The Argument From Consciousness
May 9, 2013 at 9:53 pm
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2013 at 10:11 pm by FallentoReason.)
For us to experience the phenomenon of consciousness, we need to be in the presence of time. This is logically true because for consciousness to work, it needs to actualise so that things such as emotions and thoughts can occur. Our experience of consciousness is quite literally a collective sequence of actions that we perform. All this can only happen if it's subject to time. Therefore, if we are experiencing consciousness, we must be in a temporal environment.
God must have a consciousness because God possesses the attributes of omniscience and [omni]benevolence. Otherwise how is God able to obtain all the knowledge possible and be able to express the emotion of [endless] love? This construct of the "god concept" proves to be internally contradictory by nature, and it leads to a conclusion that must negate one of the assumptions about God. The argument is as follows:
1) God is a conscious being
2) A conscious being requires a temporal environment to be conscious
3) If (2) is true, then God requires time to be conscious
4) God is outside of time
C) Therefore, God cannot be a conscious being
This conclusion is catastrophic to the idea that a personal god is one who is loving, punishing, angry, jealous, merciful, moral and genocidal as all these feelings and actions require the being to have a consciousness. It can only follow that a conscious being, such as a personal god, does not exist outside of time.
An objection could be that God exists within some transcendental dimension with its own "timeline". But, like most of these objections, that points to something that exists externally to God. In this case, God literally couldn't have made this environment for him to inhabit because such an action would first require the environment so that he could (via his conscience) create the environment. Therefore, who/what created this transcendental dimension for [their] God to exist in?
God must have a consciousness because God possesses the attributes of omniscience and [omni]benevolence. Otherwise how is God able to obtain all the knowledge possible and be able to express the emotion of [endless] love? This construct of the "god concept" proves to be internally contradictory by nature, and it leads to a conclusion that must negate one of the assumptions about God. The argument is as follows:
1) God is a conscious being
2) A conscious being requires a temporal environment to be conscious
3) If (2) is true, then God requires time to be conscious
4) God is outside of time
C) Therefore, God cannot be a conscious being
This conclusion is catastrophic to the idea that a personal god is one who is loving, punishing, angry, jealous, merciful, moral and genocidal as all these feelings and actions require the being to have a consciousness. It can only follow that a conscious being, such as a personal god, does not exist outside of time.
An objection could be that God exists within some transcendental dimension with its own "timeline". But, like most of these objections, that points to something that exists externally to God. In this case, God literally couldn't have made this environment for him to inhabit because such an action would first require the environment so that he could (via his conscience) create the environment. Therefore, who/what created this transcendental dimension for [their] God to exist in?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
