(November 12, 2011 at 3:02 am)Captain Scarlet Wrote: But again they are left floating in thin air as if we are to gasp in awe and it suddenly click what the 'nature' of a god is.
Well a god is a living being that has the greatness that makes it worthy of worship. What a god is not universal, Greeks had their more human like gods. When it comes to the "capital G', God, God is a Spirit, he is immaterial, and he is Ultimate in his attributes like being wise, merciful, compassionate, and good. It's very clear, and his nature has descriptions. Sure we don't grasp everything about his nature, we can't see it, but still we know some meaningful things about his nature and we have meaningful concept.
Quote:It maybe is a weak argument, so just defeat it then.
I think I already have.
Quote: It will fail if you can identify the positive primary attribute of a god.
A god is a living being worthy of Worship. It has greatness that is worthy of Worship. That is universal definition of what a god is. Then we have specific identity of God. He is living, Spirit, all Powerful, Mighty, Good, loving, all this is describing his nature and therefore his nature is meaningful to us. As God is Ultimate Greatness, he naturally has all the attributes that are a given for being Ultimate Greatness.
Quote:Thats ok but it isn't an argument, it doesn't defeat the argument and it isn't rational.
Honestly I don't see how you have an argument at all. The word a god means a being worthy of worship. That means it has to have greatness to the extent it deserves a reverence level of worship. God is referred to the only being that deserves that worship. And what people believe about God is that he is Ultimate Greatness, and hence his attributes are such that are given to him being ultimately Great.
Everything said about God is meaningful, so I don't see how it can at all be a meaningless concept.
