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RE: A simple argument against God
December 9, 2022 at 2:55 pm
(December 9, 2022 at 2:14 pm)Lek Wrote: I see God as being infinite existence. He is the supreme consciousness. Everything that exists is a manifestation of God. We all are the essence of God. Think of a finger on your body. It is part of your body, but not the whole body. God is all and we are in God. That's just my image of God. We can know his presence, but at the same time, not understand him.
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RE: A simple argument against God
December 9, 2022 at 2:57 pm
(December 7, 2022 at 11:25 pm)Lek Wrote: Prove God does not exist.
Read the bible, yhwh's attributes therein posit an impossible being, both physically and logically.
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RE: A simple argument against God
December 9, 2022 at 3:12 pm
(December 9, 2022 at 2:57 pm)GUBU Wrote: (December 7, 2022 at 11:25 pm)Lek Wrote: Prove God does not exist.
Read the bible, yhwh's attributes therein posit an impossible being, both physically and logically.
If it meshes with their a prior beliefs, it's literal; if not, it's metaphorical. What's not to like with this heuristic?
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RE: A simple argument against God
December 9, 2022 at 3:28 pm
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You didn't hit all the important caveats. It is also metaphoric when that doesn't mesh with their literal beliefs, but they find themselves incapable of demonstrating as much, and it is literal - regardless of the contents of their actual metaphoric beliefs, when it would impugn some other item of the same. In short....
Whatever it takes......
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RE: A simple argument against God
December 9, 2022 at 3:56 pm
(December 9, 2022 at 2:31 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (December 9, 2022 at 2:14 pm)Lek Wrote: I see God as being infinite existence. He is the supreme consciousness. Everything that exists is a manifestation of God. We all are the essence of God. Think of a finger on your body. It is part of your body, but not the whole body. God is all and we are in God. That's just my image of God. We can know his presence, but at the same time, not understand him.
That's lovely and all, but what are God's characteristics?
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RE: A simple argument against God
December 9, 2022 at 4:11 pm
(December 9, 2022 at 2:14 pm)Lek Wrote: (December 9, 2022 at 11:57 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: What's your image of what God is and what do you believe are his characteristics? I see God as being infinite existence. He is the supreme consciousness. Everything that exists is a manifestation of God. We all are the essence of God. Think of a finger on your body. It is part of your body, but not the whole body. God is all and we are in God. That's just my image of God. We can know his presence, but at the same time, not understand him.
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RE: A simple argument against God
December 9, 2022 at 4:11 pm
(December 9, 2022 at 3:56 pm)Lek Wrote: Everything is a characteristic of God.
If God and everything are synonymous, why use the word God at all? It would be identical to the word Cosmos. Outside of something like process theology, I don't think Christianity believes in that type of god.
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RE: A simple argument against God
December 9, 2022 at 4:13 pm
That which could be anything is not knowable.
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RE: A simple argument against God
December 9, 2022 at 4:16 pm
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(December 9, 2022 at 3:56 pm)Lek Wrote: (December 9, 2022 at 2:31 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That's lovely and all, but what are God's characteristics?
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Bone cancer in children? Foetal alcohol syndrome? Cholera epidemics? Dysentery? Earthquakes, famines, mudslides that wipe out entire villages? Homeless people freezing to death? Incinerated children in Ukrainian schools?
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RE: A simple argument against God
December 9, 2022 at 4:19 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2022 at 4:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A term that applies to everything, means nothing in particular. Not that it matters, Leks god isn't everything, it's a wizard in the sky, same as every other theist. They refuse to acknowledge that because even they know how stupid it sounds. It's a dumb idea forever in search of a justification just one notch less ignorant than what bore it.
-and yet....
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