I'm not interested in what a book assumes about metaphysics, I want to know what god IS. Is it a principal, a thought, a place, material, non-material??? I would like some creative answers, Please, no company line stuff ok?
2007-06-29 02:13:34 · 14 answers · asked by carabatzis_2000 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
common people!!! 4 answers, and three of them have been company line! let's get some creativity happening. THINK ABOUT IT!
2007-06-29 02:37:06 · update #1
Ahh good good, few more posts worthy of the thumbs up! I already know the arguements of other people, but I want to know what YOU people out there think for yourselves. When I say 'no company line' stuff, I mean I want some personal ideas. I don'y mind quotes if they are your own ideas and can argue them well.
2007-06-29 12:56:29 · update #2
In the contemplation of His essence, our comprehension and knowledge prove insufficient; in the examination of His works, how they necessarily result from His will, our knowledge proves to be ignorance, and in the endeavour to extol Him in words, all our efforts in speech are mere weakness and failure!
Maimonides.
IF... our comprehension and knowledge prove insufficient, our knowledge proves to be ignorance, and all our efforts in speech are mere weakness and failure... THEN no idea whatsoever...
...unless anyone here's a sage, in that case, maybe we can all benefit from his wisdom.
Good luck!
2007-06-29 03:27:13 · answer #1 · answered by Alex 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Doc A laid it all out. Here's what I can contribute...
Yes. I do have a first hand account of the interactive God. I have had three out-of-body experiences. Each time I was lead to a place where I could observe a working model of God. I can only tell you that it is real. Describing it would take the rest of my life.
2007-06-30 01:55:44 · answer #2 · answered by TD Euwaite? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God seems to play two roles in the human mind. He can be a father figure, a cross between your own or imagined "Daddy" and Santa Claus...kind, benevolent, loving, understanding, forgiving and always there in times of stress. All good things come from this Daddy God.
Then again, some people believe that God is an omnipotent power, snorting smoke and doom, threatening, bringing wrath on the heads of the nonBelievers, a powerful Deity reigning with sheer, brutal force.
The truth is, none of us really know what God is or isn't. If he created this earth with its diversity of wonders, he is intelligent beyond the understanding of any human being. :Perhaps it is not our business to try to unravel the mysteries of God. Perhaps we should just do our best during our short sojourns here on earth and rest assured that God is in his Heaven and all is right with the world.
2007-06-29 05:11:15 · answer #3 · answered by Me, Too 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Finding just a material perspective inadequate early man had to create something to explain the unexplainable. Myths led to gods. Gods led to a god.
Self-understanding tells us there is no god because such understanding reveals there is no need of or any room for any god.
What to do about our inability to understand the self etc. I am doing right here on Yahoo Answers.
Our existence is all self-directed and every thing in existence is directed by value. Some might try to equate value with god but value wins every argument. There is no need or room for a god. What we see as material is just how value expresses itself.
2007-06-29 03:09:22 · answer #4 · answered by Wizard 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
"They keep telling you what it is not, but never tell you what it is. All their identifications consist of negating: God is that which no human mind can know, they say - and proceed to demand that you consider it knowledge - God is non-man, heaven is non-earth, soul is non-body, virtue is non-profit, A is non-A, perception is non-sensory, knowledge is non-reason. Their definitions are not acts of defining, but of wiping out."
- Ayn Rand
"Every argument for God and every attribute ascribed to Him rests on false metaphysical premise. Non can survive for a moment on a correct metaphysics.
For instance, God is infinite. Nothing can be infinite, according to the Law of Identity. Everything is what it is, and nothing else. It is limited in its qualities and in its quantity: it is this much, and no more. "Infinite" as applied to quantity does not mean "very large": it means "larger than any specific quantity." That means: no specific quantity - i.e., a larger quantity without identity. This is Prohibited by the Law of Identity."
"God" as traditionally defined is a systematic contradiction of every valid metaphysical principle.
- Leonard Peikoff
2007-06-29 05:20:27 · answer #5 · answered by Crazy M 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To steal a line from Star Wars, the Force is the energy field that surrounds us and penetrates us and binds the whole universe together.
To me, God is intelligent principle. Principle is the harmonious laws that define reality. All things seen and unseen proceed from absolute Principle, which we call God.
2007-06-29 02:48:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I see god like the light
2007-06-29 03:03:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is a person,yeah that's right he is a person who's able to love to feel to interact with us,he is our creator.
We follow God and worship him coz he is our creator and because he deserves that because he loves us.
He is the one who give us a great value because we are his creation
PS: I cant say actually that i examined his love but i believe in him and i believe he really loves us
2007-06-29 02:24:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I see God as energy; like a nuclear reaction. Nothing physical that we can see or touch.
I also see God as love.
Who knows?
2007-06-29 02:24:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I dont believe in god. but i can understand why the thought comforts them. i see god as a thought in ones head, but then what they make of him is up to them?
2007-06-29 02:34:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