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Do you think it's realistic to believe in something without direct evidence for it being true?
Would you accept *as truth* that of all our discussions together about the creator, that this whole time, I am the creator testing your faith in me. Perhaps I have plans for you, plans you can't even begin to imagine or comprehend until you're ready.
No. I'm simply sure it must be the case.
It would be blasphemy, or the truth and I must admit, I would be vulnerable in my hopes.
Would you require evidence of anyone who walks up to you and exclaims to be your God? Would you even know God if he was right in front of you?
Originally posted by kaleshchand
I wanted to post this for some time, but did not, however now I have to, as I was asked for my proof by some people on this forum. I thank those people for asking me for proof as that gave me the push to post this thread.
When reading this thread please keep an open mind but not so open your brain falls out. The scientific group will (in my opinion) be able to see where I am going with this thread. But T think I need to be ready to be flamed by the religious group.
I will not post any links in this post, because everything I state will be well known scientific facts.
So now I will get to the meat of the matter.
Definition of God
Lets face it, we cant prove/disprove something that has an unlimited number of definitions. So for this thread God will be defined by "generally accepted" qualities of God. So what are the qualities of God?
- God has no beginning or end. (i.e. God was never "born" and can never die)
- God is everywhere.
- God is all powerful.
- God is all knowing.
So we are looking for "someone" or "something" with those qualities.
The first quality. "God has no beginning or end." Think people, the first law of thermodynamics. "Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only change forms." So we can say that God is energy. Since God cannot be created nor destroyed, and neither can energy.
But it gets better. E=MC^2 that means that all mass is Energy, and what comprises ALL mass and energy? The universe (or muliverse, once proven) of course. The universe comprises of all mass and energy there is and mass is energy and energy is God, so it follows that the universe is God.
To simplify God is all matter and energy that there is. From now on I will use the word universe to describe all matter and energy that there is.
The second quality. God is everywhere. The universe is everywhere, God is everywhere, simple.
The third quality. God is all powerful. What is more powerful than the universe? nothing, because the universe compromises of everything. So universe is all powerful. and so is God.
The fourth quality. God is all knowing. Since the universe is "everything" it will mean that only the universe can know about everything, thus it is all knowing, and so is God.
Conclusion, the Universe is God, where universe is defined as "All matter and energy that there is". This definition is here for future proofing, so that it will automatically include multiverses, parallel universes, or any other universes that are discovered.
All things scientifically unexplained is God
Originally posted by kaleshchand
I wanted to post this for some time, but did not, however now I have to, as I was asked for my proof by some people on this forum. I thank those people for asking me for proof as that gave me the push to post this thread.
When reading this thread please keep an open mind but not so open your brain falls out. The scientific group will (in my opinion) be able to see where I am going with this thread. But T think I need to be ready to be flamed by the religious group.
I will not post any links in this post, because everything I state will be well known scientific facts.
So now I will get to the meat of the matter.
Definition of God
Lets face it, we cant prove/disprove something that has an unlimited number of definitions. So for this thread God will be defined by "generally accepted" qualities of God. So what are the qualities of God?
- God has no beginning or end. (i.e. God was never "born" and can never die)
- God is everywhere.
- God is all powerful.
- God is all knowing.
So we are looking for "someone" or "something" with those qualities.
The first quality. "God has no beginning or end." Think people, the first law of thermodynamics. "Energy can be neither created nor destroyed. It can only change forms." So we can say that God is energy. Since God cannot be created nor destroyed, and neither can energy.
But it gets better. E=MC^2 that means that all mass is Energy, and what comprises ALL mass and energy? The universe (or muliverse, once proven) of course. The universe comprises of all mass and energy there is and mass is energy and energy is God, so it follows that the universe is God.
To simplify God is all matter and energy that there is. From now on I will use the word universe to describe all matter and energy that there is.
The second quality. God is everywhere. The universe is everywhere, God is everywhere, simple.
The third quality. God is all powerful. What is more powerful than the universe? nothing, because the universe compromises of everything. So universe is all powerful. and so is God.
The fourth quality. God is all knowing. Since the universe is "everything" it will mean that only the universe can know about everything, thus it is all knowing, and so is God.
Conclusion, the Universe is God, where universe is defined as "All matter and energy that there is". This definition is here for future proofing, so that it will automatically include multiverses, parallel universes, or any other universes that are discovered.
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
The rule of good and evil, what may be called the rule of reciprocity or solidarity, cannot be applied to a man's to personal conduct towards himself. Does he find, in natural law, the rule of that conduct, and a safe guide?
"When you eat too much, it hurts you. God gives you, in the discomfort thus produced, the measure of what is necessary for you. When you exceed that measure, you are punished. It is the same with everything else. Natural law traces out for each man the limit of his needs; when he oversteps that limit he is punished by the suffering thus caused. If men gave heed, in all things, to the voice which says to them 'enough!' they would avoid the greater part of the ills of which they accuse nature."
Why does evil exist in the nature of things? I speak of moral evil. Could not God have created the human race in more favorable conditions?
"We have already told you that spirits are created simple and ignorant. God leaves man free to choose his road; so much the worse for him if he takes the wrong one; his pilgrimage will be all the longer. If there were no mountains, man could not comprehend the possibility of ascending and descending; if there were no rocks, he could not understand that there are such things as hard bodies. It is necessary for the spirit to acquire experience; and, to that end, he must know both good and evil. It is for this purpose that souls are united to bodies."edit on 2-10-2011 by Shadow Herder because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Shadow Herder
It was and disprove it.
Read, entertain the ideas. Dismissing will be your loss and to the ones around you.
Originally posted by vedatruth
reply to post by Tetrarch42
a. God is all powerful - TRUE
b. Evil exists - TRUE
c. God wants to eliminate evil - FALSE
Why (c) is false? Because God has given freedom of action to humans (souls when they take human body).
Why is it so? Because God wanted to give an opportunity to the soul to cleanse itself of all the sins that the soul did in previous lives.
The freedom of action cuts both ways - a soul can become pious, or evil depending upons what it loves - God or material wealth. Each soul has to choose between these two.
Evil becomes wealthy - by stealing from others. It is a fact of life. God says - do not steal.
So a wealthy man is rarely close to God.
Veda says to Brahmin and the King - live like ascetics. Do not get corrupted by wealth.