The Burrito Paradox

[GenesisNemesis]

Can Jesus create a burrito so hot, that He Himself cannot eat it, but then eat it? ;)

[Wayne Delia]

Can Jesus create a burrito so hot, that He Himself cannot eat it, but then eat it? ;)
Chuck Norris can.

WMD

[Eldarion Lathria]

Do you mean hot, in the sense of spicy, or hot and temperature? I can make a burrito so hot in the sense of temperature that I can't eat it. Then I wait a few minutes, and eat it.

Eldarion Lathria

[GenesisNemesis]

If he made it infinitely both hot and spicy. :notworthy:

[555]

So hot that it melt the planet ?

Your «argument from mexico» itself is weak. Jesus can eat it because all he needs to do is heal himself.

[Von Zipper]

Can Jesus create a burrito so hot, that He Himself cannot eat it, but then eat it? ;)

I'm not sure this is really a coherent scenario. In truth, there really is no burrito so hot, either in terms of spiciness or temperature, that it cannot be eaten. Rather, it simply cannot be eaten comfortably.

Now, if Jesus really wants to eat that burrito, I can't see any mere physical discomfort putting him off. Remember, we're talking about the guy who got nailed to a cross, and who, despite the fact that He was so fabulously powerful he could have kicked the asses of everyone on the planet simultaneously, He chose to remain right where he was and endure hours of horrific suffering - and all so that He could then be in a position to save the souls of any humans who acknowledged that He was the ruler of the universe. I'm not quite sure how that follows, to be honest, but presumably there was some kind of cosmic forfeit involved which would have prevented His saving anyone at all in the event that He wasn't horribly tortured to a sufficient degree.

That mystery notwithstanding, you think He's now going to say "Whoa there, super-hot burrito! You win! I give up! You're too hot for me!"? Clearly this is nonsense. He's just going to down that burrito and take the consequences, no matter how hot it is.

That's assuming He's got a really good reason for inflicting this suffering upon Himself, of course. Say, if his first act of sacrifice had run out of juice, and now needed to have really uncomfortable diarrhoea so that He could go back to saving us from His wrath with renewed vigour.

Or maybe, it's similar to humans setting themselves difficult goals, and attempting to motivate themselves by attaching some terrible consequence for failure. In Jesus' case, of course, He's omnipotent, so He's in a position to follow through on this kind of promise, and it's often claimed that he can't possibly lie. In that case, maybe He's said to himself "I must eat this super-hot burrito or a terrible environmental catastrophe will befall the citizens of Liverpool." Or perhaps "I must eat this super-hot burrito to save Roger Moore from a 20 minute sneezing fit."

Whatever the reason, I don't think Jesus is going to back out, in any possible world, if consuming a super-hot burrito is what He's set his heart on.

Unless by "eat" you meant "successfully and entirely digest", and you think He might have trouble keeping it down. Ignore the above if that's the case.