Does God Have a Nature? | Episode 810 | Closer To Truth

What does it mean for God to have a "nature"? Will contradictions emerge that deny God? Or can we know even a little of what such an incredible Being might be like? Featuring interviews with Brian Leftow, Keith Ward, Bede Rundle, David Shatz, and Alvin Plantinga.
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  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86023 жыл бұрын

    God is divine being. Being, that God is life; divine, that God is goodness. God's attributes grow out of his nature as divine being.

  • @danielalexander799
    @danielalexander7993 жыл бұрын

    Good question, but you need to recognize that not only is the answer to this question unknown, but more importantly, it is unknowable.

  • @kazilziya830
    @kazilziya8303 жыл бұрын

    As we get older or are faced with terminal illness , all these questions forces us to look into the face of the otherside.

  • @tomashull9805

    @tomashull9805

    3 жыл бұрын

    What would you do, if you were God, with people, like materialists, who often deliberately refused "to face the othereside" throughout their lives?

  • @Ploskkky

    @Ploskkky

    3 жыл бұрын

    The other side is faceless, because it does not exist. @Thomas Hull. If I were god I would stop being a dishonest dick and quit playing hide and seek, and finally be an honest interlocutor by showing everybody that I exist.

  • @ingenuity168

    @ingenuity168

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Ploskkky Absolutely. God doesn't exist. So the dicks are the people who invented God.

  • @AdvocateSpirit

    @AdvocateSpirit

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Ploskkky Is there something good about being honest? Is hide and seek inherently evil? Must he show you that he exists. What about your knowledge is so important that it be full that He needs to do it?

  • @ezbody

    @ezbody

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AdvocateSpirit Aren't you clever. Does it matter that Trump is a liar and a narcissist? Apparently not, because, whether excusing God or excusing Trump, the mindset is exactly the same -- it's all about worshipping the authority, whatever it may be at the moment.

  • @irfanmehmud63
    @irfanmehmud633 жыл бұрын

    "What's driving my desire to know or even care (about God)?... misdirected evolutionary psychology? .... or sensing actual transcendence?... how else to approach God?"

  • @cibriis1710

    @cibriis1710

    Жыл бұрын

    Beauty ?

  • @callistomoon461
    @callistomoon4613 жыл бұрын

    Delightful, thank you!

  • @rudy8278
    @rudy82783 жыл бұрын

    Based on the pure act of existence-that I am, that you are, that anything is-I resolve to Pantheism. In that sense, then, God is nature, or the inverse is or more true, nature is known by us as God. By knowing our own act of being, we know Being. We are of It and cannot be separate from this primal act “to be.” Our personal contingency to be is based not only on our birthing-a cosmically profound act-but also upon every breath, drink and repast. Let us not worship, rather, let us celebrate! To your health!

  • @danielpaulson8838

    @danielpaulson8838

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agreed. God is the sum of all existence, and that includes us. The image of a gray haired man sitting at the pearly gates while jotting notes about who has been naughty or nice is a rather infantile view. Or is Santa in which case, I'm on board.

  • @cibriis1710

    @cibriis1710

    Жыл бұрын

    The problem with modern pantheism is that it's so tied to current-naturalistic thinking that it's become just another atheism. It can be salvaged, maybe through panentheism, or just ontology.

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86023 жыл бұрын

    God's simplicity is that his nature does not change in his attributes and in his creation.

  • @yeungkc5847
    @yeungkc58472 жыл бұрын

    Professor London's response is the most sensible ever found on KZread. It is sufficient to say God is the Creator having obvious attributes, what goes further is simply eloquent verbosity.

  • @mojo9291
    @mojo92913 жыл бұрын

    Haven't watched the video yet, but this is probably the best, most precise, and most profound question that could possibly be asked about God.

  • @bazstrutt8247

    @bazstrutt8247

    3 жыл бұрын

    Err... It doesn’t exist....

  • @waerlogauk

    @waerlogauk

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@bazstrutt8247 not existing is the nature of God

  • @TomAnderson_81

    @TomAnderson_81

    3 жыл бұрын

    Which god Chris?

  • @hazaraudi7488

    @hazaraudi7488

    Жыл бұрын

    What is the point of the question though when no one has the answer!

  • @johnmartin7346
    @johnmartin73463 жыл бұрын

    No one can claim to have answers about God, about all matters because we are only human!

  • @johnmartin7346

    @johnmartin7346

    3 жыл бұрын

    How will we find health wonderful if we haven't been through the disease? How would we find endless happiness and eternity wonderful, if we had not been through the hardships of mortality?

  • @xspotbox4400

    @xspotbox4400

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johnmartin7346 Well, if we can find good only if we experience immense evil and suffering first, perhaps we shouldn't care about this things. Or just water things down a bit, a little suffering for a little pleasure would be acceptable compromise.

  • @johnmartin7346

    @johnmartin7346

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@xspotbox4400 I am not someone to accept compromises ! Heaven is the target! (anything else would not make sense to me).

  • @johnmartin7346

    @johnmartin7346

    3 жыл бұрын

    @D L Luke I don´t see your point.

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    John Martin If we need pain to find happiness then we need to feel pain every so often to no forget. Eternal happiness in heaven would be meaningless without remembering pain. Perhaps those in heaven are sent to spend some time in hell to remind them how good they have it in heaven.

  • @LawrenceMeisel
    @LawrenceMeisel3 жыл бұрын

    Please do a program on Process Theology.

