What is God Like? | Episode 402 | Closer To Truth

What can we know about God? The easy answer is "nothing": God is not like anything. But that's not good enough. If there is a God, God must have traits. No? Featuring interviews with Alvin Plantinga, Peter van Inwagen, Neil Gillman, Richard Swinburne, and Huston Smith.
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  • @eddiedok8525
    @eddiedok85253 жыл бұрын

    This program should be called going around in circles

  • @ezbody
    @ezbody3 жыл бұрын

    For every answer you want, there is a philosopher.

  • @michaelhall2709

    @michaelhall2709

    4 ай бұрын

    True dat.

  • @functionalfitnessworkouts
    @functionalfitnessworkouts3 жыл бұрын

    These videos are Fascinating!! One of the most interesting and well produced series of "important for life" videos that Ive ever been fortunate enough to watch.

  • @fritzcervz6945
    @fritzcervz69453 жыл бұрын

    Finally, RLK had talked to a man like Huston Smithkoff who has the knowledge of an exoteric and esoteric essence of God. Esoteric essence of God is the most conscious and the closest to truth!

  • @taraprater9013
    @taraprater9013 Жыл бұрын

    God is everything we are. We have all the attributes of God. To describe God is a projection of ourselves

  • @teeniequeenie8369
    @teeniequeenie8369 Жыл бұрын

    Such thought provoking shows…loving them!

  • @thejackdiamondart
    @thejackdiamondart Жыл бұрын

    All of these men speak of God in the masculine. That is a hint of the reality that man makes God in his image.God is the experience and the experiencer.Consciousness folded in on its self.

  • @neosis4182
    @neosis41823 жыл бұрын

    The incomprehensible question is beyonds human limits. Such a studid qu stion

  • @michaelhall2709
    @michaelhall27094 ай бұрын

    “God is necessarily the greatest possible being. That means He is a personal being, one that you can talk to.” Why?

  • @enoch-et
    @enoch-et3 жыл бұрын

    I see GOD as an animator who created this animation we call universe with all its characters the galaxies , stars , planets, animals , plants & ultimately us humans . How can the characters in the animation be able to understand the programmer that created them ?

  • @shahrozzahid31

    @shahrozzahid31

    3 жыл бұрын

    In islam Allah(God) describes His attributes in 99 names. One of the names is Al-Musawir (Arabic), which means 'The Greatest Fashioner'.

  • @S3RAVA3LM

    @S3RAVA3LM

    3 жыл бұрын

    To acknowledge the beauty of life and the creation itself, being delicate with nature, revering mother earth -- who sustains -- honoring the Sun(christ) -- the spiritual essence of God, who gives life -- respecting our temples(human body). Having an intimate relationship & interaction with others, animals the planets, sun, stars & moon. Experiencing spiritual growth, purifying self, seeking to know thyself, becoming accustomed naturally & genuinely in spirit doing good deeds and charity -- like the Sun is very charitable to us. Loving life so cherishing it. Being true in spirit, one with nature, welcoming and loving diversity, learning from other -- so unity, community & communionship can occur. We might be discovering that we are the programmer -- fragments of God.

  • @termikesmike

    @termikesmike

    3 жыл бұрын

    The slightest glimpse of "eternity"( not talking about God here) is terror ! We are 'blessed' to be part of a 'game, a play, a sporting event' that will end - and awards to those who 'played their parts' well - 'eternity is forever' !!!

  • @brydonjesse

    @brydonjesse

    3 жыл бұрын

    Feel the same, but I think it is also us. We are the universe

  • @turksungerbob728

    @turksungerbob728

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shahrozzahid31 can't your God give a comprehensive definition of himself that doesn't involve spouting out 99 goddamn attributes?

  • @dougmacqueen1679
    @dougmacqueen16793 жыл бұрын

    All that worship and obedience crap came much later. Certainly after mastering verbal communication. And unfortunately is getting worse as far as I can tell.

  • @soubhikmukherjee6871
    @soubhikmukherjee68713 жыл бұрын

    I love this channel ❤

  • @aroemaliuged4776
    @aroemaliuged4776 Жыл бұрын

    The first guy is and can explaining any book of fiction

  • @hanssacosta1990
    @hanssacosta19903 жыл бұрын

    Love love loveeeeeeee this channel ❤️❤️✨✨🌟

  • @jefffarris3359
    @jefffarris33593 жыл бұрын

    I'm with you Robert that's just not good enough.

  • @S3RAVA3LM

    @S3RAVA3LM

    3 жыл бұрын

    You mean, "I'm not good enough". It's all right here, don't say you need God to do it for you. The Sun is the Spiritual essence of God and if you cannot see that you are...

  • @ferdinandkraft857

    @ferdinandkraft857

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@S3RAVA3LM Maybe you think you're too good for us.

  • @chrisgreen8803
    @chrisgreen88033 жыл бұрын

    It’s whatever the individual believers think it is... It’s a product of the individuals imagination.... Doesn’t exist in reality, only in the brain

  • @emmashalliker6862

    @emmashalliker6862

    3 жыл бұрын

    But the brain exists in reality. So, does the imagination ergo God exists in reality.

