(May 10, 2015 at 4:28 am)robvalue Wrote: But "god" appears to have no boundaries at all to its definition. People said the sun "is God". Some people say the universe/nature "is God". Some people say humans are gods.
It can mean anything, so really it means nothing. I have no idea what a random person may mean by "God" until they tell me. And even then not many people are able to tell me what they think it means in a way that makes any sense at all.
I can imagine Morgan Freeman on a cloud. Maybe that's what theists are thinking too. But unless they actually say as much instead of using evasive language, I have no idea what they're actually trying to describe. "Something powerful" is about as close as I can usually get to understand what they mean.
How God can make any sense to anyone who is not interested in knowing Him?
Our physical senses can hardly detect a tiny amount of what is around us physically speaking so to detect what
is even bigger than the physically reality is even more and more difficult.
What we study today will mostly be forgotten tomorrow and what we see today will also be forgotten tomorrow.
Our sense are only able to detect and remember very little of what is there so if we want to know big things the
only way is to establish a real relationship with the big.
It usually pays off if we act with sincerity but again this type of deal is not available to people who expect the mountain to
go to them.
It is rather the other way around.