intuition
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Question: The Rabbi explains in his first book that it is rational to believe in God because of the following claims:
- Intuition is an important tool for understanding the world.
- A simple person asks himself what created the world, because every person has the principle of causality within his consciousness, even without the world.
- There are two possibilities left: 1. Infinite regression of cause and effect 2. There is a being to whom the principle of causality does not apply and we have no way of understanding him and he created everything. Therefore, the obvious conclusion is number 2, which is more logical. I understand number 1 and 2 but not number 3 because in my opinion the Rabbi assumes two extreme options while it is possible to follow the middle path, that is, on the one hand, it is an entity that is the first and from which everything begins, but it is not something living with a will, but it is nature. Nature is something very wise that has a beginning and an end, only we do not see the beginning and the end and we do not understand it because we are not yet wise enough. The main issue was regarding the giving of the Torah while the reason of the reasons of the Rabbi is a person with a will, that is, someone, and therefore he also gives the Torah. According to my method, he is something and something does not give things, at least not things that are ideas. In my opinion, this is much more logical because if we look at nature, we see nature without any will, because no palm tree can decide one day to move from neighborhood 1 to 2. So why does it come to the entire creation of the physical world? We give it a different reason. On the one hand, we have a pretty good intuition about this and also experience that the nature we see is without any will. And I must add that I also have a very strong intuition and I think that many people have it. In our tradition, God is good, the same God who created the world and brought There are people who suffer a lot there and are also a little bit good for them [physically, most of the world is like that] and not only that, but he brought them into the world without any explanation why he needs all this, he is omnipotent, and not only that, but he gave us a Torah that is very difficult to keep, which is also not clear why it should be kept, and not only that, but one of the most important things in Judaism is to surrender the soul, as the Rabbi said, waiting for it. I’m sorry, but my intuition is that if God is good, he wouldn’t do all this, it doesn’t matter if they call evil good, it will still be evil, so I’m left with two options: 1. If the tradition is true, then God is evil, 2. The tradition is not true and God is an incomprehensible nature, as above. I think option 2 is much more logical.
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