When I was in middle school, me and my group of friends frequented a game called World of Warcraft. In it, there was a sword called "The Unstoppable Force" and, in an unrelated area, a shield called "The Immovable Object." Of course,a common lunch-time discussion became: what would happen if they ever met? Among the many ridiculous solutions we came up with, the serious answer we all agreed on was that the two couldn't exist in the same universe. Their mere simultaneous existence would be a paradox.Fast forward to a couple days ago, I was thinking about the contradiction of omnipotence - can God create a stone so heavy that even he cannot lift it? And, my favorite, the contradiction of omnipotence and omniscience - can God do something that even he did not forsee? Unless you defualt to the non-answer that God is unintelligible by humans, you're going to have to accept 'a contradiction exists' as your answer - that God can create a stone so large that he can't lift it and that he can lift it. But this makes one huge assumption: that paradoxes aren't absolutely impossible, which they are by definition. If A does indeed = A, then there is a limit on God's power, and that limit is rule of non-contradiction.
An absolutely powerful force cannot exist in the same universe as an absolutely impossible action. This isn't up for debate, it necessarily must be true by definition. Saying that God is more powerful than paradoxes or that God is mysterious doesn't negate this argument, since the infinite power of God is the cause of the problem.
The only objection I see that could be made is that paradoxes are not absolutely impossible. I can't see someone making this argument without begging the question (God is all powerful, therefore he can make contradictions happen). I also know Aristotle said that without the rule of non-contradiction, we couldn't know all that we do know. I'm not entirely sure why he thought this, but it probably had something to do with the devastating blow that the existence of a contradiction would deal to identity.
At any rate, I should point out that the stakes are in all of this are extremely high. Everything that God does in the bible, or anything that he could possibly do is a contradiction. Everything he does is a miracle, and the point of a miracle is that it's doing something impossible. But if something can't be done...and yet it can be done, well there's your contradiction right there! So how far does this go? Most believers in an absolute power will tell you that tipping over a chair is certainly within its sphere of power. More specifically, a chair that wouldn't have tipped over otherwise. And if a chair wasn't going to tip over, then it couldn't have tipped over since the necessary elements weren't present (or else it would have tipped over). And if something couldn't have happened and could happen at the same time in the same way, then either paradoxes aren't absolutely impossible, or it exclusively couldn't have happened. But, as I mentioned above, paradoxes almost definitely are absolutely impossible. Therefore, God can't even tip over a chair.
