That would mean that God could lift the rock if he wanted to.  God is still omnipotent and has not created a rock that is too heavy for him to lift.

It's a pretty simple concept.

Actually I guess if you wanted to look at it from the Christian perspective the answer is an even easier yes, since God could easily make a rock too big for Jesus to lift

it's impossible for God to create a rock heavy enough to where he can't lift it. I think people are mistaking God for a human-like sort of entity outside of space and time...probably basing that belief that God created humans in His image. God is everywhere and is all-knowing, what basis is there to create a rock large enough to test his might in terms of physical strength? The only way the statement would be true was if God DID have a limit and there was a rock the entire size of our universe, which is impossible. I don't know exactly WHAT He is, but nowhere does it say he has the physical form of a human. The only exception to that case is Jesus, who was God's SON in human form.

Are we talking about the Christian God? Did I miss something?
I thought we were talking about a general God/Creator.

You're missing the point. The point is omnipotence is limited by the fact that it cannot have the power to limit itself. Its a paradox.

@Highway. Yeah but this topic was always going to get at least slightly sidetracked onto being about Yaweh.

Well apparently we aren't since the whole "hey guys the Jewish God wasn't omnipotent in the way you're thinking" thing didn't work out

Nor did the "Omnipotence doesn't mean that you can do literally anything"

I don't know, I guess it somehow makes more sense to talk about a God that dosn't hold up under scripture or logic???

The thing here is that this is only one definition of omnipotence. Aquinas said "all confess that God is omnipotent...it seems difficult to explain in what God's omnipotence precisely consists."

The thing here is that omnipotence in scholarly contexts is generally understood to have limitations, which is to say it's understood to mean "power over all", not "power capable of doing literally anything". A logically consistent portrait of God fits under the former definition of omnipotence, not the latter.

You're right in saying that the omnipotence paradox is only a paradox if you take omnipotence to literally mean power without limits.

Seriously, this is like asking can God make a cat so cute that it's a dog, or can God make a banana so yellow, it's purple. It's an impossible question.

And God would make this impossible rock, not be able to lift it, then, split himself into two Gods, lift the rock, and then merge back into one God. Then, he'd have his cake AND eat it too. Why? Because he's God.

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My answer attempts to demonstrate the question is a nonsensical one, much like the questions "How many hours are in a mile?", or "Why is 5 bigger than 10?".  As it's nonsense, the question poses nothing.

If God can lift any rock, then, by definition, there can be no such thing as un unliftable rock.  God cannot circumvent logic (because that means nothing), but that does not mean He couldn't be omnipotent.