Can God do the Impossible?

We often use a term to describe God’s power: Omnipotence. This is a Latin term which means “all power”. Often people will ask, “Does this mean that God can do anything?” If we answer yes, skeptics typically respond with the following questions: Can God make a rock so big that even He can’t lift it? Can God make a square circle? Can God create a being greater than Himself? We should clarify with skeptics that when we say God can do anything, implied in that statement is that God can do any “thing”. A square circle is not a “thing” to be done. It is self- contradictory. God cannot do something that is self-contradictory because that is not something to be done. God cannot sin or cease to exist because based on our definition of God, those actions are self-contradictory. When we say that God is omnipotent, we are basically saying that God has no outside limitations. Any limitations that God has are self-imposed. So can God do the impossible? Yes. But we have to ask ourselves, “Who is defining the word ‘impossible’? God or man?”