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>Can an all-powerful being create a rock so heavy that they themselves cannot lift it?" This creates "lose-lose" situation for the idea of absolute power: If the answer is YES: They can create the rock, but now there is something they cannot do they cannot lift it. If the answer is NO: There is already something they cannot do: they cannot create the rock. In both scenarios, there is a task that the "all-powerful" being is unable to perform. This suggests that the very concept of being able to do everything might be a logical impossibility.

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The sentence below is true.
The sentence above is false.

Paradoxes exist in the universe.

A solution to the paradox you present is that the being can create a rock that they cannot lift, but when they decide to try and lift it they succeed. Meaning, up until the moment that the being tried to lift the rock, the rock could not be lifted.
Of course, this simply utilizes the vagueness in your statement (i.e. not specifying a time element such as "never" or "simultaneously", etc.)

So, can there be a being above such paradoxes...well at a minimum they would have to be able to change whatever fundamental truth about the universe that allows such paradoxes to exist.



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