  • @andrewa3103
    @andrewa31033 ай бұрын

    I know about God a lot. I may write some of them when I have chance. Metaphysician philosopher

  • @tomlee2651
    @tomlee26513 жыл бұрын

    If God/gods exist... Well, if God/gods exist, then we wouldn't be here having this discussion/debate about whether they exist or not.

  • @bjm6275
    @bjm62752 жыл бұрын

    God has divine nature, superior nature. God is supernatural. For God is a Spirit, a living force with a body of divine, superior and supernatural forces and energy. Humans exemplify the nature of God in a physical way.

  • @AMADORJRVecina

    @AMADORJRVecina

    8 ай бұрын

    Romans 1 : 20

  • @credterfe
    @credterfe2 жыл бұрын

    The basic nature of God is that He has a mind, mental powers, intellect. God is an expert in logical thinking that all logicians should look up to. People who are thinking about heavenly issues have been given some of His nature.

  • @bipolarbear9917
    @bipolarbear99173 жыл бұрын

    'Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?' - Epicurus

  • @suatustel746

    @suatustel746

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nothing new under the sun!

  • @joshheter1517

    @joshheter1517

    3 жыл бұрын

    Are you going to copy and paste this in almost every comments section on this channel?

  • @bipolarbear9917

    @bipolarbear9917

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@joshheter1517 Yeah!

  • @lucianmaximus4741
    @lucianmaximus47413 жыл бұрын

    Kudos -- 444 Gematria -- 🗽

  • @seeloonchai9908
    @seeloonchai99083 жыл бұрын

    God said be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Several chapters down the road in Genesis God selected a special family and destroy the rest of humanity. Is that the nature of God?

  • @gr33nDestiny
    @gr33nDestiny3 жыл бұрын

    I get scared sometimes as if I turned out as a number in this horizon and there are infinite, infinity’s that turn out in reality (even only counting the possible ones) means it may actually be up to nature deciding where I become conscious, if again... actually not too scared lol

  • @doring4579
    @doring4579 Жыл бұрын

  • @josephturner4047
    @josephturner40473 жыл бұрын

    God isn't a personality. God is us.

  • @barnabyrt1012
    @barnabyrt1012 Жыл бұрын

    19:39 it's a difference in kind, not degree.

  • @douglasparise3986
    @douglasparise39863 жыл бұрын

    The old epicurean quote regarding evil

  • @joshheter1517

    @joshheter1517

    3 жыл бұрын

    Douglas Parise What about it?

  • @douglasparise3986

    @douglasparise3986

    3 жыл бұрын

    Look it up.he said if God was omnipotent then he could eliminate evil,/ suffering, but doesn't. Then, if it persists, he is either unwilling or unable to end it. Henceforth he is either apathetic or not omnipotent. According to our old friend Epicurus

  • @joshheter1517

    @joshheter1517

    3 жыл бұрын

    Douglas Parise I’m aware of the quote you mentioned. I’m also aware of the many, many replies it has received by professional philosophers. Even a number of staunchly atheist philosophers will tell you, hardly anyone takes the *deductive* problem of evil seriously anymore. The quote you mentioned from Epicurus is an expression of the (now largely dismissed) *deductive* problem of evil.

  • @MBarberfan4life
    @MBarberfan4life Жыл бұрын

    Plantinga (and others) continue to attack strawmen in this debate. The proponent of "the" doctrine of divine simplicity could certainly say that God 'has' a nature, precisely because God IS his nature!

  • @profile_01
    @profile_01 Жыл бұрын

    Physicist's speak of the 4 Fundamental Forces of Nature, but what about the 'force' of Causality that underpins them all ? Perhaps 'God' *is* the principle of Cause & Effect itself.

  • @smartrecords4881
    @smartrecords48813 жыл бұрын

    God is spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth.

  • @jaymz1999

    @jaymz1999

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bryan Lawrence How do you know that?

  • @smartrecords4881

    @smartrecords4881

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jaymz1999 It's from the holy bible. Read it urself.

  • @jaymz1999

    @jaymz1999

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bryan Lawrence I did. Are you telling me you read it and took it seriously?

  • @andrebrown8969

    @andrebrown8969

    3 жыл бұрын

    How do you do that?

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    3 жыл бұрын

    Truth from a lie ? That's hilarious.

  • @ebervaldizon2211
    @ebervaldizon22118 ай бұрын

    To talk about the nature of a absolute, is to not say anything at all.

  • @kameelffarag
    @kameelffarag3 жыл бұрын

    God, he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen. - 1 Timothy 6:15-16

  • @jaymz1999

    @jaymz1999

    3 жыл бұрын

    Kameel Farag Why are you citing fables? What do expect to accomplish?

  • @kameelffarag

    @kameelffarag

    3 жыл бұрын

    jaymz1999 Sorry that such a reasonable statement seems to you as fable. It is neither a story, nor a proverb. I never asked you to believe in it . It would not hurt anybody, and will not be an obstacle for your life if you do acknowledge it’s validity or not.

  • @kameelffarag

    @kameelffarag

    3 жыл бұрын

    D L Luke But you see I did not give a name to the person I acknowledge. Only his nature.

  • @kameelffarag

    @kameelffarag

    3 жыл бұрын

    D L Luke Don’t be surprised, my explanation is so simple. Jesus denied Moses, and so Paul. But truth about God can be found even in the OT with all it’s stupid fables. I learn from human culture and myth , even from Indian Brahmans( sounding like Abraham). Thank you for you kind inquiry, you are a sensible person.

  • @willyh.r.1216
    @willyh.r.12163 жыл бұрын

    God = The Nature.

  • @WoolleyWoolf
    @WoolleyWoolf2 жыл бұрын

    What’s up with the subtitles? They’ve overlapped and merged like a simple entity from their parts.

