I know this question has been the butt of many a jokes for a long long time, but can somebody please answer the question with some dignity. Here it is in case you don’t know: Could Jesus himself make a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?
Thank You
Presumably you’re joking, in which case this is in the wrong forum.
If you’re not making the joke yourself, but asking for the origin of this joke, it’s still in the wrong forum, but I’ll answer anyway. It’s based on the philosophical question that’s something “Could God make a rock so immovable that even He could not move it?”
Could god or jesus himself create limitations that he himself could rise and overcome?
Well, yes. Even you or I could create obstacles and then take those obstacles away again.
The old philosophical / theological question was something more along the lines of “Could God create a limitation that he could NOT overcome?” This is where the immovable rock question comes in. I’ve heard it called the Paradox of Omnipotence. A discussion from a near-omnicognizant source, Wikipedia.
Yes.
And then He’d eat it.
The question is moot. Jesus doesn’t like burritos.
The Wikipedia piece was interesting. I felt that this-
still confirmed the paradox, as it’s something god can’t do. But maybe I would think that.
“Moving an immovable object”, or “eating an uneatable burrito” are nonsensical, self-contradictory ideas. There is no rock that God could not move, or burrito that he couldn’t eat (?), and the idea that because he could not make it otherwise is a limitation on his omnipotence is faulty logic.
It would be like saying, ‘could God make a five-sided square?’ Well, no, he can’t do that either, but it doesn’t make him less omnipotent.
The question can be further rephrased “Is God subject to logic?”
Those answering “no” must question their attitude towards an entity which might simultaneously exist and not exist.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
I’m sure there were rocks big enough that human Jesus wasn’t physically able to lift.
So the answer would be yes.
As with most (if not all) paradoxes, this is simply a demonstration of the limits of logic to handle certain problems.
there is a biblical reference to a “well of forgetfulness” in which the lord god can discard ones confessed and absolved sins. a place from whcih he/she/it cannot remmeber such things.
an all knowing diety who can force itself to forget something so thoroughly that it cannot remember them I think is like setting a limit for itself which cannot be removed. too hot a burrito, so to speak.
If you mean Jesus Christ, I think you’ll find he died some considerable time ago.
If you mean any of the Jesus’s alive today of which there are many, I would say they could all attempt to eat it much would they finish it? That is the question.
And is it an ontologically perfect burrito?
Stop using complicated words I dont understand!
In case anyone is interested in reading additional responses to this question, I point you to a January 2003 thread which asks the same question.
(I’m not trying to be a spoilsport, just saving people the effort of searching.)