RE: Not God
October 8, 2010 at 10:42 am
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2010 at 11:41 am by Anomalocaris.)
(October 8, 2010 at 10:11 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote:(October 6, 2010 at 10:07 pm)FadingW Wrote: Or is the only way to know that God exists to be God?
If you were God, you would know you existed just as we all know we exist. I think therefore I am.
It's possible that a deity could exist who didn't know they were omnipotent though. That is, so long as they were not also omniscient - because if they were omniscient then they surely must know they're "God" if they indeed are.
Omnipotent means all powerful, and omniscient means all knowing. If a deity is omnipotentl then he must have the power to make himself omniscience. But the deity can't be omniscient unless he lacks all power to change any of what his own omniscient enabled him to know.
So the very concept of omnipotence is an absurd self contradictory extrapolations. Little wonder the religious mind take so readily to it and debase itself before it. So:
(October 7, 2010 at 12:05 am)josh.niles Wrote: the apple did not make us all knowing. And to be completely honest as far as any of us know we're just a thought thinking up our own thoughts creating our own logic and rules to apply imaginary confines to a limitless space...so yea...Only God is all knowing.
It's a good thing the apple was overhyped because that gave us room to have some power to change things, unlike god who all knowing everything exactly as it will happen, are thus able to change nothing and is absolutely impotent.
(October 6, 2010 at 10:07 pm)FadingW Wrote: I am not God.
Because I am not God, I have imperfect knowledge, I could be wrong.
If a God exists, is it possible to *know* that God exists?
Or is the only way to know that God exists to be God?
If it is, then it would be awfully silly to worship god unless you have the most ungodly case of the god complex yourself.
