RE: Q: do you, Christian, claim that God exists, rather than you believe that he exists?
February 22, 2014 at 2:08 pm
(This post was last modified: February 22, 2014 at 2:21 pm by fr0d0.)
(February 22, 2014 at 12:22 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Explain to me how one would prove something exists without external reality.
Bingo! You can't.
(February 22, 2014 at 12:22 pm)Esquilax Wrote: so say I just proposed that a second, identical god also exists. Does that god now exist because I've proposed it?
That god is a pointless duplication.
(February 22, 2014 at 2:06 pm)rasetsu Wrote: I'm not sure that your candle proof is actually consistent
Seconded
(February 22, 2014 at 10:01 am)whateverist Wrote: I wouldn't see God's residence within as any loss of stature. It simultaneous gives God a place in the world and reminds you that the otherness of the world is in you too.
The Christian tradition has both of course.
I like your idea. I make use more of God in everything in my awe and wouldn't like to lose that. It'd be a huge loss for me.
And if God possibly could be more, then he has to be it all to be completely God.