Maybe bruh.

Well, at least to me, calling everything/nature 'God' is a sort of misnomer, because god's connotation comprehends all sorts of things like supernaturalism, sentience, otherworldiness, personality, justice, etc., whereas nature holds none of those connotations. And in the major religions this is the connotation that 'god' holds. Nature seems to be humble and normative in its meaning, whereas calling it God is putting nature on a pedestal as well as simply distorting the nature of 'nature'.

This post was edited by AEtheric on Jan 22 2011 05:44pm

I notice you said "God" (singular) for Catholic, and "Gods" for Odinism (plural).....another question I was wondering...

Is there only One God? If so what would be the point of that? Is this God immune to feeling? Does 'it' (it because i refrain from 'him' or 'her') feel loneliness? An eternity of nothingness....why create man then? It just seems so arbitrary....What would God spend its time doing? It knows all, is all powerful....why create something so imperfect?

god is omnipresent. you may interpret it many locations as separate entities. or as a part of a whole.

imo

/e i agree with questioning why god would create man. doesn't make sense to me. although there's no way we could ever try and "think" like a god would.

This post was edited by zeratul87 on Jan 22 2011 05:43pm

Catholics, like the rest of the JCI trio believe in one omnipotent god. Odinists, like myself, Believe in many gods(not really that many), such as Thor and Odin. The JCI trio God is "loving", "hateful", "jealous" and alot more emotions. He made man cause he made others, IDK, he was just fucking around or some shit. Never gave a reason to why he started doing it all.

If God created man, then by extension, we are a part of God....how can we be certain that we have not inherited God's powers? "And God said let there be light, and the universe was created" (probably a misquote but whatev). We have created light, we have created life (Genetic splicing). We can kill and are even now playing around with powers that could potentially create a black hole (that giant tube underground in switzerland - the particle smasher or somethn...cant remember the name).

How do we know we are not Gods? What if one day we created life on a distant world and then never returned....would they pray to us?

Why don't you respond to me?

Just because you are part of someone doesn't make you 100% them. I'm part of both of my parents, but I am not 100% either of them.

i'm not certain that we have not. when the very observation affects subatomic matter that tells me that we have some kind of innate ability beyond our own understanding. even more impressive these affects traverse space faster than the speed of light which is physically impossible.



the more you post the more i see a potentially intelligent individual being swept up in heritage. who gives a fuck where your from. you're really gonna believe in odin and thor just because some of your relatives did? at what point in your life to you plan on formulating an original thought?

God isn't a force somewhere distant in the universe. God is not the universe itself either.

If you're speaking of Yahweh, the God of the bible, that is... He's a person.

This post was edited by Torm1 on Jan 22 2011 05:55pm