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All Things Are Possible What is truly possible? If we are to seriously address this question we should first distinguish between different senses of the word "possibility." There are at least three different senses of possibility: technological, physical, and logical possibility. For example, until the invention of the airplane, it wasn't technologically possible for humans to fly, though it was always physically possible to do this, as evidenced by birds. Time travel may not be physically possible, but there is nothing logically impossible about this, and even this problem may one day succumb to human ingenuity. Still, other things are said to be logically impossible, such as making two plus two equal five or making a rock so big that even an omnipotent God could not lift it. So, can God make two plus two equal five, or can He make a rock so big that even He could not lift it? Or is this just nonsense? For God to be able to make a rock so big that He could not lift it is paradoxical. For if He cannot make the rock, His omnipotence is contradicted, and if He can make it, then He can't lift it, and so His omnipotence is contradicted there as well. Either way, whether He can or cannot ends in contradiction, and thus the paradox. But usually when we talk about something being impossible, we just mean it is going to be very difficult. Often the impossible is only what we haven't yet figured out how to do. As Henry Ford once quipped, "Whether you think you can, or think you can't, either way you are right." So, think positively, use your head, work hard, and ask for God's help. With men it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible
with God. R.S.V. Mark 10:27
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