  • @chrisgreen8803

    @chrisgreen8803

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@emmashalliker6862 Haha you funny 😄

  • @S3RAVA3LM

    @S3RAVA3LM

    3 жыл бұрын

    You can say that about the religious. When you awaken in spirit you have to be true and account for what is known, no longer taking what is, for granted. Light in existence -- forget about your reality -- is an unimaginable quality. What would the senses like sight be without illumination. In spirit -- a human being quality -- is how things are illuminated and realized in person -- unless you're a spiritual inept fool like most CTT followers. Light is a giving energy, like how you can donate to the poor so they can sustain their life a little longer -- in spirit you gave like the Sun(christ) gives to you. This is our connection back to God in spirit -- Christ/Christ consciousness. Christ -- the sun of God -- is very giving, not all choose to receive. To know God is to know him in Spirit. You can't be a scoffer, a disbeliever, athiest, materialist -- you must be true in spirit to acknowledge the truth. This may sound silly to your little reality in your head -- when you become conscious to light, energy, sound, vibration that's not only in the universe, but is in you, and exercising such laws and deeds you may become illuminated through spirit. I am a "product" of the Sun. A marvelous quality and in spirit i am that same quality. I don't need to bieve this as it's factual. Good luck on your journey

  • @chrisgreen8803

    @chrisgreen8803

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@S3RAVA3LM What utter meaningless word salad nonsense

  • @termikesmike

    @termikesmike

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Reality" - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

  • @followyourbliss973
    @followyourbliss973 Жыл бұрын

    If you choose to believe, 'faith' is all that is asked of you...and 'Hope' the mystery of life will be exposed when we transcend from the limitations of this world.

  • @justicewillprevail1106
    @justicewillprevail11063 жыл бұрын

    I think God is our universe.

  • @cmvamerica9011
    @cmvamerica90112 жыл бұрын

    If you can look at the world and believe that God is all knowing, then you have to believe that God is not all good.

  • @owencampbell4947
    @owencampbell49473 жыл бұрын

    The mentality of each individual through their influenced informations, shows us very clear in the comments, which influence took place, in the way their thoughts reveal their understanding and their recommendations to a topic in the comments. It is obvious, that the education and the inherited influence directs the control of the mind, causing the controversials to other educated influences. It appears as if the beliefs of the world as known, by every human, was created non-purposely through the educational system at the time, variating like dialects of a language forming own structures. That's why it should be important that each individual learn to differentiate the reality and true perspective to the educated perception of a time that dont exist anymore. It demonstrates there is a urgent need for a global educational system, that allows the own exploration and view, with correct assistance to guide in a independent self-confident development. See our world how it is, with our own eyes and understanding, and not the closed-eye version taught to us from someone else's view of his world.

  • @AlmostEthical
    @AlmostEthical2 жыл бұрын

    The vanity of intelligent male apes, seeing themselves in God and God as them. There was a time when trilobites were the supreme beings on the Earth. Was God made in the image of intelligent apes at that time too, or was he a trilobite? If God exists, it's nothing like a person. So Huston Smith was easily the most credible with his "ineffable" description. Those who have had peak experiences, either by temporal lobe stimulation or spontaneously, will report that words cannot describe what they experienced. Then again, many more usual experiences, eg. orgasm are difficult to describe in words too.

  • @olivierdelyon8196
    @olivierdelyon8196 Жыл бұрын

    What is God like?The Universe is God,God is da Universe,here it is.....👍

  • @MrRamon2004
    @MrRamon2004 Жыл бұрын

    Smart energy, that energy at the moment of conception, is the image. Stay o the bright side.

  • @equinox95
    @equinox952 жыл бұрын

    We are ALL God's people regardless of race or religion. The problem is some religions people don't understand that.

  • @mediocrates3416
    @mediocrates34163 жыл бұрын

    "You cannot see the Father but, you can see His light in my face." The face of the Way, theTruth, and the Life (there's your survival dynamic, the Way and the Life). What lights the face of truth? That's as close as you get but, the truth will talk.

  • @krisstiell6548
    @krisstiell65482 жыл бұрын

    God is everything that exists

  • @AB-rq7qr
    @AB-rq7qr2 жыл бұрын

    There is nothing but God. So God is like nothing else but God.

  • @Alexandrorama
    @Alexandrorama3 жыл бұрын

    ALL your Subtitles Are Out Of Sync

  • @stoneagedjp
    @stoneagedjp3 жыл бұрын

    Alvin Plantinga says that "The concept of God is deeply imbedded in the human psyche." I would like to ask if the Athenians of Socrates's time, villagers 20,000 years ago, and Neanderthals worshipped God? What is the Christian interpretation of this?

  • @danielpaulson8838
    @danielpaulson88383 жыл бұрын

    What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us Just a stranger on the bus Tryin' to make his way home?

  • @ezbody

    @ezbody

    3 жыл бұрын

    What if someone kicked His S?

  • @julieannbantigue4692

    @julieannbantigue4692

    3 жыл бұрын

    Amen

  • @garychartrand7378

    @garychartrand7378

    3 жыл бұрын

    Close - God is everyone of us. Thatis why we are all One.

