Sentences with phrase «infinite possibility god»

«In the realm of infinite possibility God overcomes suffering.

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Hi Colin, your argument about science pushing God into some small corner that will someday be illuminated is short sighted because it fails to account for the very distinct possibility that the universe is infinite, thus there are no dark corners and no final illumination... study this thoroughly and also the incompleteness theorems of the great mathematician Godel.

Granted, therefore, that God's infinite conceptual valuation of pure possibility may justly be termed «free» since it is «limited by no actuality which it presupposes (PR 524), yet the temporal integrative activity of his consequent nature, whereby he loves particular occasions of the actual world, may also be called «free,» though in a somewhat different sense.

There are an infinite number of possibilities that do not involve any gods.»

There are thing you see that you atribute to a god, but ignore the infinite number of other possibilities.

No, lets assume there are no gods, or nothing that would fit your descrition of god since the likely hood of weither of those options is much higher (given that yours is ONE possibility... YOUR definition of YOUR god... out of an infinite number.

But... the infinite regress in question is an example of the «non-vicious» type of regress, since it concerns possibilities, and these not (on one view of potentiality) as a definite multitude, whose number is infinite, but as a continuum, which in the words of Peirce is «beyond all multitude,» as God was formerly described as being; and indeed, as we shall see, the continuum of possibilities is one aspect of God which may be truly so described.

The religious insight is the grasp of truth: that the order of the world, the value of the world in its whole and in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of life, and the mastery of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61

The reason that is flawed, and I can not stress this enough... there are an infinite number of possibilities... you keep focusing on the ones that include a god, which will NEVER yeild results because you preclude the possibility and even probablity that there are NO GODS.

Your god hypothesis is but one of an infinite number of other possibilities, including that the universe may have sprung from «nothing» since there never really is nothing.

Viewed this way, the infinite is, so to speak, separated into two parts: on the one hand, the infinity of possibility which offers an inexhaustible supply of the new, bit by bit, and on the other, God's infinite unification of experience moment by moment.

This means that God can anticipate each and every one of a virtually infinite number of possibilities as though each and every one was an absolute certainty.

Surely, we can conceive it because we have some little freedom of our own... we must have some range of possibilities genuinely open to us, or we could not form any conception of God as having an infinite range of possibilities open to him» (1963 - 64, 20).

Yet God was conceived as a being which had an infinite number of prehensions of ideals, possibilities, and values, but did not experience the world in any sense.

Hartshorne reasons that it is literally impossible for God to actualize all possibilities, for they are infinite in number, and some of them are mutually incompatible.

But we ought also to respect the native goodness and the infinite, God - given possibilities of every man.

It is the essence of God to move the world toward new possibilities, and his being is «complete» only as an infinite series of creative acts, each of which enriches, modifies, and shapes the whole society of being.

... by means of the conceptual richness of his inexhaustible pure possibilities God is able to absorb into himself the multifariousness of the world, overcoming the evil of its destructive conflicts through the higher harmonies this infinite imagination provides.

If each new moment, according to process thought, is open to the infinite range of possibilities contained in the primordial nature of God, then is possibility as such finally grounded in God's purely conceptual and unchanging envisagement of eternal objects?

The essence of all actuality, according to Hartshorne, is to be non-exhaustive of potency, and this potency is the result of the infinite range of possibility that the PN of God offers.

God draws all actualities into an inexhaustible unity, since the inner aim informing divine creativity and impelling it forward is infinite, seeking the realization of every possibility, each in its own season.

God is only partially transcended by actual occasions, for they can only prehend those aims of God relevant to their particular world, leaving untouched those infinite reservoirs of possibility which are not yet (or no longer) relevant to the creative advance.

It is true that what will happen in the next moment is determined in large part by the previous and present state of things actualized; but each new moment, according to process thought, is also open to the infinite range of possibilities contained in the PN of God, which transcend the limited possibilities contained in previous actual states.

But his reasons are unconvincing, once one sees that his definition of God as absolutely infinite substance is either meaningless or contradictory, since there are incompossible yet positive possibilities.

In his primordial nature God prehends the infinite realm of possibilities; in his consequent nature he prehends the actualities of the world his superjective nature is a result of weaving his consequent prehensions upon his primordial vision.

«Well, we've ruled out a couple hundred possibilities, which leaves an almost infinite number of possibilities that it might be, and the vast majority of those possibilities we can't even fathom or even put into words, and the trillions and trillions and trillions of other possibilities we might be able to fathom but we don't even have the ability to test - well, we're just going to give up and say that it's probably just the god thing even though there are trillions and trillions of other possibilities that it might be.»

Human beings should know the possibilities given «in relation» to God and fellow human beings, and not in the light of the infinite possibilities of which Marx speaks about.

But there is no reason to be troubled by this fact provided that (as I am now assuming)(1) the range of possibilities is infinite and (2) there is no limit to how fine - grained God's knowledge of a sub-range of possibilities might be.

For it is by means of the conceptual richness of his inexhaustible pure possibilities that God is able to absorb into himself the multifariousness of the world, overcoming the evil of its destructive conflicts through the higher harmonies this infinite imagination provides.

The god hypothesis is just one of an infinite number of possibilities, though there is a higher probability for many other hypotheses and theories.

That there is an infinite difference of quality between God and man is the possibility of offense which can not be taken away.

(Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 101) And in a passage, in which the three formative elements are presented succinctly, he says,»... the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms are together impotent to achieve actuality apart from the completed ideal harmony, which is God.»

Cobb says,»... the way in which God functions as the principle of limitation is by ordering the infinite possibilities of the eternal objects according to principles of value.