I’m not sure how one clarifies “God is everything”. If something is everything, aren’t further attempts at explanation either contradictory or redundant?
Yahweh, Allah, Zeus, Codora, etc. are some of his names. “God” is his job description.
Deep.
Somebody please move this to MPSIMS. This hardly qualifies as a debate.
Witnessing. We’re stuck with it here.
So, if God is everything, and I believe that the couch I’m stretched out on exists, then I believe that God exists?
Oooookay, that’s fine with me, even if it is entirely meaningless.
In some other posts you refer to a definition of God that is commonly referred to as “God the retired engineer”, the entity who created the universe but has no further interest in making changes to the design. In other posts you suggest God is the design itself. 4
That’s three different definitions. Which is it?
If God is everything, then all three definitions fit.
So you and I can be plotted out with 3 dimensions, correct?
So could I then say, in my apparent insanity, that “God” can be plotted out with 10 dimensions?
Probably. But it’s interesting to try, especially if you believe “God” is incomprehensible to begin with.
And worthless. Someone without power or control is someone not worth beseeching.
Like asking a Burger King shift supervisor for a day off.
If the 10th dimension is infinity - ‘everywhere at once’ I think you said - how could you ‘plot’ this?
I think that the fact that it even exists, or that anything exists for that matter, means there must be an “Uncaused first cause.” I’ll add on to that; I think believing an infinitely conscious force is behind everything makes more sense than saying everything came out of nothing for no reason.
I don’t see why it shouldn’t have any meaning. The way I see it, it’s a great thing that we get to be a part of such an awesomely complex and well designed system. It gives humanity something to figure out.
I think the retired engineer reference carries far too much personification for my taste. Everything is everything, even time, “God” exists in a single moment that never ends.
The infinite consciousness of “God” could not care less what you think about it.
Nor should I if I have nothing to gain by worshiping it.
And if I can’t, what the hell are we talking about?
Guess so, if it exists. Anything can be. So can you and I, a potted plant, and an X Box 360. We’re just not able to perceive the extra dimensions.
If that’s the video I think it is, it’s complete bullshit.
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Yep, it is. And it’s bullshit. Its’s been debunked plenty of timers here. This thread is a recent example. The video us mentioned in post 10, and the best debunking of it (IMNSHO, of course!) is in post 46.
Well I’m definitely not mathematician. You said to think of dimensions as coordinates, wouldn’t that mean all dimensions can be plotted on some sort of “10 dimensional grid”?
The 10th dimension isn’t “infinity”. Infinity is not a dimension. I don’t know where he plucked that from.
What is “worship”? Are you talking about dropping to your knees and praying? Fearing punishment for your sins? I don’t believe in any of that. I don’t believe “God” is affected in any way by whether or not you worship it.
In my opinion, any God that condemns you to hell for not worshiping it is flawed for showing human emotion in having a need for acceptance. God must be perfect in m opinion. God shares no traits with humans.
We’re talking about God…
Things exist with or without human knowledge. But if he doesn’t relate to us why does it matter?
Well sure, as long as there aren’t more than ten. You can plot things in however many dimensions you like. Of course, some versions of string theory have eleven, twelve, or twenty-six dimensions. which means your concept of “God” would seem to be rather lacking in . . . well, not depth necessarily, but one or two (or sixteen) other things.