How can the definition of a god and the biblical God be even remotely compatible?
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If you read in the bible God is not even consistent with God. Genesis God walks around like a man, and has to look in the bushes to find Adam and Eve. Exodus God needs to hide in a burning bush or a pillar of smoke. Later we get a God who sees all, knows all and is everywhere at the same time. God is imaginary.
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I believe in the God of the Bible. None of your definitions encapsulated that entirely. Somewhere between 1.and 2.
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The God of the Old Testament appears to have more than one personality. The identity of God seems to vary with the author. I see religion as an evolutionary process.
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If there is anything in the universe that your god is not responsible for then he can't be god.  End of story.
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Excellent question remag. Firstly I am for the matrix indeed. Now your argument is good and I agree with it, but it is only evidence against a god such as the Christian or Muslim one (one who puts you here and makes your life difficult and wants you to obey otherwise you go to hell sort of god), however if you consider a god that is far, far (I mean really far) above such things then your argument is not so strong. Consider a god that does not interfere with anything whatsoever. I'm talking about absolute true free will and not the phony kind, know what I mean?
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You really can't.  It's a matter of faith.\n\nBut, if you wanted to try, you would have to come up with a definition of God.  Then attempt to find evidence of a being that meets your definition.\n\nEven then, most faiths have deceivers in their beliefs.  So, be careful.
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OK. I'm a pantheist. But this is just MY answer. Its what I believe, as a pantheist. The universe, everything that is, "God" if you will, is cyclical. Its a matter of the expanding and contracting universe. After its expanded to a certain point it begins to collapse back in upon itself. When it completes this collapsing, compacting process its !BANG! all over again and begins to expand once more. The cycle is never ending, repeating itself throughout eternity. So each cycle COULD be thought of as a "creation" of sorts. But that's not apt, strictly speaking. The thing, what I call Deity (because "God" is a masculine concept and just doesn't fit here, at least outside metaphysics), goes on for ever. Creation after creation, never ending. Hope this is understandable and helps. :-) ~ Peace & Blessings ~
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It's entirely possible. The bible (both OT and NT) borrow liberally from other religions and mythology.
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Not necessarily.\n\nFrom a purely philisophical point of view, we need to consider the transcendance of time that omnipotence necessarily includes. Therefore our base conceptions of how a constant state is defined are obviated. Very little headway can be made by hypothesizing what the hyperdimensional state of perfection would embody.\n\nAddressing your second question, it is also not reasonable to assume a seperation of entities amoung such a hypothetical divine family. From a mathematical (in particular set theory) point of view, all divine incarnations could conceivably be contained in the 'God' set which could deride any paradox there.\n_________________________________________\n\nTrivially, we could just define God as the union of all godsets. (okay, so this language is getting pretty weird) Perhaps the act of slaying 'bad brother godset' for "raping" the 'sister godset' is what allowed 'good brother godset' to combine like Voltron to form the 'unified godset' or whatever. The point is that when you are hypothesizing about the divine state you can't rule out the superconnectedness of all divinity, let alone the many other possible paradigms including the time-honored favorite God/Devil duality.\n\nAlso, I don't think it is just me making up the idea that an omnipotent being might transcend our concepts of time. Certianly it is common to imagine God knowing all that is, was, and ever will be. I don't know about you, but I know that if I were omnipotent I sure wouldn't operate on 'human time'.
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It is not impossible at all.\nJust ask any Christian Scientist.
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It doesn't limit God, it uses the bible as a basis to believe that God appears as the three (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) but that doesn't mean that God is limited or that He isn't everywhere.
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Exactly, ! worship the creator , not the creation.... It follows by logical necessity that if God is one, and if He is eternal, Then He does not beget , Nor is he begotten. Because if He beget, then He will have a child then the child will have to be God-like. So there will then be two Gods. Since there is only one, you cannot have two.  OR If he was begotten, that means he would have father. Then the father will be older than him, wiser than him, more eternal than him. and you cannot have one who is more eternal than ETERNAL.
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There are an infinite number of Gods. Ultimately, They all come from the same source of Divinity, as do we.
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In the infinite universe it is very very likely that the number of Gods is infinite, too. Each God must have a God superior than herself. That is all to it. Either the Gods are limitless or there is no God at all. This is logic . The rest is nothing more than rubbish thinking or "feeling" as they might call it.....
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IN THAT case we need to agree in as to what a god is to you. Here are the definitions of  God, and A god: \nA being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions.\nThe force, effect, or a manifestation or aspect of this being.\nA being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people, especially a male deity thought to control some part of nature or reality.\nAn image of a supernatural being; an idol.\nOne that is worshiped, idealized, or followed: Money was their god.\nA very handsome man.\nA powerful ruler or despot.\n   Notice that i said God and a god, ince you mentioned christianity, then we need to talk about God, because Christianity does not praise gods, But "God" .Pay attention to the 1st definition. That is the one that applies to Chritianity, because they praise it, But they do not praise satan. Satan is just something they dont want to deal with. A god is something you worship, it is not something you detest.
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In both a scientific and theological sense, God can be defined as the origin of premise, which means he/she/it is the breakdown of causeality, the effect without a preceeding cause.  This, in effect, is not a governor of rules, but the rules themselves.  By this deduction, if there are other dimentions, God must exist in them or else they would have no rules and therefore not exist.
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There's no such thing or label. Christianity and Heaven go together so its impossible. An unbeliever is an appropriate label.