RE: If I met Him...
January 10, 2021 at 10:22 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2021 at 10:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 10, 2021 at 8:15 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: I disagree with your premise, but I agree these terms describe aspects of God that are of interest to us or understandable by us. Not only does communication require that you know your audience, but conceptual metaphors are embedded into our cognition. One idea is understood in terms of another, and abstractness in terms that are concrete. If God exists this is precisely how he should be describing himself to us.
If the descriptions we have are the thing god should do, or the best we can understand, than I have severe doubts about the competence of both.
I agree with you, nevertheless. People who believe in and hope for a person-alike god would consider person-alike descriptors a good thing. If you have any reason to interact with people, it helps to be person-alike. The obvious question being, then - if it were actually a massive psychic squid from four galaxies over priming it's dinner for digestion, it would probably help to describe itself as a warm and caring and person-alike thing as well. How do we tell between the two - outside of a reference to what a thing is, rather than what it does?
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