many things have vague or unagreed upon definitions. Try to give a concise definiton of what existence is, or what time is, or even what love is. No easy task. Yet we all know when something exists, we all understand the passage of time, and we all recognize the power of love. We can't define these things, but they are indispensible to our whole conception of reality. I don't see why God is any different.
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Excellent points.
Yet we all know when something exists, we all understand the passage of time, and we all recognize the power of love. We can't define these things, but they are indispensible to our whole conception of reality. I don't see why God is any different.
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Well, one could argue that nothing can truly be defined to one's satisfaction without being experienced.
That being said, time, love, seem to be on a different scale then God. We can point at man and wife, woman and baby, or the clicking of a clock. We may have experienced the feeling of love and understand the general concept of time.
But, when words are used to described God - there isn't even this remote aspect of concreteness that arises when we descibe love and time. It seems that it is in an entirely different category. Which, I might add, is not a bad thing. As someone said earlier, if God could be defined then He would cease to be the God that we believe in - who by definition - is undefinable.