| Answer
from Jesus:
Thank
you for submitting a humorous version of an ancient question about one
of the more paradoxical elements of God.
Since the beginning of time, people have been speculating about the
nature and capabilities of God. They sense that God must be above and
beyond human beings, and many speculate that God must be almighty and
unlimited. Therefore, they feel that God should be able to do anything,
and this leads to the paradoxical question that you are asking.
Let me first caution you that it simply is not possible to fathom the
nature of God with the human intellect. Therefore, there is no intellectual
answer to this question. However, let me attempt to give an answer that
might be helpful to those who are willing to look beyond the intellect.
One of the most common misconceptions about God is the idea that God
is perfect, and therefore he could never change. God is indeed perfect,
but perfection does not mean something that stands still. In reality,
God is ever-changing because God simply cannot stop creating. When God
creates, he creates everything out of his own substance and so to create
something new, God must transcend himself. To create something new,
God must be willing to become more than he already is. Without him was
not anything made that was made, so when something new is made, God
must become more than he already is.
I know this explanation will seem like heresy to many religious people
who have put God in a little box and who are not willing to allow God
to change. Nevertheless, God is transcending himself every second, and
that is why constant growth is the basic law of this universe. That
is indeed why God wants his sons and daughters to constantly grow and
transcend themselves and become more than what they were created to
be.
So to return to your question, the answer is that God can indeed create
a burrito so hot that he could not eat it given who and what he is at
the moment he created the burrito. Yet God also has the ability to transcend
himself instantly so that he could now eat the burrito. At this new
level, God could then create another burrito which he could not eat
at that level. He could then transcend himself again and eat the burrito,
create a new one and keep repeating the cycle forever and ever.
Although this might be entertaining for a time, God has chosen to create
universes instead of burritos. He has chosen to populate those universes
with intelligent beings who are replicas of himself. He has chosen to
give these beings the capacity of consciousness to realize who they
are as sons and daughters of God. That is indeed why human beings have
the ability and the desire to speculate about the nature of God and
understand the nature of God.
I hope this explanation was not so hot that you will have trouble eating
it. It might be bitter in the mouth, but it will be sweet in the belly!
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