On 25 Dec 2013, at 09:18, LizR wrote:
On 23 December 2013 09:10, Edgar Owen <edgaro...@att.net> wrote:
All,
The question of whether God exists is meaningless without first
giving some definition of what is meant by God, of how God is
defined. Otherwise everyone is talking about different things and
nothing will go anywhere.
The concept of God seems to be reasonably similar in various
religions. Samiya Illias' definition seems close to most of them...
Why not define God as the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe and
Everything Else that is or may exist?
It's just the details that tend to differ from one religion to
another.
If you need a God there is only one possible rational definition and
that is to just define God as the universe itself. First there is
now absolute certainty that God does exist (all the interminable
meaningless arguments vanish), and second his attributes now become
the proper subject matter of science and reason rather than
ideology, faith or myth.
I don't see how this gets us anywhere, but then I don't see how any
definition of God gets us anywhere.
I think it is a good term to point on a (transcendental) reality, when
we are in the state of mind of doubting if it is a thing, or a person,
or a physical object, or a mathematical process, etc. It is what is
fundamental and that we might be ignoring. It is what we search, and
it is not necessarily the physical universe, although it could be, in
some theological theory.
Bruno
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