(March 29, 2012 at 5:51 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: Our imagination is limited by experience. The broader the experiences, generally the wider the imagination can be.
We can imagine a green man, because we have experience of green, and man. We can imagine an alien world, with reference to our own and known planets.
Infinity is a concept reachable through mathematical means or linguistic extrapolation but not experience.
The paradox we have is that all knowledge of God is through Human experiences, which leads us to the following argument.
1. Our imagination is limited by experience
2. We cannot experience anything infinite, and cannot imagine it.
3. God is defined by infinite aspects
4. Knowledge of Gods aspects cannot be verified through experience.
5. All reference to God's aspects must therefore be from humans.
6. The concept of God comes from humans.
I should note that I am not arguing God does not exist in this case, but realistically, any evidence for his infinite aspects can only come through human means and any correspondence to a real being, is purely coincidental.
Most importantly of all, an infinite God is deliberately maintaining an equivalence with fiction.
Yes, I get bored at work...
I guess the theistic answer here is that god's infinite aspects are not arrived at rationally or through experience, but simply by god telling it so and taking it on faith.
For example, if you ask a child if the Occupy Wall street movement is good or not, he would not be able to justify his answer because he does not understand all involved concepts. But he can answer you, "Yes, it is, because daddy says so". Here, the source of knowledge is not child, but the parent.
And yeah, I procrastinate at work as well.
