Why God cannot be understood totally by us?
Why God cannot be understood totally by us?
I said, "A rose is a rose is a rose," which means it would smell as sweet no matter what name you use to call it by.
Where are the words? In the air? But where?
Similarly where is the sound? Can you see it? No.
Where is the magnetism, heat, cold, electromagnetism, feeling, understanding, thinking etc? We cannot actually see all that, it is not visible.
So there is something in this world, a property that we simply cannot understand.
That property can help explain God fully but our minds cannot comprehend that property. Why?
Because we are the physical according to our spirit, and so have limitations. We are visible, God is not.
The spirit in us is God, boundless. Which would be why we can think, feel, understand etc. - and no limits.
Physical understands physical.
Spiritual understands spirit and physical because spirit is all powerful God.
We are somewhat spirit too, and so we ponder about God.
God understands us fully, we don't understand God fully.
God is all knowing, "Omniscient." We are not.
Where are the words? In the air? But where?
Similarly where is the sound? Can you see it? No.
Where is the magnetism, heat, cold, electromagnetism, feeling, understanding, thinking etc? We cannot actually see all that, it is not visible.
So there is something in this world, a property that we simply cannot understand.
That property can help explain God fully but our minds cannot comprehend that property. Why?
Because we are the physical according to our spirit, and so have limitations. We are visible, God is not.
The spirit in us is God, boundless. Which would be why we can think, feel, understand etc. - and no limits.
Physical understands physical.
Spiritual understands spirit and physical because spirit is all powerful God.
We are somewhat spirit too, and so we ponder about God.
God understands us fully, we don't understand God fully.
God is all knowing, "Omniscient." We are not.
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If we are visible, and God is not, then God cannot be in his creation. In something implies separation. There is no thing in no thing.Beauty wrote:I said, "A rose is a rose is a rose," which means it would smell as sweet no matter what name you use to call it by.
Where are the words? In the air? But where?
Similarly where is the sound? Can you see it? No.
Where is the magnetism, heat, cold, electromagnetism, feeling, understanding, thinking etc? We cannot actually see all that, it is not visible.
So there is something in this world, a property that we simply cannot understand.
That property can help explain God fully but our minds cannot comprehend that property. Why?
Because we are the physical according to our spirit, and so have limitations. We are visible, God is not.
The spirit in us is God, boundless. Which would be why we can think, feel, understand etc. - and no limits.
Physical understands physical.
Spiritual understands spirit and physical because spirit is all powerful God.
We are somewhat spirit too, and so we ponder about God.
God understands us fully, we don't understand God fully.
God is all knowing, "Omniscient." We are not.
No ''thing'' known has ever been seen.
There's only 'no thing' seeing/knowing.
Neither in nor out, ...for where is in /out but here now....here is undivided wholeness. Always this NOWHERE.
In saying there is no 'thing', the 'thing' that is negated is known.
Apart from the 'things' known, there is no 'thing'.
The 'thing' that is known, is not what thought thinks it is.
Why God cannot be understood totally by us? is because there is no us, this is not known by a someone, it is the knowing, we are that knowing.
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Re: Why God cannot be understood totally by us?
If I can't fully understand the OP, how the hell do you expect me to understand God?Beauty wrote:I said, "A rose is a rose is a rose," which means it would smell as sweet no matter what name you use to call it by.
Where are the words? In the air? But where?
Similarly where is the sound? Can you see it? No.
Where is the magnetism, heat, cold, electromagnetism, feeling, understanding, thinking etc? We cannot actually see all that, it is not visible.
So there is something in this world, a property that we simply cannot understand.
That property can help explain God fully but our minds cannot comprehend that property. Why?
Because we are the physical according to our spirit, and so have limitations. We are visible, God is not.
The spirit in us is God, boundless. Which would be why we can think, feel, understand etc. - and no limits.
Physical understands physical.
Spiritual understands spirit and physical because spirit is all powerful God.
We are somewhat spirit too, and so we ponder about God.
God understands us fully, we don't understand God fully.
God is all knowing, "Omniscient." We are not.
PhilX
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It doesn't leave much to discuss, but I like the OP.
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Thank you!Reflex wrote:It doesn't leave much to discuss, but I like the OP.
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Actually God would still be God, totally understood or not, for he is not defined by us understanding him or not.wtf wrote:The God that can be totally understood is not the God.
-- The Tao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao
We being lower deities, would not be we, if we could understand God. Not that we would be like God or God if we could understand him. No, we just cannot understand him, us being lower minds than him.
