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Post by lowtacks86 on Apr 22, 2017 20:32:54 GMT
What is your perception of God?
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Apr 22, 2017 20:39:54 GMT
I don't think God is anthropomorphic.
I'm not sure how someone who gave qualities to human could somehow imitate those qualities.
In any event, God is at a minimum a being.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Apr 22, 2017 20:44:33 GMT
I don't think God is anthropomorphic. I'm not sure how someone who gave qualities to human could somehow imitate those qualities. In any event, God is at a minimum a being. Well it's right there in your Holy Book in the first page:
"Genesis 1:27: So God created man in his own image"
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Apr 22, 2017 20:47:25 GMT
I don't think God is anthropomorphic. I'm not sure how someone who gave qualities to human could somehow imitate those qualities. In any event, God is at a minimum a being. Well it's right there in your Holy Book:
"Genesis 1:27: So God created man in his own image"
That's what I mean. Anthropomorphic would indicate humans putting the qualities of God, He doesn't mimic humans, but rather humans are embued with his qualites. Otherwise, I guess that's the closest one.
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Post by general313 on Apr 22, 2017 20:54:49 GMT
Ancient humans thought that lightning and thunder was caused by the gods. More recently vitalism was still taken seriously. Every time scientific understanding on a subject increases, god retreats into the nebulous margins of things we don't understand well yet. I expect this will continue in the future, so my conclusion is that god is most likely a man made fiction. Zeus and Yahweh are the same.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Apr 22, 2017 20:57:41 GMT
Ancient humans thought that lightning and thunder was caused by the gods. More recently vitalism was still taken seriously. Every time scientific understanding on a subject increases, god retreats into the nebulous margins of things we don't understand well yet. I expect this will continue in the future, so my conclusion is that god is most likely a man made fiction. Zeus and Yahweh are the same. This isn't correct. Many religious were well aware of weather in the first place
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Post by general313 on Apr 22, 2017 21:04:58 GMT
Ancient humans thought that lightning and thunder was caused by the gods. More recently vitalism was still taken seriously. Every time scientific understanding on a subject increases, god retreats into the nebulous margins of things we don't understand well yet. I expect this will continue in the future, so my conclusion is that god is most likely a man made fiction. Zeus and Yahweh are the same. This isn't correct. Many religious were well aware of weather in the first place en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_in_religion
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Post by clusium on Apr 22, 2017 21:51:52 GMT
What is your perception of God? Beyond all human understanding. Indeed the concept of the Holy Trinity attests to this: Three Distinct Persons in the One Godhead.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2017 22:00:19 GMT
I don't think God is anthropomorphic. I'm not sure how someone who gave qualities to human could somehow imitate those qualities. In any event, God is at a minimum a being. Humans are so special that God could have created anything, and out of all of the designs with which he could have come up with, he came up with humans in their current form. Unsurprisingly, humans favour a perception of God which reassures them that their shit doesn't stink and that the entire universe was made only to support their existence.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Apr 23, 2017 0:38:24 GMT
Beyond human understanding.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Apr 23, 2017 0:42:28 GMT
Beyond human understanding. But you're a Christian aren't you? Surely you can't say he's beyond human comprehension if he's described quite a bit in the Bible.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Apr 23, 2017 0:53:03 GMT
Beyond human understanding. But you're a Christian aren't you? Surely you can't say he's beyond human comprehension if he's described quite a bit in the Bible. Yes, I can. And don't call me Shirley.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2017 1:37:57 GMT
Beyond human understanding. But you're a Christian aren't you? Surely you can't say he's beyond human comprehension if he's described quite a bit in the Bible. Sure. Just a little cognitive dissonance needed.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Apr 23, 2017 1:48:24 GMT
But you're a Christian aren't you? Surely you can't say he's beyond human comprehension if he's described quite a bit in the Bible. Sure. Just a little cognitive dissonance needed. No, not really.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2017 1:49:20 GMT
Yes, really.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Apr 23, 2017 1:52:56 GMT
Afraid not, old boy. Why do you care anyway? Why don't you just enjoy your life, while you've still got a life to enjoy?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2017 2:15:58 GMT
Yay, we reached the "Erjen runs out of answers and retreats" part of the thread really quickly this time! You're slipping, mate.
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Post by Jonesy1 on Apr 23, 2017 2:32:08 GMT
Yay, we reached the "Erjen runs out of answers and retreats" part of the thread really quickly this time! You're slipping, mate. Never did figure out why he thinks he's insulting someone by telling them to enjoy their lives.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2017 2:35:40 GMT
Yay, we reached the "Erjen runs out of answers and retreats" part of the thread really quickly this time! You're slipping, mate. Never did figure out why he thinks he's insulting someone by telling them to enjoy their lives. I suspect it's along the lines of "See, you are only concerned with sinful pleasures of this temporary life, ignorant to the dark evil Illuminati/Freemason/Bilderberg/Whatever forces around you... but I am wide awake to those dangers and only concerned with the eternal worship of my awesome super god!" Picture Moses being all like "People who want to come be god's chosen, get with me. The rest of you, keep on enjoying yourselves and see what it gets you." That's probably pretty close to how Erjen sees himself. Of course, what he's missing is that he only buys into all that nonsense because that's how he enjoys his life. Irony.
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Apr 23, 2017 2:38:36 GMT
Yay, we reached the "Erjen runs out of answers and retreats" part of the thread really quickly this time! You're slipping, mate. Never did figure out why he thinks he's insulting someone by telling them to enjoy their lives. Neither did I. Why do you interpret it as an insult?
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