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Asked by Hodur - 03/10/10 at 05:10 pmCan we really believe in a perfect God? How could a perfect deity (which is only act due to its perfection) create something below its possibilities? That would imply change, which implies possibility which is not taken into consideration when talking about “all-act”. I feel there’s something wrong with the notion of a perfect deity.
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October 8th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Can we really believe in a God, or were Gods just a way of trying to explain all that was before we became educated by science?
October 8th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Good point. I guess the question is inconsistent from a certain perspective, yet I do not feel God is an obsolete thought. It stands to the individual to choose between being an atheist, an agnostic, or a theist. In my opinion, science has become a new kind of deity, an old god with an opaque layer of reason on its top. It may have opened our eyes, but it shut our ears.
May 16th, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Hodur, your consideration is absolutely sound. Your really same concern has been around from a couple millenniums now. Parmenides and Plotinus had been maybe the first thinkers to face it.