The Mind of God (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Friday, November 12, 2010, 03:13 (4906 days ago) @ BBella

What occurred to me as I read the article was that this was a great image for the battle between good and evil. Of course viruses would disagree, and we all know that such terms are highly subjective, but I would use the image to criticize those theologians who insist with their interpretation of life's history that man is the origin of evil. If God exists and we are to understand how his mind works (pure speculation, of course), we can hardly ignore the fact that the live forces of destruction, like the live forces of creation and of healing, existed long before man came on the scene. If it wasn't those cold-hearted killers the carnivores, it was those vicious invaders the viruses that set God's pattern for the world.
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> I completely agree with your subjective perspective above dhw. "If" God exists we can certainly get a good idea of how his mind works by what we can see. The biblical scriptures says the same in Romans 1:20 [NKJV]: "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made..." 
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> Like with the spectrum of colors, all mathematical possibilities, the space between yin and yang, the many personalities of man, etc., everything we see, is as much variety as this world of matter has to offer. Nothing is new under the sun, only reconstituted, rehashed, recreated, retrofitted, reincarnated, decaying matter. Yet, if we look longer and deeper at what we can't see, we might catch a glimpse of the eternal vision for it all.-BBella resurrects the spectre of Process theology; God isn't present in the individual states of things, but in the process itself... God is formless because it never pauses, like an ocean without boundaries.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"