  • @5barkerstreet
    @5barkerstreet Жыл бұрын

    God is the truth in our lives. There is a good chance he's Alien .

  • @Bucjones
    @Bucjones3 жыл бұрын

    We are what God is.

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Steven Watson Then God is very flawed and weak.

  • @Bucjones

    @Bucjones

    3 жыл бұрын

    Only if you think so. We haven’t realized our full potential in any way. We still think we need a spaceship to reach Mars.

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Steven Watson You think we can just teleport to Mars?

  • @Bucjones

    @Bucjones

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@karagi101 We really don't know what we can do.

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Steven Watson We know a lot about what we can’t do. We can’t fly by flapping our arms. We can’t walk through walls. We can’t live without food energy. The list is endless. Which means according to you God is very limited.

  • @tomashull9805
    @tomashull98053 жыл бұрын

    What's the nature of infinity? Or infinite number of dimensions? The question of nature of God can be partially answered by scriptures when Moses asked God to see His face...a nuclear bunker had to be used...lol

  • @LivingNow678

    @LivingNow678

    3 жыл бұрын

    There are not many infinits. ONE INFINIT, 2 or more, they will limit each other. INFINIT = GOD 👌🌟✨🎵🎶🌍💖🙏

  • @tomashull9805

    @tomashull9805

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@LivingNow678 How do you know?

  • @LivingNow678

    @LivingNow678

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tomashull9805 Living (the Original) Yoga, I got quite a lot of rights for the Life. And to me their are working.

  • @LivingNow678

    @LivingNow678

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@tomashull9805 I got "my" Criterion of INFINIT, 20 years ago. That's my key to look at the ALL

  • @williamburts5495
    @williamburts54953 жыл бұрын

    Jesus said, " God is spirit " so spirit is his nature. God told moses " tell them " I AM " sent you so we can define God's nature as pure consciousness that transcends nature since nature is manifested because of him.

  • @stephenkagan
    @stephenkagan3 жыл бұрын

    Is God anything more than a simple idea or basic experience wrapped in the most absurd assumptions?

  • @melgross

    @melgross

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not really.

  • @mintakan003
    @mintakan0033 жыл бұрын

    I wonder whether behind the question of "what is the nature of God" is the very human question "Is the universe fundamentally beneficent?" "Is God 'good'"? Yeah, there's a lot of suffering. But will it all "come out in the wash" in the end, the much larger context (something Huston Smith calls the "happy ending" in all religions). Related to this, in the philosophical tradition, are the Platonic transcendental values of the "Good, true, and beautiful". Why the (near universal) draw of these "values" (almost by definition)? Christians also have "the theology of the Incarnation". In this theology, Jesus provides a concrete exemplar, in human terms, the nature of God. This provides one answer. In another tradition, e.g. Hinduism (Vedanta), you have Sat-Chit-Ananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss). The modern situation, heavily influenced by science, paints a universe that is largely inert, random, and indifferent. But there are alternative ways to view the predicament of our existence, even accepting the basic facts of modern science. Psilocybin is being used to treat end of life anxiety and depression. Some people still remain atheists. Yet despite all this, many are able to find a value the human life that is given, acceptance of death, a basic OK'ness, and sense of interconnectedness of all things. So behind these somewhat scholastic questions, maybe questions of evolutionary psychology, spirituality, ethics, morality, values, and aesthetics. These could be the next set of questions.

  • @xspotbox4400

    @xspotbox4400

    3 жыл бұрын

    European enlightenment movement started on streets of Paris, where simple, lazy city folks was seating in corner bars drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes, like there's not a single force in this universe that can stop them to think and say wherever they want.

  • @user-dt4cg1pj9l
    @user-dt4cg1pj9l2 жыл бұрын

    God is a personal illusion.of the game we call universe.

  • @matthewteal7134
    @matthewteal71343 жыл бұрын

    it tells you in the scriptures the identity of God, God is good, God is love, God is light, God is sound(word)

  • @cgee3999
    @cgee39992 жыл бұрын

    I’m not religious, maybe a bit spiritual, but if you just know, you know! I think religious people call it Faith

  • @cvsree
    @cvsree3 жыл бұрын

    This Universe is God's Nature Talking to scientist and philosophers about God is like going to dermatologist for heart disease

  • @tomashull9805

    @tomashull9805

    3 жыл бұрын

    Unless you'd like to be confused like them..." Wisdom is proven by its results..." The so-called wise turned out to be fools in the end... My teen sons havd better answers than so-called experts...

  • @yokobono3324

    @yokobono3324

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rubiks6 It is both less vast than Ravi Comeup gives them credit for, and more vast than Tomas Hull gives them credit for.

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    ...or giving any credence to a KZread commenter.

  • @tylerhulsey982

    @tylerhulsey982

    3 жыл бұрын

    Your analogy holds true for scientists, but inquiring into the nature of God is firmly within the philosopher’s purview, and has been for millennia.

  • @tomashull9805

    @tomashull9805

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jedi4049 What makes one an expert?

  • @fungi42021
    @fungi420213 жыл бұрын

    It's called buddha nature

  • @melgross
    @melgross3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe, just maybe, if all the hundreds of religions that exist today, and all the thousands that existed before, agreed on the nature of the universe, and how it came about, then all this might be a bit more palatable. But being that they all differ, extremely, we can’t look to any of them for answers. They are all so certain of their own correctness, it negates all of them.

