OK, you have decided that you can tell me who God is. You the Devine 1; you the Chosen 1, you the mere mortal man that had an opportunity to consider your answer but whole-heartedly decided that you can not only tell me Gods name you can PROVE of ots existence. In so doing you have just PREJUDICED about 30 other bnelief systems, have demonstrated a biggoted attitude a "I am right and they are wrong" persona and have proved that you are nothing less than a fool. You who would proudly announce the name of who your God is have slapped more than a billion people in the face by making this statement that you have no ability to support or to prove. Do you wonder why your world is nothing but a mass of confusion? Because YOU not God have decided what IS God. Excuse me, by what authority to you speak? Because one thing I can demonstrate at this precise moment is that You who know Gods name don't know if you will even be alive 1 minute from now. Time seems to be GODS. Not yours. Get it?
2007-10-18 10:33:12 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Understanding the nature of God does not require a label like a name. Attempting to name God automatically leads you away from understanding.
You have to begin with the definition of infinite. Infinite is all-encompasing. There is nothing outside infinity, nothing can be added to or subtracted from infinity. So naming infinity is by itself a moot point.
Understanding the infinite Creator does not exclude any religions or belief systems at all. By definition - it includes all of them, even non-belief.
In reality there is no difference between Creator and created. God - being infinite could only create from the one and only thing that exists - God.
Therefore the definition of God is everything, every being that exists.
The literal fact is, you are God gaining experiential understanding of God, in this illusion we call physical reality.
2007-10-18 11:00:34 · answer #1 · answered by Elmer R 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Wow, that's quite a rant you have there.
I won't presume to know who or what God is and there really isn't any need for me to do so. My faith doesn't need proof, nor does it need the acceptance of anyone else. I believe what I do for my own reasons and it doesn't really matter that one person or a hundred or a billion or more might agree or disagree with my beliefs. What does it matter to the billions of people who do not know me what my beliefs are?
Shall I tell you of my faith? I could but you'd probably think I was crazy. Then again, maybe I am.
Nutcases, the lot of us, if you ask me. Ask 100 different people about their faith, their god, their beliefs.. you'll probably get 100 different answers.. sure, you'll probably see some common threads, but nobody's really going to see things exactly the same way. Go ahead.. ask 1000.. a million.. you'll have people agreeing with one another on some points, disagreeing on others.. maybe killing each other in the process or otherwise trying to persuade the other guys....
So I'll let you have your faith and I'll be happy with mine.. maybe I'll modify it to suit my needs as time goes on.. if indeed I'll even be here in the next minute. I can't prove I will until the next minute comes.. until then I just have to take it on faith and keep doing what I do. No sense in worrying about it if it's beyond my control.
To summarize: The GSF and the ECW... good? bad? indifferent? what do GSF and ECW even stand for? I know, but you'll just have to take my word for it.
2007-10-18 17:53:07 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lemme get this straight....the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light years, exceeds ordinary human comprehension...right? a time interval vastly greater than all of human history.
Another thousand times farther takes us to distant cluster of galaxies, but even then, that would be less than one ten-thousandths of a percent of the observable Universe. We are mere specks in an abyss of time and space.
With that backgroud, you're telling me that there's a supernatural being or sentient lifeform out there that's got a name?....don't make me laugh.
Did you know that there's a certain percentage of scientists who believe in God, even Einstein spoke of him often. But the greatest number of non-believing scientists are the astonomers.
The hundred billion galaxies of our visible universe, each with a hundred billion stars, makes us but a grain of sand on the Sahara, grown out of that original "pure vacuum" or nothingness.
2007-10-18 23:27:49 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is our Father, our creator who loves us, he is infinite energy and we all share communion with his light...thank goodness. God is exclusively all inclusive.
Hopefully you have not taken offense God is love.
I speak on the authority of the presence of God which dwells in me , you and every living thing not by my own sake but because God is always faithful even when I can't understand why for who is mankind but dust. God does not alienate and he has many names. We can all be closer to our creator if we truly ave the desire.
:)
2007-10-19 08:42:54 · answer #4 · answered by Soul Flower 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmmm. I finally think i might "understand", though not a Muslim, what Allah may mean, having done a bit of research into the Hebrew and Arabic languages: Al = the; La(h) = Not/Nothing (which can be understood by the human mind.)
In other words, That which is so far beyond the human mind to understand and/or conceptualize as to be incomprehensible, yet present/existent, nonetheless.
Seems possible :)) Just a thought.
2007-10-18 17:58:53 · answer #5 · answered by drakke1 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Bible itself shows that only God's own spirit can truly understand God.
However, Christ gave his followers his spirit which is based on God's model. Not only this, but God has revealed things about himself that our limited intelligence is capable of understanding.
Thus under those restraints one may define God, but no further.
Some of these revelations are found collected here:
http://bythebible.page.tl/God.htm
check page two also.
2007-10-19 07:12:32 · answer #6 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, you jumped to the conclusion that different religions have a different god. They could all be talking about the same one. One man's sushi is another man's raw fish.
g-day!
2007-10-18 18:51:33 · answer #7 · answered by Kekionga 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elmer's answer is AWESOME! And completely logically infallible and irrefutable. And so, if God is love, I would ask you: Why are you so damn angry? (and yeah, I know some of the reasons, there are alot of reasons to be angry, but it's a choice, ya know? And like the platitude says: "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem!.) Looks like something to fix, to me.
2007-10-18 18:11:55 · answer #8 · answered by calyx156 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Oh yeah? Retaliate? Well bring it brother, cuz I know God's name, and it is "Stephen Colbert"!!!!
OH YEAH!!! I SAID IT!!!!
Whaddya' gonna' do now, hunh? Are you gonna' come over here and punch me in the head? Well, are you?
WELL DO IT ALREADY MAN!!! I'm waiting, as is the whole Colbert Nation, to kick your A S S buddy!
By the way, I don't get it....
2007-10-18 18:29:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nice rant. Your God is apparantly anger.
2007-10-18 18:23:01 · answer #10 · answered by lisa 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