The classic God paradox: “Can God make a rock so big, He can’t lift it?” This one was always easy for me: yes, he can. And then he can lift the rock. You’re starting with the idea that God is omnipotent, so the fact that we don’t understand how he can do both things is irrelevant. Can God do X? Yes. I don’t care what X is.

But today I thought: the more interesting question would be whether God could entirely destroy himself. I can’t comfortably answer “yes” to that one. Because if God could remove His own existence, then how could He do anything after that?

Then, online, Aliasn followed up with a more intriguing question: Could God accidentally destroy himself? Omnipotence does mean the ability to do anything, after all, and it seems like that should include unplanned actions.

On one hand it still seems like the same question: “can an omnipotent God do this thing you can’t understand?” And the answer is yes, because saying “omnipotent” has already stacked the deck. On the other hand, I can’t get my head around it.