Definition of "god"?

[beeksc1]

^^^ All right; all of your warm and thoughtful responses have convinced me that there is no possibility for divine forces in our universe.

Intuition out. The traditional five senses are the only means to take in our experience on Earth. Wahoo, let the celebration begin!

Is it ironic that you say that our mind stops when our body ceases functioning? If you were entirely sure about what you were attempting to convey, would not you have said, "our brain stops when...?"

Dang, humans are great apes? You do not say? You mean to say that there are multidimensional aspects of truth? That never occurred to m...

Oh yeah ---- oh yeah ---- oh yeah - yeah -- yeah!
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(Let us make it into a tune. Take it from the top.)

I could really care less as to whether or not a person does or does not believe in a divine force in our universe; I am just offering you the opportunity to show me light. Or I am just...

Too bad, that the higher power in our universe is intertwined into language.

Once a person operationally defines (in a clear manner) these following words, I will be entirely convinced that there is absolutely no room for a higher power. (Through your genius, you can cure my affliction.)

Define, explain, and illustrate (in your own words) what these words are getting at.

Love
Compassion
Integrity
Knowledge
Wisdom
Comprehension
Consciousness
Inspiration
Acknowledgment
Actualization
Intelligence
Enlightenment
Truth
Essence

 

[BillyJoe]

^^^ All right; all of your warm and thoughtful responses have convinced me that there is no possibility for divine forces in our universe.

I can't remember anyone saying "no possibility" for divine forces.
It's more like no cold hard evidence for divine forces.

Intuition out. The traditional five senses are the only means to take in our experience on Earth. Wahoo, let the celebration begin!

I can't remember anyone saying "intuition out".
More like a starting point with cold hard evidence required for confirmation.

Is it ironic that you say that our mind stops when our body ceases functioning? If you were entirely sure about what you were attempting to convey, would not you have said, "our brain stops when...?"

No, he was correct.
The mind is part of what the brain does.
Therefore, the mind stops when the body/brain ceases functioning.

Dang, humans are great apes? You do not say? You mean to say that there are multidimensional aspects of truth? That never occurred to m...

Come on, you're big enough to admit a simple mistake.

I could really care less as to whether or not a person does or does not believe in a divine force in our universe; I am just offering you the opportunity to show me light. Or I am just...

Couldn't care less.

Too bad, that the higher power in our universe is intertwined into language.

Yeah, historical accident.

Once a person operationally defines (in a clear manner) these following words, I will be entirely convinced that there is absolutely no room for a higher power. (Through your genius, you can cure my affliction.)

I do believe the shoe is on the other foot.

 

[Mobyseven]

Humans are great apes.

Actually, some of us are pretty lousy.

 

[billydkid]

Please pardon my ignorance when I ask if that statement is on a par with saying 'That is why turning your brain off is fundamental to faith'

Hmmm, I'm not sure. The point I was trying to make is that I think that most people intuitively realize that if they look to closely at their faith and what they have their faith in the ridiculousness of it becomes obvious - so yes, I guess that amounts to turning your brain off. They instinctively know that in order to maintain their faith, which is important to them, they have to defend it from critical scrutiny. Likewise, a nebulous God with no particular or defined attributes is easy to believe in, but once you give God some identifying characteristics it is easy to see that no such creature is anywhere to be found. Once you say God is this and this and God exhibits this kind of behavior and you look around see there is no God being or doing these things you might be inclined to suppose that no such God exists.

 

[Paulhoff]

Funny, (not really) that there are people who believe that a woman named Eve took an apple from “The Tree of Knowledge” and then all hell broke out. It doesn’t say much for a religion that thinks of knowledge as being a bad thing, but then knowledge does show that it doesn’t make sense.

Paul

 

[Limbo]

God is an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere.

 

[six7s]

God is an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere.

And theists are the oddballs that keep moving the goalposts

 

[Limbo]

And theists are the oddballs that keep moving the goalposts

Oh gee...you're onto me. I'm just an average, cookie-cutter "theist" (obviously, because I used the word "God"), conspiring with all the other "theists" in a coordinated global effort to "move goalposts". My post is part of a master plan, and soon another "theist" is going to come along and move the "goalposts" yet again. Resistance is futile.

Muahaha!

 

[six7s]

Oh gee...you're onto me. I'm just an average, cookie-cutter "theist"

Not a yogi, then, huh?