Your position on naturalism

[bennyboy]

Thank you for your post, Ignorant.  If we were to discover a highly advanced being who was very powerful, then how could one differentiate it from being a god versus being a different, yet highly unique alien life-form?  Would it ultimately come down to faith?

Thanks for your question. If it is "a ... being", then it isn't god, regardless of its advanced quality. Most all things are like this:

Thing + "to be" verb + nature, for example:

You are (being) human. OR You are a human (being).

Your nature is human.

With god, the same formula applies:

God is (being) the-act-of-being

God's nature is the-act-of-being

God is the "to be" verb, so to speak.

God is "being", itself

So if you can establish that it is "a being", and not "being, itself", then it isn't god.

If God isn't a being, then who's Jesus?  Is Jesus "being, itself?"