(November 17, 2018 at 5:41 am)Azu Wrote: What's your definition of god?
There's a lot about the universe -- reality -- that humans don't and probably can't comprehend.
The concept of God is a kind of place-holder for all that we can't understand. Therefore, any definition of God must be wrong, because it implies that we understand him.
In the Platonic tradition it is common to say that God is the Good. And there are arguments for this, as long as we are careful to specify that we don't really know what the Good is. (We only see it embodied in material things -- a good book, a good meal.) If we are satisfied saying only that God is the Good and that is enough, there is a danger of taking our defined concept of goodness and limiting God to that. But that would be a human limitation applied to an unlimited thing.
So the claim that because we have no clear definition there must not be a God, or because we can't specify exact attributes it is evidence that there is no God, is not tenable. This was all worked out in about the 4th century.
