Q&A: A Few Questions About God
A Few Questions About God
Question
Question 1:
Do we have any reason to be impressed by God?
After all, He has infinite knowledge and almost unlimited abilities.
It could be that any one of us, with access to those abilities, would act the way God acts.
So what exactly impresses us about God’s actions?
Question 2:
According to the idea that God created a world in order to perfect Himself (because the perfect cannot become perfected),
what exactly is God’s motive for wanting to be the ultimate perfection? Suppose He were simply perfect and not becoming perfected—who would that bother? Why would God care about His titles if He is the only thing that exists?
Question 3:
Could it be that God’s actions are deterministic,
meaning that any one of us, if we were given God’s abilities, would act as He does? (This connects to the first question—what is impressive about His actions if everything He does is a necessity of reality?)
Question 4:
If God is an intelligent entity, does He have the ability to be grateful for the fact that He is God, to recognize the fact that He is this kind of entity and not another? And if so, whom would He need to thank for that being reality?
Answer
It’s hard to discuss these kinds of hair-splitting speculations.
A. Who asked you to be impressed?
B. Anyone who was God would be God and not himself. If I were you, I would act like you. Does that mean I act like you? You act like you.
C. I don’t see any issue of motives here. His perfection includes self-perfection.
D. I suggest asking Him. I hope He understands the question.
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