I can understand that men would imagine and even "create" such a being - to kind of fill in the gaps of ignorance and fear, but realistically, no being could every make such a claim because there is the possibility that that being could be wrong.
Perhaps God should say, "I am the All in All - the beginning and the end..."
with the disclaimer: "As far as I know" or "within my observation of the dimensions I am abiding in..."
To say that the human mind is incapable of understanding God's confident reality only begs the question: "Why did God make men so far removed from the reality of God as to make the obviousness of God impossible, in the light of scientific observation?"
It is the supreme irony, if not the supreme joke, is it not?
2007-12-19 07:48:45 · 6 answers · asked by John Galt 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
God did not make people so far removed from the reality of God. We are not born that way. People do that. We shut children down, cut them off from the reality of who they are, the state of grace in which the obviousness of God is...obvious.
Also, God is not a being, in the sense that all other beings are. He is not part of creation. He is the Source of everything, with no beginning and no end. He does not abide in any dimensions; He is outside of dimensionality.
That is God, the Ultimate Supremity. But I would think there are lesser gods, and perhaps the god of the bible is one of these. Who knows?
2007-12-19 08:37:51 · answer #1 · answered by yet-knish! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see. Because YOU do not understand, NOBODY can understand. Perhaps the question should be why you think you are God? Pride such as this will only end in Hell.
2007-12-20 09:29:57 · answer #2 · answered by Hate Boy! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on whether you have faith. You're trying to comprehend the supernatural with a mortal mind. It doesn't work, any more than a dog or cat can understand abstract concepts such as a supernatural being. That's what faith is about: believing in something without fully understanding it and/or without concrete proof of its existence.
2007-12-19 08:05:58 · answer #3 · answered by Tom Barrister 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that man cannot know everything because it simply is too much information to take in. When God came to Moses in the burning bush, Moses saw only a glimpse of God's knowledge. That is to say he saw the world from beginning (its creation) to end (Christ's second coming and beyond). He saw you and I, and it was still only a fraction of God's knowledge. Then God said to him that in order to reveal all that HE knew, He would have to take him from this world. It was WAY too much information.
Therefore it is impossible that any man or any man made thing know ALL IN ALL AND EVERYTHING. IT just cannot happen.
Besides, God also said, that there was no beginning nor end. Information is exponentially growing...and will continue to grow forever.
2007-12-19 08:02:57 · answer #4 · answered by Just me! 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God, is absolute, hence a simple & easy answer to all problems. Unfortunately any answer that is 'absolute', gives license to people to close their minds to any other possibility. Be it right or wrong. Making many 'religious' people come across as somewhat ignorant.
'it is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere' Voltaire
'there is no place in the mind of a radical, where reason can enter' Napolean Bonaparte
2007-12-19 08:21:02 · answer #5 · answered by insignificant_other 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"I swear—by my life and my love of it—that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
2007-12-19 08:01:19 · answer #6 · answered by Real Friend 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