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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Greg or e who wrote (19013)12/22/2004 7:51:45 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
"Something from nothing is your shtick"

You are entirely mistaken. The root of all logic and reason is the axiom that something and nothing cannot contain one another. A thing cannot be a " no thing", and a "no thing" cannot be a thing. If there every was such that was a "no thing" then we define God's existence as enclosing and including that "no thing". If there has never been a "no thing" except conceptually--or except as a part of God, then God either had no priority over it or God included it. In any case, it is a fundamental law that existence does not spring from "no thing", but just is.

Nobody has ever been able to make a thing become a "no thing". You can put the entire universe in a blender and frappe it but it will still be there. Nobody has ever created any thing out of "no thing". Until it becomes sensible to speak of such a matter, it is feckless to even discuss a "God" who created some thing from no thing.

"How does something "evolve" from nothing?"

It doesn't. The logic of all existence begins with the axiom that only that which exists, exists--and if there is anything that does not exist...it has yet to be discovered. There is no single place in the universe you can take me where you can point to a solitary pinpoint of a thing and truly state: "this pinpoint of a thing is a "no thing". It does not exist". Because if it did not exist, then it would not be there and you could not point at it. But there is always some thing every where. Space exists regardless of the forms of energy and matter it contains (or perhaps is)--otherwise I could simply step on to the moon from my living room. Try it, yourself. You can't do it.

Therefore, if God WAS Every Thing...then Every Thing WAS God--and still IS.

All the myriad "Gods" are just selfish fantasies from selfish people. The real God is LIFE. No--more than that...the real God is EVERY THING.
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