Let's look at the question where God is defined as the wholly simple and necessary First Cause who caused reality and encoded order, morality and purpose into creation.
If we take an Aristotelian view on the matter, causation is a perpetual chain which spans the entirety of, well, causality, until we arrive at the Uncaused Cause. — Qurious
Attributing brute existence to a "first" cause, then, is an error of understanding. Or deliberate nonsense. And in my opinion, this error is what feeds and keeps alive organized religion that claims that god exists, in the brute sense. — tim wood
If God exists, does God have a purpose for existing? — Qurious
If God exists, does God have a purpose for existing?
Of course if you believe in God you won't agree with this, so I suppose this is a somewhat pointless post.
If God exists, does God have a purpose for existing? — Qurious
If God does have a purpose what makes us think we could see it, understand it, and know it as such? — Rank Amateur
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