# 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:** 3
**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, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/41 "2002-07-30T22:16:06Z")
Yes, there was a poster who repeatedly opened threads in virtually every forum demanding to know why he could get beef and cheese or bean and cheese but not beef, bean and cheese. Back to the OP; it’s similar in flavour to the [Hilbert’s Hotel](http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A414523) puzzle (how many times can infinity fit into itself); it says more about how reason can break down than it does about the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/42 "2002-07-31T01:26:03Z")
As I have said in earlier similiar OP’s…if god is omnipotent, then he can make himself no longer omnipotent. Ergo; He creates a burrito so big, he can barely suck it down (Only way to eat a burrito, is to suck the filling out just before you bite.) Then causes himself to no longer and forever, not be able to eat that much…then tries and explodes, the big bang wasn’t a burrito fart, my friend, it was a burrito upchuck, and evil is all the strange spices you didn’t know about in the meat and beans, as well as the 7 day past the experiation date sour cream ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/43 "2002-07-31T02:31:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Narile \* > \*\* the big bang wasn’t a burrito fart, my friend, it was a burrito upchuck \*\* So if the evolution theory is right, we all were formed from a huge explosion of puke? I will be writing this one down in my book of “reasons not to believe in evolution” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jonmarzie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jonmarzie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonmarzie)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/44 "2002-07-31T05:07:18Z")
**[Quiznos]** Devil: “So, would you prefer this God-made toasted burrito . . .” Man: “Sure, I would like . . .” Devil: “OR, would you like this Satanic untoasted burrito with lots of ‘lettuce?’” _Man takes the demonic burrito._ Devil (into tape recorder): “Man obviously prefers the untoasted burrito with the ‘lettuce.’” **[/Quiznos]** The essence of sin. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/45 "2002-07-31T06:45:31Z")
G-d inside space time: Could an omnipotent G-d, while creating the universe, change Himself so that He is no longer omnipotent and instead, really-really powerful? I don’t see why not. G: (Man, that is one HOT burrito. No way I can eat this! (Not now at least. Gotta wait until it cools down a little. (Of course, I planned it that way)). G-d outside of Space-time: 2 hypotheses: 1. Could G-d design a universe where A not= A ? Sure, why not? It just wouldn’t be this universe. 1. No he can’t. Omnipotence means anything that can be done, G-d can do. ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/46 "2002-07-31T11:37:34Z")
I’d like to thank **Jonmarzie** for what is a truly excellent 11th post. Keep up the good work, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![Jonmarzie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jonmarzie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonmarzie)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2002, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/47 "2002-07-31T15:06:56Z")
Why, I’m flattered, **RexDart**! Thank you for your awesome 269th post as well! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/48 "2003-01-07T02:46:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Manduck \* > \*\*There is no burrito so big that it can’t be eaten. Burritos are like that - no matter how big it is, or how many you’ve already had, you can always eat just one more. It’s like a miracle or something. \*\* Which means that if God **were** to create such a burrito, it would have to be one big-ass burrito. ---
**Author:** ![Demise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@Demise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demise)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/49 "2003-01-07T22:07:46Z")
I couldn’t begin to guess what you were searching for when you bumped this thread, **tracer**. Actually, I don’t think I want to know. ---
**Author:** ![DarRRva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@DarRRva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarRRva)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/50 "2003-01-09T13:13:13Z")
The quote is “Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot even he could not eat it?” But on happier note - Yay for the Simpsons ---
**Author:** ![AchimbaProphet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@AchimbaProphet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AchimbaProphet)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/51 "2003-01-10T12:04:11Z")
I am not of the opinion that not being able to limit one’s limitless powers is very limiting. I believe that being able to fail at a task is worse than not being able to fail. Oh gee, boo hoo. I can not not do everything everywhen. _picks up burrito and goes home_ Where is this burrito anyways? I bet that I could eat it. Mmmmm. How about this thought? If this god keeps creating a burrito bigger and bigger it would encompass everything, everywhere, everywhen. Just the god and the burrito at this point. Any definitive characteristic that distinguishes god from anything else would ultimately become a filling of this burrito. As everything else possible would already be a part of this burrito, to keep filling it a god would have to blur the line of demarcation between itself and this burrito until there is nothing left of the god, and only the burrito remains. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/52 "2003-01-11T02:49:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Demise \* > \*\*I couldn’t begin to guess what you were searching for when you bumped this thread, **tracer**. Actually, I don’t think I want to know. \*\* Heh. I was just following a link to this thread from another, more “recent” thread. Plus, I was hungry. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/53 "2003-01-11T04:49:26Z")
I say, yes, he can and yes he did, which, afterwards, lead to the \*\*Big Bang \*\*. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/54 "2003-01-11T04:51:45Z")
And another riposte, albeit late, is that he called in Buddha, Khrisna and Allah to help him eat it. Thus ending all wars and world strife. No, no, it was no trouble at all. Glad to do it! ---
**Author:** ![rukkus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@rukkus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rukkus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/55 "2005-02-08T03:58:47Z")
> [@red\_dragon60](#): > > I know that this has been done before, but after a half an hour of fruitless searching, I couldn’t find one scrap of the threads. If you find the threads, please post the links! > > Now to the heart of the matter: Could God create a burrito so big that even he could not eat it? The clincher is that if He could create something like that, then He would not be capable of doing everything. If He could not, he would still be incapable of the ability to do everything. Previous discussions were about rocks and lifting, but I was thinking South-Of-The-Border. Feel free to use a rock if you wish. > > I will start with the Socratic declaration of “I know nothing”. I don’t have the debate calibre neccessary to argue this point, but I would love to see an enlightened discussion. I am stepping into philosophy, and this is one of the most intruiging questions I have heard. Show me what you have, great minds of the Straight Dope, so that I may observe and learn! dude, u missd the point. look at all ya replys 4 the 1 from manduck. this is why i dont use food as an example. i get hungry… ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/56 "2005-02-08T05:06:57Z")
**Rise! Rise up Zombie thread! Now go forth and kill!! BRAIN BURRRITTTOOSSS!!!** ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/57 "2005-02-08T21:19:03Z")
I like the other inponderable: If we were made in God’s image, does God had a penis or vagina? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/58 "2005-02-08T23:58:02Z")
I’m hungry for burritos now. Damn you, zombie thread! _shakes fist_ ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/59 "2005-02-09T00:24:28Z")
Can God write a thread so old even He can’t resurrect it? ---
**Author:** ![sophistryisfun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@sophistryisfun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sophistryisfun)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341/60 "2005-02-09T03:10:15Z")
The question is a non-sequitur. It makes about as much sense as an irresistible force and an impenetrable wall co-exiting. The two are mutually exclusive. If you believe that God is omnipotent, I guess the trite answer would be that he could both make it and eat it. Hah, now I’ve proved myself utterly humorless by attempting to respond in a profound manner to a Simpsons quote. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-god-make-a-burrito-so-big-even-he-could-not-eat-it/121341.md?page=4)