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Posted: Sep 3rd, 2007 at 12:06 pm
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Do you believe in God? If you believe in a supreme being, which one is it? God (in the biblical sense)? Allah? Zeus? Perhaps the Hindu Gods? Today's religions, as well as the religions of yesteryear which some people still believe in, each contain a different interpretation of a supreme being. Do your religious beliefs dictate which supreme being you believe in? If you're an atheist or otherwise not part of a particular church, does the concept of a supreme being make any sense to you? Is there any possibility that there is a God, in whatever form?
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Posted: Sep 12th, 2007 at 05:08 am
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[This answer was ported from the Existential Questions Facebook discussion board by the Admin. The original discussion can be viewed at http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2369864301&topic=3102.]
Before I say anything I think it should be said that we could probably never prove or disprove the existance of God and there is an equal likelihood of God existing as not existing, what more IT could exist in a form we have never or could never comprehend. Many before us have tried and ended up not being able to prove anything, however they have made huge leaps and bounds in philosophy as a whole, giving us the ability to greater reason and build upon their ideas.
My idea on the subject goes way back to what i believe is called platonic forms ( cut this next bit from wikipedia to explain basically what it is) The Theory of Forms typically refers to Plato's belief that the material world as it seems to us is not the real world, but only a shadow of the real world. Plato spoke of forms (sometimes capitalized in translations: The Forms) in formulating his solution to the problem of universals. The forms, according to Plato, are roughly speaking archetypes or abstract representations of the many types and properties (that is, of universals) of things we see all around us. Eventually the idea of forms leads to one great form, or an absloute "definition" of eveything which we would simply call "God". However even Plato himself criticised this theory most notably with what would eventually be known as the third man argument.
Descartes offered the idea that a benevolent God must exist because he (god) would not want to deceive him with the sensory system he had provided him. However this argument is as shaky as the notion of a benevolent God. Even Descartes would finally admit that.
So my argument is perhaps God does exist, I cannot doubt him completely despite argumants both for and contrary. Anythin we say can be criticised and I doubt anything that could ever be said on the subject can be taken as the be all and end all on the subject matter.
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