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   If God is all powerful can He make a mountain that He couldn’t lift?  This question in reality is an absurdity.  It asks, "Is there something that is more than infinite?"  It is logically impossible for anything to be more than infinite, because infinite has no end.  The same applies to questions like.  "Can God make a circle a square at the same time?"  It is just like asking,  "What is the smell of blue?"  It is a categorical mistake - colors don’t smell and circles can’t be square.  These are logical impossibilities.  They contradict themselves when we try to think about them.  God’s omnipotence does not mean that He can do what is impossible, only that He has the power to do anything that is actually possible, even if it is impossible for us.  Any mountain that God makes, He can control, put where He wants, and disintegrate if He likes.  You can’t ask for more power than that.

 

NOTE: The answer to this question was taken from - "When Skeptics Ask" - by Norman Geisler).