What if Atheist and Theist are both wrong about God's existence?

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I am neither atheist nor agnostic nor theist. If there is a God then what makes you believe that he falls into silly worldy labels such as "existing" or "not existing"? If there is a God, then certainly he should be able to transcend universal laws and worldy labels. So I believe that God is so beyond us that he neither exist nor does not exist. God is God and he is outside all of the worldy labels of "existing" and "not existing".

Answer 1

Why is He limited to existing or not existing?

My goodness are you THAT stupid?

Answer 2

Either there is a God/Gos/higher power or there isn't. One group is right, one group is wrong.

Everything between existing and that half a millimetre from not-existing is actually existing in some way. So by saying that God can transcend existing and not existing, is in fact saying that God exists, just sometimes on different planes to us.

Answer 3

His points are actually not that strange. They are perfectly within the tradition of Negative Theology that was popular in the late sixties. The premise is that our language cannot predicate accurate descriptions of what we think to be God, so even binary terms like existing and not-existing are insufficient and misleading.

I do not advocate this approach to theology, but he raises issues that are far more sophisticated and interesting than most pseudo-profundity on this thread --like healing amputees and regurgitated Dawkins.

Answer 4

Actually, you're a theist (you believe that there is in some way, shape or form, that there is a 'God') and you're saying that God exists but we don't have a word for how he exists.

Tarting up your claim does not make it any less theological ya know... >>

Answer 5

Existence is a binary condition - an entity either exists or does not exist. Saying that there is an entity that neither exists nor does not exist is pure drivel, a meaningless noise, not even wrong.

Answer 6

ok, you have to believe one of the three. actually, there's really only two choices, either you believe or your don't believe, if you don't know then you don't believe. i can't see any middle ground there. the word "is" implies "exists." there is a man in the room=there exists a man in the room. if there is a god, then there exists a god. and if there isn't a god, then god does not exist.

Answer 7

Well you are right about one thing.........you are NOT an Atheist. You sound like a Theist, no matter how you see it....if you believe there is an omnipotent being out there you are a Theist. However, you do say "if".....so you might be an Agnostic, but I'm still leaning towards Theist.

Answer 8

Though no one can prove or disprove God's existence, our history reveals the unmistakable footprints of something greater than man.

Answer 9

For all useful purposes, ignostics are atheists. it truly is a place of theological noncognitivism, which renders non secular terminology meaningless as a results of fact it truly is often unwell-defined or has distinctive meanings, yet at its middle is rather a place of robust atheism. It takes the situation which you would be able to no longer actually have a significant communicate bearing directly to the existence of God except you of course define what you propose once you utilize that be conscious. yet in spite of in case you laid out sparkling definitions with which to open a communicate, i'm specific you may discover that maximum self-defined ignostics could today start up refuting the validity of the parameters laid out. case in point, start up a debate with an ignostic approximately God using the pantheistic definition. i'm just about specific they are going to take the situation that that's tautological, in simple terms as maximum atheists could. I used to label myself an ignostic, and it became into extra of a reactionary stance of what I perceived as a results of fact the unwarranted fact of atheists that smacked a splash bit religiosity to me, and likewise as a results of fact i became into indignant with the aid of the comprehend-it-all attitudes and disrespectful nature of many atheists on line, yet ultimately I in simple terms gave up attempting to redefine myself as some thing as a results of fact i did no longer like multiple the persons who additionally describe themselves as atheists. no longer in simple terms is that kind of like Christians who describe different Christians as "no longer authentic Christians" yet I have been given unwell and uninterested in explaining to human beings what an ignostic became into, and that i did no longer misspell agnostic :p with the aid of how, the guy you have been speaking with seems to have an extremely detrimental information of the thank you to communicate an ignostic place. you do no longer ought to bypass with the aid of dictionary definitions, you in simple terms choose a of course defined definition of God from the certainty of what it truly is from the attitude of the guy who's arguing for/against God's existence.

Answer 10

Your god is in your head just like all the other theists.