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Ontology of God--Theological Noncognitivist View
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RE: Ontology of God--Theological Noncognitivist View
(January 15, 2010 at 10:25 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: So if I were to define you as not vegetable or mineral but animal would that not help define you? Apply that successively to what I can know doesn't apply to you, and you can see that I can come up with a pretty good idea of what you are.

This is how God is defined and it clearly is effective in formulating an idea of what God is.

Your reasoning clearly fails on these grounds. The Theological Noncognitivist has reason to cogitate theology and implodes Wink

And so fr0d0 you defeat your own argument?...epic fail

A child learns what to do by trial and error of what it is not to do, is this not so?? So just what is not "God" since it is claimed that "He" is omnipotent, omnipresent, the original all singing all dancing wish granter, enemy hater??

A definition from Wiki...hopefully helpfulCool Shades

Quote:Ignosticism, or igtheism, is the theological position that every other theological position (including agnosticism) assumes too much about the concept of God and many other theological concepts. The word "ignosticism" was coined by Sherwin Wine, a rabbi and a founding figure in Humanistic Judaism.

It can be defined as encompassing two related views about the existence of God:

The view that a coherent definition of God must be presented before the question of the existence of God can be meaningfully discussed. Furthermore, if that definition is unfalsifiable, the ignostic takes the theological noncognitivist position that the question of the existence of God (per that definition) is meaningless. In this case, the concept of God is not considered meaningless; the term "God" is considered meaningless.
The second view is synonymous with theological noncognitivism, and skips the step of first asking "What is meant by God?" before proclaiming the original question "Does God exist?" as meaningless.
Some philosophers have seen ignosticism as a variation of agnosticism or atheism,[1] while others have considered it to be distinct. An ignostic maintains that they cannot even say whether he/she is a theist or an atheist until a better definition of theism is put forth.
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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Ontology of God--Theological Noncognitivist View - by Knight - January 15, 2010 at 6:23 pm
RE: Ontology of God--Theological Noncognitivist View - by KichigaiNeko - January 15, 2010 at 10:45 pm

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