Case 1
God is finite, which means when we will try to define it, we will see that it will make god a mere object. If god is our creator, then he has authority over us but the problem is he is not a human being. So it means he is free from human desires, so why does he want to be praised? Why does he become angry with us, and why has he created hell for the people who disobey him? In fact, why does he want us to obey him? These questions prove that this definition of God looks human-made because this definition has human qualities. It just means this definition was made to make our society stable. if this concept of God does not exist whole of humanity would end in great chaos. — Haafiz Mohammad Beigh
:up: :up:... if you take the angle of religious tradition, you have already skewed it to be in this tradition which is again, just history playing itself out in this particular culture at this particular time in history. — schopenhauer1
@180 Proofgod exists" only in one's mind "defined" subjectively;
1. God is finite, ie we can define it as what it is and what it is not.
2. God is infinite, ie it is everything. We can define it as what it is but can't define what it is not because it is everything. — Haafiz Mohammad Beigh
Since according to the Philosopher (Peri Herm. i), words are signs of ideas, and ideas the similitude of things, it is evident that words relate to the meaning of things signified through the medium of the intellectual conception. It follows therefore that we can give a name to anything in as far as we can understand it. Now it was shown above [...] that in this life we cannot see the essence of God; but we know God from creatures as their principle, and also by way of excellence and remotion. In this way therefore He can be named by us from creatures, yet not so that the name which signifies Him expresses the divine essence in itself. Thus the name "man" expresses the essence of man in himself, since it signifies the definition of man by manifesting his essence; for the idea expressed by the name is the definition. — Aquinas, ST Ia.13.1 - Can God be named by us?
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