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Abstraction · 61-69, M
I think we tend to create a god after our own prejudices - either a ridiculous caricature to reject because the idea seems nonsensical, or perhaps a god who agrees with our perspective on things and hates the things we hate.
I don't believe in that.
If God exists our most sublime thoughts and imaginings would fall as woefully short of the incomprehensible reality. If we encountered such a God we would not be sitting back in self-righteous moralising judgement on everyone else - but would face ourselves first, with all the pretence and arrogance stripped away...
I don't believe in that.
If God exists our most sublime thoughts and imaginings would fall as woefully short of the incomprehensible reality. If we encountered such a God we would not be sitting back in self-righteous moralising judgement on everyone else - but would face ourselves first, with all the pretence and arrogance stripped away...
helenS · 36-40, F
@Abstraction "If God exists
Question is, what does "existence" mean, in this context? God cannot be measured, weighed, studied in the laboratory. No observation of nature will ever lead to God.
God can only be perceived through our souls.
In this sense, God does not exist.
Question is, what does "existence" mean, in this context? God cannot be measured, weighed, studied in the laboratory. No observation of nature will ever lead to God.
God can only be perceived through our souls.
In this sense, God does not exist.
Abstraction · 61-69, M
@helenS True, in a material sense. But since all matter is the manifestation of fields interacting to form particles - to 'exist' materially - which is real - is rather fleeting by comparison to the reality of God.