RE: Benevolent Creator God?
July 30, 2021 at 12:55 pm
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2021 at 1:11 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(July 30, 2021 at 11:58 am)HappySkeptic Wrote:(July 30, 2021 at 11:45 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: That said, if there are truly vast cosmic forces of which we are unaware, and to me that seems obvious, then it seems reasonable to wonder what they might be and how one could align one's life to best account for them...without dwelling on it too much or projecting unwarranted certainty. Personally, I have more than enough reasons to say for myself that I know God exists but not much more than that. I have hope that God cares for me and has a plan even if it often does not seem so.
And yet I do not see these "vast cosmic forces". Where are they and what are they doing? That seems like a prerequisite for trying to "align one's life to best account for them".
The number of things we do not know about is vastly greater than even the the few things we think we know...and even those seem tentative. Heck, Jupiter exerts more gavitational pull on my body than the cell phone in my pocket and yet I can pass my days oblivious to the effects of that distant planet. Chance seems to play a pretty big role in life and yet in hindsight it often looks like neccessity. For all it is worth, chance and necessity might as well be gods.
In at least one respect, I consider my intellectual belief in God similar to believing in other intangibles like ownership or virtue...not physically apparent yet seemingly conceptually indispensible.
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