Yes, of course. But he wouldn't, because then the jelly doughnut would be more powerful than Him, and then he wouldn't be God anymore.

No. The trick here is that many people believe if they can come up with a sentence where the answer involves the phrase, "God can't do (whatever)." they've "proven" that God is not omnipotent, ergo he can't be God. The mistake is assuming that saying "can't do" is necessarily and always a statement of a limitation of power. Not true. Many things can't be done for reasons other than limitation of power or ability. For example, contradictory things "can't be done" by nature not by virtue of a limit in power. Saying, "God can't make a square circle." or "God cannot be God and not-be-God at the same time." are not statements limiting God's power or ability. All they reveal is the illogic of the statements themselves and nothing that is inherently illogical, unreal, or non-existent has the power to contradict (in reality or logic) that which purports to exist (like God). God can't make anything more powerful or bigger than He is because such a thing is impossible by nature. God is by definition the biggest and most to an infinite degree. Nothing by nature is greater than infinity. If God could make something more or greater than he, then he wouldn't be God, or a limitless God at least. Again, this is not to limit God's power or ability. For God's supposed "lack of power" to make something bigger than He is, is based upon his assumed "all powerfulness". And when basis conflicts with supposition, supposition loses and is shown to be faulty in its assertion.

no he cannot because he is free of the concept of dimension. if god has no dimensions and limits, then there can be nothing bigger than god in size. also, god doesn't eat anything. he doesn't have such needs and weaknesses.

I think the popular constraint people place on God is that he has to follow the rules of logic, which at least in my opinion is incorrect. If there is a god, and if as they say he is omnipotent(all-powerful) than he has the power to do that which defies our ability to comprehend, after all all-powerful does not have to obey our laws, because according to datleast a Christian conception of God, he created the laws that we live by and lives outside of time itself. You ask if god could do this which would contradict that, make a stone so heavy he couldnt lift it, for example. I believe the answer simply is yes, God could make a stone so heavy that he could not lift it, yet at the same time, he could lift it. Defying logic? He is outside of logic, he can literally -do- anything.

Of course. Whether God is fact or fiction, he can create a doughnut that he couldn't eat. God can create anything. The bible says so, whether it is fact or fiction.

he is in everything and everything is in him. All existence is his and is in him. Nothing moves without his will embedded in nature. God is the creater of Jelly Doughnut and also the content of it. He can grow infinitely big, and it is hard to imagine it physically

No. Any jelly doughnut, no matter how big, can be eaten if enough time passes to allow the consumer to digest what s/he has eaten. Since past, present and future are all the same to God, no matter how big the doughnut is, He can eat it in what would seem to us to be a brief instant.

In Einstein's theory of relativity if you took the matter of a jelly donut and inverted its molecular structure on the atomic level it would fill ALL space. It would literally expand and consume the entire universe as we know it. With God all things are possible. But lucky enough we still lack the ability to invert the Jelly Donut.

Yes he could depending on whether his mouth is so big or so small

Your question presupposes that God has the same physical limitations which we do. God is Spirit and infinite, and as such is not bound by your concept of size or any other limitation which your finite mind can conjure up.

It sounds like people are referring to "logic" or "nature" as something that is in some way beyond or greater than God. If so, why shouldn't we worship that greater thing instead of God? Or, if logic and nature are not greater than God, they at least seem to bind and limit him. Wouldn't that make him a lot like us? Wouldn't that explain why people in the Bible argue with God sometimes? If, on the other hand, God is truly all-powerful, he himself decides from moment to moment what logic is, what nature is. In that case, we have no chance to understand anything very meaningful about him. I hope some of this makes sense.

Yes. God can most definitely do this, and has done it in fact, and we live in it. This question is very important, and most people blow it off. In fact, I think it might be the most important question of all time. Well, not the jelly doughnut part, but the part about God being able to do something that violates human logic *and* threatens the "all powerful" aspect we ascribe to God. The story of Jesus Christ is in fact a jelly doughnut story. God made a world. Filled it with wonderful things to see and do. Then put a "free choice" being in it. "Free choice" = a jelly doughnut God can't eat. Those beings really messed up, (and continue to mess up), but God can't remove free choice, (i.e. can't eat the doughnut), so had to find a more clever way out of the conundrum. Enter the Savior, et al. Another story: God was sitting around the campfire of existence when a thought crossed its mind..."what if I wasn't God?" (the jelly doughnut). We know that an all-powerful being's thoughts would manifest instantly and perfectly, so "BOOM!", it fractured into a thousand-billion-trillion little pieces of existence, each one knowing that it wasn't God, but each one being a piece of that very God. A thousand-billion-trillion millennia pass, and finally all the parts of God get it together, wake up, and coalesce back into the All-Being. God wipes it's brow and vows to never do tha....at the thought of "that"..."BOOM!"....another jelly doughnut universe comes into being. Of course, we don't call it a jelly doughnut...we call it the Big Bang.

