Okay, what I mean by this question is if a being, such as a god, is so powerful and so complex how can a person even begin to comprehend this idea? Or rather, how can a relgion created by human being be doing the will of 'god' if 'god' is such a complex being that we cannot understand what 'god' is and what 'god' is truly "thinking"?
2006-07-05 09:18:11 · 8 answers · asked by Piraga 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
2006-07-05 10:07:01 · answer #1 · answered by sweet & sour 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100 years ago how could anyone comprehend what it would be like to walk in space or set foot on the moon. It would also have been a very complex and seemingly inpossible task beyond our capabilities. But 100 years later here we are. If no one had tried comprehending it never would have been.
Besides that if you are talking god, aren't we supposed to be of His/her Image. Why would god make a species such as ours with imagination and free will, and not give us the gift of comprehention. The ability to look beyond ourselves and imagine a greater self or awareness. I doesn't mean we are right about what god may be thinking. If god thinks! (wouldn't god just WILL...god is all knowing so there would be no need to THINK about anything, god would KNOW)
2006-07-05 09:42:41 · answer #2 · answered by Cerebrus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a difference between apprehension and comprehension.
With great limitation, I can apprehend the concept of nuclear fission: the splitting of an atoms nucleus creating two or more smaller fission products, the end result somehow producing nuclear power. But to thoroughly deconstruct and COMPREHEND the exact process, or the means by which it can occur? No way.
Divinity/G/god is a completely seperate issue, however.
Necessitated by its definition, we cannot expect to be able to fully account for (scientifically/deductively) any form of the divine, in tangible mathematical means. The word itself, prefixed by "Meta", means beyond, or transcending - So we transcend our temporal world of physics (and math, and science) when discussing and hypothesizing of the divine. That is the nature of the study, it's beyond our sciences and mathematics - why Catholics/Jews/Christians/Muslims/Theists in general seem to believe that we can somehow "prove" the nature of g/God or his/her existence in a literal and tangible, sense, and why Atheists and Agnostics seem to generally think we can dis-prove the alleged goodness or sentience of this hypothetical g/God, is beyond me.
We can apprehend the concept, but to truly, deductively comprehend the reality, is impossible for humans.
2006-07-05 10:47:01 · answer #3 · answered by annetacular 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can comprehend the concept, because we created the concept. The greatest minds of human history seem to agree that religion, and therefore god, is the construct of a fearful, primitive mind in an attempt to comfort and understand himself and his place in the world around him.
2006-07-05 09:41:32 · answer #4 · answered by OneMadSquid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what religion to me means is a way to keep many from doing things that they wish, for i believe that divinity exist but with so many ideas around many just feel cornered and cannot truly understand what it means. what i feel is that there is one power and that it is not necessarily your god or anybody else because its how you picture this powerful being
2006-07-05 09:49:54 · answer #5 · answered by Jairo A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we can't. the bible says that"Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom andknowledge of God. how unsearchable are his judgemnets and his ways pat finding out." Romans 11:33
2006-07-05 11:39:31 · answer #6 · answered by Mark Alexander 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The concept was invented by humans, so why shouldn't we be able to comprehend it?
2006-07-05 09:21:44 · answer #7 · answered by Hillbillies are... 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say we can't. That's why I'm a Theist rather than a member of any organized religion.
2006-07-05 10:05:03 · answer #8 · answered by johnslat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