RE: If God exists, what is it about his essence that makes him supernatural?
October 28, 2012 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2012 at 6:14 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
Kirbmarc Wrote: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".
Why does that make him non-natural?
Quote:A natural, intelligent, personal being is simply a man, or a human-like (psychologically speaking) alien, maybe with a few superpowers on the side.Why does that have to apply for him to be natural? Once again, nature undetectable by science isn't the same as an absence of nature.
How does this:
Quote: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 humans
Imply this:
Quote:and therefore non-natural, or supernatural, not part of the natural world.?
Quote:"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.
Why cannot the universe have naturally been there from the beginning in the form of God, and then his natural self naturally create more nature? He may be undetectable nature but, once again, that doesn't mean he's not nature.
