Information comes into our minds via sensory perception. In other words, we know what we know because of sensory perception. Apparently, God is all knowing, so God wouldn't need sensory perception because, God already knows everything. This is pretty important and there really should be something written in the bible about this.....is there?
2007-03-23 17:38:47 · 20 answers · asked by Desiree J 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's not very clearly put. God's mode of knowing is higher than our mode of knowing, so he has his mode, and ours put together. It is like his intelligence contains our reasoning, imagination, and our senses.
Technically speaking, most theologians attribute God's mode of knowing as a pure seeing, which is, because he is past, present, and future, his time-frame is an eternal present, so that he knows all things because he sees it.
Now, this is important for free will, because if he sees something, he knows it, but does not necessarily controls it. The example is, if you are watching a sporting event, you can anticipate the outcome of an action, but you yourself do not cause that action. This is similar to God seeing but not controlling.
The argument to this is that the difference between you watching a sporting event and God seeing is that you can anticipate and predict possibilities, but God has to have absolute fact. This creates a fine line between fate and free will which can only be summed up by saying that they are equal. We have absolute freedom to act upon our wishes and we are also guided within the structures and laws of our reality. This structure prevents us from going too far on either extreme while the powers of the mind allows us to contemplate all things as a logical truth as it descends from the absolute godhead.
2007-03-23 18:00:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what is in the bible about this. But God is not bond by a body like we are. So, the answer is no, God does not perceive reality through the same 5 sense that we do. He is more than that. Much, much more. To truly understand God, you must let go of everything that you think you know about God and that includes what you read in the bible. God is All. God is "I am that I am" and that says more than we will ever understand and all that we ever need to know. Let go of it all and God will teach you about Himself.
2007-03-23 17:45:41 · answer #2 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do your eyes see for you or do you see with your eyes?
When you die your eyes are still here. That which sees is gone. That which sees is spirit. Your hand is here. But no longer reaches out to touch me. That which touched me was spirit. I brush your hair back to grace your ear. I say your name but you do not respond. That which listened is spirit.
God was in Christ reconciling Himself to the world, if they would have Him. He used the same senses we do, the ones He created in pattern after His spiritual image.
It is said that the prayers of the saints go up before God as insense. God smells. God spews the unrighteous out of his mouth. God tastes. God hears and answers prayer. God both hears and speaks. He sees the sparrow fall and He is the all seeing eye. God sees. God is the potter and we are all the work of his hand. God touches.
Not only does God touch but He feels. For having walked a mile in our shoes; He knows and is touched by the feelings of our infirmaties, both pain of body and sorrow of heart.
God thinks. We are instructed to "let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus."
I leave you with this. Sensory perception is what relates us to the natural world. The senses are necesssary and that is why God uses man to secure His will on earth. The senses type what takes place in the spirit for the physical is always a pattern of the spiritual.
The physical eyes are limited, but the spirit has eyes which open the understanding to our inner self and to the spiritual world --- and sometimes enhance what can be seen in the physical.
Did you ever consider that God is looking through your eyes and mine? If that is true, what could we be seeing?
2007-03-23 19:30:23 · answer #3 · answered by Tommy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the factor is, there isn't even any incentive for a pointy minded one to look for some thing that the two isn't certainly considered or isn't there in any respect. Why might you question some thing except you have reason to discover fault in it? you may delight in a tree or a solar set devoid of understanding it rather is shape and factors, much less a magical rigidity in the back of it. it rather is an identical with existence. you may delight in existence devoid of needlessly looking fault in it by way of attempting to rigidity an excuse and justification on it for the time of the whims of a magical tyrant.
2016-10-19 11:52:02 · answer #4 · answered by shakita 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does have the same 5 senses that we have. We are, after all, created in the image of God. That being said, his intelligence out does ours to such a degree that I would also imagine his senses are way more attuned than ours. He probably does have additional senses that we do not now recognize.
2007-03-23 17:48:55 · answer #5 · answered by rbarc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No (to the 5 senses question). People often misunderstand God's ability to be all knowing. There are many bible verses showing God going to investigate a matter. Before destroying Sadom and G he sent his angel to investigate the matter. Before opening the test for Job God asked Satan "Where is it that you are coming from". There are many more. Why did God "rest" on the seventh day? Why did He assign Satan to watch over the Garden of Eden? God does not spend every moment of His existence spying on every human being and every creature on Earth.
As for the 5 senses question. God exists outside of this planet. He "sees" in ways man can not phantom. He "sees" our hearts (inner selves). He apparently has senses that we do not.
2007-03-23 17:45:01 · answer #6 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
GOD does exist and HE does not rely on the limited senses we have. GOD is all knowing and the entire Bible is about that.
Oddly enough though there is NO mention of consulting your pets (as NH Baritone suggests!)
2007-03-23 17:44:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes God has experience hurt, pain, hunger, love etc because Jesus choose to come down from heaven living like a human and still God.
2007-03-23 17:46:42 · answer #8 · answered by Angel06 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We are human; God is not. He is divine, without beginning or end. He is not limited by a human body or a finite, limited mind as ours. The bible speaks to this all over the place, mostly in Psalms.
2007-03-23 17:42:21 · answer #9 · answered by Esther 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
yes ..God is Spirit ... and its written all over ... but it takes someone in touch with the Spirit to percieve it .. in my understanding of it the physical is only a small fraction and an off-shoot of things that originate in the spirit realm ... which is the larger reality ... we have a limited viewpoint.
2007-03-23 17:44:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