Thiests Answer This One ?

Question

Many Christians believe that God is a thinking being, that he solves problems and makes a way for them when troubles come. Does God Think? If God is thinking, did he know his thoughts before he thought them? If so, again, where is his freewill and how is God thinking at all if everything seems to be one uncontrollable action/thoughts.

- I'd say a God cannot think at all. To do so, would strip him of omniscience. Thinking is a temporal process. ON GOD'S ATEMPORALITY

1.) God, an atemporal being, created the Universe.
2.) Creation is a temporal processes because X cannot cause Y to come into being unless X existed temporally prior to Y.
3.) If God existed prior to the creation of the Universe he is a temporal being.
4.) Since God is atemporal, God cannot be the creator the Universe.

I guess I should also note here that a timeless being would be without the proposition of past, and future. But to be omniscient, God must know the past and future. Hence a God that is atemporal and omniscient cannot logically exist.

Answer 1

I actually enjoy questions pertaining to Omnipotence, which are few and far between. Too many so-called organized religions that are well-established in our country preach that human beings are somehow separate from God (aka, "sinners"), to which I usually reply by asking the ministers/priests/etc.: Would this not make God finite? I believe there is only one presence and power in existence (God, the Good, Omnipotent) and that we are holograms of this Infinite Presence. As to thought processes, I actually agree in a way with your premise that Omnipotence does not think, although there is a missed subtlety in your words: If God is All Knowingness, why would thinking be necessary?

As pieces of God's Energy in manifested form, humans acquire a perception of beginning, middle, and end (an illusion, on the cosmic plane), to which they respond. Thought processes arise from this manifested perception, perhaps fed by sensory elements activated at conception. I consider most of our current religions to be like the three wise elders sent forth from the village of blind people to discover what an elephant is; they'd heard rumors such a creature existed, but had no confirmation. Each blind elder went in a different direction, and each encountered a different aspect of the creature they sought: The first heard it's trumpeting and felt the earth tremble as the humungous beast passed nearby. The second ran smackdab into the hind leg and spent his time exploring the size and texture of this phenomenon that stretched far above his reach. The third, sensing movement near his face, reached up to grasp the trunk of his quarry. When the three wise men returned to their village to establish once and for all what an elephant (belief in God analogy) is, each one told a different story, each had a seed of truth upon which they based their report, and each disagreed with the other two. This is how I view the various established religions--based on a small sampling of truth, but vastly incomplete and tending towards intolerance of others' beliefs.

Answer 2

I know that you wanted theists to answer, so I apologize in advance. But as an atheist, I find your argument unconvincing. It is essentially a game of word definitions without any apparent understanding of the theological topics under discussion. If I were you, I'd concentrate my mental efforts on more productive tasks.

Answer 3

I know this is very hard for some folks to be able to grasp, but God is beyond our understanding. A created being will never be able to explain the Creator any more than a frog will ever be able to explain Friday.

Answer 4

Gods thinks and you are mixed up.

Answer 5

Its hard trying to answer these questions when they are about something that you don't believe in.

Answer 6

i'm not interested in the question. i just thought you might like to know it's "atheist".

Answer 7

he seems to know the past and future to us, but to him there is no past or future

Answer 8

lol you lost me in the second part

Answer 9

Define "think."