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How you define God?
- Thread starter Jiddanand
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That is ultimately a very personal question with a very individualized answer, although it is often treated as if it could or even needs to allow for a fairly general answer.
When it is used as a collectively-understandable word (which it really is not), "God" still has many different meanings and should not be used without qualification if at all possible (or even at all).
At its most abstract, "God" basically means "transcendence", as in "forever beyond the abilities of human beings to truly predict or understand". That understanding of divinity is at once very appealling to many people as a promise of clear, unquestionably valid answers and purposes, and utterly unadvisable. By being both a decree of unintelligibleness and a promise of definite answers, this widely held conception of divinity is hopelessly contradictory and very dangerous. So dangerous, as a matter of fact, that even many believers warn against adopting such a conception of God.
At its most constructive, "God" is still transcendence, but such transcendence is now understood as an participative goal that connects to sentient experience at every step of the way. Its worth comes from its motivational effects, which are not to be presumed valid and self-justified. In some ways it is much like Mathematics.
When it is used as a collectively-understandable word (which it really is not), "God" still has many different meanings and should not be used without qualification if at all possible (or even at all).
At its most abstract, "God" basically means "transcendence", as in "forever beyond the abilities of human beings to truly predict or understand". That understanding of divinity is at once very appealling to many people as a promise of clear, unquestionably valid answers and purposes, and utterly unadvisable. By being both a decree of unintelligibleness and a promise of definite answers, this widely held conception of divinity is hopelessly contradictory and very dangerous. So dangerous, as a matter of fact, that even many believers warn against adopting such a conception of God.
At its most constructive, "God" is still transcendence, but such transcendence is now understood as an participative goal that connects to sentient experience at every step of the way. Its worth comes from its motivational effects, which are not to be presumed valid and self-justified. In some ways it is much like Mathematics.
It would depend which god references you're referring to...
The God of this Matrix reality = A dynamic evolving database analyzer (CPU).
The gods related in many ancient texts seems like - Advance civilizations that visited us.
The God who programmed this reality = A programmer.
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Warm best wishes.
Deathbydefault
Apistevist Asexual Atheist
Indirectly pointless.
Directly meaningless.
Unveiled Artist
Veteran Member
Life.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
I try not to as I no longer find the concept particularly useful or meaningful.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Ask 1000 people, get 1000 different answers. That fact itself answers your question.
The Supreme Cause of all causes.
Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
Ask 1000 different people from around the world to look at the sky and simply enter here what the sky looks like.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Exactly. The "sky" doesn't actually exist as some sort of singular entity. Just like god.
Jiddanand
Active Member
Newest version or vision of defining the God? I am interested in this latest version.It would depend which god references you're referring to...
The God of this Matrix reality = A dynamic evolving database analyzer (CPU).
The gods related in many ancient texts seems like - Advance civilizations that visited us.
The God who programmed this reality = A programmer.
Jiddanand
Active Member
The word God must have a meaning or a link or a message.
If it doesn't then why is the word God present in literature and dictionary?
Jiddanand
Active Member
I like your response.
Jiddanand
Active Member
The word God must have a meaning. It must have a link and must point to something that exist.
Jiddanand
Active Member
You mean own definition?
Jiddanand
Active Member
I like your response.
The Mother/Father/Source of Spirits that dwells in worlds far beyond this hellish realm, and Who sends Messengers (the Serpent in the Garden, Prometheus, Christ, etc. - Lucifers) to remind the imprisoned Spirits of this realm of their true origin and nature in order to help us wake up.