Xenia... it is easy to see why peace, either inner or world, is not attainable while
your god exists in your mind.
The fact that the Bible (Torah, Koran, etc etc etc) is fallible, written by humans and completely invalid as a source of morality — is irrelevant to the reality that, of course,
God exists in some form.
If
your god exists in an «infinity», who made the infinity.
Godly healthcare is above all others by proxy and by default since
God exists in the heavens above this makes perfect sense.
If a human being is originally in possession of the condition for understanding the Truth, he thinks that
God exists in and with his own existence.
Jeremy, I think you hit the nail on the head when you said in your article «But somehow, in ways beyond human comprehension,
God exists in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit» with emphasis on beyond human comprehension.
Demonstrate
your god exists in any way, shape, or form, without an appeal to a false argument such as «forests are super pretty, therefor god!»
It seems awfully theological to me... when was it agreed upon that
God exists in a Trinity?
But somehow, in ways beyond human comprehension,
God exists in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Process theology begins with the belief that
God exists in everything.
Logic: Where I am going with this is that if
God exists in your mind, which you ALREADY ADMITTED THAT HE DOES, then we can imagine something that's even better than that — a God that exists in reality.
In the same issue of Process Studies in which the articles of Hurtubise, Oomen and Ford appeared, George Allan published a critique of Ford's thesis that
God exists in the future as Creativity which is continually adjusted to meet the needs of actual occasions concrescing in the present.
I argue that
God exists in all three time - dimensions simultaneously: as a determinate past actuality in virtue of the divine consequent nature, as an indeterminate future reality in virtue of the divine primordial nature, and as a concrescing present reality in virtue of the ongoing integration of the divine primordial and consequent natures.1 Yet, while I agree with Ford that there is no way for finite actual occasions objectively to prehend that integration of the primordial and consequent natures within God even in terms of their own self - constitution here and now, I would also contend that finite actual occasions still feel the feelings of God toward themselves as a result of that integration of the primordial and consequent natures within the divine being.
And invoking God just destroys any possibility of trusting what others say when no one can even prove that
a God exists in the first place.
Still further, one must recognize that if
God exists in no other way than what our faith apprehends him to be, then, because there are today simultaneously many different and conflicting faith apprehensions of God (even among Christians), God would be nothing other than many different and conflicting things at one and the same time.
Man - made doctrine =
God exists in only one person and Jesus is of the created order.
He reckons that Progressive Christians should stop pretending
God exists in the form of «the universe» or other wishy - washy language.
Descartes wants to prove that
God exists in order to found metaphysically the «new science» which Galileo's mathematical andexperimental work had begun to articulate.
1)
Your god exists in your afterlife.
If
God exists in everything and everyone, if the world and everything it holds is sacred, then we have no choice but to find and lift up the godly sparks in all of life.
Anselm's Argument: If
God exists in the understanding, then he exists.
everything in the universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or
god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.
If a human being is originally able to understand the Truth, he thinks that
God exists in and with his own existence.
IF you continue to contend that
god exists in more than an idea... get back to us... if not there is no serious challenge that can be logically considered by those who are intellectually doing their best to be honest with what is known..
a) if there is life after death in the way I used to envision it, b) whether
God exists in an objective, verifiable sense (don't know how I'd ever prove such an ephemeral, numinous ideal in words anyway) c) whether I or anyone else is «saved.»
FAITH Magazine March — April 2011 From Pope Benedict's Epiphany Homily 6th Jan 2011» [The Magi] were people certain that something we might describe as the «signature» of
God exists in...
You would first have to prove
your god exists in order for this statement to even be close to being true.
When we begin to learn this way, that
God exists in this council structure with other divine beings that he calls gods, we begin to learn the only true God and what kind of a being we have got to worship.»
It is not up to Atheists to prove there is no God since there is no proof that
God exists in the first place.
You really believe that
god exists in the way traditional Christians believe it??? C'm on.
As I understand Mr. Egan, the foregoing is where
God exists in us all.
God exist in all of man women in child or we be alive.
You actually can prove that
God exist the in a similar way you can prove that their is also dark matter which is what the majority of the universe is made of.
Since I know christianity is nothing but a metaphor, and propoganda, I am not a christian because NO ONE is a christian, though many believe themselves to be... until one can show that
any gods exist in the first place, AND it is the Abrahamic god, then you would have to determine which of the 40,000 versions of christianity are correct....
The actual scam is pretending that
gods exist in order to wield power and control, and / or take in money.
Whether that God is scientifically provable or even consistently defined is not as relevant as the fact of
God existing in that social context.
But neither Grendels nor resurrected demi -
gods exist in real life.
So, unless you imagine
your God existing in time before the beginning of the universe, I don't see the problem.
Science will gladly accept any evidence for there being gods, but the real difference here is that there just isn't any evidence to support the belief that any actual
gods exist in the first place.
If
God exist in the real world, then yes I will need at least enough proof of it as anything else that exist in the real world, If, however, God does not exist in the real world then no proof is possible or necessary.
Rosemary Ruether in an essay on Judaism and Christianity tells us that «far from despising sexuality, the rabbis even declared that, since the destruction of the temple, the presence of
God existed in two places: in the rabbinic houses of study, and when a man lies beside his wife.»
Well if we say it proved that
God existed in their minds, then sure, OK, I would agree.
Of course there are
gods they exist in their religious tomes as do all fictional characters.
Not exact matches
Other platforms will put
existing spaces on a map,
in God knows what state.
Even if you believe
God is vanishingly unlikely to
exist, the consequence of being wrong (Hell) is so great, and the benefits of being right (not having to go to church on Sundays) so comparatively miniscule, that you should probably just believe
in God to be on the safe side.
The scriptures are clear
in their accounts that
God has always
existed.
Zombie
god does not
exist, not
in reality, certainly not
in the Tanakh, the only TRUE WORD.
At the minimum the
God of Spinoza
exists in and behind the curtain and he has proof which even Einstein found to have merit.
I mean, you can stroke your ego with pride to assume that any
god who does
exist would somehow automatically be very invested
in your life, but that's just presumptuous with no reason.
It's logical, unlike the biblical
god that people require faith to believe
in as there is no direct impact or evidence that
god even
exists.