(September 3, 2014 at 8:44 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I take being as in "to be," i.e. to exist, not as in a composition of sorts with definable boundaries. Primal mover and uncaused causer seem safe enough, but if I were to ever believe in God, I'd have to base it in the hope the belief implies rather than any specific metaphysical characteristics, other than perhaps negations of material attributes and the mere ineffability that at times swells my insides. I'd lso be reluctant to call it "conscious," as that to me implies almost a physical brain.
I use God in the broad, traditional sense as utilized in natural theology, but whatever particular name we give this mechanism is less important.
But don't you envision a god as something capable of "communicating" with you? And a creator god would have a prior "intention", no? If not 'conscious', not sure what you would call this god.
