@neologist,
neologist wrote:
Welcome to A2K, Wiz.
Should you begin with the assertion that a God exists who created all things with a purpose, then the force by which he created those things and their attendant laws and qualities might best be described as nature.
If, man was indeed created according to his purpose, it would seem reasonable and I would hope that his purpose would be communicated to us in some form. That leaves us with a conundrum:
An all powerful God capable of harnessing all the energy and forces of the cosmos - why would he create a race of humans who have brutalized each other for eons? Why would he place within us the concept of indefinite time if we are but to live a few short years and die? If God is truly all powerful, reasonable, and, yes, fair, the reason for such disparity must also be communicated to us.
I submit that it has.
Much confusion there Neo...
God didn't create anything ! There is nothing to be "created" which isn't already in "God", TRUTH !
God is NATURE ! How could he not be ?
One doesn't divide nature, that WHICH IS, in two !
God has no past and no future. God is the fact of the matter of our perception of time. He is the past and the future made present. Eternal.
An eternal God cannot will, wish, command, organize, structure, anything. Instead "he" IS ALREADY such things made reality...
Moreover as I often explained already God doesn't need to think as thinking belongs to the realm of incomplete agents that require inquiry regarding an unknown future. Possibility moves our rationality. God is the ratio itself...God being the "future" made reality, made present, has no inquiry to make. Its just like a dead stone on the ordering of all things. Think of it as "frozen maths". The very order of all reality past present and future already made thing. TRUTH !
Its amazing Neo...as a believer one would guess, hope, you had some sort of tangible understanding of deep metaphysics, some "upper class" theology background...but nah, its just Christian common sense believing in a personal agent which is the spit image of a super human...a poor almost childish like idea on what God really is.