Board index › Topical Discussion › Politics, Philosophy, and Religion

Would a perfect God hang out with humans?

Page 3 of 3 [ 38 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3

Previous topic | Next topic

sartresue
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 18 Dec 2007
Age: 70
Gender: Female
Posts: 6,313
Location: The Castle of Shock and Awe-tism

20 Feb 2009, 6:40 pm

What's the matter? topic

E=mc squared. :)


_________________
Radiant Aspergian
Awe-Tistic Whirlwind

Phuture Phounder of the Philosophy Phactory

NOT a believer of Mystic Woo-Woo


DentArthurDent
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Jul 2008
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,884
Location: Victoria, Australia

21 Feb 2009, 2:24 am

Sand wrote:
Perfection is such an undefinable quality that positing a perfect being probably conjures up a different entity in each person that conceives it. Assuming a perfect being is perfectly aware of all its actions and consequences it is totally illogical it could create such a chaotic social creature as a human being. The obvious fact of human imperfection would deny it as being created by a perfect being.


Damn! you beat me to it. By the rationale of religionists that god is perfect it would mean that we too would need to be perfect, otherwise god cannot be perfect. So either

a. god is imperfect and made us in his image.
b. god is perfect and therefore some thing other than god created us.
c. god does not exist.


_________________
"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance anyday"
Douglas Adams

"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand" Karl Marx


slowmutant
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 13 Feb 2008
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Posts: 8,430
Location: Ontario, Canada

21 Feb 2009, 9:13 am

twoshots wrote:
Khan_Sama wrote:
I'm pantheistic here. I belive that God is Energy. Two different terminologies, same concept.

If god is energy, what is matter?


Energy & matter are ultimately the same thing, aren't they?



Sand
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 15 Sep 2007
Age: 99
Gender: Male
Posts: 11,484
Location: Finland

21 Feb 2009, 11:10 am

slowmutant wrote:
twoshots wrote:
Khan_Sama wrote:
I'm pantheistic here. I belive that God is Energy. Two different terminologies, same concept.

If god is energy, what is matter?


Energy & matter are ultimately the same thing, aren't they?


That's vaguely like saying humidity and a block of ice are the same thing.



MissConstrue
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 4 Feb 2008
Gender: Female
Posts: 17,052
Location: MO

21 Feb 2009, 11:21 am

Sand wrote:
slowmutant wrote:
twoshots wrote:
Khan_Sama wrote:
I'm pantheistic here. I belive that God is Energy. Two different terminologies, same concept.

If god is energy, what is matter?


Energy & matter are ultimately the same thing, aren't they?


That's vaguely like saying humidity and a block of ice are the same thing.


^
^
^
^They come and they go metaphorically speaking. :roll:


_________________
I live as I choose or I will not live at all.
~Delores O’Riordan


slowmutant
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 13 Feb 2008
Age: 46
Gender: Male
Posts: 8,430
Location: Ontario, Canada

21 Feb 2009, 1:13 pm

Sand wrote:
slowmutant wrote:
twoshots wrote:
Khan_Sama wrote:
I'm pantheistic here. I belive that God is Energy. Two different terminologies, same concept.

If god is energy, what is matter?


Energy & matter are ultimately the same thing, aren't they?


That's vaguely like saying humidity and a block of ice are the same thing.


Vaguely.