RE: God, Energy and Matter
September 17, 2019 at 12:18 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2019 at 12:18 pm by EgoDeath.)
(August 21, 2019 at 9:31 pm)Lek Wrote: I'm more of a philosopher than a scientist, but I'm taking what I understand from science and I'm philosophizing. If energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed, that means that they share an intrinsic quality with God.
How have you made this connection? I understand that matter cannot be created or destroyed, so far as we know, but where did you make the connection from this concept to god?
(August 21, 2019 at 9:31 pm)Lek Wrote: They have always existed with no beginning, and they will continue to exist into infinity. Those are qualities are also given to God.
Once again, where are you making this connection? Where are you getting the information that god shares these qualities with energy?
(August 21, 2019 at 9:31 pm)Lek Wrote: Could this match up in any way with a pantheistic understanding of the universe? If I use science as a basis for my understanding, there couldn't have been an occasion when nothing existed, so energy and matter could not have been created.
Well, actually, the universe may very well have come from nothing. But that's neither here nor there, because this is mostly speculation for now. The point is, for those that say that "god is energy." What is that actually saying?
Are you claiming that god is a conscious being that takes the form of energy? So is energy conscious? Or is this just another way of saying, "the closest thing there is to a god is energy itself."
Which is it?
@Lek
If you're frightened of dying, and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the Earth.
