RE: How to perceive the fully cloaked master of the universe
December 25, 2009 at 9:09 am
(This post was last modified: December 25, 2009 at 9:10 am by theVOID.)
(December 23, 2009 at 1:44 pm)tackattack Wrote: I'll bite on the thinly veiled bait of a veiled God.
(December 23, 2009 at 3:37 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote: Some fellow human beings adhere to the stance that the alleged master of the universe has no attributes but existence, and even that according to them is just a matter of faith since existence cannot be perceived directly through the senses. Since ancient times there has been some development from the day to day god burning bushes in the backyard and giving clear however abhorrent and non-sensical messages and commands like slaughter your own son, to a much more cloaked version that leaves absolutely no CO2 footprint and somehow communicates silently in the heads of believers. I wonder, is cloaking a divine evolution thing?
1. Existence is a matter of belief but I don't see how it can't be percieved. Are we talking about the reality of existence or the consciousness of existence?
Existence has nothing to do with belief - Existence is what it is regardless of what we believe.
Quote:1a. "Cloaking " would be a lack of understanding or perception in things and I would not personally attribute that to an attribute of God, but our lack of understanding of God.The divine doesn't evolve, but our understanding of it does.
Cloaking was never intended to be an attribute of god, it was a statement on the absolute lack of influence on the observable universe by God or any other supernatural force.
Quote:(December 23, 2009 at 3:37 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote: Believing in such a fully cloaked god seems a real challenge to me. Since that god has no attributes but existence, how does it convey information, do miracles (that must leave a footprint), answer prayer and well, do what gods do?
2. Through the holy spirit or the occasional divine intervention if you subscribe to that.
Can you back up that claim or are you just in the habit of blindly asserting things?
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