RE: If God exists, what is it about his essence that makes him supernatural?
October 28, 2012 at 6:03 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2012 at 6:04 pm by Kirbmarc.)
Quote:why is God typically defined as non-natural?
Because in most religions (including all of the Abrahamic ones: Christianity, Judaism and Islam) god is an intelligent, personal being, since he created humans "in his image".
A natural, intelligent, personal being is simply a man, or a human-like (psychologically speaking) alien, maybe with a few superpowers on the side. It's only quantitatively different (i.e. more powerful or with a longer lifespan) from us.
Christian, Jews and Muslims (and probably a few more believers that I don't know about) believe that they their god is qualitatively different from human, and therefore non-natural, or supernatural, not part of the natural world.
"Nature" considered as a whole is usually not considered personal or intelligent, unless you believe that the universe is a infinite intelligent being and we are merely a few cells in his brain. But that's pantheism for you, kids.
