Are you implying that anything that is functionally complex must be a product of design? If the answer is Yes, then is the mind of God functionaly complex? Does it have an order or a structure. Or is it a random and unoranized? A cosmic stew of atoms and molecules bouncing off eachother? In lamens terms is God an intelligent being?
If you agree that the mind of God is functionally complex, then would not the mind of God need a creator?
2007-10-19 14:24:39 · 13 answers · asked by Future 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Within the limits of human understanding, I'd say yes.
And since God is outside the limits of human understanding, none of this applies to Him.
2007-10-19 14:29:32 · answer #1 · answered by lady_phoenix39 6 · 2⤊ 6⤋
A mind that is near overflowing will never find the answer to this simple question.
"Energy is a special quality given off freely within the process called friction"
It was the Creators consciousness involved in an early war.
The light prevailed and the darkness was discarded.
Think or even meditate on this!
2007-10-19 15:58:35 · answer #2 · answered by WillRogerswannabe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A fundamental mistake lies in the assumption that a divine designer is an entity comparable in complexity to the universe. As an unembodied mind, God is a remarkably simple entity. As a non-physical entity, a mind is not composed of parts, and its salient properties, like self-consciousness, rationality, and volition, are essential to it. In contrast to the contingent and variegated universe with all its inexplicable quantities and constants, a divine mind is startlingly simple. Certainly such a mind may have complex ideas—it may be thinking, for example, of the infinitesimal calculus—, but the mind itself is a remarkably simple entity. You have evidently confused a mind's ideas, which may, indeed, be complex, with a mind itself, which is an incredibly simple entity.
2007-10-19 14:30:36 · answer #3 · answered by D2T 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The problem is that no one on Earth is qualified to answer that question. You can make an educated guess but who really knows?
2007-10-19 15:32:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are mistaking theatre for the real thing. Which is to say, you are treating what Christians here claim to believe as though they actually believe it.
There's no arguing with theatre
2007-10-19 14:29:52 · answer #5 · answered by Jack P 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To one who examines the evidence, there can be no doubt that God exists. Every building has a builder. Everything made has a maker. The fact of the existence of the Creator is axiomatic (self-evident). That’s why the Bible says, "The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God’" (Psalm 14:1). The professing atheist denies the common sense given to him by God, and defends his belief by thinking that the question "Who made God?" can’t be answered. This, he thinks, gives him license to deny the existence of God.
The question of who made God can be answered by simply looking at space and asking, "Does space have an end?" Obviously, it doesn’t. If there is a brick wall with "The End" written on it, the question arises, "What is behind the brick wall?" Strain the mind though it may, we have to believe (have faith) that space has no beginning and no end. The same applies with God. He has no beginning and no end. He is eternal.
The Bible also informs us that time is a dimension that God created, into which man was subjected. It even tells us that one day time will no longer exist. That will be called "eternity." God Himself dwells outside of the dimension He created (2 Timothy 1:9, Titus 1:2). He dwells in eternity and is not subject to time. God spoke history before it came into being. He can move through time as a man flips through a history book.
Because we live in the dimension of time, logic and reason demand that everything must have a beginning and an end. We can understand the concept of God’s eternal nature the same way we understand the concept of space having no beginning and end—by faith. We simply have to believe they are so, even though such thoughts put a strain on our distinctly insufficient cerebrums.
2007-10-19 14:28:41 · answer #6 · answered by Jason M 5 · 3⤊ 7⤋
Oh, there you go, trying to use a logical argument. We all know how that's going to work out.
2007-10-19 14:29:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I'm NOT SURE Where Your Argument is HEADING !
2007-10-19 14:59:17 · answer #8 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. God is the beginning and the end.. no creator before him. what dont you understand about ALPHA and OMEGA?
2007-10-19 14:28:47 · answer #9 · answered by Lauren. 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
I like it! But you're gonna get scripture and BS back on this one.
2007-10-19 14:28:44 · answer #10 · answered by Skeff 6 · 5⤊ 3⤋