If GOD wishes..................?

Question

If God wishes, can he end his own existence?

Answer 1

The story says that Brahma does this :_

www.friesian.com/gods.htm :-

Brahmâ (the masculine form of Brahman), was a creator God in the Vedas (more or less identifiable with Prajapati), but he is actually not an important devotionalistic God. One story about Vis.n.u is that as he sleeps, dreaming the universe, a lotus grows from his navel and opens to reveal Brahmâ, who then creates worlds as he blinks his eyes. Brahmâ is awake for a kalpa, or a Day of Brahmâ, which is either 12 million years or 4 billion years. He then sleeps for another kalpa, a Night of Brahmâ, while all karma sleeps within him. After 36,000 Days and Nights, called the Life of Brahmâ (859 billion or 309 trillion years), Brahmâ dies, and all karma is annihilated. But then a new lotus grows from Vis.n.u's navel, and another Brahmâ is born.[4]

Answer 2

whoa EMO

Answer 3

No, I don't think so.

Answer 4

Which God?

Answer 5

As he does not exist - no problem

Answer 6

If God is holy, we won't percieve doing it in the first place...

Answer 7

if he do it nothing is there

Answer 8

Yes.

This is why God doesn't wish.

She Wills.

Answer 9

Probably. Unless God has his own God that would stop him from doing it.

That implies that he would forsake his people for whatever reason. And that implies, of course, that he exists at all.  

Answer 10

God wouldn't wish that. :)

Answer 11

God is transcendent (beyond human's mind).

Answer 12

The Judaeo-Christian god is omnipotent, thus he can do anything and everything. He should be able to make a rock too massive for even himself to lift---but if he does so, then he has failed at doing everything (lifting the rock).

-- Omnipotence cannot exist.

So can the Judaeo-Christian god end his own existence? Mayhap. I do not know, I don't believe in his existence.  

Answer 13

Since gods are human contrivances (I'm an atheist, can ya tell?), one can say pretty much anything about gods with no way to prove or disprove it.  It's like ascribing characteristics to any other fictional character.  Like, "could Indiana Jones knock a piece of chalk off of someone's shoulder using his whip, without hurting that person?"  Since Indy is a fictional character, you can make the answer pretty much anything you want it to be.

Your question does, however, raise questions about a god's supposed omnipotence, similar to the question of whether a god can create a stone so heavy that even he couldn't lift it.  In this case, if your god was not able to commit suicide or otherwise end his own existence, that would be something he couldn't do, thus, he also couldn't be omnipotent.

It's also interesting to consider if a god _could_ end his own existence.  If he could, and if he was an eternal being with an infinite past behind him, then as long as the odds of his committing suicide are greater than zero, given an infinite amount of time, his suicide becomes a certainty.  This is because no matter how improbable, if an event has any chance of happening at all, it will eventually happen given an infinite amount of time for it to occur.  Again, if the odds of his committing suicide are _not_ greater than zero, that means this is something that will _never_ happen and thus something that this god is incapable of doing.

So if a god is capable of ending his own existence, even if the odds of his deciding to do so are extremely remote, he will eventually decide to do so, given an infinite amount of time.  And since an eternal god existed infinitely far back in time, this means an infinite amount of time has already passed up to the present.  Thus, if he is capable of ending his own existence...then it would appear he has already done so.  Nietzsche was right after all, god is dead.