makingmusic476 said:
Legend11 said:
a.l.e.x59 said: Yes, and his name is Jehovah. If there's no God, who made everything? |
Well by that logic who made God? |
That's why He's God. ;) God is self-explanatory. He is omnipotent, omniscient, and timeless by definition, thus He always was and always will be. He is not bounded by the logic of this physical world. He is not bounded by time, physics, or any of the rules that bound us as physical beings. Therefore, He could very easily have always been and it is He whom I believe created everything that we know, this Universe that we live in, bounded by rules of which He is not. |
Thomas Aquinas "proofs" of god rely upon the idea of regress and need "God" to terminate it; They make the stupid assumption that God is immune to the regress. IMO, by thinking up this being and giving it a name simply because we need to give it one, there is no reason to give this being any of his other attributes: Omnipotence, Omniscience and timelessness (as u put it).
Also, i dont get it, Omnipotence and Omniscience are totally incompatable. As said by Richard Dawkins: "If God is omniscient, he must already know how he is going to intervene to change the course of history using his omnipotence. But that means he cant change his mind about his intervention, which means hes not omnipotent"
Calling the physical cause for the creation of the universe "God" is totally misleading, as it gives it the stereotypical view of being a big guy sitting on a cloud with a big beard, looking down on all of us designing everything.
My view on god now? well, I believe in god as much as i believe that there are Fairies at the bottom of my garden, as much as i believe that ghosts exist, as much as i believe that we are all apart of the matrix, etc...