mikkel_the_dane
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!?! Did I miss something?
Read my post again. And then ask again if you still want to.
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!?! Did I miss something?
I’m not seeing it. Expound, please.Read my post again. And then ask again if you still want to.
My answer is this. Look at the 3 base axiomatic assumptions in naturalism. The universe is real, orderly and knowable. That is suppose to be without God, but they are all non-materialistic in ontological terms. Even science assumes that the universe is in a sense a who.
Because we have a mind, it would seem if there is a God, God has a mind.
Why so? This is only if we must conceive of God in the human image… as a reflection of man."Because we have a mind, it would seem, if there is a God, God has a mind."
"Because we have a mind, it would seem, if there is a God, God has a mind." Why stop there?
Why so? This is only if we must conceive of God in the human image… as a reflection of man.
Because it only tells you that we might be right or that we might be projecting something on to the universe. I am a skeptic, dybmh. That is how far it gets with reason. The rest is faith.
The question is the answer.
Why would God want a relationship with something finite? Unless it is God’s will to make the finite (with whom God is relating) infinite?If an infinite God wanted to have a relationship with a finite being. If it wanted to have a real relationship where the finite being understood this infinite God, one way ( maybe the only way? ) to accomplish this is to remain hidden.
Why would God want a relationship with something finite?
Unless it is God’s will to make the finite (with whom God is relating) infinite?
That is when the story starts over and the infinite becomes finite again. The end is the beginning. The beginning is the end.In other words, once the finite becomes infinite then it is nullified and completely eclipsed into the pre-existing infinity. When that happens, there is no relationship because there is no other to relate to.
That is when the story starts over and the infinite becomes finite again. The end is the beginning. The beginning is the end.
The infinite becomes finite within a subjective frame in which the infinite is hidden from the “finite’s” subjectivity. As the finite relates to the infinite, then the finite and the infinite merge and the infinite is revealed.I don't think that works either. Can you explain how infinity can become finite? Just as adding to infinity renders infinity, subtracting a finite from infinity renders infinity. The infinite remains infinite regardless of this.
Subjectively finite but ultimately infinite (just hidden).The infinite becomes finite within a subjective frame in which the infinite is hidden from the “finite’s” subjectivity. As the finite relates to the infinite, then the finite and the infinite merge and the infinite is revealed.
The infinite becomes finite within a subjective frame in which the infinite is hidden from the “finite’s” subjectivity. As the finite relates to the infinite, then the finite and the infinite merge and the infinite is revealed.
Subjectively finite but ultimately infinite (just hidden).
Merge is incomplete. It’s gradual death + merge. Then, complete death + rebirth.OK, thank you. I think i understand what you're saying. It breaks down for me with the merge. I don't think a merge is possible from within a subjective frame. This is because a subjective relationship is at least part projection. The finite being will project part of it's finite qualities onto the infinite. The relationship, at best, is only part true, and could be completely false. As a result, the revelation would not be completely true, and a merge could not happen, the infinite would be trapped in its finite state. So, I don't think a merge is possible from within the subjective frame.
None of this is a problem unless the goal is the cycle you described earlier, "the beginning is the end, and the and is the beginning". If the goal is a relationship, then there is certainly an opportunity for that, but it will be only part true. However, this idea of the infinite being trapped might be exactly what happens. Perhaps this is how finite beings and objects can come from something infinite. Parts of the infinite become trapped, in a manner of speaking.
On the other hand, if the finite being approaches the infinite as an objective unknown, that relationship is completely true without any possible subjective projection. But this requires acceptance and acknowledgement that the finite is not infinite. Otherwise the same problem occurs with projection, and putting borders around an infinite concept. And this sabatoges the relationship.
Merge is incomplete. It’s gradual death + merge. Then, complete death + rebirth.
Your intuition is saying that we lose all subjectivity at the final stage (rebirth)? I agree with that.
How about “that which calls us into the silence and darkness of the chaotic unknown”?OK! Who is God?
Job 12:22How about “that which calls us into the silence and darkness of the chaotic unknown”?
Well, you're predicating that there is no God, and that man adjusts his views on God according to the culture in order to retain adherents.I'd argue that on the contrary, women are creators and men are protectors, despite the exceptions I mentioned (and I'm sure there are many more).
But let me approach it from another angle. Feminism has been around forever, but it became politically important in England then later in the US in the latter 19th century. With the advent of the contraceptive pill in the 1950s the convenient separation of coitus from conception became a widespread reality throughout the western world, and 'equality for women' has come to mean very much that ─ for women, motherhood is an option, not a destiny.
You speak of objective grounds. Gods may lose followers for a great variety of reasons, and secularism is their present great challenge, again mainly in the western world. But if a significant one of those reasons is that women are deterred by the idea of a purely male god in charge of the universe, then it's simply basic survival for the relevant churches to adapt. A god without followers is no god at all.