  • @garychartrand7378

    @garychartrand7378

    2 жыл бұрын

    Instead of religion try Spirituality . ALL religions place themselves between you and God and tell you what He/She/It is like and what He is saying. Jesus said " Woe unto ye Pharisees. You are supposed to lead the people to God". They didn't then and they don't now. Spiritualists desire for you to develop a one on one relationship with God, with no middle man between you and God. Then you can get the Truth right from the horse's mouth. God wants a personal relationship with each of His children. Unlike religions who want their followers to ALL think as the leaders want them to think - Spirituality declares that each personal relationship with God is unique. It's really no different than human relationships which are also unique. After all my interactions and experiences with God - NOBODY can tell me that there is no God. If I denied my experiences of Him - I should be locked up. Bless you.

  • @dennyworthington6641

    @dennyworthington6641

    7 ай бұрын

    @@garychartrand7378 Over the millennia H. sapiens have conjured thousands of gods. Do you embrace one or more of these gods or do you have a god unique to you. Clearly define your god. Please and thank you.

  • @garychartrand7378

    @garychartrand7378

    7 ай бұрын

    @@dennyworthington6641 I appreciate your inquiries. Seek and ye shall find. There is only the one God, one Source. However, as I have already said, Every relationship with God is unique. It is no different for you when you interact with all the different people in your life. You feel and behave differently with each of them. Each love has a different and unique quality. God is so large and infinite but we know that His love is UNCONDITIONAL for ALL of His Creation. We humans are saddled with the illusion of separation and so we love separately and this fosters the uniqueness of each relationship - including our seperate relationships with God. Each is unique. It is impossible to describe emotions in words - especially Love. They can only be understood if experienced. The only thing that I can say about MY relationship with God is that, even though I make my fair share of human mistakes, He/She/It has only shown me NOTHING BUT Unconditional Love and Humor. Oh, the stories I could tell about His Humor. While I am texting I cannot see your text. Have I fully answered you? If not please text me again. Your servant Gary 🙏❤️ PS. Don't be fooled by ALL the religions that push a one size fits all God. Your relationship with God is a very personal thing. Develop a personal relationship with God for yourself without any lying middlemen (church leaders). God tells us how to do this in the bible - with ALL of your heart, mind, soul, and strength. Then YOU can get the Truth straight from the horse's mouth.

  • @frankm9529
    @frankm95293 жыл бұрын

    Isn't atheists and theists really asking the same fundamental question - if you substitute 'god' with 'universe' and vise versa? "does the universe have a beginning ?" "does the universe have a beginning?" is maybe not exactly the same question semantically, but the answer has the same implication

  • @tomashull9805
    @tomashull98053 жыл бұрын

    Does God have a nature? It depends nature of nature...😉

  • @sonnycorbi4316
    @sonnycorbi43168 ай бұрын

    GOD IS NATURE - DIETY’S NATURE IS NATURE AND ALL ENCOMPASSING -

  • @LawrenceMeisel
    @LawrenceMeisel3 жыл бұрын

    Ads that pop up in the middle of a sentence are ruining KZread.

  • @rh001YT

    @rh001YT

    3 жыл бұрын

    get adblock extension for your browser.

  • @Seanus32
    @Seanus323 жыл бұрын

    Keep doing what you've always done and you'll likely get what you've always got. Robert, you only seem to see things through one level of consciousness. Life is varying levels and degrees of vibration and magnification. Please do an episode on strange loops and oxymoron/precise paradoxes. Please also remember that a finger can't point back at itself. You are intimately enmeshed with all around you but you have created separation. Words will not get you anywhere. You have to experience the blending directly on the right level.

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Seanus32 Therefore, you must try LSD...

  • @Seanus32

    @Seanus32

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@karagi101 Because?

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Seanus32 Because, as you said, words will not get you anywhere. LSD will give you a profound spiritual experience.

  • @Seanus32

    @Seanus32

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@karagi101 So I've heard. What's your take on dope yogurt? i.e 50mgs of edibles in yogurt.

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Seanus32 Haven’t tried it yet but from all I heard from Sam Harris, it’s something I will try.

  • @mohammedhanif6780
    @mohammedhanif67803 жыл бұрын

    I love how atheists cone here to comment on how superior they are.

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mohammed Hanif I love how theists come to comment about something they have no evidence for and about which they have zero knowledge.

  • @cosmikrelic4815

    @cosmikrelic4815

    3 жыл бұрын

    It seems like exactly the opposite, the theists claim they have all the answers but they are usually trite and non-sensical, as in "God is nature" and other meaningless one liners . At last count the theists who actually claimed knowledge of God outwieighed the atheists by a good deal.

  • @rafeller9057
    @rafeller90573 жыл бұрын

    Imagine you're God before the beginning of the universe. There are no mirrors you have no history no experience no form. You only have Cosmic Consciousness , but how would an incorporeal spirit know its own nature and powers. Maybe God created the universe so He could have a mirror to discover His true nature.

  • @xspotbox4400
    @xspotbox44003 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps we should ask this question in practical sense, if God is present in this very moment and for all persons, than this ability should tell us something about how he's like. Imagine you can feel and hear everything everybody else feel and think, what kind of being would do that and what kind of mental state is required to absorb all those confusions, anger, evils, delusions, temper,...? I could never do that, it doesn't make sense to me watching other people living their normal lives because this means i can't live my own life at same time. I don't love anybody that much. And listening to other people's thoughts and feeling their desires would simply be disgusting, plain and simple. I have no idea how God can live with himself, it seems he would kill himself if this weird connection could brake down somehow and he would be left alone with his pathetic own thoughts, living his half life in divine, empty oblivion.

