Going back again to the letter from St. Clement, he wrote that the one thing God cannot do is tell a lie. We are taught from childhood that God is all powerful, all knowing and always present. One of the arguments that a so called agnostic peer used to raise was to question if God could create a rock so big he could not lift it. I always found the question pointless. It offers nothing with respect to understanding the essence of his omnipotence. The understanding that the one thing that God cannot do is to deny himself does not limit his power because surely he could tell a whopper if he wanted but would never choose to break his covenant with us: he is our God and we are his people and it is love that binds us together. The unmuted nature of that love brings solace, comfort and joy to the depths of our soul.
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