RE: A good reason not to believe in God
March 2, 2011 at 8:32 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2011 at 8:50 pm by fr0d0.)
@ VOID Right I've heard that point before and don't find it convincing over Divine Simplicity, which you skated over briefly there. Every proposed cause has to begin from simplicity. Otherwise nothing came from something. Complexity just doesn't make sense there.
So all of this complexity we observe is postulated (scientifically) to have emanated from a simple cause. This potential comprising in ultimate simplicity the code for the complexity --> Divine Simplicity.
In my understanding God is not limited. In a manner of speaking, you could say that Jesus is God because everything existent emanates from God. But that's not what we call anything in physical reality, because God entails far more than the physical. In this case, we're saying that God manifests himself fully within the person so making that person also fully God. Clearly God is limiting himself severely as man. But never as God. The point of Jesus is to demonstrate man in his full potential together with God. The upshot being a means for every human to have access to the same.
So all of this complexity we observe is postulated (scientifically) to have emanated from a simple cause. This potential comprising in ultimate simplicity the code for the complexity --> Divine Simplicity.
Quote:The impression I have is that God is everywhere and everywhen yet he is not temporally or spatially afflicted by either, time and space do not change the state of affairs that God is - would you agree?
In my understanding God is not limited. In a manner of speaking, you could say that Jesus is God because everything existent emanates from God. But that's not what we call anything in physical reality, because God entails far more than the physical. In this case, we're saying that God manifests himself fully within the person so making that person also fully God. Clearly God is limiting himself severely as man. But never as God. The point of Jesus is to demonstrate man in his full potential together with God. The upshot being a means for every human to have access to the same.
