(June 2, 2016 at 3:25 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote:(June 2, 2016 at 2:58 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: You're thinking of it in terms of the material world though.
Remember, we believe God is in an entirely different dimension all together and isn't bound by the laws of time or space. No, God isn't "physically present" in your butt hole as you would be or wouldn't be on the moon. You know the moon is orbiting the Earth, but you can't see all of it all at once at all times and don't know what is happening on it at every second, so that's not comparable either. We believe God is a much more advanced being than us and so He is capable of things that we cannot even fully comprehend. Just as a chicken cannot comprehend concepts that we as humans can.
If God exists in such a way that it is beyond comprehension, then I don't know how you know that or how you can begin to make such claims about God's capabilities if you yourself can't comprehend what those capabilities are, or how you can believe you know anything about God if it is entirely unknowable. Those capabilities, as they've been described, are that God exists outside of the universe while being present in all parts of the universe, without being physically present in the universe while being capable of interacting with the universe while still not existing within it. At this point, what difference is there between incomprehensible and incoherent?
If there is a God, it only makes perfect sense that he is much more advanced than us and is capable of things and concepts that we cannot comprehend. Just as creatures below us cannot comprehend concepts that we can. I don't know why you would think that's so strange.
As for how I can believe in God, that would be a topic for another thread, if I wanted to get into it... which I'd rather not.
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