How can we hope to understand something as 'perfect' as God supposedly is?
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Understanding comes with the state itselfVoted for by Maerad.
I was thinking about this earlier: that since our dreams are only ever based on experiences we have had in 'reality' (hence how we can, hopefully, assume fairly well that life is not one big dream), our evaulation of perfection can only be based on perfection itself. Is it therefore right to assume that we can only understand God once we have achieved perfection ourselves? In this instance, is a religion that highlights this, such as the Buddhists search for Nirvana, the most worthwhile religion? I would be interested to hear your thoughts.
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Gods WordVoted for by slder4crst.
Now there is so much about the bible that I could not possibly type it all in one box. So basically I’ll just say that understanding God the way God intended us to understand him, would be gods own word, which is the best short answer I can come up with. Now I know I’m going to get allot of questions concerning the reliability of the bible or some other argument against the bible, or my faith so basically I’m not going to try and defend my response until some one else responds. so have a blast.
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Depends on your definition of perfectWhat does perfect mean? Without flaw? What is a flaw? Omniponent, omnipresent, omniscient? Never making a mistake? What is a mistake? If God exist, God is definitely not perfect by any definition or else there would be no pain and suffering of innocent people, and we know there is an over-abundance of that in ages past and in the current age, and in ages to come. Then, you say, "well, there is some over-arching reason for all this pain and suffering." That's a cop-out for sure. What God in his right mind or "heart" would sacrifice millions of innocent children for some weird over-arching purpose? This does not make sense; therefore, God either does not exist, or God doesn't care about humans, or God cares, but can't do anything about it, thus "He" is not all-powerful; or, God doesn't know about it, thus, "He" is not omniscient, and so on. Pain and suffering of innocent people is a real problem for the argument that a caring God exists.Voted for by nathanprophet.


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April 2, 2006
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Hmmm...
In order to run with your line of thinking, we would have to assume that your statement: "...dreams are only ever based on experiences we have had in reality..." is true, and I can't do that. I like the questions posed, but the opening statement is faulty. I have extremely vivid dreams about people/places/things that I've never met/seen/or heard of in my waking time. Based on personal experience then, I have nothing to compare perfection to. Waxing philosophical aside, the most worthwhile religion would be the one that best suits the person. If a person is looking for an eventual state of Nirvana, being a buddhist would make the most sense.Please register or login to comment! It's fast and totally free!