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could God microwave a burrito so hot that not even he could eat it?
Well, first I would like to address your question with a series of questions. Is God capable of microwaving burritos? We don't know anything about the divine but we can make some assumptions (considering that we are talking about an omnipotent being). Can God create life or something close to it? Well if He created life then He must have been able to create complex molecules and such things as amino acids (which are found in living cells) so I believe this is reasonable. So can we say that he has knowledge of chemistry and molecular interactions at least on the basic level? If yes then he could definitely microwave a burrito. Now the next question: does God want his own children (i.e., humans) to eat His delicious food prepared by Him personally for them?
I don't think so. After all, if He wants them to eat something prepared by Him then why doesn't he just give it to them? A burrito is a great idea but God could create a better type of food that would be much more tasty and satisfying for humans (after all He knows what is good for us). Also, I believe that God does not want people to worship Him because of the benefits they get from Him. What's the point in having faith in someone who will give you everything you want? Faith should be hard work or there's no meaning in it.
Moving on, I guess the next question is: can God microwave burritos that are too hot for humans to eat? First we have to understand how heat works. Heat transfers from a hotter object to a colder one and it doesn't do so instantaneously (it takes time). So if there was such thing as an infinitely hot burrito then it would take an infinite amount of time for its temperature to transfer into another object which would be impossible since infinity cannot exist in the real world.
Also, if this infinitely hot burrito existed then there would be infinite entropy in the universe which would mean that all information contained within space and time would disappear. The laws of thermodynamics imply that at absolute zero (-273 degrees Celsius) everything stops moving i.e., all particles in the universe cease to move or vibrate (absolute zero is impossible since it violates the second law of thermodynamics). So if God created such a cold burrito then He should have also created an infinitely hot one because both are theoretically possible.
But it is not possible and probably God cannot create anything that has infinite temperature (only things that have finite temperatures can exist in the real world). So now we are left with a dilemma: should God microwave burritos of extreme heat? Well, I would say no. There's no point in creating something that humans cannot eat or enjoy. It would just be cruel to do so.
So I believe that a God who is also omniscient, omnipotent and benevolent cannot create such an impossible object like the infinitely hot burrito. As such we can conclude that it is not possible for Him to microwave something so hot because He knows what people would want or be able to eat.