RE: What is Your Approach?
August 9, 2013 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2013 at 2:21 pm by Whateverist.)
(August 9, 2013 at 1:41 pm)Texas Sailor Wrote:(August 9, 2013 at 1:36 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Nature is God.So God is natural?
I don't need to show that. The question is superfluous. No believer needs to prove anything to himself in those terms, or his faith is unfounded/ rather his belief is based upon absolute knowledge. That isn't religious faith.
Faith, in the Christian tradition, is acting upon information that you trust to be true. All three conditions are essential. Information, trust and action.
Bravo to you both. I quite like this result.
(August 9, 2013 at 1:46 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(August 9, 2013 at 1:36 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Nature is God.
Then your god is not a conscious being, has no mind, and thus could not create anything purposefully. You have a useless god concept.
We already have a word for it, and that word is nature. Why call it god?
that, again? Seriously.
I suspect it boils down to whether you see the universe/nature as endowed with teleology or not. If you think we have gotten to the point we are through some intentionality, there is room for god. Personally, I doubt that, but I see no contradiction in affirming it either. The evidence is inconclusive for either perspective. So at the level of hunches, to each his own. (Nothing rides on it so far as I can tell.)
