WOTMQ: The Attributes of God
People don't just believe in God. They believe all kinds of things about God. How? Why? I've noted on many occasions that we literally KNOW nothing more today about God, than the shepherds in their fields 3,000 years ago. And they didn't KNOW anything either. Their words were simply canonized — taken as true, and passed down generation to generation.
People thinking they know things about the supposed Creator of the Universe is not a benign proposition — and I'll go into that in greater detail in future videos. The is just a quickey, but I think you'll enjoy it.
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Comments (5)
"... an inside look at my mid-life crisis" Brian, I think we are about the same age. I think you just stated you plan to live past 100.
Definitely! My father would have lived to 110 if he’d listened to his doctors. He was in amazing shape. I’m counting on those genes. But I picked 54 because I’ve had a couple friends go nuts at 54. So I’m nipping things at the bud.
Damn straight! Homo sapiens evolved a cerebral cortex, but only rarely uses it for true critical thinking. Instead, sheeple are content with mere superficial, easy, cliché answers. They fervently assert that Gawd exists, but can't provide any specifics about what "HE" is like. Our former cult is perhaps the most blatant example. Here is what Joseph Smith claimed in his "King Follett Sermon": "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today, and the great God who holds this world in its orbit, and who upholds all worlds and all things by his power, was to make himself visible —I say, if you were to see him today— you would see him like a man in form, like yourselves in all the person, image, and very form as a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion, image and likeness of God, and received instruction from, and walked, talked and conversed with him, as one man talks and communes with another.” What horseshit! So Elohim has fingernails? Does he need to trim them? But wait… nails are dead cells. I thought he was immortal…? I once posted a long, verbose diatribe about how stupid such an assertion is, if anyone cares to read it: http://www.casteyanqui.com/heresies/fingergod.html
I always wondered if Jesus ever tricked and scaled his knee. “Not so perfect after all” is what I would have said.
One of my favorite god properties is "God is complete in and of Himself and needs nothing" (aseity). This why He created a race of sentient beings (us) to worship Him ... wha? WTF?