God's
omnipotence means [His] power to do all that is not intrinsically
impossible. You may attribute miracles
to Him, but not nonsense. This is no limit to His power. If you choose to say, "God can give a
creature free will and at the same time withhold free will from it", you
have not succeeded in saying anything about God: meaningless combinations of
words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two
other words "God can." It
remains true that all things are possible with God: the intrinsic
impossibilities are not things but nonentities.
It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to
carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives -- not because His power
meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it
about God.
--
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) in “The Problem of Pain”
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