Origin of God? (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Monday, April 25, 2016, 15:01 (3133 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: The subject we started with on this thread was concepts of God. This branched out into origins when you raised the subject of why so many societies believe in a form of deity. For some reason, the thread then went back to concepts of God, and you brought in Armstrong's views, and the OT, NT and Koran. You have now switched from concepts of God to your reasons for believing that God exists. I hate to say it, but you have lost the thread.-I think your conception of a lost thread is a realization that there can be no thread that brings a conclusion. God is concealed. God requires faith. God is a solution to 'why is there anything?'. God is the center of religions which Armstrong thinks are beneficial to orderly societies. God provides the mind to supply all the planning for the complexities for fine-tuning the universe, and then planning the overwhelming complexity of the biochemistry of living matter. The Koran says look at His works: my sentence about the f-t universe and complex biochemistry does just that. It is a hodge-podge of thought that brings an overwhelming impression to me. Your mind does not work that way, part of our disconnect. You like exactitude. You say you accept how complex things are, but I don't think you see the complexity in the way I do, because I know how hard it is to create the organic processes in the practice of biochemistry. I admit I'm fuzzy thinking. So this is not criticism but an attempt at analysis of our disconnect. But let's not start a thread of self-analysis.