Is god dead?

Question

God is dead. - Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead. -God

Who's right?

Should I post this under religion or science or philosophy?

Answer 1

people everyday are being inspired by something. something gives us moral standards. That could be God. God is only dead if we choose not to listen. ......it should be under all i think

Answer 2

I would think that God actually knew Nietzsche and therefore knew empirically he was dead.
To be considered dead, you must have at one point been living. One cannot die if one never lived. God was being literal. Nietzsche was being philosophical, unless he actually knew God and knew that God had lived at sometime (You cannot die if you have never lived).

Considering the different viewpoints, both were accurate within the scope of their knowledge. How much greater though was God's scope to Nietzsche's?

Answer 3

No Jesus is God and he died on the cross in this world laid in a tomb for 3 days and was resureccted spent 40 more days here teaching his disciples then rose to Heaven now he is sitting at the right hand of God..And They Are Both ALIVE!!

Answer 4

God never existed!!


You should post this under religion they would love to read this!!

Answer 5

God = Eternal, non-dying being.
God is waiting for us to do what he created us for, taking care of each other and our world. We're doing a crappy job, and God is only going to wait so much longer.
By the way, if you can't see evidence of the goodness of God, you're worshipping something else.
The scum-buckets running around damaging each other and us are really worshipping themselves.

Answer 6

God is not dead and you can post this anywhere coz God is the omnipresence God...

Answer 7

No, however, German poet and philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is most famous for making the statement "God is dead" in the Nineteenth Century. Nietzsche, influenced by both Greek philosophy and the theory of evolution, wrote, "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? . . . Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it?" (Nietzsche, The Gay Science, §125).

Nietzsche's purpose was to abolish "traditional" morality-Christianity, in particular-because, in his mind, it represented an attempt of self-serving religious leaders to control the weak and unthinking masses. Nietzsche believed that the "idea" of God was no longer necessary; in fact, God was irrelevant because man was evolving to a place where he could create a deeper and more satisfying "master morality" of his own.

Nietzsche's “God is dead” philosophy has been used to advance the theories of existentialism, nihilism, and socialism. Radical theologians such as Thomas J. J. Altizer and Paul van Buren advocated the "God is dead" idea in the 1960s and 1970s.

The belief that God is dead and religion is irrelevant naturally leads to the following ideas:

1) If God is dead, there are no moral absolutes and no universal standard to which all men should conform.

2) If God is dead, there is no purpose or rational order in life.

3) If God is dead, any design seen in the universe is projected by men who are desperate to find meaning in life.

4) If God is dead, man is independent and totally free to create his own values.

5) If God is dead, the "real" world (as opposed to a heaven and hell) is man's only concern.

The idea that "God is dead" is primarily a challenge to God's authority over our lives. The notion that we can safely create our own rules was the lie that the serpent told Eve: "ye shall be as gods" (Genesis 3:5). Peter warns us that "there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction" (2 Peter 2:1).

The "God is dead" argument is usually presented as a rational, empowering philosophy for artists and intellectuals. But scripture calls it foolish. "The fool hath said in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Psalm 14:1). Ironically, those who hold to the “God is dead” philosophy will discover the fatal error in the philosophy when they themselves are dead.

http://www.gotquestions.org/is-God-dead.html

God's Not Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_OTz-lpDjw

Answer 8

God is never Dead, he lives in everybody, weather you want to believe it or not

Answer 9

God wins again, just ask Nietzsche

Answer 10

Are you crazy, man ? Nietszche was a man crazy too. He was a human. He was wrong. God is never wrong. He never made mistakes. He never will die...like we will die some day

Answer 11

God was never alive.... neither was Winnie the Pooh