RE: Life after death?
July 6, 2014 at 5:06 am
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2014 at 5:14 am by Purplundy.)
(July 6, 2014 at 2:03 am)whateverist Wrote: That brings up another good question for you, Purplundy. I can't see any use for a category called 'the supernatural', can you? I pretty much think of whatever exists as natural.Not really. The argument for the existence of God as well as biblical events like the Resurrection is not that these things are supposed to occur in nature, but that they were made to happen by something outside of nature.
If a God created the world, he would transcend it and not be subject to any of the laws of nature, because he would have written them.
(July 6, 2014 at 2:08 am)Jenny A Wrote: If you define god as some variant of a supernatural being who created the universe that's plenty for me to go on. I don't believe it.Personally, when talking about God, I don't tend to lean on the "How else did we get here?" part because it really has no effect on anybody.
If you have some other definition, and you have some evidence for it's existence as you've defined it, I'll be happy to consider it.
I'd say that God is like a resource. That when you hear the phrase "God is good," it means that good is God. That when people are good, when life is good, God is there. Religion (and non-religion) are a collection of theories on how to tap that resource.