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Can God Make a Rock So Heavy Even He Can’t Lift It?
I remember when I first heard this bit of immature atheistic reductio ad absurdum. I was in high school, and I didn’t respond to it because the Nirvana-shirted, long-banged drama stud who said it didn’t say it to me. He was laying it on his friend like it was theist’s kryptonite.
My answer then, steeped in C.S. Lewis as I was, would have been along the lines of the nonsense of the question as framed. It is a rhetorical and hypothetical “gotcha” with no sincerity behind it, and in any event, it is sort of like asking, “Does the number nine smell red or yellow?”
My answer today is different. My answer today would not be to skewer the nature of the question but to inject its insincerity with the sincerity of God and all the weight of the gospel.
The truth is that God did make a weight so heavy he couldn’t lift it. He did so not by building an immovable force — we did that with our sin — but by incarnating the frailty of humanity and willingly subjecting himself to the force. As one of us, yet still himself, he created the conundrum of the incarnate God, bearing a cross he both ordained yet could not carry by himself, becoming condemned in death and also victorious. And God was crushed according to the plan he himself projected from the foundation of the world.
So, can God make a rock so heavy even he can’t lift it?
Yes. And he did. For three days only. And then he drop kicked it out of the mouth of the tomb.
(Source: gospeldrivenchurch.blogspot.com)
10 Beautiful Buildings Inspired By Famous Books
Lovely and true Flavorwire excerpt: Truly wonderful books have a habit of growing and changing years after they’ve been written, worming themselves into places you might not expect — our decisions, our aesthetic and cultural sense, and even, with the right kind of care, our physical world.
Including the world’s first Hobbit motel, in New Zealand.
It is officially on my bucket list to go here.
The Tangential: 5 Things We Learned from Maurice Sendak
1. Children are mysterious, and childhood can be dark. When I worked at a daycare, I watched High School Musical to see what the kids were so excited about. After seeing that the conflict was basically that the stars were good at too many extracurricular activities, I was disappointed….
Cartoon of the day. For more: http://nyr.kr/JWOmj9
We were absolutely enamored when we spotted this delightful tree shaped bookshelf by designer Shawn Soh at this year’s ICFF. Appropriately named the “Tree Bookshelf,” Soh sets up several loving tree branches for kids and adults to stack up their most treasured literature. A wonderful design that recalls nature and cultivates a love for reading, you’d also be pleased to know that the Tree Bookshelf forgoes the use of wood for a more eco-friendly option, steel, which boasts durability and can be recycled!
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