(July 29, 2019 at 6:43 am)Tom Fearnley Wrote: sorry I guess I'm just confused by this it's new to me.
Not to worry!
It's confusing to me, and I've been working on it a long time. I enjoy these discussions because they prompt me to make things clearer to myself.
Just for now, I'll summarize what seems important to me on this subject.
God is not intelligent in the way that people are intelligent. Because in people, intelligence involves learning, connecting, solving unknowns, etc.
God doesn't know in the way that people do. When we say "I know X," there are two things -- me and X. The knower and the known are two.
God is not a material thing. He is not like Bigfoot, whom you could find if you knew where to look (supposedly). He is not something to be counted as one, in addition to the world. God and the world do not make two.
This is SO FAR from our normal thinking about things that it takes work to grok it. And I don't think anybody has to get it to have a long and happy life -- just that if you're asking the questions you might as well look at the best answers. Nor am I saying it's something you should believe. I don't know how nearly it approaches the truth. But I also think it is very beautiful and I don't regret working on it.