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How did little old us ever take the measure of unimaginably stupendous God?
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RE: How did little old us ever take the measure of unimaginably stupendous God?
(July 28, 2015 at 11:38 am)MysticKnight Wrote: Do you recall my arguments (proofs from my point of view) regarding the nature of God when I was a Deist?


As I recall, you would argue that certain prior conditions would be necessary for what we know as the universe today to exist.  Only God could provide those prior conditions.  Therefore God.

But I disagree at every point.  We're in no position to say the prior conditions are for the universe as we know it today.  We can never be sure that our perspective is comprehensive enough to account for all relevant factors.  Likewise are we in any position to determine exactly what conditions are determinative of which other conditions or systemically to understand what all the cycles may be?  I'd say no, and all we can ever do is incrementally inch away from our abysmal ignorance toward a less and less inadequate description.

Now that is as true for theists as it is for atheists.  Merely pointing to god is not to understand anything and sitting pat with goddidit amounts to wallowing comfortably in the ignorance forever.

But please tell me if I've misrepresented your arguments.
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RE: How did little old us ever take the measure of unimaginably stupendous God? - by Whateverist - July 28, 2015 at 2:27 pm

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