  • @FAAMS1
    @FAAMS13 жыл бұрын

    To the central point, there is no problem of Evil as what we deem "Evil" is a necessary part of the ecosystem that creates value. One must be hungry in order to satisfy himself. One must feel pain in order to feel relief and pleasure. One must DIE in order to value the finite time of your life and also to avoid the madness of Eternity... In an eternal Heaven how many billions of books would you read until you got fed up? How many movies? How many relations? How many years in order to feel in Hell? A thousand? A Million? A trillion trillion? Eternity it is to big for any thinking computing machine, to any consciousness. And for a "God" like creature its first priority would be to make himself mortal and get out of Eternal existence. Obviously the nature of God is more keen to the concept of a Unified pantheistic totality which coheres through contrasts and opposing forces that cycle in a fractal pattern forever much like a Rubik's cube or Einstein block Universe. "God" is a complete "narrative" of Being and its qualia in a frozen 4D "film", a monolith NECESSARILY not aware of itself but which is the eternal substance of everything possible. God is a "rock" which sustains all space and all time in its own existence not separate from it. The kind of "God" I believe in is simply resumed in mathematics as a final order of all possible things that exist throughout all time Past, Present, and Future, in Physics coinage the Universal Wave Function or in Set theory the Set of all Sets. A finite close circuit that is qualitatively finite, such that you don't alienate contact through infinite qualities, as my photons are your photons and we can see each other, but quantitatively infinite or circular, as the fractal of all phenomena repeats for all eternity and never stops conting. Finally and to finish, in that light there is nothing contingent and everything is necessary and perfectly fitted in its spacetime frame which is the perfect one for whatever is the case. In BEING History itself is Eternal Present and nothing is out of order or out of place. as WHAT IT IS in each time IT IS! The idea of "Evil" is useful for Biological beings that through incompleteness and awareness experience in epistemic inquiry the multiplicity of conflicts that give Life VALUE! Value out of suffering and relief not a straight dead plain line. ...of course in a closer analysis there is no conflict in Being as the very opposition of forces is the reason that unifies the relation of all objects and agents. God is "Love" not because God is good or bad but because God unifies in contrast and through the contrast "creates"/IS, a valuable meaningful "narrative".

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Filipe Albuquerque How do you know all these things? You don’t because you have zero evidence.

  • @FAAMS1

    @FAAMS1

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@karagi101 The FSM spoke with me last night and it told me I was right!

  • @_a.z
    @_a.z3 жыл бұрын

    Yep! Very very similar to iron age tribes, apparently!

  • @ASLUHLUHCE

    @ASLUHLUHCE

    3 жыл бұрын

    And apparently a restless desire for praise

  • @russellbertrand3242

    @russellbertrand3242

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ASLUHLUHCE actually a restless demand for praise. Creatures demanding praise automatically disqualify tthemselves from any praise/worship.

  • @joshheter1517

    @joshheter1517

    3 жыл бұрын

    This isn’t so much a criticism of anything that was argued for in the video. It’s more of an IOU for one.

  • @karagi101
    @karagi1013 жыл бұрын

    Well... that was a waste of time. Didn’t learn anything more about what God is if He exists. No closer to truth...

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Safar Zen You can’t prove a negative because you can’t know everything. For example you can’t prove Santa doesn’t exist somewhere since you can’t see everything in the universe. You can prove a positive. You just need one example of something to prove it exists.

  • @2bsirius
    @2bsirius3 жыл бұрын

    Does god *have* a nature? Ask Spinoza. He'll tell you that god *is* nature. God is “the sum of the natural and physical laws of the universe and certainly not an individual entity or creator”. Glad I could help....

  • @Ploskkky

    @Ploskkky

    3 жыл бұрын

    Asking Spinoza might be somewhat problematic as he has been dead since 1677. And Spinoza's opinion about the invisible magical fantasy friend is just an opinion. As is yours.

  • @2bsirius

    @2bsirius

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Ploskkky Spinoza put his thinking into books. If you want to understand Spinoza's views on god & philosophy just read his works. A good place to begin might be his _Theological-Political Treatise._ Then go on to his more demanding _Ethics._ So it's not really problematic after all.

  • @kallianpublico7517
    @kallianpublico75173 жыл бұрын

    Do questions and answers about an apple tell us about the apple or only about our relationship to the apple? Would we only learn about an apple if we listened in as the apple asked and answered questions about us?

  • @tomashull9805
    @tomashull98053 жыл бұрын

    I find it hilarious how materialists assign spernatural, creative powers, to "nature", where theists assign the same supernatural powers to "God". Materialists simply substitute one kind faith for another... if challenged for evidence, the standard excuses are presented: "science has no answers now, but it will." In other words, their faith keeps their hopes alive... They forget to mention that none of them will be alive to tell them they were wrong...

  • @jesipatrocinio358
    @jesipatrocinio3583 жыл бұрын

    "Conversations with GOD" by Neale Donald Walsch has already clarified many matters about God. This is a direct revelation and not some sort of speculation. If you really want to get closer to truth, why not go to God's actual revelation?

  • @Ploskkky

    @Ploskkky

    3 жыл бұрын

    Walsh is just a fantasist. Unbelievable that some people believe these childish scribblings of that impostor.

  • @TomAnderson_81

    @TomAnderson_81

    3 жыл бұрын

    What is his “actual revelation”?

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mariflor Teves How do you know he received “God’s actual revelation”?

  • @Patrick77487
    @Patrick774872 жыл бұрын

    Unlikely existence, if that can be termed as nature. If it exists it must be chuckling. Endless renditions, interpretations, butchery in its name.