  • @danielpaulson8838

    @danielpaulson8838

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@garychartrand7378 Lol. They're song lyrics.

  • @garychartrand7378

    @garychartrand7378

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@danielpaulson8838The lyrics are portraying a profound Truth

  • @davidbible1469
    @davidbible14692 жыл бұрын

    The only honest answer to the question of what God is like is that we don’t know. We don’t even know if there is a god. Knowing would mean we would not have spent millennia believing in so many different gods that have come and gone.

  • @undercoveragent9889

    @undercoveragent9889

    Жыл бұрын

    That's just not true. We _do_ know that 'consciousness' cannot exist without space and time. So, we know that if God exists outside of space and time then He is _not_ conscious and if God _does_ exist, He came into existence _after_ the Universe did. Either way, as far as the origin of the universe is concerned, God is entirely redundant. This video has about as much relevance to science as Santa Claus does.

  • @billyoumans1784
    @billyoumans1784 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. I loved this . I will say one thing: All the interviews are with English speaking white men, by a white man. Hence all the interviews conclude similar things. No Buddhists who don’t believe in God? No Hindus who believe in all Gods, because they are all “god with form” as opposed to God Without Form - if something has no form it can’t be “like” anything that is an object. Yet apparently god is like something: namely, subjective awareness. It cannot be described because it is not an object of awareness, it is the awareness in which all objects appear. God doesn’t “exist;” God is existence itself.

  • @brydonjesse
    @brydonjesse3 жыл бұрын

    Its like light, it likes to watch, nothing is more or less, it is the everything, it can be seen all around, God is the butterfly, the fish, the sun, the space and the light

  • @johnmatarazzo9178
    @johnmatarazzo91783 жыл бұрын

    Depending on who you ask

  • @thomasridley8675
    @thomasridley86753 жыл бұрын

    Unless, we are just the product of pure chance. Which all the evidence seems too indicate is the case. The gods have only one use. Filling gaps in our knowledge. I like how when things go right. Gods get all the credit. When things go bad. Its all your fault for failing too be righteous enough and pissing off the god. How convenient !! The traits of all the gods seems too be way too human too be gods.

  • @experiencemystique4982

    @experiencemystique4982

    3 жыл бұрын

    Too much dogma, my friend...who is the priest who brainwashed you?

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@experiencemystique4982 So denying an obvious fraud is a dogma now ? And what priest would ever promote a rational thought in the first place ?

  • @experiencemystique4982

    @experiencemystique4982

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@thomasridley8675 depends which fraud you are talking about? The dogma usually become a long and exhaustive list of must do impossible to do, from ours insignificant point of view, it's due to our sin, contradictions, insignificance...very useful point of view for those who write the list, what do you think??? The power play is a little more complex, and must be made a long term to be fonctionnelle...

  • @experiencemystique4982

    @experiencemystique4982

    3 жыл бұрын

    And no, we are not the product of " luck"

  • @thomasridley8675

    @thomasridley8675

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@experiencemystique4982 The history of religion shows it too be a complete fraud. For some reason a god without followers is completely powerless. Strange how easy it is too strip a god of its power. Just stop believing that their power exsits and it's just gone. Like it was never there in the first place. And it's does seem that we are an accidental creation. A product of an endless throw of the dice. Of course we wouldn't be here if it had been otherwise.

  • @cyrillablea8105
    @cyrillablea81053 жыл бұрын

    I think God's a little bit too easy going sometimes but he wants people to understand what love is unconditionally not with competition or with labels or with judgments. The separation and the idea that humans are disposable is where everything went wrong in this situation on the planet.. we don't have to seek for love we are love we just need to be able to look at everybody in that light because that's the vibration that this earth needs to know as truth. That vibration goes far beyond our planet it's not religion it's a vibrant frequency.

  • @ArchHades
    @ArchHades3 жыл бұрын

    I don't see how it logically follows at all that God is "all good". For one thing, if God is to be God he has to be the source of ALL, not just good. If God belongs to some greater reality where he's on one side and evil is on another, he's not God. He'd be 'a god', not 'The God'. Another thing is, a God capable of doing both evil and good is more powerful than just one capable of doing good. A God capable of only good is not all powerful. Lastly there is evil in the world. There is suffering, violence, death, destruction, etc. So the idea of an all good God is simply totally incoherent. It stems far more from human wishful thinking than any objective appraisal of reality.

  • @cmdrf.ravelli1405

    @cmdrf.ravelli1405

    3 жыл бұрын

    God doesn't do

  • @ArchHades

    @ArchHades

    3 жыл бұрын

    A God that can do both is more powerful. He has less limitations. Also, sorry but God is the source of ALL. So he's the ultimate source of Evil. So clearly not all Good. We wouldn't call a human or any being that did both good and evil things "all good". Logically by definition and evidence of reality he is not all Good.

  • @ArchHades

    @ArchHades

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'd disagree with that too. A God that can do both the irrational and rational is more powerful. Obviously God has an irrational side hence "chaos" and "chaos theory".

