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Ontology of God--Theological Noncognitivist View
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RE: Ontology of God--Theological Noncognitivist View
Quote:I have defined what is universally known as the color blue and call the chair I'm sitting on fits in that parameter. Of course none of us know that "blue" is "blue" because it's intangible, unobservable, a construct of human intuition and reasoning.

You did not invent the term blue and then apply it to what we now know as blue. Someone observed that objects look different and coined different names to help describe these differences. It is a concept which we have developed as a direct result of observations.

Quote:A concept of God and God are 2 differnt things. I don't claim to know anything about God, however because of intuition, logic, reason and personal perspective I have a general concept of God that includes omnipotent and omniscient (purely from point-of-view and not belying consciousness). I think omnipresence is a derived attribute, persoanally.

Derived, from what?

I do not see the distinction you are making between God and the concept of God. We have not yet begun to discuss whether God actually exists because we don't even know what the concept of God is referring to. Whether you are defining God or the concept of God, both have to be observed, just like the color example you provided.
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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 Knight - January 16, 2010 at 12:52 pm

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