RE: What is God?
August 9, 2015 at 2:50 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2015 at 2:51 pm by Longhorn.)
(August 9, 2015 at 5:56 am)pool Wrote:(August 8, 2015 at 2:43 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: Pool, we've been through this. Unbelief is not an active stance, it is the default position. You either believe, or you don't. Since you don't comprehend what a god is, you don't believe in him; you are implicitly an atheist. End of story.
I don't understand what the Theory of relativity is,but that doesn't mean that i don't believe in it,neither does it mean that i believe in it.
Similarly,
I don't understand what a God is,but that doesn't mean that i don't believe in it,neither does it mean that i believe in it.
See,when someone is presented with an idea that they cannot understand and is asked whether they believe in it or not,it is extremely difficult to decide how to respond.
Can you tell me the appropriate response in that situation?
I get what you're saying.
You don't know what a god is, so you don't know whether you believe in it or not.
But that means you do not have active belief in god, so you lack that belief. That's implicit atheism. The same an infant is an atheist.
Just say what you mean, that you don't know what a god is.
