Godlorica
Saturday, January 21, 2006
What can we know of God?
What can we mere humans, with our limited three-pound mass of brain truly understand about a being who may be timeless, higher-dimensional, and all-knowing? Followers of the Koran have often suggested that because God has no cause or temporal dimension, there is absolutely nothing we can say about Him. Our brains are not up to the task. The philosopher Bahya ibn Pakudah (d. 1080) believed that the only people who had a hope of understanding God were the prophets and philosophers. Everyone else was simply "worshiping a projection of himself." Similarly, Muslim thinker Abu Hamidal-Ghazzali (1058-1111) thought that only special people, like mystics and prophets, could get a glimpse of God; nevertheless, most ordinary folk should not deny the existence of God -- a blind man should not deny the rainbow's existence simply because he cannot appreciate it.
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Being as I am God's punching bag- with no wife, no family, no relatives, no money, no NOTHING- I can say God is the MOST evil creature ever. Appear to be all good, yet create satan- pure evil- and then not destroy it? hmmmm. than put this being here, on earth? for what- a vacation???? I asked God to bring me ONE woman- and I got.....nothing. And others who hurt me prosper greatly. God is pure evil, folks.
# posted by 
: 12:32 AM
: 12:32 AM
I think we can know alot about God and his nature by reading the bible - you get to understand his grace, love and great power
# posted by : 7:54 AM
: 7:54 AM
Hmmm..so apparently the Muslim philosophers and thinkers believe we can only know or glimpse God thru our mind and intellect.
Not being mentally gifted, I guess I am out of luck. Bummer.
Not being mentally gifted, I guess I am out of luck. Bummer.
# posted by : 5:10 PM
: 5:10 PM
Since there can never be and end to existence, no one can understand it fully. It is like trying to understand zero and infinity. God must be beyond every horizon while being at every locality (right inside me) at the same time. A paradox. God loves paradox, maybe even hides behind it.
It all depends on what you visualise by the word God. If you're thinking of some old dude with a fluffy white beard -- anthropomorphosising the issue, in other words -- then you're always gonna be disappointed. We're projecting what we conceive of as the only way in which intelligence and consciousness can exist in the 4D world that most of us think of as reality; a human figure with human qualities. When you start thinking a bit wider -- as a Buddhist or Taoist might -- that God isn't a person, but a unifying force, and that God is in everything... a multitude of vibrating strings maybe... then the whole idea of expecting answers or boons becomes ridiculous. To talk of God's, or the Tao's, intelligence is about as fruitful a pursuit as trying to build a working model of the brain out of a Lego kit.
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