kosta50 wrote:
“Why don’t you just ask me? For starters, tell me what is God. You are delving into the Bible, and that is one of the last chapters to be addressed.”
My dear kosta50, why is it one of the last chapters to be addressed? You seem to think that there is only one way to go about this ... your way. If you want to set aside the Bible and just exchange ideas about God, as best He/She/It/They can be understood from nature, for that is all we would be doing, then all religions are equal and we are all blind squirrels rooting around for what we hope will turn out to be a nut. What we will end up with is a religion of many gods, one set for this group and another for that, a god for the tastes and predilections of this individual and another for that one’s. The world has already been there and done that.
Or you can go the impersonal, big-bang-capable force out there somewhere that seems to be the hope of the modern scientifically minded group. The advantage in this belief is that this god doesn’t demand much ... on the other hand he/she/it/they doesn’t give much either. He/she/it/they is as dark, cold, and impersonal as outer space itself. We are there right now. I don’t see much benefit to humanity at present, and the returns are rapidly diminishing.
Or you can appoint man his own god, which has been tried at various times. However, man is the most implacably cruel god of all, even to the point of being utterly predictable in his unpredictability. One would think that after the bloody and horrible 20th century, when we had the purest and more thorough set of experiments with this god, that we would abandon him altogether, but it seems that we are always primed for an encore. Such is the human condition.
Or one can delve into the one concept of God that offers both an explanation for evil and a solution. So, there you are. There is my definition of the what of God for you. God is the Explainer of evil and its Resolution.
So it’s your way or no way? I had a feeling that was the case.