How do I know that I can't comprehend God? — Zebeden
It's just that God isn't a part of the known universe; neither is God something concrete in our cosmos, and nor do any abstractions thereof apply to him. Put simply, there's nothing in our universe, physical/mental, that we can use as a starting point in grasping what God is. Re: apophatic theology (via negativa). — Agent Smith
God isn't a part of the known universe — Agent Smith
It's just that God isn't a part of the known universe; neither is God something concrete in our cosmos, and nor do any abstractions thereof apply to him. Put simply, there's nothing in our universe, physical/mental, that we can use as a starting point in grasping what God is. — Agent Smith
Suppose god did not create this word, but another god did?Unless God created himself, God can't be in the universe. — Agent Smith
Unless God created himself, God can't be in the universe. — Agent Smith
How do I know that I can't comprehend God? — Zebeden
It's just that God isn't a part of the known universe
IMO "God" is an anxiety (like death), not an entity.How do I know that I can't comprehend God? — Zebeden
Re: negative theology (which inspires my own decades-old position ).That's still something said if not about God himself then about our conception of God, isn't it? But by saying "X is incomprehensible", "X is something we can't say anything about" etc.
Do we scare you? :sweat:A warning. There are a lot of anti-religion bigots here on the forum who often give believers a hard time — T Clark
How do I know that I can't comprehend God?
— Zebeden
IMO "God" is an anxiety, not an entity, like death.
That's still something said if not about God himself then about our conception of God, isn't it? But by saying "X is incomprehensible", "X is something we can't say anything about" etc.
Re: negative theology (which inspires my own decades-old position ↪180 Proof).
A warning. There are a lot of anti-religion bigots here on the forum who often give believers a hard time
— T Clark
Do we scare you? :sweat: — 180 Proof
Unless God created himself, God can't be in the universe.
— Agent Smith
It's possible for him to have created Himself. He be omnipotent, ain't He? — god must be atheist
Pascal’s wager?
I’m just not that scared of the consequences. — Real Gone Cat
But I don't believe in hell — DA671
This is true only if "x creates" presupposes that "x" is already "in existence" and ontically separate from "y".For x to create y, x must precede y in existence. — Agent Smith
Causa sui – "x creates x" – merely denotes "x" is not the effect of any external causes (i.e. random) and that it's only "x"'s continuity, or perdurance, which "x creates".If x creates x, x mustexistbefore xexists.
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