  • @ArchHades

    @ArchHades

    3 жыл бұрын

    If God created everything God is responsible for chaos. You disagree? Isn't chaos similar to an irrational state of nature while order is the vice versa? Irrationality and evil both exist, therefor God is clearly not all Good.

  • @ArchHades

    @ArchHades

    3 жыл бұрын

    Your conception of God is not only less powerful. But it's also simply false and not in line with objective reality. "God" being all Good is an impossibility.

  • @I_Am_TheUniverse
    @I_Am_TheUniverse3 жыл бұрын

    ....What is God Like? Look at any mirror. Look at ANY Thing. AL is IT. It is all. (Infinite Simplicity)...

  • @rochestermusic5858
    @rochestermusic58582 жыл бұрын

    God is All things THE TRUE JACK OF ALL TRADES❤️

  • @kareemdavis1500
    @kareemdavis15003 жыл бұрын

    If something is retroactive isn't that a cause now effecting a cause yesterday?

  • @izmark671
    @izmark6713 жыл бұрын

    When god comes to dinner I'll interview for worship...still a no-show.

  • @fineasfrog

    @fineasfrog

    3 жыл бұрын

    "What you are looking for is what is looking." St Francis This calls for somehow going beyond the ordinary 'subject-object mode of consciousness'. We need to see that what is required is that we come to see that the movement of the mind of consciousness away from itself in forming a thought is necessary to deal with the apparently outside world of objects (food and shelter cars. hammers and kitchens etc.). In short the 'movement of the mind away from itself "by taking thought" is needed. However we also need to be able to see that when we rely only on this process of subject-object consciousness there is insufficient energy available to collect itself. It can never build up the needed potential that allows spontaneous 'insight'. However the trick is to not get caught up in partial insights (i.e. begin thinking about them making more contents in mind) and rather return to allowing the potential to build up in short 20 minute sessions each day without just dissipating it. In this way we become able to tolerate the build up of potential more and more. Little by little our consciousness begins to see in a deeper way and this first starts with a deeper way of seeing into 'what is happening' in our own consciousness and not getting caught up in necessarily following its contents. If we only follow in this way it serves to lower the level of potential energy rather than letting it build up as a kind of felt sense of simple presence that includes whole body awareness and a sense of the body and us being breathed alive.

  • @izmark671

    @izmark671

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@fineasfrog psychobabble or proof?

  • @shanethompson8730

    @shanethompson8730

    3 жыл бұрын

    What's your proof God is a no-show?

  • @ferodfriend792

    @ferodfriend792

    Жыл бұрын

    Ignorance it is self invited to your dinner.

  • @torbjrnsivertstl3548
    @torbjrnsivertstl35483 жыл бұрын

    With joy draw water from the wells of salvation. When God’s people turned to him in a humble way, he let them drink from the well of salvation and it made them happy and so that they could lift their eyes to him without being shame, rather in gladness. Psalm.34,1 By David, when he behaved like a madman with Abimelech, so he was chased away and went his way. I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 2 My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad. 3 Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together! 4 I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. 5 Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. 6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. 7 The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. 8 Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him! 9 Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! Isaiah.12 1 You will say in that day: "I will give thanks to you, O LORD, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me. 2 "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation." 3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. 4 And you will say in that day: "Give thanks to the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted. 5 "Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth. 6 Shout, and sing for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel." David was just a shepherd boy, but thrusted the Lord and he freed him out of trouble all the way until he was seated on Israel’s throne (1000-965 BC) and under him Israel became the big power in the Middle East, ruling the land from the Mediterranean to Euphrates. Later their kings started to turn away from the Lord and Israel lost power and territory until the Babylonians took over all of it. Jeremiah prophesied about this and experienced it. He said that they had turned away from the Lord, the well of living water (Jer.2,13&17,13). The prophets talked about the Israel people as God’s wife, so her children should be God’s children. But this she did not understand, she turned away in idolatry, in this way she became a whore. But the prophets also preached about God’s mercy and salvation and then they also prophesied about the new covenant. The Lord would let them come back to him also like his wife. So the Christian Church is his wife.

  • @jeanavo3865

    @jeanavo3865

    Жыл бұрын

    How refreshing, thank you and thank God.

  • @mediocrates3416
    @mediocrates34163 жыл бұрын

    The notion of god is not natural. The notion of the other and empathy are natural. First bullies, then an authoritarian god.

  • @garychartrand7378
    @garychartrand73783 жыл бұрын

    You want to know what God is like Mr. Khun? That's easy. Since God is everything and everyone - we are all one under (or with) God. To know Him is to know the self - just go to the intimate depths within oneself. For example - as a human being loved by another human would be desirable but it is not necessary. However, I find that in the depths of my being I have a great desire TO LOVE. Same with God . He desires our love but it is not required - BUT He needs to love us (and all of His creation. Knowing the Father only requires going within and since we are created in His image we are free to create as we desire. Looking at the world we have created I question our desires. Are we insane? This is not God-like. This is not Heaven on 🌎.

  • @rizwanrafeek3811

    @rizwanrafeek3811

    2 жыл бұрын

    Your concept of God has got number of flaws. The best concept of God is found in Islam.

