I think a lot, all the time, about many things.
Most of them are pretty unrelated, many come and go, passing through my mind like rain through the sky.
But there are a couple of things that constantly drift into my thoughts.
Life... Death... the Universe, and God, among other things.
Recently my thoughts have meandered to the subject of god.
Now I should mention that this reflects my own personal ideas of god or anything else for that matter (which are quite muddled to say the least) they're just the ideas that I've been mulling over recently.
I wonder sometimes, what if god instead of being some ethereal super being watching over all the cosmos, knowing all, seeing all; was actually the universe itself. Much in the same way that we humans are made up of trillions of cells and even more atoms (and subatomic particles) god could be some massive organism, a sum total of all matter in the universe.
god would be all seeing all knowing, in all places at all times, as it would consist of the sum total of all knowledge in the universe. Many believe that our lives are predetermined (although I have some thoughts regarding that which are at the moment irrelevant) which would make some sense if this were the case, much in the same way that blood cells are "destined" to follow along certain paths to get to certain parts of the body, we humans may have our own predetermined route, although I'd like to think that it would be on more of a macroscopic scale such as planets (like psychohistory, in Asimov's Foundation Series) in that way the individual movements which aren't predicted doesn't necessarily impact the route life takes, the way it evolves.
Now of course this idea has some problems, like if god is all knowing why would there be things god couldn't predict, which is possible (that god would predict them) they're just unlikely in the context of my metaphor (or simile (I can never remember which is used for what)) and of course there is the age old question that plagues every attempt at answering the question of god.... the beginning, was it created? if so then what created that? and so on ad infinitum, forever and ever searching for the start, the instigator, the prime mover. What started everything? if god created the universe, then where did god come from, at what point? if the universe encompasses everything and before it was nothing, then where was god before the universe? why were we all created? the questions are numerous, with answers (or evasions) a plenty, but hardly a satisfactory (by the standards of being provable, accepted or scientifically feasible).
If god were the universe, then what would the big bang be? it's birth, or an act by god, with god having been the singularity, or whatever may have been before that. Needless to say this idea is no closer to solving the issue of god or the beginnings of the universe, but at least it's something interesting to think about.
Saturday, June 27
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I have a question- what exactly are God's characteristics? Like, is He omniscient? And if so, why would there be things He can't predict?
ReplyDeleteI didn't mean that there would be things that he can't predict (though i do have some ideas on the whole prediction/fate thing) I meant that if you took my analogy/metaphor/simile/whatever it was literally you might think that, that was what I was saying, but it's not.
ReplyDeleteIn this idea, it could go either way, god could be omniscient, or not. either god can see and know all (like the traditionally accepted belief) or it could follow my analogy of the organism, that god could in a way be like us, made up of many interdependent parts that interact and even to an extent rely on each other for survival, the big difference being that god would be much more complex (orders, upon orders of magnitudes more) and so if god were like that, like an organism, like us god may be aware of it's individual components but not to the degree of exact precision. (like we know we have a kidney or even smaller skin cells, but we don't know everything about every cell particularly the future and past.