what is your definition of 'God'?
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My definition of 'God' is that he/she is whatever you believe he/she to be.
merlin wood
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God could be defined as what produces and maintains the natural organisation of the universe and what no theory of the fiorces alone could ever explain.
The Magnificent Creator of All is LOVE...
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on the subject of free-will versus determinism or fate, obviously it is a very tricky business. as Kyser says, there are clearly causes and effects leading to an outcome. however, I would also posit that there are individual decisions that can affect the outcome of events. so I would guess that life is a mixture of both fate/determinism and personal choice.
"the universe is vast, but it can turn on a pinhead" no idea who I am quoting there...
I don't see either determinism or free will as being exclusive of a Creator, incidently...
"the universe is vast, but it can turn on a pinhead" no idea who I am quoting there...
I don't see either determinism or free will as being exclusive of a Creator, incidently...
merlin wood
mind traveller 3rd class
8ball said:This is a pile of crap.
What needs maintaining exactly?
Bang-up job he's doing in the fucking Lebanon right now . .
This god maintains all the matter around you including your own body, which the experimental evidence shows consists almost all of the space betwen its subatomic parts, and while a hugely powerful force acts between these parts so as to attract or repel them.
Such a god is just a form conserving cause and so does not intervene in the world but rather, it awaits its own discovery by human beings.
Eddie Izzard Voice:
Ooooh, the weather can't be explained... only God can have made this possible... the miracle of the weather... we must worship God... maker of weather....
Other Eddie Izzard Voice:
What on earth are you talking about. We've understood the weather for years.
First Eddie Izzard Voice:
(after a pause)
Ooooooh we some other thing that can't be explained then.... ooooooh... errr...
errr....
OOOooooh!!! I've got it, the spaces between molecules then. They can't be explained... only God can have made this possible... the miracle of the spaces between molecules... we must worship God... maker of weth' - I mean the spaces betweem molecules...
Ooooh, the weather can't be explained... only God can have made this possible... the miracle of the weather... we must worship God... maker of weather....
Other Eddie Izzard Voice:
What on earth are you talking about. We've understood the weather for years.
First Eddie Izzard Voice:
(after a pause)
Ooooooh we some other thing that can't be explained then.... ooooooh... errr...
errr....
OOOooooh!!! I've got it, the spaces between molecules then. They can't be explained... only God can have made this possible... the miracle of the spaces between molecules... we must worship God... maker of weth' - I mean the spaces betweem molecules...
why does the concept of an Ultimate Being who is entirely loving, indeed, who IS love, make you wish to be sick?8ball said:Pass me a bucket . .
would you be happier with the concept of a God who is full of hatred and condemnation make you feel more comfortable? that is certainly not my experience of The MAGNIFICENT Creator of All...
quite. God yearns for discovery by humans, as S/He loves us dearly, as the love for a child by it's mother, only magnified a thousand-fold... truly, God is Great!
happier? would you? or would you just find another group of people to express your ire at? it seems to me that your happiness involves firing abuse at various opinions. does this make you happy?revol68 said:
there is a God, a wonderful, beautiful, magnificent God; there is a purpose to life, and the universe (though I don't claim to fully grasp it) and it is up to us to find our own purpose within the Divine scheme
peace.
snadge
metal alchemist
nick1181 said:
or at least something you actually believe in!
If a person believes in an omnipotent thing, shouldnt that belief fill those empty spaces, the questions that demand to be answered?
Most of the time, God or the desire to be special, fills the area of someones existence with the self importance of not having to address their failings.
forgiveness, fucking cop out.
so, to repeat my question; are you happy, revol68?
do you believe that shoemenders have an exclusive insight into the workings of the Divine mind?nick1181 said:
or are you saying that you feel your Divinely appointed task is to mend shoes?
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