Skeptics ask, how is this so, if Jesus says all things are possible with God (Matt. 19:26)? This objection confuses God's nature with His power to do something. An all-powerful being cannot do things that contradict His own nature. In this case, God cannot lie because He is perfectly good. God cannot destroy Himself because He is a necessary being. God cannot make 2+2=5 because His own nature is the foundation of truth and logic. Such philosophical impossibilities are not "things," which is implicitly understood in the statement that "all things are possible."