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Is The Christian God Impossible?

Rebuttal of  Chad Docterman's essay  " Why the Christian God is Impossible " My intention for this post is to write a detailed rebuttal of the arguments made by Chad Docterman’s essay on “why the Christian God is impossible.”   The main thesis of Docterman’s essay is that the Christian God’s attributes are self-contradictory.   He correctly understands what it means for something to be self-contradictory when he claims that God has “mutually exclusive attributes that make [His] existence impossible.”   Though he has a correct view of self-contradiction he in no way proves that God’s attributes are mutually exclusive.   I will not address every point made by Docterman because I trust that any reader can see that my arguments and answers to his objections can easily transfer to the points not directly addressed. "Perfection Seeks even more perfection" The argument that he makes in this section does not by necessity prove that God creating the wor