God is said to be omnipotent, meaning literally all powerful, almighty.

If you listen to Handel's Hallelujah chorus, it's the most repeated line.

Allelujah for the Lord God omnipotent. chorus, it's the most repeated line.

Allelujah for the Lord God omnipotent, reigneth.

But someone raises the question, is God really omnipotent?

Can God make a rock so big that he can't lift it?

Oh, clever.

If you say yes, then it sounds as if you're denying God's omnipotence

because you're saying he can't lift it. But if you say no then again it

sounds as if you're denying his omnipotence because you're saying he can't make a rock

that big. It's trying to be a gotcha, but it's based on a misunderstanding of what God's

omnipotence is. Does omnipotence mean that God can do literally anything, anything at all?

Well, you can certainly line up individual scripture verses

which seem to support that idea.

In the Old Testament, for example,

Job says to God, I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

In Luke chapter 1 verse 37 the angel Gabriel says to Mary,

nothing will be impossible with God.

In Matthew chapter 19 verse 26 Jesus says to his disciples

with man this is impossible but with God all things are possible.

In fact you could take any verse which refers to God as

Almighty because it's saying the same thing. God is all powerful. It certainly sounds like

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