(August 22, 2015 at 5:36 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(August 22, 2015 at 5:24 pm)Kaninchen Wrote: Obviously that particular thinking test was a little too hard so I better explain it all a bit more.
The problem with attempting to determine the nature of our God - not your Sistine Chapel God or God with an ornate heart on his chest and his arms around a lamb - is that any human attempt to describe/define God is a form of idolatry.
What might be the consequence of that, Randy?
Does God exist, Kaninchen?
Why would I answer a question the answer to which would be patently beyond your ability to comprehend?
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
