What is God?
>>25321982Irrelevant
>>25321982God is a concept by which we measure our pain.I'll say it again.God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
>>25321982Uncreated creator, unmoved mover, perfection, ideal, the good itself
>>25321982The sum of all consciousness in the universe.
>>25321982A term for which we use to glue other terms to. The concrete of belief.
>>25321982"God is Nothing" — Eriugena
>>25321982Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more
The concept of someone begging to be spoonfed the secrets of the universe and the most profound spiritual wisdom from genuine mental retards on an imageboard far past its prime is simply hysterical. Either look within for answers like all the sages of yore did or sod off.
>>25321982A sadist criminal
>>25321982Dog spelled backwards
me maybe
>>25321982God Is That He IsDid you even get to Exodus? It's only the second book bro. It spells it out for you "I Am That I Am"
>>25321982God is your fundamental nature. When you do self inquiry you realize you are not the individual person you take yourself to be. You are reality itself, pure self-aware being which always exists. The only reason people don’t know God and think God is something separate from themselves is because they lack self-awareness and have poor logical thinking skills.
Filler. When you don't know the answer to a question about the universe, you just say "God did it" as a stopgap until it can be properly investigated. This placates the ignorant masses by giving them an explanation that keeps existential dread at bay. "God did it. God has a plan for all of us. Continue working and reproducing."
>>25322149>you didn't read the second book in the compilation of schizophrenic scribbles bro?
>>25322149That's God's Name not what God is
>>25322220okay but why is his name that though? I need a media literate answer.
>>25322087Winrar
>>25322222>God has entered the thread
>>25321992That's just nonsense.
>>25322222Anon you've been blessed to know why. If you are Anon is it because you are anonymous to us, or is it because you are anonymous in yourself?
>>25322274I Am That I Am, Anon... nothing more, nothing less.Also, I think I'm the only person schizo enough to realize "I have no mouth and I must scream" is an allegorical critique of the biblical God.
PRIMUM MOVENS
None of your concern.
God is loveWhat is love?Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; 5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
>>25321982snek with kot head
>>25321982Everything, the totality.It's only our ego and narrow mortal perception that causes us to see people and things as distinct, unrelated, and separate.
God doesn’t exist. This is not an atheist statement.
>>25321982God is alienation. The seperation of man's principles from himself and it's imposition onto reality itself.
Every just purpose, every true beauty, every good. The antithesis of the arbitrary. The hatred of evil. The destroyer of indifference.Any theology that espouse divine command or ex nihilo creationism is a doctrine of atheism. It is an idolatry of happenstantial nihilism, a personification of the void.Monotheism is Atheism.
The concept of an entity that created the universe that in Abrahamic tradition was quite anthropomorphic until they realized how stupid that is and imported some Platonic nonsense to pretend to give it philosophical and historical weight.>God is BeingSo Being created beings? How does that work? Is Being even real? Is there really more to a thing than what it is, do we really have to posit THAT it is? Was there really Being before beings?>God is the GoodWhat reason is there to think the Good created the world? Also why would I think of bad things as privations and not as positively existent things like good things? That simply isn't true. Pain is positively felt. It's not an absence. Absence of good things can give rise to pain, but that doesn't change the fact that pain is different from the lack of something good. It's all very awkward and takes too much for granted. Why these stances exist makes perfect sense if you view it as desperate apologetics rather than actual philosophical inquiry.
>>25321982>>25321992Correct. The Triune God is the Father and The Son and The Holy Spirit reigning in eternal unity.
>>25321982The source of all being.>>25323463>quite anthropomorphic until they realized how stupid that is and imported some Platonic nonsense to pretend to give it philosophical and historical weightPersonhood is the defining feature of the Christian God to this very day. There was a great deal of neoplatonic and Aristotelian terminology imported to elaborate on that but at its core God surpasses all that.>What reason is there to think the Good created the world? >Also why would I think of bad things as privations and not as positively existent things like good things?Because any time we observe evil it can be traced back to departure from an ideal form of being. Being is inherently good. So its source is a source of good and things only become evil by straying away from this source.>Pain is positively felt. When your faculties positively depart from ideal conditions. The default state is not pain.>It's all very awkward and takes too much for granted.Perhaps. But it beats most other systems, thical monism in particular.
>>25321983Demonstrably false.
The Ultimate Reality
>>25322239How is that nonsense but the myriad of shitposts saying God is nothing, irrelevant, a "measurement of pain" are somehow coherent?
>>25322108A man cannot pour from an empty cup. Discourse is how one fills themself with wisdom.
Logos, Uncaused Cause, Ancient of Days.
>>25321992Why would an unmoved mover also be good? The "moved" thing is manifestly filled with bad, so at minimum the mover would be both good and bad. That seems pretty basic.
>>25321982This thread has demonstrated that the word "God" is objectively the worst word to ever be created. Literally every single person has a different definition, making it a useless word at conveying meaning, of linking what one speaker is thinking with what a hearer will interpret the speech as meaning. I move to strike it from language entirely.
>>25324066Gnostic heresy. Incorporation of transgression =/= totality or completion. Evil and chaos exist as a byproduct of distance from the source of order, and free will granted to the creation means that the creation is free to make mistakes out of ignorance and rebellion. The plan or will of God is to justify and order that free will through trial to make us ready for the knowledge of good and evil, and erase our personal acts of sin (chaos) for all temporal existence through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, allowing us to be with him in his kingdom and steward future creations. “Manifestly bad” is easy to observe when you have no perception of the good. Like God, men are known by their fruits. Chaos and rebellion are responsible for evil, not God. His work is to reorder the pride of the desolate one.
>>25324096The unmoved mover, by definition, must be the source of every possible thing that comes to exist. If distance exists, it's because the original mover set in motion the chain of events that brought about distance. In short, evil and chaos were baked into reality at the moment of first movement. You can't claim something is the author of all existence but then claim some bits of existence aren't his work. You contradict yourself. Also, I would never take the word of someone who admitted they would turn their back on the truth in favor of a comforting lie.
>>25322235>Uncreated creatorHow can anything not be created? How did it come into being?>unmoved moverMovement is a relative concept (which always causes difficulties for the religious.) As Einstein pointed out, there is no objective movement: you always move relative to something else. In your own frame of reference, everything else is moving relative to you: therefore, you are always moving relative to everything else.>perfectionDoesn't exist.>idealLiterally the definition of "doesn't exist.">the good itself"Good" is so subjective as to be meaningless. Your good is somebody else's evil.
>>25324143Fuck, this shitpost was purely for the benefit of: >>25323786
>>25321982existence itself but transcends existence
>>25324143>"Good" is so subjective as to be meaningless.Good is a characteristic that is inherent and intrinsic in certain experiences. You don't choose to view pleasure as good, it carries good as a trait, same goes with pain and evil. Thus, these concepts have an objective root. Just as when a person sees a color, and to them it appears blue, we can say as an objective fact that the content of their experience is that they are seeing blue. We can objectively say that a person's experience is either containing good or evil content.