If you consult the Bible, Josephus 4:17 you will find your answer, my child

no, he could not make one so big that he could not eat it because, although god is supposedly omnipotent, the ability to create a doughnut thet he could not eat would undermine this ability, as although he is omnipotent, the one thing he can not do is make himself non-omnipotent, as the creation of this doughnut would make him lose his ability, he cannot preform this task.

Sure God could. If God has an allergy to jelly donuts or perhaps God is sugar intolerant then any size jelly donut would be too big for God to eat. Of course the question is asinine and suggests that God would waste resources on something as trivial as a jelly donut. Isn’t that what Humans are for?

Yes, but then the jelly doughnut would be greater than Him and therefore superceed and become God.

Okay, here we go. So, either God can create such a doughnut or he can't. If he can't, the argument seems to go, then there is something that he cannot do, namely create the doughnut, and therefore he is not omnipotent. If he can, then there is also something that he cannot do, namely eat the doughnut, and therefore he is not omnipotent. Either way, then, God is not omnipotent. A being that is not omnipotent, though, is not God. God, therefore, does not exist. This, seems to me, is the reason a question like this is brought out. To show the paradox of GOD. But there is a problem with this doughnut paradox. Although this simple argument may appear compelling at first glance, there are some fundamental problems with it. Before identifying these problems, however, it is necessary to make clear what is meant by "omnipotence." Christian philosophers have understood omnipotence in different ways. Rene Descartes thought of omnipotence as the ability to do absolutely anything. According to Descartes, God can do the logically impossible; he can make square circles, and he can make 2 + 2 = 5. Thomas Aquinas had a narrower conception of omnipotence. According to Aquinas, God is able to do anything possible; he can part the red sea, and he can restore the dead to life, but he cannot violate the laws of logic and mathematics in the way that Descartes thought that he could. If Descartes' conception of omnipotence is correct, then any attempt to disprove God's existence using logic is hopeless. If God can do the logically impossible, then he can both create a jelly doughnut so big that he couldn't eat it, and eat it, and so can do all things. Yes, there's a contradiction in this, but so what? God can, on this understanding of omnipotence, make contradictions true. Descartes' understanding of omnipotence therefore doesn't seem to be vulnerable to this paradox of the doughnut. Descartes can answer the question Yes without compromising divine omnipotence. Aquinas' understanding of omnipotence, which is more popular than that of Descartes, also survives this paradox of the doughnut. For if God exists then he is a being that can eat all doughnuts. A doughnut that is so big that God cannot eat is therefore an impossible object. According to Aquinas' understanding of omnipotence, remember, God is able to do anything possible, but not anything impossible, and creating a doughnut that God cannot eat is something impossible. Aquinas can therefore answer the question No without compromising divine omnipotence. The paradox of the doughnut, then, can be resolved; however, which definition in omnipotence to believe is up to you to decide. Source: Taken March 4, 2007 @ 11:20pm : http://tinyurl.com/yuel42

Everyone knows God prefers BAGELS. Is this the typical intelligent, discussion type question reminiscent of the "good old days" before AB became so popular? I keep hearing that the questions NOW are frivolous and that we have to ask "quality" questions. So much for nostaligia. It seems silliness has always been a good part of AB. This question is dated from 2003.

could if he would but he won't....(better things to do than indulge himself in silly things)

No, God cannot use his power to do something illogical. For with you great strength abides always; who can resist the might of your arm? Indeed, before you the whole universe is as a grain from a balance, or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth. But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things; and you overlook the sins of men that they may repent. (Wisdom 11:21-23) Most Monotheists including Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe that God is omnipotent (all powerful). God's almighty power is in no way arbitrary: "In God, power, essence, will, intellect, wisdom, and justice are all identical. Nothing therefore can be in God's power which could not be in his just will or his wise intellect." (St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I, 25, 5, ad 1) In other words, God can do anything that is logically possible and is consistent with his other attributes. For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraphs 268 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt1art1p3.htm#110 With love in Christ.

God can do whatever the heaven he wants to do with his time.

Wow I'm surprised this hasn't been flagged for nonsense (no offense) Just compared to some of mine that have been flagged for nonsense, this is the mother of all nonsense. (If it does got flagged, I didn't do it lol)