[wait_a_minute]

Omnipotence just means being able to do whatever power can do. So it is incoherent to ask if God could make a square circle. The words don’t mean anything.

God could make a burrito too hot for himself to eat. Then he could make himself capable of eating it. Rinse and repeat.

[orbisvicis]

Yeah I never really bought that language argument - the idea that the paradox arises solely from a schism between language and reality. I prefer to think eschatology solves the issue quite nicely. The omnipotent entity is the one for which such a situation never arises. Similarly if a universe evolves to give rise to God, who is to say that God was never present. Or all around us, really?

Either way I'd say Matthew 4:1 solves that paradox in a way that satisfies billions of people. Though I am getting a kick out of imagining Mexican/American Jesus munching on burritos.

[ben_w]

> Matthew 4:1

I don't understand why that would have any effect?

"Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil."