RE: What is "FAITH"
July 12, 2013 at 11:38 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2013 at 11:47 pm by Consilius.)
The cause of the universe produced human beings, which produce emotion from the resources they are given. The cause of the universe is the reason emotion exists, and therefore must understand it.
Human beings have emotion.
They got it from the cause of the universe.
Human are most like this cause because they are the only known things that can understand it.
Human beings are set apart from other things because they have emotion.
We can therefore assume that emotion, too, makes us most like the cause and therefore the cause has emotion.
But the being, having caused all that exists, and therefore making it possible for anything to do anything, having set conditions for it doing so, must be omnipotent.
In the same way, this being has caused all that can possibly be known to exist by making everything there is come into existence. We are caused things, and thoughts, the products of caused things, must be compiled of the existing things we encounter. The being, having made all existing things, must also have had knowledge of all possible combinations of things that can make up thoughts. The being cannot help but know everything, because it caused everything.
Our understanding of cause and effect begins and ends with human and their experiences in a finite world. This caused, finite world was caused by an infinite uncaused thing. The first causation was the beginning of the many causes and effects that make our universe. The timeless cause of the universe caused time to exist so causes and effect could make our universe.
Human beings have emotion.
They got it from the cause of the universe.
Human are most like this cause because they are the only known things that can understand it.
Human beings are set apart from other things because they have emotion.
We can therefore assume that emotion, too, makes us most like the cause and therefore the cause has emotion.
But the being, having caused all that exists, and therefore making it possible for anything to do anything, having set conditions for it doing so, must be omnipotent.
In the same way, this being has caused all that can possibly be known to exist by making everything there is come into existence. We are caused things, and thoughts, the products of caused things, must be compiled of the existing things we encounter. The being, having made all existing things, must also have had knowledge of all possible combinations of things that can make up thoughts. The being cannot help but know everything, because it caused everything.
Our understanding of cause and effect begins and ends with human and their experiences in a finite world. This caused, finite world was caused by an infinite uncaused thing. The first causation was the beginning of the many causes and effects that make our universe. The timeless cause of the universe caused time to exist so causes and effect could make our universe.