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How you define God?

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
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.
 

wizanda

One Accepts All Religious Texts
Premium Member
Define God.
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. :innocent:
 
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Kirran

Premium Member
The Absolute, the only true existence, indescribable, infinitely beautiful in our conception. Reality underneath our conceptions.

But conceptions vary.
 

Jiddanand

Active Member
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. :innocent:
Newest version or vision of defining the God? I am interested in this latest version.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Here for the ride
Premium Member
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.
 
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