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RE: Why Does God Need A Creator?
February 22, 2013 at 9:05 am
What we know about God is reasoned. Supposed backward goat herders did the same.
Their conclusions were not unique, but the culmination of a lot of ideas honed over time to come up with a working description.
If God is this, does this, can do this, then we can conclude this... is how it works.
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RE: Why Does God Need A Creator?
February 22, 2013 at 9:16 am
So if god did X, then he is Y, which means he can do X.
If you believe it, question it. If you question it, get an answer. If you have an answer, does that answer satisfy reality? Does it satisfy you? Probably not. For no one else will agree with you, not really.
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RE: Why Does God Need A Creator?
February 22, 2013 at 1:26 pm
(February 16, 2013 at 6:26 pm)chasingthetruth Wrote: He isn't bound by the same laws of existence that he himself dictated, why is it necessary for him to have had a creator? (for those who use this argument)
If this god set the laws of existence how did it exist before?
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RE: Why Does God Need A Creator?
February 22, 2013 at 1:37 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2013 at 1:38 pm by fr0d0.)
Quote: if god did X, then he is Y, which means he can do X.
If God could do X, then God has to be Y.
We can't say what he's done without first understanding what he's capable of.
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RE: Why Does God Need A Creator?
February 22, 2013 at 1:52 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2013 at 1:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Well that's ass backwards, I can tell you a whole hell of alot about what any given entity has done without having the slightest idea of it's overall capabilities beyond the act in question (even that's up for dispute, no telling what sort of help or circumstance the entity in question may have lucked out on).
For example, my son took a shit this morning, however, I still have no idea whether or not he's capable of playing Beethovens fifth. Hell, maybe he is and maybe he isn't, and maybe that turd just escaped.
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RE: Why Does God Need A Creator?
February 22, 2013 at 4:19 pm
(February 22, 2013 at 1:37 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Quote: if god did X, then he is Y, which means he can do X.
If God could do X, then God has to be Y.
We can't say what he's done without first understanding what he's capable of.
Then how do you tell if God is Y, or if he can do X? What have you seen, heard, or otherwise experienced that has led you to the knowledge of anything in regards to what god is, or what he can do?
And how do you justify that if god could create the universe, then he has to be the creator? We don't know that, do we? Not everyone who can do something, does do that thing.
If you believe it, question it. If you question it, get an answer. If you have an answer, does that answer satisfy reality? Does it satisfy you? Probably not. For no one else will agree with you, not really.
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RE: Why Does God Need A Creator?
February 22, 2013 at 4:48 pm
(February 22, 2013 at 4:04 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Because one is time dependant and one isn't.
Also, scientific questions are another subject
How do you know God is not time-dependent?
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RE: Why Does God Need A Creator?
February 22, 2013 at 5:06 pm
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(February 22, 2013 at 4:19 pm)Question Mark Wrote: (February 22, 2013 at 1:37 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: If God could do X, then God has to be Y.
We can't say what he's done without first understanding what he's capable of.
Then how do you tell if God is Y, or if he can do X? What have you seen, heard, or otherwise experienced that has led you to the knowledge of anything in regards to what god is, or what he can do?
And how do you justify that if god could create the universe, then he has to be the creator? We don't know that, do we? Not everyone who can do something, does do that thing.
Loop to the post above: what we know about God we reasoned. What we now see, hear, or otherwise experience we do with the understanding that this reasoning affords us. In scientific knowledge, that is zero. In understanding purpose, it's everything.
Once more I'll repeat it: religion doesn't inform scientific investigation one tiny bit. Origins is a question for science, not religion.
(February 22, 2013 at 4:48 pm)Ryantology Wrote: How do you know God is not time-dependent? Because we reasoned that. Lots of big ideas fit together. God knows everything/ is all powerful... These attributes are basic to a deity. For those to work the deity has to also traverse time. To remain coherent, your model of deity has to possess all qualities that work together. Otherwise your model is flawed and your deity disproven. The model for the xtian God works and is consistent.
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RE: Why Does God Need A Creator?
February 22, 2013 at 5:32 pm
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(February 22, 2013 at 5:06 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Because we reasoned that. Lots of big ideas fit together. God knows everything/ is all powerful... These attributes are basic to a deity. For those to work the deity has to also traverse time. To remain coherent, your model of deity has to possess all qualities that work together. Otherwise your model is flawed and your deity disproven. The model for the xtian God works and is consistent.
You are not reasoning God, you are creating attributes which justify his existence. You're taking the answer (God), assuming that it cannot possibly be the wrong answer, and working backwards from that by inventing 'facts' to 'prove' the answer, coming up with whatever you can so as to avoid the conclusion that your deity doesn't exist. You're doing it completely wrong. What you should be doing is examining the facts as they are and working towards the answer, whatever it happens to be.
What you're doing isn't reasoning, it's rationalizing.
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RE: Why Does God Need A Creator?
February 22, 2013 at 5:59 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2013 at 6:00 pm by fr0d0.)
I guess you disagree with mathematical solutions to problems for exactly the same reasons Ryan.
When a clear solution is found, you say: well you assume your answer can't be wrong, so you are right.
But of course now you conveniently abandon your other objection that there are thousands of ideas so how do you know that your one is right.
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