  • @garychartrand7378

    @garychartrand7378

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rizwanrafeek3811 can you tell me what flaws? I am not religious at all. I'm a Spiritualist I do not subscribe to ANY religious dogma. Thanks to the human component ALL Holy Scriptures by been distorted and even lied about for the purpose of putting the fear of God into their followers in order to control them. With control they are able to tell their followers what God is like and what He/She/It is saying. People don't seem to think that they can have a personal intimate relationship with God without the lying middle-men. Jesus said "Woe unto ye Pharisees. You are supposed to lead the people to God". They didn't then and they don't now I have worked for God for 14 years now and I can testify that He is not a God to fear. He has shown me nothing but UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. 300+ times in the bible He says " Fear not". He even gave me a job description that says " I am sending you out by the Power of my Spirit to Release those bound by Fear, to Proclaim Forgiveness, and to Show Love to ALL men". Does that sound like a God That wants us to live in Fear? The God I know from personal experience is one who desires a LOVING personal relationship with everyone of His children. So please tell me where I have God wrong. I am sure that God doesn't lie to me.

  • @rizwanrafeek3811

    @rizwanrafeek3811

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@garychartrand7378 _"Knowing the Father only requires going within and since we are created in His image "_ The Creator of the universe is not Father to anyone. Human is not created in the image of God, these are false believe narrated in Genesis and you inherited from OT and NT. _"People don't seem to think that they can have a personal intimate relationship with God without the lying middle-men. "_ There is no middle-man between God and you. Likewise in Islam, there is no middle-man in Islam, our prayers and supplication only directed to God alone. A muslim MUST NOT direct supplication to Mohammed(pbuh). _"So please tell me where I have God wrong. "_ Do you consider Jesus is divine? Do you consider Jesus is only begotten literal son of the God? Do you believe only through killing Jesus one receive salvation? Did God subject mercy and salvation upon killing blameless Jesus(pbuh) a blameless prophet of God? _"I am sure that God doesn't lie to me. "_ Indeed God does not lie, because it does fit with HIS majestic nature.

  • @syedhasan8181
    @syedhasan81813 жыл бұрын

    God is unlike anything we know. Therefore, "what is God like" is a wrong question, which has no answer.

  • @chrisgreen8803

    @chrisgreen8803

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you can’t define it, or understand it, then why believe it’s real??

  • @syedhasan8181

    @syedhasan8181

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@chrisgreen8803 Although God cannot be understood, He can be recognized because He created you first of all, and He created all that you see. Looking at God's creation, you can recognize God's grandeur and majesty, and that should be enough to fall prostrate before this intelligence and power behind Nature. This is the reason people of all faiths believe in God and seek help from this Entity although they do it through worshipping someone like Buddha or Jesus as incarnations of God, which is wrong I think. They should directly worship this unseen power that is greater than everything and anything, and has no image.

  • @ezbody

    @ezbody

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@syedhasan8181 We see His "majesty" alright. There are a few process servers looking for Him.

  • @syedhasan8181

    @syedhasan8181

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ezbody You should go see a psychiatrist. Most of the people on this Earth are theists or at least deists. These human beings are not process-servers. Are you suggesting the author of this video is a process-server? He is sincerely contemplating God. LOL

  • @syedhasan8181

    @syedhasan8181

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Jon In my case, I have a personal philosophy, and in that philosophy, God is greater than a person since He is greater than anything, and since He is greater than a person, He can behave like a person just like you can behave like a small child to relate to him, but by doing that you don't become a child because being an adult you are greater than a child and therefore you are not a child but an adult by definition. And this is the God in the Bible. But in you have a doctrinal god, who is the same god as the pagan god of the Romans. The Romans mixed up their religion with the religion of the followers of Jesus and created a new religion and then converted everyone by force to this new religion to unify the empire.

  • @somethingyousaid5059
    @somethingyousaid50593 жыл бұрын

    It would be an omnipotent being that could be sadistic in a way and to a degree that no other kind of being could be. Cleverly sadistic. Even innovatively sadistic.

  • @johnnyaxon_

    @johnnyaxon_

    3 жыл бұрын

    We are inside God. God is omnipresent Great Mathematician. Everything is God

  • @mediocrates3416

    @mediocrates3416

    3 жыл бұрын

    Like some of those early christians: horrible! Yep, if god can do literal miracles, he's a jerk.

  • @gr33nDestiny

    @gr33nDestiny

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow I was going to make a more gentle comment than this but I’ll like this instead now, I think I was going to use the word cruel and also suggest that he has been mad which is out of character (the flood)

  • @garychartrand7378

    @garychartrand7378

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow! It's amazing how misunderstood God is. God is everything including good and evil as we humans define good and evil. In God's reality it's all just a party of ALL THAT IS. Then He created us in His image and with the "free choice" He gave us WE decide what is good or bad. As His children we have the same ability to create. Do we desire to create something good or create something bad or evil. God didn't create the bad in this world. He created US and we created the world the way it is -with our free will. As the oneness we are (under God) we could create differently, for example if we ALL agreed that nobody on this planet should ever starve to death WE could create such a thing. Don't blame God for something that WE have created. WE created a world of war, injustice,poverty, inequality,ect. God our Father loves us so much that He allows us to create whatever our free choice wants. He cannot interfere with OUR choices since that would make our freedom null and void. We could have Heaven on earth if we were to stop blaming our Father for OUR choices and creations.

