God's Existence
I.Evidence of God's existence vs. The defining of God
- Both questions asked, which one to ask first?
- Actually in essence, both are the same question.
II.In general terms, God is the Being that is the inner reality of everything whatever
God imperceptible to human senses, yet nevertheless completely pervades all reality.
- God beyond our human understanding, beyond reason, logic, rational
- Unexplained by agreements of definitions; rather by personal beliefs and faith
- To define and understand God on human terms would reduce God to being no more than human
- Full of paradoxes (example in Christianity):
- The eternal becomes temporal
- The spiritual becomes physical
- The high becomes low
- The divine becomes human ....
- All-powerful creator
Can God carry create a rock big enough that he can't carry?....Yes, if he can't carry it it's because he/she willed it as so, so his/her failure to carry it is the fulfillment of the decision of not being able to carry it by will. Again, full of paradoxes.
That's why logic and reason are not attributes by with God should be defined or should be tried to understand, though we as humans may make use of these to try to achieve a sense for ourselves on where we stand in relation to this God.
V.All-knowing creator
As an explanation of our faith towards God. From a personal view as a believer, true fait, true faith rests on the belief that God is all-knowing and that somehow will manifest this supreme knowledge in humanity, even in, and especially in the midst of adversity, which is the cradle and origin of faith.., where humanity feels fear can somehow be lessen by a higher being, a more powerful force(god), who finds way for goodness to prevail.
- Perfectly good
Again, picking up where faith, and the reason for faith as a tool to reach God through adversities
Actually a very optimistic way to deal with adversities; such attribute of perfect goodness in God may have tremendous power to increase faith...( to some, faith may be man-made, simply a belief or way of reasoning, to a believer it can acquire great power, even such power that goes beyond my understanding that when I see it at work I say to myself, "there is something greater at work here".
- A personal god
Classical theistic views of Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
Creator, perfect worthy of worship; personal and controlling, which goes through evolution, change as how humanity sees this personal god throughout history, depending much of the
situation the people are involved.., ex. Old Testament (authority, hot-tempered, no emotions)
New Testament (emotions, incarnated, more human) Inquisition (non-forgiving, fearful, myths,
superstitious) Modem times (science, technology, clash of cultural ideas And religions.., god not
needed, or ecumenism)