From: mahanjumatishemweta
Subject: Thinking
Message: GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING SO HE DOES NOT THINK.
I'm at a loss.
2006-09-11 03:40:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yeah, I know. to, not ti.
2006-09-11 03:41:59 · update #1
I don't see how an entity that doesn't think can cause anything to happen, so it can't be the creator of the universe.
2006-09-11 03:54:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Read the book "On Intelligence" it is a book regarding simulated intelligence and how we think.
I think what mahanjumatishemweta means is.
If one knows everything then there is not a process of thinking involved. It is all instantaneous. Thinking is a series of pattern recognitions. Since God is supposed to be all knowing then there would be no pattern recognition.
This is one of the fundamental flaws I see in the Christian God system. One can not be all knowing, and all powerful and still be a thinking creature. God would not be able to process thoughts, thus he would not be capable of doing anything. He would just exist without thought, somewhat like a hard drive full of information but never being connected to a computer.
2006-09-11 12:43:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me too. Seems like, if He knows everything, He has a great deal to think about.
Then again, I guess it depends on your concept of God. Would I be correct in assuming you're approaching this question from a Hindu perspective?
As an evangelical Christian, I would say, His thinking is significantly different from our own (Isaiah 55:8). Omniscience has a lot to do with it, but so does His nature, vis-a-vis holiness, righeousness, etc.
I suspect a large part of the difference is because God exists outside of space and time (He would have to if He created them). Without time, any action or change is impossible for us to describe. Yet it seems clear (if you admit or assume the existence of God to begin with), that He interacts with space/time. While this interaction appears to us to be spread out over the course of history, to Him it would be all one, simultaneous action, based on one simultaneous thought.
So, I guess you could say that thinking is not a continuing process with God because there is no time by which you could measure the continuation of the process.
Ouch! I've thought about this concept for years and it still hurts my brain.
2006-09-11 10:51:33 · answer #3 · answered by r_moulton76 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Indians send out weird emails
2006-09-11 10:43:08 · answer #4 · answered by dwh12345 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I think he meant "Christians know everything so they do not think". But he got Christian and God mixed up, as so many Christians do... ;)
2006-09-11 10:43:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
because God knows everything, He doesn't have to think, He already knows!!
2006-09-11 10:51:25 · answer #6 · answered by shari 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
LOL! that is hilarious, never heard that before
2006-09-11 10:42:09 · answer #7 · answered by bregweidd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its simple logic, if you don't understand then you are stoopid
2006-09-11 10:45:47 · answer #8 · answered by Mr Slug 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So you think , but he does think
2006-09-11 10:43:06 · answer #9 · answered by Practical 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Say what, now?
2006-09-11 10:43:59 · answer #10 · answered by cb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