  • @somethingyousaid5059

    @somethingyousaid5059

    3 жыл бұрын

    If God doesn't want me to misunderstand him, then let _him_ do something about it. It isn't as if _I_ can force my understanding of him. Obviously I can't do that. And so under those circumstances the burden would be his, not mine.

  • @jamesbentonticer4706
    @jamesbentonticer47063 жыл бұрын

    I hope that reality the cosmos is a stage for training intelligent conscious beings through a hierarchy of steps to ourselves become gods and this process has been happening for a very long time.

  • @salemmoumni9491

    @salemmoumni9491

    3 жыл бұрын

    I wouldn’t bet on that lol

  • @frasermackay9099
    @frasermackay90993 жыл бұрын

    God is you (god is all). What else could god be but everything. The universe (or multi universes) is a physical manifestation of god. If the universe contracted back to “zero” god is still there no more no less. Everything, all knowledge, is already there waiting to be found. It is all occurring in the moment called the “Now”. That’s all there is one single moment of time through which all passes. We already know god, at an instinctive level. But we try to know him/us through the intellect and so enter into argument about his nature. But we know him because we know ourselves.

  • @iamgod6464

    @iamgod6464

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely! We are God, God is Us, a Connection with the Universe that allows us to tap into the Collective Consciousness of the Ethereal. The Universe is a Mirror that reflects our Thoughts, Hopes and Preys.

  • @frasermackay9099

    @frasermackay9099

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@iamgod6464 snap!

  • @johnnyaxon_

    @johnnyaxon_

    3 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @bjm6275
    @bjm62752 жыл бұрын

    God is complete love. Affectionate Compassionate Gentle God is all and ever wise. Knowledgeable Discerning Insightful Understanding God is always just. Fair Righteous Forgiving Merciful God is eternally powerful. Energetic Forceful Mighty Strong

  • @gestrandetdes5172

    @gestrandetdes5172

    Жыл бұрын

    So in other words, we created an anthropomorphic god after our own human image, makes sense!

  • @sprocketslip4564
    @sprocketslip45643 жыл бұрын

    But isn’t calling God a Being Or a person Is like trying to say the earth is the center of the universe. “?”

  • @johnnyaxon_

    @johnnyaxon_

    3 жыл бұрын

    God is Great Mathematician, an Infinite Mind. We are finite minds - atoms of Infinite Mind. God is everywhere. Everything inside God

  • @stephensmith5982
    @stephensmith59824 ай бұрын

    Maybe people have heard the words spoken over and over, no matter how eloquently, and still find it difficult to grasp what the essence of the Divine is.

  • @cvsree
    @cvsree3 жыл бұрын

    There is nothing to compare God with since she is the cause of everything. That's what makes religion so controversial. Since religion tries to show the path to inexplicable God. Best way to experience God is to meditate and look within.

  • @AdamDylanMajor
    @AdamDylanMajor Жыл бұрын

    Well, Christmas today can cause me to buy a present yesterday. It's called planning.

  • @andrewsirchenko9663
    @andrewsirchenko96633 жыл бұрын

    How everything can be something?)

  • @aroemaliuged4776
    @aroemaliuged4776 Жыл бұрын

    First speaker.. if I winged my way to being a professor then I am a professor and I should be a professor.. who is to say I shouldn’t be a professor

  • @termikesmike
    @termikesmike3 жыл бұрын

    "Huston Smithkoff" - WCIS

  • @cabonlux5344
    @cabonlux5344 Жыл бұрын

    Ok!! Let's get deep the concept of worship I noticed that people have no deep explanation on what it means in the study of Kabbalah witch so far I have not seen you search is fascinating because the meaning of worship means (the secret or in the Hebrew Sod) so to worship in the mystical realm is (the study of the secrets of God) not what the Cristian meaning refers.

  • @tashriquekarriem8865
    @tashriquekarriem8865 Жыл бұрын

    Humans trying to understand God is like very advanced computers trying to understand the seemingly less powerful brain that created the computer.

  • @Jesusismykin
    @Jesusismykin Жыл бұрын

    God, is exactly like Jesus.

  • @andrewa3103
    @andrewa31033 ай бұрын

    You are correct Robert, worshiping God traditionally is not God's idea. Metaphysician philosopher

  • @gr33nDestiny
    @gr33nDestiny3 жыл бұрын

    Didn’t god get mad and flood the world?

  • @iamgod6464
    @iamgod64643 жыл бұрын

    God is just a Human Construct. So long as People continue to prey and believe in this being the underlying Ethereal intelligence or Collective Consciousness of the Universe will Work with their Thought Energy and Provide a Response by Creating a Thought Form that Reflects their Hopes and Desires. The Universe is God and God is Us.

