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... named Julio... Who-lee-yoSome dude in Mexico
"I'm on my way, but I don't no where I'm going!"
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... named Julio... Who-lee-yoSome dude in Mexico
God is the sole creator of the entire universe, but who is transcendent from it, and who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent.
God is holy, and He is spirit, and He has created man in His image, which necessitates that man is a spiritual creature - comprehending issues that transcend the flesh and the secular, and allowing him to recognize and worship God.
God is a single minded entity, a personal being who can be related to, and is understood to be the Father - one who guides, provides and protects.
God is love, and He loves humans immensely, and only acts in a manner that is in their best interest, even if it leads to discipline, punishment or death.
Again, God is holy, so it is best that we be holy also, as to not attempt to displease Him, or defy His authority.
It means the Father of all creation - the One who gives birth to all life - a child is a child, only because the Father created humans in the first placeGrow up, leave the father fixation. The child has to be father (or mother) at some point of time.
Males dominate all forms of life, there are only a very few exceptions where the female is biologically more powerful, or mentally. Thus, the exception is not the rule. Therefore, my understanding of God as a male is first, figurative, for God is spirit and has no anatomy in order to even try and distinguish His gender. And secondly, because masculinity denotes leadership, protector, provider, sovereign and supreme.Yeah, to me She is different than your version of God.
Males dominate all forms of life, there are only a very few exceptions where the female is biologically more powerful, or mentally. Thus, the exception is not the rule. Therefore, my understanding of God as a male is first, figurative, for God is spirit and has no anatomy in order to even try and distinguish His gender. And secondly, because masculinity denotes leadership, protector, provider, sovereign and supreme.
I would question anyone's impression that God is female in any sense of the term, for nature and creation do not warrant it.
"Who is God?" is what lawyers call a leading question ─ "Do you still beat your wife" is the famous example. That is, both questions contain a not clearly expressed assumption.Question: Who is God?
Answer: Yes!
( Hint: The question is the answer. )
Question: Who is God?
Answer: Yes!
( Hint: The question is the answer. )
"Who is God?" is what lawyers call a leading question ─ "Do you still beat your wife" is the famous example. That is, both questions contain a not clearly expressed assumption.
The hidden assumption needs to be dealt with first, so your interrogation should be ─n
Is God?
If so, who?
Good point.An another hidden assumptions is if that can be answered as a positive or negative? Some people regards of religion or not, think that everything can be answered as true or false and don't accept unknown as a valid answer based on reason. Or even that reason is limited and can't answer everything as known as either true or false.
Good point.
What real thing is meant to be denoted by the word 'God'?
If we find a real suspect, what objective test will determine whether our suspect is God or not?
Nope.Well, as far as I can tell with you guys and gals it ends here:
P1: There is no objective evidence for God using an objective methodology.
Nope.
P1: There is no definition of a God having objective existence, such that if we found a suspect with objective existence we could determine whether it was God or not.
P2: The only way in which things without objective existence are known to exist is as concepts or things imagined in individual brains.
C: Therefore if God exists then God exists as the set of all concepts of "God" in each of the relevant brains
As for what we ought to do, we might look at the history of religion across all tribes and nations going back as far as we can, and examine why belief in gods has been so common ─ and at the same time has occurred with so very very many different versions. Even in Christianity there are certainly hundreds, and in the opinion of some who've had a close look, many thousands, of different versions of Christianity alone, before we get o the other religions. I have some views on the subject, but they won't surprise you.Yes. That is a case of what is, now play ought of what we ought to do.
As for what we ought to do, we might look at the history of religion across all tribes and nations going back as far as we can, and examine why belief in gods has been so common ─ and at the same time has occurred with so very very many different versions. Even in Christianity there are certainly hundreds, and in the opinion of some who've had a close look, many thousands, of different versions of Christianity alone, before we get o the other religions. I have some views on the subject, but they won't surprise you.
Answer: He who shall, so shall he who.Question: Who is God?
The is-ought problem is not a problem, in that the questions it poses usually have no yes/no answers, but are value judgments. We learn from our researches that humans are born with an evolved range of moral tendencies (which I can list again for you if you wish) and, also from evolution, a conscience and a capacity for empathy. Since these evolved qualities are good for survival and breeding by making the benefits of local cooperation possible and available, we have somewhere to stand when we consider why those qualities and not others are present.Yeah, we then do the same with your philosophy and other versions and learn what they all have in common. And then we figure out that nobody have solve the is-ought problem and that reason even as valid has a limit.
Hmmm.Males dominate all forms of life, there are only a very few exceptions where the female is biologically more powerful, or mentally. Thus, the exception is not the rule. Therefore, my understanding of God as a male is first, figurative, for God is spirit and has no anatomy in order to even try and distinguish His gender. And secondly, because masculinity denotes leadership, protector, provider, sovereign and supreme.
I would question anyone's impression that God is female in any sense of the term, for nature and creation do not warrant it.
If I'm not mistaken, that answer is cute. But now I ask: self-imposed? (oh well...)The point of the thread is a method to escape a self-imposed limitation.