2007-07-26 14:54:03 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Only if you consider yourself to be a pantheist, can you make the assumption that nature and God are synonymous. This pantheistic worldview, that God is a part of every existing thing in nature, cannot be used as a middle of the road approach that can somehow harmonize the disparate views between atheists and theists.
To theists, a pantheistic God cannot be a creature that dictates rules of morality, he does not demand worship, he isn’t someone whose perfection you can fall from and therefore require saving. A pantheistic God is an impersonal force that is useless to theists. To a theist pantheism is as good as not believing in God at all. A God whose existence is inextricably linked to the existence of the world, cannot say something is right or wrong, because God being omnipresent and part of everything would, by definition, be part of the “evil” in the world, and therefore could not denounce it. A God who is water, earth, air, space, etc. is impersonal and would not demand our devotion because he has no personality, just like other inanimate objects in the universe. Furthermore a natural world is admittedly imperfect, and thus a pantheistic conception of God, means that God is also imperfect.
In short to conflate God and nature is the denude God of anything worthy of entertaining. God becomes relegated into something cold and pitiless, just as nature is. God loses all comforting and commanding attributes that cause people to believe in him.
To atheists, the notion of equating God with nature is superfluous and unnecessary. There is no reason to call nature by another name. It doesn’t add to the characteristics of nature, nor does it detract from its essence.
2007-07-27 14:21:50 · answer #1 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A. When christians admire the splendor of the universe, they think someone created it because it was written inside a book.
B. When Atheists admire the splendor of the universe, they try to find the cause of the universe and not to follow a man written mind controlling book blindly.
Therefore, atheists do not think nature is god.
2007-07-26 22:02:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
christians practice a long time to do what they are told.... when they admire the splendor of the universe the admiration is on behalf of their evil god looking to take it all over.... the rightful "owners" or guides of the world is nature... christians have gone a long way in destroying that in humanity which serves it..... nature should be seen as the power of what humanity calls god... but the word god is only part of the christian and religious cultures enemies to nature.
2007-07-26 22:01:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way; that's a contradiction. Science (essentially, the study of nature) has come very close to proving that god does not exist. We will never know for certain unless the god in question decides to give us evidence to believe in him. A natural god is impossible.
2007-07-26 22:08:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, nature isn't God. Nature is God's creation.
Atheists believe in the absurd idea that everything in nature just happened by accident.
Those of us who believe in God, though, believe in the much more logical idea that Creation had a Creator.
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2007-07-26 22:00:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is an open definition of sorts. If you want to call nature God that would probably be valid. Keep in mind nature runs a linear course and it doesn't have knowledge of itself. Or at least it didn't until we came along. By most definitions, God's existence isn't linear and he knows of himself.
2007-07-26 22:01:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the sense that god gave man the power to think, and some who needed answers to then-unanswerable questions invented him! God, through man's imagination, is a natural result of the Big Bang.
2007-07-26 21:59:35 · answer #7 · answered by Bryce 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, nature is not God. Is a newborn the same as its mother? No. God created nature, it was a part of His ultimate plan. Isn't it great to have such a loving, imaginative God?
Praise Him :)
2007-07-26 22:04:46 · answer #8 · answered by ChildofChrist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it's normal that they think about God if they see the universe since the universe is created by God. but to say that nature is God is totally absurd since how can you compare the created and the creator.........
Nature itself is only created by God .... And nature itself is only one of the things that God created.
2007-07-26 22:03:26 · answer #9 · answered by irEneaUs 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We think of God because he created nature, according to our beliefs.
Is God nature? nah, we don't worship nature. Just God. But he is in nature, so to speak.
Hope this helps!
2007-07-26 22:01:57 · answer #10 · answered by Dani 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