(May 14, 2016 at 4:41 am)robvalue Wrote: This is mainly aimed at theists, but everyone is welcome to chime in. I'm still totally lacking any coherent notion of what a god is.
Is it defined by its qualities? Or by its achievements? Its status? What?
Consider this scenario. A long time ago, all that existed was a slug. That's it, a slug. Nothing predates the slug.
Suddenly, the slug creates all of the rest of reality around it somehow. Maybe this was deliberate, maybe it did it by accident. Now it exists alongside everything else. Along with this creation came the rules regarding harm and death, which previously did not apply. The slug lives out its days, then dies. Fast forward several billion years, and we have the present day.
So my question is this: would this slug be a god? If not, why not, and what else would make it into one?
It's irrelevant how the slug did this, or if it's possible, since these are never considerations when gods are discussed.
Not unless he can pass the salt test.
