#logicalimpossibility

People like to say, “nothing is impossible with God.” I have some serious qualms with this phrase. First of all, who are they to make that claim? Where in scripture does it say that? You might want to say “oh but Philippians 4:13,” but to that, I say *please refer to my post titled “Phil 4:13.” Hebrews 6:18 literally states that “it is impossible for God to lie.” Now you may wonder, how does this work? Couldn’t he lie if he wanted to? The fact is, he doesn’t and he wouldn’t. It is impossible. I understand why saying it is impossible for God to do something will perturb Christians, but we must not be satisfied with the sloppy doctrine of our colloquial interpretation of Philippians 4:13. The Greek we translate to impossible, from my understanding of the commentaries and trustworthy explanations, is similar to how we understand that it is impossible for something to be both a circle and a square simultaneously. Without getting too much into the philosophy of what I am trying to explain here, I think another example will suffice. Imagine you are a woman who has never given birth before. Would it be possible for you to have blood-related grandchildren? No. The answer is no. It is logically impossible. In the same way, it is logically impossible for God to tell a lie or to break a promise.