In what ways is asking "Does God Exist" and "What color is the sky?" asking a similar question

Question

To what length must a simple man go to make a complex but grand point. Such a point would be preaching to the choir, who sings RAmen.

Answer 1

one is seeing one is believing

Answer 2

They're similar because both are subjective questions, and depend on interpretation.

With the sky there are two issues: the first is that air is colorless, so really the sky has no color (although bending of light as it passes through the atmosphere makes it look blue from here on the ground). The second is the issue of what is "blue?" The shade of blue changes depending on atmospheric conditions and the time of day. Furthermore, there's no way to be sure that what I am calling blue is objectively the same as what you call blue. The word that I apply to a certain wavelength of light (color) is determined by my culture. If people have always said the sky is blue, then whatever color I see up there is what I am going to say is blue. Since we're all calling it blue, we assume we're seeing the same thing, but this isn't necessarily the case. Maybe what I've learned to call blue actually appears as what you would call red. There's no way of ever knowing.

Similarly, there's no way of knowing about God. "His" existence depends in part on what you define God as. Like the colorless sky, God is unknowable and imperceivable. I may experience something and think "that's the working of God," but in reality it's just a perception. I assign "God-ness" to it because of my perspective, just as I assign "blueness" to the sky because it looks that way from where I'm standing.

Answer 3

Are you suggesting some people think the sky does not exist or it isn't blue etc? there is no similarity between god and the "sky", we all look up and see a single color which we call "blue", there's no individual interpretation involved

Answer 4

I wonder if people used to think the sun was god. When the sky is blue its god in charge, when its black at night its the devil in charge. I'm sure i read something like that somewhere once upon a time.

Answer 5

There is no scientific Prof there is a god
But there is a lot to the Bible should not be believed

With most Wars being fought in the name of one God or another with the death of Innocent Children that should prove there is no God

Answer 6

What color is god would be a similair question the the blue sky one.

RAmen

Answer 7

I don't think those are similar at all. God is the one who made the sky and all that is in it.

Answer 8

because even the answer would not change your mind if you choose not to believe it.I could tell you the sky is blue but if you choose not to believe it i'm wasting my time answering it. Your ignorrance only will change when you allow it to !!

Answer 9

The questions are roughly the same length.

Answer 10

Asking the question is rhetorical, since both answers are obvious; yes and blue.

Answer 11

If you want to know why some people believe in God. God talks to people. Not you, but other people.