RE: The name of god
October 28, 2012 at 5:30 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2012 at 5:45 pm by Mystic.)
The name of God in a sense exists within all of us. It's paradox concept we have. First humans believe they need direction. They believe in praise. And praise can be great or exalted or just praise. It can be extremely beautiful from our perception. It can be sweet.
Naturally, we have a concept of praise. God's name is suppose to be what we see most praiseworthy of what we deem priaseworthy. The only problem is that it's unearned praise. It's paradoxical concept we have.
I think personally, humans are hardwired to believe at least that God is possible in the sense that ultimately most greatest being that exists eternally is possible.
In other words, that a perfect being is possible. But perfection is not possible logically.
We naturally worship perfection even though it cannot possibly exist. We label it perfect and humans naturally love perfection.
There would be no harm in it except that people in history came and lead their people in their own concept of perfection, that was not so perfect.
So you have Allah torturing all disbelievers for example. You have Yahweh jealous over other gods. You have Jesus sacrificing himself to save people from justice except if you don't believe, no matter how good you are, the believers will make it to paradise while you will put in the lake of fire and not be given eternal life but a void of existence of complete misery.
I would also say that believing in this being is the most "worthy", gives fuel life to moral actions of humans.
It's quite different to live to please yourself or other human beings, then to live to please the most worthy being to be pleased. In other words, self praise, praise of others, is nothing in comparison, to praise you feel you earned from the Creator.
Perhaps at a point of history, even before we were sophisticated human but slowly learning logic and language, the minds that naturally believed in God, survived more. Perhaps the belief in a higher purpose motivated us early on. Perhaps humans then became hardwised to accept the "Perfect Being" and a purpose set by a Creator.
Perhaps the need to create a fantasy world and live by it, was required before, for our survival or that simply, it worked, and it got passed on in our nature.
Naturally, we have a concept of praise. God's name is suppose to be what we see most praiseworthy of what we deem priaseworthy. The only problem is that it's unearned praise. It's paradoxical concept we have.
I think personally, humans are hardwired to believe at least that God is possible in the sense that ultimately most greatest being that exists eternally is possible.
In other words, that a perfect being is possible. But perfection is not possible logically.
We naturally worship perfection even though it cannot possibly exist. We label it perfect and humans naturally love perfection.
There would be no harm in it except that people in history came and lead their people in their own concept of perfection, that was not so perfect.
So you have Allah torturing all disbelievers for example. You have Yahweh jealous over other gods. You have Jesus sacrificing himself to save people from justice except if you don't believe, no matter how good you are, the believers will make it to paradise while you will put in the lake of fire and not be given eternal life but a void of existence of complete misery.
I would also say that believing in this being is the most "worthy", gives fuel life to moral actions of humans.
It's quite different to live to please yourself or other human beings, then to live to please the most worthy being to be pleased. In other words, self praise, praise of others, is nothing in comparison, to praise you feel you earned from the Creator.
Perhaps at a point of history, even before we were sophisticated human but slowly learning logic and language, the minds that naturally believed in God, survived more. Perhaps the belief in a higher purpose motivated us early on. Perhaps humans then became hardwised to accept the "Perfect Being" and a purpose set by a Creator.
Perhaps the need to create a fantasy world and live by it, was required before, for our survival or that simply, it worked, and it got passed on in our nature.
