[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]
[QUOTE="Theokhoth"]
I'm getting at the answer to your question. There is no simple answer regarding theology; if you're not willing to think about it then your question is meaningless.
If all that exists is God, and if matter cannot be created or destroyed, and if matter exists once God wills it, where is the one place matter could have possibly come from?
Theokhoth
But, theoretically, if God could create matter, then God exists outside of the laws of physics as we currently know them. Therefore, who is to say that God is subject to matter not being destroyed?
Besides, "destroy" could merely mean breaking apart the atoms/whatever Satan is made of, which would have the same effect :P.
Ah, but why create something new when we can use already existing parts?:D
Matter cannot be created or destroyed. If God created matter, then God had to use something that already existed. Since God is the only "thing" that exists eternally (no creation or destruction), matter comes directly from God. No, this is not pantheism; this is actually what people believed before Nicaea.
If everything that exists is made from God, and if angels exist, and if God cannot destroy Himself (which He cannot; it's the same as the "rock so heavy He can't lift it" deal), then angles (which is what Satan was) come from God, and cannot be destroyed. They can only be held up in an eternal plane of existence separate from God: that being Hell.
Could God break Satan up into a bunch of atoms? That depends on whether or not Satan is made of atoms.
Then God is not "omnipotent" now is he?
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