So it is not a matter of can we or not understand God.
Being lower deities we just cannot understand God fully, we can only understand somewhat, up to our lower mind's potential.
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Do you understand you?Philosophy Explorer wrote:If I can't fully understand the OP, how the hell do you expect me to understand God?Beauty wrote:I said, "A rose is a rose is a rose," which means it would smell as sweet no matter what name you use to call it by.
Where are the words? In the air? But where?
Similarly where is the sound? Can you see it? No.
Where is the magnetism, heat, cold, electromagnetism, feeling, understanding, thinking etc? We cannot actually see all that, it is not visible.
So there is something in this world, a property that we simply cannot understand.
That property can help explain God fully but our minds cannot comprehend that property. Why?
Because we are the physical according to our spirit, and so have limitations. We are visible, God is not.
The spirit in us is God, boundless. Which would be why we can think, feel, understand etc. - and no limits.
Physical understands physical.
Spiritual understands spirit and physical because spirit is all powerful God.
We are somewhat spirit too, and so we ponder about God.
God understands us fully, we don't understand God fully.
God is all knowing, "Omniscient." We are not.
PhilX
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Re: Why God cannot be understood totally by us?
How does that relate to the OP?Dontaskme wrote:Do you understand you?Philosophy Explorer wrote:If I can't fully understand the OP, how the hell do you expect me to understand God?Beauty wrote:I said, "A rose is a rose is a rose," which means it would smell as sweet no matter what name you use to call it by.
Where are the words? In the air? But where?
Similarly where is the sound? Can you see it? No.
Where is the magnetism, heat, cold, electromagnetism, feeling, understanding, thinking etc? We cannot actually see all that, it is not visible.
So there is something in this world, a property that we simply cannot understand.
That property can help explain God fully but our minds cannot comprehend that property. Why?
Because we are the physical according to our spirit, and so have limitations. We are visible, God is not.
The spirit in us is God, boundless. Which would be why we can think, feel, understand etc. - and no limits.
Physical understands physical.
Spiritual understands spirit and physical because spirit is all powerful God.
We are somewhat spirit too, and so we ponder about God.
God understands us fully, we don't understand God fully.
God is all knowing, "Omniscient." We are not.
PhilX
PhilX
Re: Why God cannot be understood totally by us?
Who's the who who is trying to understand what it cannot understand? Do you understand that you?Philosophy Explorer wrote:How does that relate to the OP?Dontaskme wrote:Do you understand you?Philosophy Explorer wrote:
If I can't fully understand the OP, how the hell do you expect me to understand God?
PhilX
PhilX
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Re: Why God cannot be understood totally by us?
Same question.Dontaskme wrote:Who's the who who is trying to understand what it cannot understand? Do you understand that you?Philosophy Explorer wrote:How does that relate to the OP?Dontaskme wrote:
Do you understand you?
PhilX
PhilX
Re: Why God cannot be understood totally by us?
Philosophy Explorer wrote:Same question.Dontaskme wrote:Who's the who who is trying to understand what it cannot understand? Do you understand that you?Philosophy Explorer wrote:
How does that relate to the OP?
PhilX
PhilX
What is it you want to understand. ?
Does the you in you need to understand itself in order to be you, or is it just being you effortlessly right now...perfectly you, all present and correct?
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LOL! It doesn't, but it's a great question for anybody.Philosophy Explorer wrote:How does that relate to the OP?Dontaskme wrote:Do you understand you?Philosophy Explorer wrote:
If I can't fully understand the OP, how the hell do you expect me to understand God?
PhilX
PhilX
Another good question is, "Who are you before thoughts enter into the mind?"
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Re: Why God cannot be understood totally by us?
God is a human conceptual invention. Since there are many people, there are many separate inventions. Since God explains nothing, the definitions are stretched beyond reason, confused and incompatible one with the other.Beauty wrote:I said, "A rose is a rose is a rose," which means it would smell as sweet no matter what name you use to call it by.
Where are the words? In the air? But where?.
Why would such a state of affairs offer coherence?
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Yeah I like that one too. It's like there are two you's.Reflex wrote:
Another good question is, "Who are you before thoughts enter into the mind?"
There's the you that's prior to thought. and there's the you that is thought. You that's prior to thought has to be in order for thought to appear. But the prior you doesn't know it's you until the thought you appears. So the prior you that is prior to you is in fact the only you there is because the thought is appearing in you.
Doh!!