(October 29, 2016 at 6:07 pm)Mariosep Wrote:Nope, you read me wrong. Not multiple Gods. There can only ever be one infinite God of substance, there is no room for anything else. That God differentiates into a projective aspect and receptive aspect which act as male and female nature. "Creation" was begun with the word "God"....it was a self expression...that is a pro-creative act.--
Arkilogue, you say:
From Mariosep
That is one instance of causation, and God is the first and ultimate cause of all intermediary causes; think about that, with your reason and intelligence grounded on truths, facts, logic, and the history of ideas.
From Arkilogue
Parents , Yes. All the more reason to believe in multiple gods as the source of creation. The love making of the gods is what brought all this into existence.
That is a very productive insight, that there could be multiple gods.
That is what we will go into in another thread, namely, why and how there is only one God, in concept as first and foremost the creator and operator of the universe and man and everything with a beginning.
But right now I will share with you that there is this principle which is accepted by all serious sincere honest persevering thinkers, namely, that things should not be multiplied unnecessarily.
So when we prove that God is first and foremost the creator and operator of the universe and man and everything with a beginning, reason and intelligence tells us that there cannot be except only one such god, that is why I as a theist call god God with a capital G.
Now, if you insist that you enjoy freedom of thought and you will keep to multiple gods, I will tell you, Go in peace sir, and have a good time with multiple gods, that should already dispense you from carrying the atheists' what I might call - forgive me, party i.d. card.
Jesus- "Ye are gods"
An "intelligently designed" universe by a God (Super duper smart scientist guy in the sky) is an unnecessary complexity. It was not thought up and poof into existence, it was unfolded from a previous unity aka God.
"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