(August 27, 2016 at 9:29 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Actually, god or not he was far more powerful than your god could ever be - he is known to have existed. Something that your god could only dream of doing.Don't make me go back through history and fetch for you the multitudinous, pan-cultural concepts of the original God/State of existence prior to the universe being an infinite undifferentiated substance.
The God I assert of has been asserted by many, long before me, long before the "guy in the sky" became a popular strawman.
Would it help you to know the Pope specifically denounced this concept of God? It was translated "God is not a magician" but what he actually said was "God is not a demi-urge." Meaning God is not a "public worker" who carved out creation and formed it's internal things out of a preexisting substance.
As far as Augustus is concerned, maybe he took to heart and embodied Jesus's words, "Ye are gods."
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
