The ontological nature of God
Peace and blessings, Your Excellency,
Beyond belief in the Father in Heaven that we pray to and believe in, when I think of God as an eternal, omnipotent being, I cannot help but ignore the fact that anger, joy, desire, long-suffering, are all emotions/states of mind that conscious beings bound to time can experience.
#If he does not experience such feelings, what does this say about the whole concept of God’s wrath, long-suffering, mercy, and the interaction of the people of Israel and God in the Bible?
#I wanted to ask what your logical answer is to the idea of a god who is not good, who is essentially not good, neutral, and even, in the other direction, evil.
#This question, in my opinion, is related to the two questions above: What is the problem with logical contradictions beyond the materialistic world?
When I imagine the metaphysical world without the material world, I can conceive of logical contradictions in my head, such as the law of identity, for example, the cat is not a cat, or the well-known example of a round triangle.
If the laws of logic are necessarily self-existent, where is God’s role in all this? This reflects a pantheistic worldview.
An amusing question just to think about things in depth, if God is one and indivisible (with the help of moral laws, laws of logic, His attributes, etc.), could it be that we (and the cosmos) are just His way of experiencing something in a different way that we don’t understand or simply experience , through us.
Thank you very much in advance 😃
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If the rabbi has nothing new to say, that's fine.
I'll still try to explain the questions.
My point is that if the - does not experience emotions, he cannot be patient, or express kindness. This goes beyond just adjectives to describe him. It has moral implications.
Regarding the question of the brother, who is good, what is the problem (logically) with God not seeking to do good, but rather the opposite, seeking to do evil, and this is the reason he created.
Last question, why must the - be bound by the laws of logic?
Thanks in advance😃.
1. Not true. Just a baseless assumption and I don't see what needs to be explained here.
2. I don't see this as a logical problem.
3. You can search the site here for several places I've discussed this.
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