  • @tonytafoya6217
    @tonytafoya62173 жыл бұрын

    Yes. God has a nature. His nature is fixed. This is the finite aspect of the infinite God of everything. Thus the very bottom bedrock upon which EVERYTHING RESTS. Your search for the ground floor of being/existence stops THERE ... With the nature of God, and his FINISHED work on the cross. TAKE IT, OR LEAVE IT, Kuhn. It's all there is, in the search for finite, finale TRUTH.

  • @Ploskkky

    @Ploskkky

    3 жыл бұрын

    You will have to come up with much better evidence, than just putting words in a certain order. That has always been the core problem of all theology. It is just pointless, idle babble.

  • @marcosgalvao3182
    @marcosgalvao31823 жыл бұрын

    God is the ultimate consciousness , consciousness is the base of all reality .

  • @jaymz1999

    @jaymz1999

    3 жыл бұрын

    Marcos galvão How do you know?

  • @Ploskkky

    @Ploskkky

    3 жыл бұрын

    I always call god the ultimate flucksenprutl.

  • @loualiaissa6251

    @loualiaissa6251

    Жыл бұрын

    God is matchless , what you said is jus a way to understand but god is beyond of consciousness, praise to god we don't grasp his being سبحانه و تعالى سبحان الله بحمده سبحان الله العظيم

  • @loualiaissa6251

    @loualiaissa6251

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jaymz1999 indeed he doesn't know,

  • @jaymz1999

    @jaymz1999

    Жыл бұрын

    @@loualiaissa6251 That’s a claim. Any evidence?

  • @priyakulkarni9583
    @priyakulkarni95833 жыл бұрын

    Wrong question !!! Ask better

  • @anotherfoundsheep1773

    @anotherfoundsheep1773

    3 жыл бұрын

    Whats Gods name?

  • @viaini748
    @viaini7482 жыл бұрын

    WHY DON'T YOU ASK TO GOD HIMSELF DIRECTLY? HIS ANSWER IN BIBLE: GOD SAID, GOD IS THE IAM WHO IAM/YHWH= UNIQUE & NO OTHER. HIS NATURE IS INSIDE THE MYSTERIOUS TRINITY, COMPLEXITY IN SIMPLE ONE/ECHAD UNITY HOLYHOLYHOLY! HOLY WILL, HOLY WORD, HOLY POWER. HOLY MIND, HOLY FACE/IMAGE, HOLY SPIRIT. UNMOVED, MOVER, MOVING SPIRIT. ETERNITY/SPACE, LIFE/TIME, SPIRIT/ENERGY. YHWH/YESHUA SAYS, IM THE LIGHT, THE TRUTH THE WAY THE LIVE, IM THE DOOR TO EVERY DIMENSION/EXISTANCE. GOD IS LOVE, LIVING SPIRIT, ETERNAL. GOD IS LOGOS/WORD/WISDOM/CREATOR. GOD IS LIGHT/FIRE/HOLINESS/REDEEMER. GOD BEING IS GOD/TRINITY, & GOD NATURE IS IAM WHO IAM/YHWH, ALPHA&OMEGA, HALLELUJAH AMEN! 😇🙏

  • @viaini748

    @viaini748

    Жыл бұрын

    WHEN YOU ELIMINATE JESUS FROM BEING GOD/YHWH, YOU DON'T HAVE GOD AT ALL! SO FUNNY & IRONIC , ATHEIST & ISLM ARE LOOKING/BELIEVING IN GOD OF NOWHERE/NOTHING! BOTH HAVE SAME ROOT, FROM SATAN MIND/IDEA, TO REJECT JESUS=THE TRUE GOD WITH US, IAM IMMANUEL AMEN! 😇🙏 .. THE TRUTH/ESSENTIAL FOR GOD & THE EXISTANCE IS ABOUT JUSTICE/REASON! GOD IS NOT ABOUT MATERIAL/UNIVERSE, SINCE SPIRIT DON'T DEPEND ON A THING! YOUR EXISTANCE/BEING ISNOT DEPENDING ON MATERIAL ITSELF, BUT ALL MATERIALS EXIST FOR GOD'S WILL & JUSTICE & POWER! Universe is A Court for Truth/Justice. you can JUDGE GOD WHO HE IS & whatever you want in YOUR TIME, then you'll be judged by God in HIS TIME/ETERNITY! so you may feel RIGHT & VICTORIOUS SAYING, NO GOD! but later you must hear GOD/JESUS SAY NO TO YOU! Material Realm is temporal time for human to live be like god, with brain & power from God, making reason & create/decide anything you like. after you die & become nothing to GOD, YHWH/JESUS WILL DECIDE FOR YOU, WHAT YOU'LL BE & YOUR BEING IN ETERNITY! 🙏 .. FOR ATHEIST, TRUTH IS/WILL BE USELESS! IF you're just going to die & no longer exist, you don't need to know anything, since there's NO MEANING & NO DIFFERENT WHETHER YOU KNOW OR DON'T KNOW ANY TRUTH IN UNIVERSE! atheist don't even have reason to argue/against anything, not even talking bout TRUTH & GOD, since God & Right/Wrong has no meaning to them! even THEIR EXISTANCE HAS NO MEANING, ONLY TO DIE LIKE APE/ANIMAL, NO NEED TO THINK ABOUT TRUTH, RIGHT OR WRONG! ATHEIST EXISTANCE IS NOTHING/MEANINGLESS, ONLY FOR DIE! Dark Universe is only have meaning BECAUSE THERE IS GOD who create all things! TRUTH & REASON IS MEANINGFUL, ONLY & IF ONLY THERE IS GOD/YHWH/LOGOS, THE SOURCE & REASON for anything, DESIGNER who have reason/purpose for all existances! 😉✌

  • @gr33nDestiny
    @gr33nDestiny3 жыл бұрын

    I wonder why he thinks god had a choice to make humans, just in reply to his statement. Why do you think he had a choice making the universe?