  • @food4lifecycle4life
    @food4lifecycle4life Жыл бұрын

    This description of god is very much like the Vedic version

  • @Heavy_Metal1982
    @Heavy_Metal19823 жыл бұрын

    There are different kinds of infinity. God for example could have a God. One Infinity greater than the other but both remain infinite to us. A line can be infinite, so can a sphere. The sphere would be the god of the line, the line would be the god of us.

  • @catherinemoore9534
    @catherinemoore95343 жыл бұрын

    Interesting video. Huston and the Rabbi are my favourite exponents of this elusive question but the quality of 'perfection' is a useful one as it guides us towards a better version of ourselves and Life. Sufism loves to underline that whatever we think God is, it is not... I suspect the Sufi masters know best! 💌 😉

  • @rizwanrafeek3811

    @rizwanrafeek3811

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Catherine Moore Read the Quran, you will know who God is and who God is not. The best concept of God is found in Islam and the Quran is literal spoken words of the the Creator of the universe.

  • @catherinemoore9534

    @catherinemoore9534

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rizwanrafeek3811 Your reply is the reason why Islam has a bad reputation. Btw, I have read the Quran.

  • @rizwanrafeek3811

    @rizwanrafeek3811

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@catherinemoore9534 _"Your reply is the reason why Islam has a bad reputation. "_ The Quran has got a "bad" reputation among the rebellious and sinister disbelievers, I wouldn't worry about them or what they think. The bigger question is do you believe in the Quran? At the end of the day, your personal relationship with your Creator is only matters, what anyone else think of the Quran is out of the question for me, it should be for your as well.

  • @catherinemoore9534

    @catherinemoore9534

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rizwanrafeek3811 The bigger question is: can you stop this proselytising? 🤬

  • @rizwanrafeek3811

    @rizwanrafeek3811

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@catherinemoore9534 _"can you stop this proselytising? "_ I cannot proselytize anyone, all I can do is provide food for thoughts and let their conscience do the work for them.

  • @wayneasiam65
    @wayneasiam653 жыл бұрын

    God is beginning to appear as a pervading Creator, more other dimensional than we are currently capable of perceiving. Like a First Primal Intelligence to appear from... nothing.

  • @brentthompson6601
    @brentthompson66013 жыл бұрын

    I’m a Native American and I love and respect our traditions and beliefs. But I do have questions about some beliefs. Such as the story of Sky Woman falling from the sky and landing on a turtles back. Then that became the Earth so it’s just not water. I find that really hard to believe and tbh I don’t believe it at all. I am very open minded and believe in other cultures around the world and respect their beliefs. I believe that Jesus Christ,Buddha and Allah amongst other that existed. But I just don’t think they’re is a god. They’re might be Gods but not just one. Because who is the creator of god and who created the creator??? It goes on and on. It did not take 7 days for God to create everything. It took over 13.5 billion years. I also believe in aliens or extraterrestrials. Who’s their god or their creator? There’s not true answer. It just leads to more questions when you try to find out who or what god is

  • @maj373
    @maj3732 жыл бұрын

    If you want to understand God you need to think outside the traditional religions

  • @redmed10
    @redmed102 жыл бұрын

    If God knows everything that's going to happen he must be bored shitless.

  • @vidtrax662
    @vidtrax6623 жыл бұрын

    I read somewhere, mankind created 30,000 gods 😱😱😱. It has to be a bluff?

  • @termikesmike

    @termikesmike

    3 жыл бұрын

    And why the H would a random creature do this ??? And what the H does knowing about other Galaxies and quantum physics have to do with survival of the fittest in this swamp ?

  • @tonyosime9380

    @tonyosime9380

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@termikesmike Very simple answer: to control others

  • @alikarimi-langroodi5402
    @alikarimi-langroodi54022 жыл бұрын

    When God is here where nothing else is and wants people to be equal, in peace and in love and in heaven, what would He be like?

  • @DanielClementYoga
    @DanielClementYoga2 жыл бұрын

    It is obvious by the titles of these videos that this isn't an even-handed exploration of what's there.

  • @rudy8278
    @rudy82782 жыл бұрын

    Worship means separation. Spiritual experience is about Union.

  • @aroemaliuged4776
    @aroemaliuged4776 Жыл бұрын

    First guy He is their I am here We are here So god exists 😅

  • @bruhweexist
    @bruhweexist3 жыл бұрын

    21:15 !!

  • @sunchong1891
    @sunchong18913 жыл бұрын

    God is a byproduct or a side affect. In order for the universe to experience itself , it created intelligent sentient beings that can think abstractly. In doing so, the God construct is the side affect of becoming self aware as having formulated an identity/ego to interact with reality and our cosmos.

  • @Manpreetsingh-go7xm
    @Manpreetsingh-go7xm Жыл бұрын

    GOD is Big Bang pure energy. Only one purpose creation. So that’s why it didn’t interfere. Maybe it’s first creation was angels demon. Maybe magic exist. But no one can b bigger than GOD

  • @chillialexander
    @chillialexander3 жыл бұрын

    We do know that God loves the smell of a good bbq.

