No, of course not, that is a crasy idea!

There are many things He cannot do based upon who He is. Although that sounds suspicious, it is not so, for it is only based upon our difficulties in understanding His mysteries. A W Tozer says it well:

"It is, for instance, to rob Him of His infinitude: there cannot be two unlimited substances in the universe. It is to take away His sovereignty: there cannot be two absolutely free beings in the universe, for sooner or later two completely free wills must collide. These attributes, to mention no more, require that there be but one to whom they belong."

To see it from a different way: He cannot lie because anything He says is true.

Who He is dictates what He can do. 'He cannot deny Himself'. So if we posit omnipotence, then He cannot give power to another that would restrict it. Because if that was possible, then we could not describe Him as omnipotent in the first place.

Hrm... interesting.

I love it when old guys get worked up, check out this following passage from Pascal in his Pensees. I imagine him writing each line and stopping in exclamation 'gah!' as he shakes his head and he proceeds to write the next, each with increasing rapidity:

"I can only feel compassion for those who are distressed sincerely by their doubts, and who regard it as their greatest misfortune. These spare no effort to escape from the situation, but instead make their search their main and most serious business. But I feel very differently towards those who live their lives without giving a thought to the final end of life, and who are unconvinced by the light that they have, but instead neglect to look elsewhere. These don't decide an opinion from mature reflection, but merely accept opinions out of credulous simplicity or those, which, though obscure, do posses a solid and unshakable foundation. Their neglect in an issue that should vitally concern them, for it deals with their eternal destiny and everything they have, fills me with more irritation than pity. I am not saying this out of pious sentiment. On the contrary, I mean that people ought to feel like this from the basic principles of human interest and self-esteem. It calls for nothing more than what is apparent to the least enlightened among us.

We do not need to be high-minded to realize that there is no true and solid satisfaction be had in this world. For all out pleasures are mere vanity, while our misfortunes are infinite. Death dogs us every moment. In a space of only a few years we will inevitably be bought face-to-face with the reality of eternity, which for those who have neglected it will be eternal damnation with no prospect of happiness.

There is nothing more real than this, nor more terrible. We may seek to put on as brave a face as we can, but what lies in store at the end of the most successful career in the world is only this. Let people think what they like, but the only good in this life lies in the hope of another life. We are only happy in the measure to which we anticipate it, for there will be no misfortunes to those who are completely assured of of eternal life. But there will be no happiness for those who have no knowledge of it. Clearly it is a great misfortune to be in such a state of doubt. But it is at least an indispensable duty to seek and inquire when we are in such a state. It is the man who both doubts and yet does not seek who is most miserable and most wrong. If, in addition, he feels smug about what he openly professes, and even sees it as a source of complacency and smugness, which he blatantly professes, then I can find no terms to describe such a creature.

Whatever can give rise to such feelings? What reason is there for rejoicing when we cannot look forward to anything but unmitigated misery? What reason is there for vanity in being plunged into such an impenetrable darkness? How can arguments like this even occur to any reasonable person?

"I do no know who placed me in this world, nor what the world is, nor what I am myself. I am deeply ignorant about everything. I do not know what my body is, what my senses are, what my soul is, or the very organ which thinks what I am saying, which reflects upon everything as well as upon itself, and does not know itself any better than it knows anything else. I only see the terrifying spaces of the universe that imprison me, and I find myself planted in a tiny corner of this vast expanse without knowing why I have been placed here rather than there, Nor do I know why this brief span of life has been allotted to me at this point rather than another in all the eternity of time that has proceeded me and all that which will come after me. I see only infinities on all sides, enclosing me like an atom or like the shadow of a fleeting moment. All I know is that soon I shall die, but what I am most ignorant about is this very death from which there is no escape."

"Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when I leave this world I shall fall forever into oblivion, or into the hands of an angry God, without knowing which of the two will be my lot for eternity. Such is my state of mind, full of weakness and uncertainty. The only conclusion I can draw from all this is that I must pass my days without a thought of trying to find out what is going to happen to me. Perhaps I may find some insight in my own doubts, but I do not want to be troubled. I do not even want to put out a hand to seek for it. Instead I shall go without fear of foresight and allow myself to be carried off helplessly to my death, uncertain of my future state for all eternity"

But it is a glorious thing for true faith to have such unreasonable man as their enemies. For instead of being dangerous to it, their opposition only helps to establish it. For the Christian faith consists almost entirely in establishing these two truths: the corruption of human nature, and its redemption through Jesus Christ. I maintain if they do not server to demonstrate truth of redemption b the sanctity of their lives, at least they show admirably the corruption of human nature by having such unnatural attitudes...

He goes on.. but I won't, although I have just realised instead of typing it all out, which I admit was fun, I should of just google'd it. And pow! here they are: http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/pascal/pensees-contents.html.

Been listening to this recently that mike linked me to: http://www.disciplemakingintl.org/media/series/series_list/?id=2

Also my fingernails have been growing really fast this last month. I'm sure way faster than normal. Anyone else notice this?

A mango farm:

it starts to make sense:

good can no longer be the standard.

we need to drop good.

to forsake it.

there is only one way now.

and one path to get to it.

we need to reset our eyes. renew our mind.

there is a sacrifice to be made.

i'm afraid it is good.

it has to go.

its reign was long, and indeed it was nice.

but it passed the time and now but a second remains.

in this last flash we need the best.

we need the most. we need more.

and for that all else we must pass by.

deny good! take best!

In regards to current Church inability or unwillingness to deal with resurgent heresy's.

"Protestant theology has been especially weak here, for it suffers from what at times appears to be a pathological inability to recognize that fundamental questions were both raised and decisively answered in the period between the days of the apostles and those of the reformers." - Homoousios with the Father, Heron.

This so far is my favourite extract:

There is only one mistake in Kant's theory of radical evil. He does not make it clear that the inexplicable, the paradox, is a category of its own. Everything depends upon that. Until now, people have always expressed themselves in the following way: the knowledge that one cannot understand this or the other thing does not satisfy science, the aim of which is to understand. Here is the mistake; people ought to say the very opposite: if human science refuses to understand that there is something which it cannot understand, or better still, that there is something about which it clearly understands that it cannot understand it-- then all is confusion. For it is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox. The paradox is not a concession but a category, an ontological definition which expresses the relation between an existing cognitive spirit and eternal truth. (1847)

The sun is like 150 million k's away. We cannot even look at it with the naken eye for a second without its glory overwhelming us. Yer we stand in the presense of the most high God without qualm. Oh how lightly we take the righteousness of Christ. We boldly approach the throne of grace yes, but we neglect to see anything. Where we are, who is there or how we got there.

UPDATE: So then I was reading Job 37 a few days after and came across this: Even now men cannot look at the light when it is bright in the skies. I was like: 'Ahhhh Job, I know how you feel'