RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
July 29, 2019 at 2:49 pm
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2019 at 2:50 pm by LadyForCamus.)
(July 29, 2019 at 6:07 am)Belaqua Wrote:(July 29, 2019 at 5:42 am)Tom Fearnley Wrote: Belaqua: "I've already addressed this. When theologians say that God is intelligent, it is not in the same way that a person is intelligent. If you skipped my description of this before you can look again, at my first post here. "
So in what way is God intelligent?
You've been saying he is, not me.
I say that according to theologians he's omniscient, in that he and the truth are one. All the things that people may know are at one with him.
Quote:"He takes no actions. This would require change, and he doesn't change.
He causes things to be and to change because of what he is, but this doesn't require his own change"
Wouldn't causing things to change required a change of thought?
Here's an analogy:
The guy who plays Thor is asleep on a park bench. He's doing nothing, has no plans. Yet he causes action all around him, because people react to him. This is the Neoplatonic view:
Except that the guy who plays Thor is a material thing; a person; so he, and no other material thing can be appropriately used as an analogy.
Quote:God causes action in the world because the world is motivated to be like him or near him.
Is God a “him”?
Quote:That's just one analogy, but it might serve as an example of how something that doesn't act causes action.
You just referred to god here as some “thing”. Is god a thing? What is an immaterial thing, and how does it exist? What is its mechanism of action?
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
