(October 8, 2018 at 7:44 am)Belaqua Wrote:(October 8, 2018 at 6:18 am)Thoreauvian Wrote: The problem with trying to boil a God concept down to some abstraction, as philosophers do, is that every god is said to be a being with consciousness and willfulness. Those attributes can't be reduced to mere abstractions.
This is certainly a problem for Bible literalists and people who pray for intervention in football games.
Is it a problem for the god of the philosophers? Would you like to look at God as described by a particular philosopher and work out how he deals with consciousness and willfulness?
My stance is that any apologist who ignores the attributes of consciousness and willfulness is equivocating with his god-concept.
But as always, if you have something to say, by all means say it.