Re: and who made god?

From: King John II the Good (redafroeclipse_at_aol.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: 28 Oct 2004 13:57:15 -0700

> I think that the alteration of the definition of the term "God",
> changing ever so subtly through the millennia, only illustrates how
> the human understanding of the universe has changed. God seems to
> have been a metaphor, or reflection, of whatever humanity thought
> about it's environment from the very beginning, IMO.

   Thats an interesting point, however it depends how you look at it.
One can say that as the world progresses man's understanding of God
deepens; for God is an infinitly complex being and understanding God
is an endless process.

   You know, it's easy to say that God is just a fantasy, a being
created to satiate man's need for certainty. There are many
understandings of God, and its unlikely that you are not commited to
any of them. One can say: all that God is, is the cause of the Big
Bang, the one who's creativity, knowledge, and power is great enough
to calculate exactly what is neccesary to create the world as we know
it. Or, God can be emotions, the "soul" the spirit that drives us to
feel emotions. However saying that there is no meta-physical being
that planned man's creation, seems almost impossible when looking
closly at the world.

   The Teological argument describes how the complection of the world
is so great that there must be some ultimate creator. When one looks
at nature, human beings, animals, and such things, they see the world
as such a fantastically beautiful and complicated thing that it is
impossible that it occured by chance. Arguing for, or against the
existance of God is stupid and futile for it is circulatory. However,
when looking at the almost infinite deapth of the Universe, its
virtually unbreakable rules of Nature that seem to animate the
inanimate, and the underlying pattern of it all, I get a true honest
feeling that some sort of concious being must of created it.

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