RE: God's Value Nonexistent?
October 20, 2012 at 4:03 am
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2012 at 4:04 am by Mystic.)
(October 20, 2012 at 3:07 am)cato123 Wrote: How exactly does an eternal being asign value to anything?
I don't think God chooses to assign value to things, I think he rathers knows the value of everything to it's exact degree. He knows himself which is ultimate value and he knows all descended measurements of himself.
We don't have exact measurements of value. We have ball park understanding of value, and we assign like that. But we also believe there exists an exact measurement of value. This comes automatically with most humans. I argue we know there is an objective measurement which implies an objective measurer
We know a lot of things related to God. For example, we know (objective) praise is not arbitrary. We know for it to be that, it must have an eternal basis or rather in a sense be eternal.
All praise therefore at all levels must exist in a basis, a praiseworthy reality, that contains all praise (which includes all infinite levels of praise).
God cannot make up praise out of nothing. It's rather related to his own praiseworthy reality. However his praise is indeed transcendent and above our comprehension. We know some praiseworthy qualities it must have, but we don't comprehend fully any of them. We don't comprehend what ultimate benevolence is. We don't comprehend ultimate grace. We don't comprehend ultimate love. And we have no idea what ultimate power entails. This specially because they are all one reality, while we know them in separation and multiplicity.
We praise all sorts of different beauties and glories, and there exists all sorts of perception in animals ranging from their own distinct songs, to their mode of enjoying one another in mating, all this praise I believe unites in one essence. But every praise lacks perfection, while in God, it exists in ultimate perfection form.
He doesn't chose what praise is. If he did chose it, it would have no basis, and be arbitrary. It's rather an eternal perception.
And humans believe in this perception, and know they are not in tune with it perfectly. They rather have ball park fuzzy vision of praise with belief there is a perfect view that exists.
