The Traditional God Can Exist

Now without any further Delay ----- "Being all-powerful causes clear contradictions. Stone Paradox: if God is all-powerful it means he can create a stone which he cannot lift. To not be able to lift it means he is not all-powerful but to not be able to make it also means he is not all-powerful. Omnipotence is impossible. Omnipotence is an essential part of the defining nature of God. " God is impossible. --------- On the subject of the Stone Paradox, This very thought Has occurred to Me Many times. If God is Omnipotent than he could indeed make a stone he could not lift, or in other words Omnipotence Could be temporary. If you are omnipotent than you would be able to remove your powers. But just because you can do everything doesn't bean you have to. This so called "paradox" does not necessarily mean that Omnipotence is impossible, but that in any fallible vessel, it would be temporary. Just because something is temporary does not discount the possibility of something, for example Human consciousness is said to end at Death, But this does mean that there is no such thing as a Conscious being. When you account in the other aspects of God (i. e. omniscience, and perfection) it would never be removed from the him Because God could never remove his omnipotence unknowingly, and most likely God would not choose to remove omnipotence from himself because ,him being Perfect, it would not have any advantage. So Omniscience is possible and is not a contradiction in and of itself. ----- "Impossibility of a perfect God: Perfection means it cannot get better. Also, it would be nonsensical for a perfect God to do something which is pointless. If God was perfect it would mean he would never create anything because perfection is already obtained; things could only become worse. Creating anything would be pointless. Since things are here, it is impossible that there is a perfect God. " --------- On the subject of Perfection, We must accept that we can never understand a perfect consciousness, being ourselves imperfect. It is baseless to just say that creating anything would be pointless, as we could not comprehend a perfect God but this does not mean we cannot theorize on the purpose of our existing. For example, While God, being Perfect, can never be anything but perfect, Humans have a choice of how to behave, being created with free will. Some think that Humans exist for the purpose of creating another kind of goodness into the world. There are HUGE amounts of ideas on why we are here, but i don't need to list them all here, a quick Google search would give you countless more examples. So in conclusion, Perfection is perfectly compatible with itself, and all other aspects of God. ----- "Suffering exists in this world. All that is pleasure is good and all that is displeasure is bad. If a God was all-righteous, it would be in his will to stop that which is bad. If God is all-powerful he would have complete power to act on his will. Since suffering exists in this world, an all-righteous and all-powerful God is impossible. " "To say that God created all is to say that he sent all things into motion to what they are now. To say that he is all-knowing is to say he knew what effects it would have. There is currently suffering in the world. " ------------- While some think suffering is some form of Punishment on Humans, something evil God allows to run rampant on Earth, or just a pointless cruelty, It is just a necessity of Free will. Having free will means you have the choice to make a bad decision instead of a good one. As Humans have the free will to make choices there will be bad ones. One could, then, Say that free will is an evil thing to give, because of it's inherent potential to be misused, but that would be false. For true Goodness to exist, there always must be a choice between good and evil. Take, for example, a puppet show. if a puppet gives a present to another, is the puppet Good or Righteous? No, it is only an empty shell going through Motions. If there are no choices There can clearly be no goodness, only some bizarre puppet show of objects being forced into actions. With No choices, There is nothing good at all, nor anything bad. There is only a bleak barren landscape of No life or Vibrance. None of the fundamental concepts of God are unstable, or conflicting. The concept of God is Theoretically perfectly possible, and can exist without contradicting itself. I look forward to my Opponent's undoubtedly professional response.