# Could God make a burrito so big even he could not eat it? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 29, 2002, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341 "2002-07-29T07:03:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![p\_cific\_812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@p\_cific\_812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/p_cific_812)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/21 "2002-07-29T20:47:44Z")
No, but He could make a burrito so large it would give Him indigestion I’ll wager. He would only be able to eat the whole burrito after calling forth a Cola\* from the void to wash it down. He might also gather to Him some Tums or something. [hijack] Is the Lord a Coke guy or a Pepsi guy? What if hes a \ RC guy? :eek: [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/22 "2002-07-29T21:21:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gex gex \* > \*\*you underestimate god. he could make a burrito so big that even he couldn’t eat it. > > then he’d eat it anyway. \*\* This is the best answer to this question I’ve ever heard. And when someone says, “That answer doesn’t make any sense,” just say, “Neither does the question.” ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/23 "2002-07-29T21:23:06Z")
I like **gex gex** ’s solution. Also, any god that makes big-ass burritos is OK in my book. In a universe that required deductive logic as we understand it, “an irresistable force meeting an immovable object” doesn’t compute anyway. So the request is pretty much meaningless. God could bend those rules for just a bit, though, to show you. But it ain’t pretty. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/24 "2002-07-29T21:35:13Z")
But what if God doesn’t even need to eat? (I’m not even going to go the "But what if there isn’t a God) route. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/25 "2002-07-30T04:40:13Z")
I think that if we accept an omnipresent god then eating the burrito is meaningless. As it is created is already a part of god. IMHO ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/26 "2002-07-30T04:45:28Z")
I think that if we accept an omnipresent god then eating the burrito is meaningless. As it is created is already a part of god. IMHO ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/27 "2002-07-30T04:52:33Z")
God would create the burrito impossible to eat. Then, with a booming voice, decree the burrito possible to eat. Not that God would eat it, mind you. God would most certainly share. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/28 "2002-07-30T05:14:10Z")
He’s not sharing all those magic powers, why would he share the burrito? In fact, if he was really all merciful and stuff, he’d give us the power to create super-burritos from thin air. Now that would be useful. ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/29 "2002-07-30T05:18:43Z")
Not only would God share his burrito’s with us, I bet he’s got some “made to order” place up in Heaven with every type of Combo-burrito you can think of available and waiting to match each burrito to a name 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/30 "2002-07-30T06:18:37Z")
Perhaps there’s only one type of God Burrito, but it has the property of becoming whatever you want it to taste like, even to the point of abtraction: “I want this burrito to taste even better than the perfect burrito I just had.” ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/31 "2002-07-30T09:45:27Z")
I think you’d find it would be beef, bean **and** cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/32 "2002-07-30T09:49:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CarnalK \* > \*\*I think that if we accept an omnipresent god then eating the burrito is meaningless. As it is created is already a part of god. > IMHO \*\* Misunderstanding of the term I think; Omnipresence doesn’t imply that all things are part of God, only that there is nowhere (that is a place) where he isn’t. As God isn’t material, he can occupy the same space as matter (I suppose), although it would probably be more accurate (in terms of theology) to say that he is present everywhere by virtue of not being limited to ordinary space ---
**Author:** ![ShadowWarrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@ShadowWarrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowWarrior)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/33 "2002-07-30T11:31:12Z")
But would it be a kosher burrito? ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/34 "2002-07-30T11:56:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RexDart \* > \*\*He’s not sharing all those magic powers, why would he share the burrito? In fact, if he was really all merciful and stuff, he’d give us the power to create super-burritos from thin air. Now that would be useful. \*\* Oh please. Would you trust the super-burrito power to most of the people you know? I wouldn’t. The world would be overrun by super-burritos because people would just pop them out and not finish them, and instead of saving the leftovers, just toss them and create another superburrito before the leftovers decomposed. Soon we would all be buried in burritos. Nay, it is a sign of God’s wisdom and foresight, and proof of his existence, that humans cannot make superburritos out of thin air. ---
**Author:** ![aahala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@aahala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aahala)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/35 "2002-07-30T12:27:11Z")
The key issue is what would be the result IF God ate it? Omnipresent gas? And would the smell be supernatural? ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/36 "2002-07-30T15:47:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*I think you’d find it would be beef, bean **and** cheese. \*\* That is great you crack me up. ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/37 "2002-07-30T19:47:58Z")
Heck no, **gazpacho**. The burrito would HAVE to have some chile con carne or pico. I cannot possibly imagine a God who doesn’t like burritos. It’s a simple step up from ambrosia. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/38 "2002-07-30T20:40:05Z")
OK **Mangetout** , so if I understand you then the OP is akin to asking how many radio waves I can eat? I guess we won’t know the answer until we solve The Diameter of God’s Mouth and the Length of God’s Digestive Tract. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/39 "2002-07-30T21:26:31Z")
God’s small intestine would wrap around the known universe _five times!_ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/40 "2002-07-30T21:57:47Z")
It occurs to me that I am not sure what Mangetout is referring to. I was thinking it was about the series of threads about why there are beef and bean burritos or bean and cheese burritos but not beef and bean and cheese burritos in super markets. But maybe instead it is a reference to Kosher diets. Soup\_du\_jour just so long as they don’t put rice in. Man I hate it when they put rice in. But back to the OP. I think that these could God paint himself into a corner type of questions really are asking what the heck does it mean to be all powerful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341.md?page=3)