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Knowing God.

Discuss philosophical questions regarding theism (and atheism), and discuss religion as it relates to philosophy. This includes any philosophical discussions that happen to be about god, gods, or a 'higher power' or the belief of them. This also generally includes philosophical topics about organized or ritualistic mysticism or about organized, common or ritualistic beliefs in the existence of supernatural phenomenon.
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Knowing God.

Post Number:#1  PostFebruary 4th, 2012, 8:02 pm

I find that a lot of people who say they believe in God appear to want to speak openly for such an entity. However, there are those who let God speak to them, through other things and through other people, like songs, literature etc. I don't know if there is a God, but what I have found is that through others and other things, there may be. I think if there was a God, maybe through everything other than the name God, such a God may actually already be. I hope I'm right, I certainly have no problem with people talking to God, I talk to my dog, and if there is a God, I reckon my dog knows more about God than me.
Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.....Epictetus

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Post Number:#2  PostFebruary 6th, 2012, 12:44 pm

If you suspect, from your interactions with these "other things" that there is a God, can you describe it/him/her to us?
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Post Number:#3  PostFebruary 6th, 2012, 4:30 pm

To suspect is not to know, to know is not to suspect, if you suspect something, then it remains suspect until you know. Until then, describe suspect. The actions of others, what you see in a book, how you feel when alone, what you see in all around you. From what you witness from things such as these, can lead you to suspect. The questions that remain unanswered, the answers that create more questions, these are descriptions of what it is...suspect.
"Our unshakable, root-deep, all-encompassing skepticism about the capital city's answer to the UFO, that bizarre, ever-tottering but ever-flickering saucer in the sky called" "The Prevailing Washington Wisdom."
This wisdom has been with us from our earliest ancestors. Just another reason to suspect.
Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.....Epictetus
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Post Number:#4  PostFebruary 7th, 2012, 4:50 am

Mont wrote:If you suspect, from your interactions with these "other things" that there is a God, can you describe it/him/her to us?


God Almighty is a Monkey Named Joseph :mrgreen:

God Made Man in his own Image.
Man Evolves.
Both are true.

Ergo, Man Evolves into Gods.
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Post Number:#5  PostFebruary 7th, 2012, 5:14 am

King_David_James, the Christian doctrine has tied up this loose end that you suggest. Within the doctrine, species were created perfect so that they did not evolve into other species. Humans cannot therefore evolve into the highest species which is God.Even angels which are higher in the echelons thatn humans cannot evolve into God. Within the Christian doctrine all species are fixed. This is why there was such a furore when Darwin published his book.
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Post Number:#6  PostFebruary 7th, 2012, 11:33 am

Thank thine Belinda.

Yes, Christan Doctrine, I like to challenge that, hopefully Brother Jesus will forgive I.

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