Should a monotheistic God ever be considered good or great?
Aug 9, 2018 14:04:09 GMT
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Aug 9, 2018 14:04:09 GMT
I have been trying to say that almost all regions in the world that actually claim to believe in monotheistic god generally also claim that their gods have following attributes - omniscience, all-powerful being, perfect being, logical being.
I am nowhere saying that the gods depicted in the famous religions are actually logical. Sure all these religions contradict their claims. Most of their adherents do not agree but the religions surely are full of contradictions. But it is better if we discussed these issues along the lines which monotheistic religions purportedly claim to represent. None of the monotheistic religions will claim to have a god that does illogical thing or a god that is evil. Sure we can conceive of such gods. But my intention was to keep this discussion along the lines of attributes that monotheists generally attach to their Gods as discussion will then have more realistic touch. I may not have been clear on that in my initial post. So sorry about that.
Fair enough. Although the nature of a god, like notions of beauty, is likely always to remain in the eye of the beholder, and so what may be obviously illogical or opaque to an outside observer (some aspects of the Trinity for instance, not surprising where a definition of God was originally devised by a committee!) to initiates it all makes perfect sense. And the point still remains that, if one cannot know things transcendental for sure then any statement about a god, negative or positive, since unverifiable is likely meaningless anyway.