They arrived at their nominalism precisely because an infinite
creator God existed, whose mind could not be fathomed.
Not exact matches
If your
god exists, it is the
creator of evil.
And those who have the privilege of being selected to go to heaven, serve in an official capacity as «kings and priests» (Rev 1:6), not as equals to
God, but as 144,000 individuals who recognize that
God, whose name is Jehovah, is the Grand
Creator of all the universe, with these ones casting their crowns before
God's throne, saying: «You are worthy, Jehovah, even our
God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, because you created all things, and because of your will they
existed and were created.»
It seems to me that the ID proponents are missing or ignoring a few things: first, if everything that
exists Needs a
Creator,
God exists,
God Needs a
Creator.
«That supernatural cause could not itself have a cause, because infinite causal chains do not
exist «Well, even if we accept your appeal to mysticism, why could your
god not itself have a
creator.
That is your first mistake because you can not provide me with a reasonable explanation for a divine
creators existence) and the fact that we
exist is not anymore a reason for the proof of the existence of an anthropomorphic
god than it proves the existence of, in Richard Dawkins terms, the flying spaghetti monste.
there is no logical path that one can take that would lead one to the conclusion that an all powerful
creator existed outside of space and time... that claim is nothing more than a
god of the gaps argument.
It may be thought that
God is the
Creator of the person, so that the person would not
exist at all apart from
God.
For
God to
exist, he must have a
creator.
But Aquinas also said that creation's relationship to
God is one of total dependence, that the world would not
exist at all if
God were not
creator or cause.
For all men who were ignorant of
God were foolish by nature; and they were unable from the good things that are seen to know him who
exists... For from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their
Creator.
In the first,
God is related to the world as its
creator, without whom the world would not
exist.
In religious terms,
God, according to group two, is not just the
creator opposed to the creatures, nor is he just another creature, but he is the
creator - with - the - creatures, his reality is not in all respects as it would be did the creatures not
exist...
God is the
Creator of all that
exists, and he created all things ex nihilo (from nothing).
Indeed, Hegel attempts to demonstrate that the Crucifixion can only fully appear and be real in consciousness when
God is known as being alienated from himself,
existing in a dichotomous form as Father and Son or sovereign
Creator and eternal Word.
«
God exists» and» it is the
creator of the known material world» and «it should be obeyed» etc..
Hint; if
god «
exists» then time always
existed, and it could not have been it's
creator.
«As far as anyone can show, ALL
gods are imaginary» -------------- If a
creator God did not
exist, then nothing would
exist.
What they don't believe is that Jesus is
God Almight... the
Creator who has always
existed (without beginning or end)... as the Bible teaches.
Except you know they
exist, It is the same with
God the
creator, faith is the most important thing in a persons life, for without faith.
And if you also posit that «Everything must have a
creator, therefore
God exists», you have committed a serious logical error.
All of this simply demonstrates that the Deus of Pandeism is a superior
Creator to the false
gods of the ignorant theistic texts, which foist nonsense such as the Earth
existing before the Sun, talking snakes, inhereted sinfulness, and resurrection of the dead.
Satan is a creature of
God who
exists only because of
God's creative activity, and yet, now that Satan
exists, he is not simply under the divine thumb but is engaged in mortal combat with the
creator for the devotion of human beings.
If «
God»
exists in any form or under any name which I'm not denying wouldn't he want us to improve ourselves as his creations and grow as sentient beings as any parent /
creator would?
In The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness Unto Death, his two main psychological works, he understands human beings as creatures of
God who unavoidably
exist in relation to their
Creator.
In contrast, Christians know this about
God: there is only one true
God (Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 43:10; 44:6 - 8), He always has
existed and always will
exist (Deuteronomy 33:27; Psalm 90:2; 1 Timothy 1:17), and He was not created but is the
Creator (Genesis 1; Psalm 24:1; Isaiah 37:16).
People seem to conveniently forget that most modern science
exists as a continuation of the work done by men and women who believed in a
creator God.
For the
God of Israel to exist no other creator god can exi
God of Israel to
exist no other
creator god can exi
god can
exist.
except there is no «
creator god» as that would require a being,... first to «
exist», (requires time), and then also «act» (also requires time), * before * she created spacetime.
If it is possible, probable, or even demonstrable that
God the
creator does
exist, then instances of miracles are at least possible, or even likely, if one thinks that
God wishes to communicate knowledge of his identity and presence to the world.
Man as we know him today, man of metaphysics, of abstract thought, the
creator of his own environment, the space - traveller, the moulder of himself, the man of
God and of grace and of the promise of eternal life, precisely this man who is radically distinct from any animal and who at the moment of man's origin, though perhaps very slowly, took a path which led him so far away from all that is merely animal, yet in such a fashion that he carried with him the whole inheritance of his biological pre-history into these realms of his existence remote from the animals, was there when man began to
exist.18 And what now is historically and externally manifest, was then present as a task and as an active potentiality.
God is existence itself.More or less... Not counting the universe.What Steven Hawkings does not understand is that the universe expands against infinity which IS
God.At one point the only thing to
exist was existence itself.This lone existence / infinity has an intelligence.It created the universe and all things within.The universe expands against it.The universe does not expand against nothing as Steven Hawkings suggests.Think about it.It is the only way for
God to not have a
creator & where
God resides.
Yet, if
God exists, he is the ultimate authority, because he is the
creator and the source of all good; he knows what is best for us and tells us so through his Revelation and through reason.
if nothing can
exist without being created how can
god exist without a
creator?
< — I agree... that woukd be disonestto do so... I on the other hand do not go this way... I know
God exists... therefore since He is
Creator and all..
@WobbleBob the fact that an infinite amount of «coincidences» had to happen for any of us to be here «points» to a
creator... after that it is up to the individual to seek
God... If in fact he does
exist an omnipotent / omniscient
God should have the ability to reveal himself to that person..
Why would Atheist get mad if
God /
creator does not
exist?
We dishonor him greatly when we attach to him the malevolence of the character of a
creator of hell, a
God that has never
existed.
The only
god that could possibly
exist is some sort of deistic
creator god, and I'm quite sure such a
god doesn't listen to prayers and couldn't care less what a bunch of bugs like us are praying for.
In this way, adoration and praise lead to, and are expressed in, our thanksgiving for the fact that
God exists, that He
exists in all His majesty yet in His mercy, that the
Creator of the world is the
God of love.
He seems to be open to the idea, however, that
God actually
exists and was the
Creator.
«The faith of the Church has always insisted that between
God and us, between his eternal
Creator Spirit and our created reason, there
exists a real analogy, in which — as the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 stated — unlikeness remains infinitely greater than likeness, yet not to the point of abolishing analogy and its language.
If
God exists... to state that an all powerful
creator of the universe can ONLY be found in the Christian bible, and ONLY speaks to us this way, is neither logical nor what the bible or even his own branch of the Christian faith teaches.
If
god «
exists» it would have to «
exist» in dimesions it did not create, hence could not be the
creator of everything.
that your
god can't
exist without a
creator.
God is a spirit that exists outside of space and time, so god doesn't need a creator or even proof of existen
God is a spirit that
exists outside of space and time, so
god doesn't need a creator or even proof of existen
god doesn't need a
creator or even proof of existence.
We still fall onto your arbitrary cap — your
God, which is something,
exists from nothing — a self created
Creator.
it
existed for eternity...
God is not created,... it assumes a beginning... which there is none for the
Creator
Bottom line: I have no proof that a
god exists or that the universe is anything but random atoms assembling and disassembling without a design or a
creator.