According to Socrates, can god really come in all shapes and sizes???

Question

Detailed answers please.

Answer 1

No- he found this out right after he killed himself with hemlock.

Answer 2

I believe it's completely possible!

I researched the theory of creationism quite a lot. I've found that different cultures believe entirely different things, with similar story lines.

We all know the basic story. God is an almighty creator who created the entire world in 6 days and took a rest on the 7th.

But did you know that the Mesoamerican's over 5000 years ago believe that there were several gods. They created the world as basically an experiement. They wanted someone to worship who they were. So they created the sea and filled it with animals. But the animals didn't have much brain power, or faith. They didn't know much except exsist. So then they created "people" of mud. But they were just barely better, so they sent the mud people up into the trees [becoming essentially monkeys,] and then tried again. Desperate to create someone to idolize them, each chose an animal. One chose an eagle for his bravery and using magic made him a man. One chose a monkey for his kindness. One chose a weasel for his inginuity. Each was trying to find the right idol. It's a great story. It's also a little more detailed, but that's the shortened version.

It explains a lot, it has it's touches of evolution theory, and creationism. It also explains why there are so many different types of people in the world.

I love it.

So yeah, many people believe that god can come in different shapes and sizes. Even back thousands of years they believed that there were different creatures.

Wait...this doesn't really answer your question...but it is something to think about!

Woohoo! At least I get 2 points!

Answer 3

Well, from what I have in mind about Socrates, He has talked about god, but not the way god is in our minds now!
Socrates was/ is The Greatest Teacher ever. He was not teaching the way we understand now, he was assisting his pupils to surface their knowledge, because all know, the problem is to bring the knowledge to the surface, to understand what we know. After we do that, we see that we know nothing, since, first we do not use all our brain and thus, second, our thinking can not go further than our senses!
Thus, Socrates was teaching the use of the brain! Ideas were the closest to divinity, thus shape does not matter, since shapes and sizes are observed by us only in "our" 3-Dimensional world, while most Universe is in more dimensions! Socrates knew and talked about dimensions, thus he would not make the mistake to contain his mind and pupils' minds in the 3D!

Answer 4

"God" according to Socrates would have been far different than what seems to be being referred to here: the monotheistic Christian God (And Hebrew, and so on... I'm simplifying it here as Christian for the rest, not out of bias, but for the sake of sheer convenience). So let's veer off that idea for a moment, which I'll touch on in connection later.

To Greeks, myth was fluid. They had a beautiful, rich oral culture where they collectively gathered up their sources. Socrates was considered to be among the first philosophers. This distinguishment came with asking how things were created without relationship to the gods: cosmogony ("gony" - "goneia", from "gonos", offspring) being creation and its relation to gods, and cosmology (logy - "logos" greek for "word" or "logical explanation), which was an attempt to look at things beyond the reasoning of using the Gods. But in spite of this, the idea of deities, their existence, and their relevance did not go away.

The Ancient Greeks had no problem with the fluidity of their myths to the situation. This is because their beliefs adapted in regards to their cultural relevance. As time went by the shape and form of the deities not only changed with multiple versions of their stories, but multiple versions of their forms. Adaptations of concepts were used to integrate other cultures in smoothely, and everyone got along like one big happy family. The faces and aspects of Gods were adaptable.

Because the Christian culture relies heavily on the written word (it's one of the four "book" religions), that adaptation of myth was much more difficult due to ossification. But the idea that God needed to adapt to become what was relevant to the culture can't go away. So we see the changes of God quite clearly, from depiction to stories to how God is worshipped. It's much harder to accept as valid with a written standard, yet this has become slowly eroded over time so it doesn't particularly seem to matter that much.

In essence then, Socrates is right. God can come in all shapes and sizes. What is the most valid for the culture in which this power is perceived is what will determine that size and shape.

Answer 5

What is God? The belief does come in all shapes and sizes. Many different religions worship some type of God. Who is to say what is right. I guess in the end we will find out what, and if there is a God.

Answer 6

Why not? The fact that it is said that God lives in everyone highlights the fact that God comes in as many different shapes and sizes as the people he lives in.

Answer 7

according to the bible God revealed himself to Moses as a burning bush...so the answer is yes He can!!!