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Psybernetic Because an omnipotent being by definition has choice to do what they want to do. If they have no choice then they’re not omnipotent.

  • @gr33nDestiny

    @gr33nDestiny

    3 жыл бұрын

    karagi101 that answered my question, thanks!

  • @gr33nDestiny

    @gr33nDestiny

    3 жыл бұрын

    karagi101 and now you NEED to watch the latest episode, how free is god, yeah I can’t believe it either lol

  • @karagi101

    @karagi101

    3 жыл бұрын

    Psybernetic I watched too many of these episodes. The answers are all philosophical word-play. The only people he has on that make any sense are the physicists.

  • @gr33nDestiny

    @gr33nDestiny

    3 жыл бұрын

    karagi101 that’s ok, your answer is still valid to me, the episode expands on it in a way I can’t summarise well yet, cheers

  • @S3RAVA3LM
    @S3RAVA3LM3 жыл бұрын

    Why when they talk about God as an all loving & all powerful God do they think that he should fix everything when man can do so himself. Man needs to Spiritual grow up and reflect back to God the image of his, he made us in. If I was the Ultimate God I wouldn't help any of you people when you do not seek me or try being of the light I created you from. Today who stands for divinity? You all know about the children, cabal, rituals they do on use through many methods, eugenics etc. You people don't do anything why wouldn't God want you to learn... all this pain you do apon yourselves because you turned away, not God. You do not seek; your faith is in science.

  • @bajajones5093
    @bajajones50933 жыл бұрын

    thank you for not having Daniel Dennet on. wonderful to not listen to him

  • @xspotbox4400
    @xspotbox44003 жыл бұрын

    This very show has probably managed to get closest to truth as it can get, just because question is so simple and naive in essence. If God is about our daily affairs and intimate morals, than human society is direct reflection of his creative ideas. And things doesn't get any better when we look at worlds outside our planet, if this universe is God's master piece, than i rather don't say anything about his artistic abilities because i can't find absolutely nothing worth mentioning behind his boring, empty, meaningless and repeatable aesthetics. Thinking about universe and physics makes me go to sleep, that cosmic awe and woo gets old very fast and i prefer to play an exciting computer game instead. They're also created worlds and can talk with other conscious people, one can sense presence of intelligent design immediately after game is loaded. In real universe you die before any of what we experience can make sense. I love realism and can dig bizarre, don't get me wrong, everything would be more than perfect if not that miserable, unbearable human condition. And i can see other forms of life and even stars are not doing any better, everything is flawed and exist in a constant stay of decay, like this universe is just a ruin of glorious place that once could have been or was never meant to became. But than again, if we would be like gods, who cares about those heavenly spheres and problems of simple, material robots, we would need much more crazy and incredible universe to enjoy immortality and supernatural powers. If this universe is an intelligent design, it's meant for torture and slaughter of helpless, scared and confused animals. This is western intellectual school of thought as it's best, no other civilization in history was able and brave enough to go so deep into very essence of philosophy. It's because idea of God is not a joke. Entire human history is not a joke. But people who have serious problems and must work hard every day might became jokers if academia and authorities believe they can get away with perverted ideas, childish simplifications and a bunch of dumb word salad. Social networks are best example western science stand behind their words, many scientists have used global quarantine to present us with material and mathematical descriptions of most important theories, so anybody can understand why we believe universe is the way it is. It's a pure joy for me to watch best scientists answering questions of random people, not s single idea can be left unanswered and this is a great achievement. I can only hope world will follow this bright example and all religions will do the same, tell people what we as humanity have learned about life, universe and everything, so they can clean up their ethical gardens of ideological weed and open new space for better future.

  • @Ploskkky
    @Ploskkky3 жыл бұрын

    "Does God Have a Nature?" Of course... whatever the theist fantasizes.... Only the theist's imagination limits the nature of his invisible magical fantasy friend. It is such a fun game. I wonder if these middle aged fantasists/apologists ever feel a bit ridiculous.

  • @ShockInfra

    @ShockInfra

    3 жыл бұрын

    gay

  • @Ploskkky

    @Ploskkky

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ShockInfra But of course, your invisible magical fantasy friend can be gay, if that is your fantasy.

  • @jeffamos9854

    @jeffamos9854

    3 жыл бұрын

    Whew Lad . Thanks for letting us know your sexual orientation. There are some better sites that specialize in dating if you are looking for a partner.

  • @ShockInfra

    @ShockInfra

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Ploskkky 0/10 come on lad even if your worldview is wrong the least you can do is have witty clapbacks not this crap

  • @marcosgalvao3182

    @marcosgalvao3182

    3 жыл бұрын

    Read about non locality , forget classic physics , forget realism , forget materialism , consciousness is the base of all reality . God

  • @LoraxChannel
    @LoraxChannel3 жыл бұрын

    This whole series is NOT the way to find God, imo. You experience God. Maybe it's trite, but God dances and interacts. You dont know love by understanding or debating the word, love. You should think about God, but in the end no thinking generates faith. Trust, a relationship, cherishing, gratitude, . . is the path to faith, in all things. Omniscient, omnipotent, or simple, all interesting to man, but irrelevant to the nature of God. Why not all loving being superior to knowing? Non believers simply reject God as inconsistent with thier own flawed understanding. To me it's nearly laughable that inherently weak and evil humans claim God is all good? Defined how? Robert thinks dressing up like a believer should make him a believer? He's so limited by his subjective subconscious pre conceived beliefs about God and how one "should" know God, that he can't experience it. See @11:25, as the guest tries to explain. It's like trying to hear by talking about how you hear. When he listens for infinity in a moment, he has a better chance at experiencing an arguement for faith. @19:44 Robert is close, then traps himself with his own answer. No Robert it's not circular, there is no circle.

