Originally Posted by nighthawk
Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
Originally Posted by nighthawk
Originally Posted by DBT
God cannot be literally described or explained as in a literal or actual God because 'God' is just an idea cooked up in the human mind.

Now that is open for debate and has been for a couple thousand years now.


That's why I asked the forum what do YOU believe.......and why.

Start at the beginning. I exist. You exist apart from me. We each came into existence as separate individuals, how did that happen? There must have been an entity to cause that. Nothing happens without a mover, a causing force. Skip through the Thomistic proofs, the upshot is there must have been a prime, uncreated entity and there can only be one. That we call God. Whatever characteristics you want to add to God is another matter. You can argue that this mode of thought, metaphysics, came from ancient Greeks in their consideration of fundamental transcendent desires of man.


Do you equate the alleged "prime mover" with the classical God of Christianity, and if so, how do you logically move from the former to the latter?


You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.

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