RE: What's your opinion on Liberal Religion?
November 21, 2021 at 3:49 pm
(This post was last modified: November 21, 2021 at 3:55 pm by Alan V.)
(November 21, 2021 at 2:36 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote:(November 21, 2021 at 7:56 am)Belacqua Wrote: Certainly this would make God impossible if you are defining God as having a mind like a human being -- thinking, changing, operating through time. Literalist anthropomorphism wouldn't survive.
If, however, you argue with the Platonists that God's mind is the world of Forms, or with Aristotelians for unchanging universals, or with just about every other theologian I know who says that God is ideal, unchanging, immaterial, transcendental, then the type of mind you're talking about wouldn't be relevant to God's mind.
If god is unchanging, then how can he do anything?
Yes, I see people throw around the word immaterial but can you explain how this immaterial brain works?
In my opinion, anthropomorphism is inherent in any God-concept. Without a mind God has no sentience or knowledge, and can't willfully exercise power, so he isn't a God at all. If God has no changing mind, you just have the natural world of physics, chemistry, self-organization, and evolution -- just as atheists contend. At best, "God" is reduced to a metaphor for physical processes, in whole or part.
Platonists, Aristotelians, and theologians have all been superseded by scientists.