  • @publiusovidius7386
    @publiusovidius73863 жыл бұрын

    sad to see these people engaged in mythologizing without realizing they're mythologizing. they're merely describing an imaginary ideal being--whose existence remains a hypothesis. wasting time and space.

  • @LoraxChannel

    @LoraxChannel

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agreed, but its the host that forces the discussion, just as atheists demand to know through thier subjective needs. You can't explain Van Gogh sufficiently to a blind man, just as you can never create faith in someone who refuses to simply experience God.

  • @danielpaulson8838

    @danielpaulson8838

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@LoraxChannel I was raised in a Christian home. It was abusive and I prayed my little child heart out for help from God. It never came. Despite my conviction and pleas, it became worse. I have since learned the experience of God is the same as the experience of crystal energy, cosmic alignments, New age teachings, The Tao, The Now, Arjuna's Battle within, astral spirits, nature, Santa Claus, et al. It exists for real, but only within the mind of the practitioner.

  • @danielpaulson8838

    @danielpaulson8838

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jedi4049 Yep. It was my own doing is what they told me in church all those years ago. Stupid nine year old sinners. Mind sets like yours are very contorted, twisted and seek desperate measures to explain what is nonsensical. You use a tone of confidence which is your fruits. I know you believe what you’re saying. I left Sunday school behind. I recommend that to everyone.

  • @briankayeke1396
    @briankayeke13963 жыл бұрын

    People still believe in God?

  • @joshheter1517

    @joshheter1517

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes. A majority of people in the world.

  • @md.fazlulkarim6480
    @md.fazlulkarim64803 жыл бұрын

    99 Names of God/Allah describe his nature of highest degree but some names only apply for him. Read the meaning of the names.

  • @TomAnderson_81

    @TomAnderson_81

    3 жыл бұрын

    When will he come out from hiding?

  • @md.fazlulkarim6480

    @md.fazlulkarim6480

    3 жыл бұрын

    On the judgement day. Once he showed up little to Moses and the Hill was burnt out and the evidence is still there. We can not bear seeing him by our this weak body on earth.

  • @TomAnderson_81

    @TomAnderson_81

    3 жыл бұрын

    Md. Fazlul Karim What is your evidence that a Moses even existed?

  • @thebookofclyde1822

    @thebookofclyde1822

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@md.fazlulkarim6480 So Allah is an arsonist?

  • @anotherfoundsheep1773

    @anotherfoundsheep1773

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@TomAnderson_81 you are God duh

  • @thomasridley8675
    @thomasridley86753 жыл бұрын

    Simple answer : no, you have too be real before you can have a real nature. And since gods are not real. The only nature they have. Are the ones we give them.

  • @anotherfoundsheep1773

    @anotherfoundsheep1773

    3 жыл бұрын

    How do you know gods are not real? Did you look everywhere?

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@anotherfoundsheep1773 Yes, i did !!! We have chased the gods to the edge of reality. And found no divinity anywhere. Only self serving platitudes.

  • @anotherfoundsheep1773

    @anotherfoundsheep1773

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@thomasridley8675 fair play. Bet you didnt check the south pole but who am i to judge you

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@anotherfoundsheep1773 South pole ? Hahahahaha !! We have chased them much further than that.

  • @anotherfoundsheep1773

    @anotherfoundsheep1773

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@thomasridley8675 slippery bastards

  • @jeffamos9854
    @jeffamos98543 жыл бұрын

    This video should be called ! Does god have to poop when nature calls.

  • @redpillpusher

    @redpillpusher

    3 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @redpillpusher
    @redpillpusher3 жыл бұрын

    gotta love all the pompous non-answers, tautologies, circularities and just plane ole making shit up.

  • @stephenpack2202
    @stephenpack22023 жыл бұрын

    It seems this God is really complicated, invisible, no one can agree about this God And those that believe in him it can't show any proof then what is the point??they use the word divine but no one knows what that means....these are all but man's ideas that's why what a complete waste of time this search for nothing can't be found.

  • @anotherfoundsheep1773

    @anotherfoundsheep1773

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you need a dna test to prove your parents are who they say they are: somethings wrong

  • @VMQuantumMechanic
    @VMQuantumMechanic2 жыл бұрын

    Truly nonsense! Never proved the existence of "God", except as a concept. "God" as a concept is nothing more than an anthropomorphizing effort. Goes nowhere.

  • @Adrian-yf1zg
    @Adrian-yf1zg3 жыл бұрын

    Why dont you speak to Islamic theologians on this issues? It might take you closer to the truth.... Close to 2 billion people are muslims within that amount of people you could surely find a few interesting opinions... Especially on this topic

  • @seanmccall7277
    @seanmccall72773 жыл бұрын

    This show has devolved. Sad.. it actually used to be interesting before every episode was about God in one form or another.

  • @freedommascot
    @freedommascot3 жыл бұрын

    Why the need for all-powerful, all-knowing, blah blah blah? Such androcentric bias. So sick of this male criteria, as well as the anthropocentric world view in which it’s embedded.