born an age marked by guilt and shame, the ingredients necessary for a life dead on one’s belly. The original doubt divided and divided into its multiplicity and this is the rock burdening our world. One of us gods alone may shoulder it but it’s complete removal will take us all coming together as one. Nothing is impossible for God, and together, loaded with the imagination by which new worlds are possible, we are as He. There is a rock loaded down on our world, brethren, and together we must lift it so that our children and theirs are not so burdened. We owe it to them, we owe it to ourselves. What is required is the opposite to doubt and I move onto that now.
We have here today both atheists and theists alike and we truly are alike. Many an atheist believe that science will provide the answer and theists believe it will be God. Hope is belief extended over a time and the point is that we both have beliefs and hopes. Faith simply means trust, many atheists trusting science will deliver and theists having faith in God, belief, hope and faith uniting us, not as strictly theological categories but as human one’s. And now the belief, hope and faith is with you all, brethren. Ofcourse you’ll need some help and so let us turn to our “Nothing is impossible”.
Now, if nothing is impossible then nothing itself must be possible, but if nothing is possible then nothing is not impossible. How do we resolve this? We pay attention. “No-thing” is being identified as the im-possible itself, yet look, nothing offers us “thing”, impossibility possibility. Nothing is not absolute but possibility, potential. Now, if nothing existed in the universe between any two points then, nothing being the absence of all dimension, there would be nothing to find. Nothing is the glue holding our world together, and this is to say that at every conceivable point is potentially infinite potential to be realised. You are as much the universe, you filled as with that same potential, no one a nothing. Am I telling the truth, though? Well that is for our sciences to discover, and discover it will. However I’ll say this: ultimate evil will not come from what I have pointed to, and if it does you’ll prove me wrong and so put everything I have said in doubt and I’m certain you don’t wish for that, other than that, the future is now yours.
Now, lastly, I said I was here to perform a miracle and if I have instilled belief in yourself, hope in the future with the faith it will come, well, I’ve achieved it. The next miracle is yours. Actually, no, please, everyone, cameras included, if you could please face the back, I have something I wish to show you all.”
[everyone turn to face the back. 2 mins later a cry goes out, “He’s gone”. Everyone turn round to see that, though there no back of stage exit, he has vanished.]
The End
Reporter: “It has been argued that God could not create a rock so heavy that he’d be unable to lift it, for, doing so would disprove his omnipotence. Here tonight we have a man who claims to be able to resolve the paradox, claims all required to do so is to understand how God is depicted in the bible, and whose offer to resolve was the challenge he posted online several weeks ago and is the reason for this gathering tonight.”
“Gathered are theists and atheists alike, all intrigued by this mystery figure that all that is known of him being his name, David Khan, and that though from Iran originally now resides in London. Here comes speaker of this union, Percy Albrite, to give the introduction.”
PA:”Good evening Ladies and gentlemen and welcome to our union. Several weeks ago a challenge appeared on social media, a challenge to an argument held by many skeptics as to the idea of God, by those who believe the concept incoherent, claiming that this particular argument can be resolved by simply being attentive to the picture of God provided by the bible; this despite the fact that many, myself included, hold this particular argument against God’s omnipotence as sound. Can our David Khan resolve the heavy rock paradox in Gods favour, well, we welcome him to the stage now to find out”
[applause and boos]
DK: “Hello there ladies and gentlemen, brothers, sisters, and from the very bottom of my heart many thanks for this invitation. So, Can God create a rock so heavy that he himself, the all powerful, be unable to lift it? If God he should be able to and yet by doing so would disprove himself as omnipotent, we requiring a solution showing God can create such a rock that he isn’t and is able to lift!. It appears an impossible dilemma, but in the bible it written that Nothing is impossible for God. So, ok, let us resolve this paradox and let us do so by turning to the one place that could offer answer and yet which has been overlooked as locus for just those.
I am a Christian man, Xhrist, he is what my belief is pinned to and is the very point from which answer may come. Well, look, in the bible it is written that he was born as a blessing and it was the world that was blessed by his becoming, the world which holds him as God incarnate. He was a simple man from humble origins and yet capable of great feats, of miracles, so, what can we take from this? Well we take that God was born a man. Ofcourse, Jesus did pray, so was he the one true God? On thinking I perform mental speech which I hear, I both hearer and speaker, so too it was with Xhrist with the exception that his other hearing Self was the universe, father and son as the One. Now we can resolve our paradox:
By the father all in existence came into such, rocks included. At birth our god child would not have been able to lift many a rock, with age, though, comes increased strength and so rock lifting ability, and once invested with his full godly power? Well, it is written that the winds even obeyed his command and so surely it not impossible that he would have been able to turn this giant rock earth around on its axis? Paradox resolved, but I’m here to perform a miracle, not to give a public exercising of intelligence, so let me tackle this from another angle:
It is written, Ye are Gods, and I want you brethren to prove this to yourselves. What do we mean by “rock”? We mean a heavy load that carried is burdensome. It is written that in the beginning one doubt born an age marked by guilt and shame, the ingredients necessary for a life dead on one’s belly. The original doubt divided and divided into its multiplicity and this is the rock burdening our world. One of us gods alone may shoulder it but it’s complete removal will take us all coming together as one. Nothing is impossible for God, and together, loaded with the imagination by which new worlds are possible, we are as He. There is a rock loaded down on our world, brethren, and together we must lift it so that our children and theirs are not so burdened. We owe it to them, we owe it to ourselves. What is required is the opposite to doubt and I move onto that now.
We have here today both atheists and theists alike and we truly are alike. Many an atheist believe that science will provide the answer and theists believe it will be God. Hope is belief extended over a time and the point is that we both have beliefs and hopes. Faith simply means trust, many atheists trusting science will deliver and theists having faith in God, belief, hope and faith uniting us, not as strictly theological categories but as human one’s. And now the belief, hope and faith is with you all, brethren. Ofcourse you’ll need some help and so let us turn to our “Nothing is impossible”.
Now, if nothing is impossible then nothing itself must be possible, but if nothing is possible then nothing is not impossible. How do we resolve this? We pay attention. “No-thing” is being identified as the im-possible itself, yet look, nothing offers us “thing”, impossibility possibility. Nothing is not absolute but possibility, potential. Now, if nothing existed in the universe between any two points then, nothing being the absence of all dimension, there would be nothing to find. Nothing is the glue holding our world together, and this is to say that at every conceivable point is potentially infinite potential to be realised. You are as much the universe, you filled as with that same potential, no one a nothing. Am I telling the truth, though? Well that is for our sciences to discover, and discover it will. However I’ll say this: ultimate evil will not come from what I have pointed to, and if it does you’ll prove me wrong and so put everything I have said in doubt and I’m certain you don’t wish for that, other than that, the future is now yours.
Now, lastly, I said I was here to perform a miracle and if I have instilled belief in yourself, hope in the future with the faith it will come, well, I’ve achieved it. The next miracle is yours. Actually, no, please, everyone, cameras included, if you could please face the back, I have something I wish to show you all.”
[everyone turn to face the back. 2 mins later a cry goes out, “He’s gone”. Everyone turn round to see that, though there no back of stage exit, he has vanished.]
The End
