A thought experiment about what it means "to be" GOD

by Terry 143 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • PSacramento
    PSacramento
    Of course it does. The sun is not subject to man-made instruments, we can't travel there, we can't affect it, yet we can study it.

    To a limited degree is, because it and it's effects are observable and part of our reality.

    Could we study it 1000 years ago? how about 2000 years ago? 3000? to what degree?

    How well do you think we will be able to study it 1000 years from now?

    How much will our understanding of reality as we know it, change 1000 years from now?

  • EntirelyPossible
    EntirelyPossible

    To a limited degree is, because it and it's effects are observable and part of our reality.

    God intrudes into our reality. Miracles, visions, voices, etc. Besdies which, there is nothing to suggest God is outside of our reality.

    Could we study it 1000 years ago? how about 2000 years ago? 3000? to what degree?

    Yes, and obviously less than we can now.

    How much will our understanding of reality as we know it, change 1000 years from now?

    Hopefully quite a bit. None of this, though, in any way answers the questions about God.

  • PSacramento
    PSacramento

    I think you struck on a very important thing:

    Besdies which, there is nothing to suggest God is outside of our reality.

    SO you think that, if there is a God, that this being IS part of our reality? and if so, can be perceived?

  • EntirelyPossible
    EntirelyPossible

    SO you think that, if there is a God, that this being IS part of our reality? and if so, can be perceived?

    If there is a god and if the stories about him are true, he is constantly doing things that are perceived as part of this reality.

  • James Brown
    James Brown

    God could always have been creating and always all knowing.

    Before he created our universe, who can say he wasnt creating other things?

  • EntirelyPossible
    EntirelyPossible

    The bible says "in the beginning", not the beginning of eatch, but THE beginning, the start of it all....he created the heavens and the earth. If that was THE beginning, how could he have been doing stuff before then?

  • PSacramento
    PSacramento
    If there is a god and if the stories about him are true, he is constantly doing things that are perceived as part of this reality.

    That doesn't make him part of this realty, just that He can act within this reality.

    As you know, the hypothesis of multiple universes and/or parallel dimensions is something that is being viewed by some scientists as possible scenarios.

  • EntirelyPossible
    EntirelyPossible

    That doesn't make him part of this realty, just that He can act within this reality.

    So there is some observable event going on. That's my point. God is (if he exists) observable and thus subject to science.

    As you know, the hypothesis of multiple universes and/or parallel dimensions is something that is being viewed by some scientists as possible scenarios.

    What does that have to do with God?

  • Tater-T
    Tater-T

    So God created a Reality that.. can never understand him...

    Did it just work out that way or did he do it on purpose... if so why...

  • PSacramento
    PSacramento
    So there is some observable event going on. That's my point. God is (if he exists) observable and thus subject to science.

    His interactions, yes, not necessarily Him.

    What does that have to do with God?

    If there are multi-universe or multi-dimensions then they are NOT subject to OUR reality, yes?

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