  • @johnnyaxon_

    @johnnyaxon_

    3 жыл бұрын

    God in everything and everyone.

  • @johnnyaxon_

    @johnnyaxon_

    3 жыл бұрын

    @John_doe We are One. Subject, Observer is always One. Who is always One? 👁️

  • @chillialexander

    @chillialexander

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johnnyaxon_ I think you might be right, but it literally does mean everything and everyone, including: all viruses, all mass murderers, all natural disasters, all lies and deception, all base lusts. Essentially all ‘evil’ as well as all ‘good’, and therefore beyond mere human perspective morality.

  • @chillialexander

    @chillialexander

    3 жыл бұрын

    @John_doe with enough left over for the priests to enjoy a good meal of course.

  • @johnnyaxon_

    @johnnyaxon_

    3 жыл бұрын

    @John_doe 👍

  • @experiencemystique4982
    @experiencemystique49823 жыл бұрын

    Are you trying an interview???

  • @deepaktripathi4417
    @deepaktripathi4417 Жыл бұрын

    What if it turns out to be true that we were talking a teapot around the Sun?

  • @nickrindal2787
    @nickrindal27873 жыл бұрын

    God is just like everyone else.. just a bit extra and really normal.. hi 👋

  • @raywest3834
    @raywest38342 жыл бұрын

    I love these videos, but I cannot see the point of posing a question without any credible answer.

  • @ezbody
    @ezbody3 жыл бұрын

    So many revisions of God, so little time -- which one do I worship and which one should I hate? There must be a philosopher out there who knows the answer, confidently. ;)

  • @rayvillers2688

    @rayvillers2688

    2 жыл бұрын

    No one can say anything That can't be changed by another. R. L. Kuhn you're miss6the point it's all a mater of faith . The history of science and religion and politics proves that. There is no absolute indisputable answer not even in science

  • @williambranch3150
    @williambranch31503 жыл бұрын

    Try thinking of it from the opposite perspective. You can't describe God like an object. These qualities that you are attributing emanate from God.

  • @ck58npj72
    @ck58npj723 жыл бұрын

    Farther from truth...

  • @termikesmike

    @termikesmike

    3 жыл бұрын

    "Farther from truth..." Isn't "Closer to Truth" more 'figurative', ergo "Farther" is much too "literal"... I much prefer " further " > as in "further on down the road, we will know ...", not in literal feet, but through the wings on our Sneakers ! And until then kids , don't forget to eat your spinach, then you'll get the creamcycle !

  • @ck58npj72

    @ck58npj72

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@termikesmike You are mistaken my friend, "farther" is precisely the word I intended to use, and is the most adequate word to describe exactly what I meant.

  • @termikesmike

    @termikesmike

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ck58npj72 Will you explain please ... definitions are more important to understanding than simple declaration

  • @ck58npj72

    @ck58npj72

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@termikesmike dude I am no professor of English, I simply say what I mean, and what I said is exactly what 2meant to say!

  • @termikesmike

    @termikesmike

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ck58npj72 neither am I a professor of English ... But to have a 'discussion' in Philosophy ( the Love of Wisdom), definitions of the words being used are of critical importance to understanding .... Is it any 'wonder' why there are so many Wars about "God".. ... ( that's a rhetorical question, no need to answer ) I hope you will continue to watch "Closer to Truth"

  • @markaponte7057
    @markaponte7057 Жыл бұрын

    What is God like? Imaginary

  • @benparrish672
    @benparrish6723 жыл бұрын

    If there is No God (ultimate creator being) then who decides what is "right & wrong"?

  • @ShowMeYoBoob

    @ShowMeYoBoob

    2 жыл бұрын

    no one right and wrong is subjective

  • @cyrillablea8105
    @cyrillablea81053 жыл бұрын

    You know what the best type of Father figure that I picture God to be a good father loves his child no matter what his child does he doesn't see fault within him he sees anything that is darkness within his child and wants to turn that into light. He wants to let his child know that he's accepted and he's loved no matter what and that even he makes himself makes mistakes but his mistakes he loves them because he learns from them and that's what he teaches his child. I mean he made Eve and Eve was hungry and yeah he disciplined her but you're supposed to discipline your child but just because she was hungry didn't mean that he kept her out of the kitchen forever she still was able to live learn and grow.. he didn't tell her to go to the gym LOL he offered to pay for her membership to the gym and make it an option LOL. I think that God is a loving God and that's why he sent his son and that's why that story exists because to have that much pain to lose your child shows how deeply he loved all of us.

  • @termikesmike

    @termikesmike

    3 жыл бұрын

    Eve wasn't simply hungry - she was eating the icing on the wedding cake

  • @En_theo
    @En_theo3 жыл бұрын

    Even if you met God, how would you know it's really him ? You have never met a god before, after all...

  • @frasermackay9099

    @frasermackay9099

    3 жыл бұрын

    You are god dude just like everything. You know him as “you”.

  • @johnnyaxon_

    @johnnyaxon_

    3 жыл бұрын

    God is everything and everyone. God is all. There is nothing besides God.

  • @En_theo

    @En_theo

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@frasermackay9099 Yeah, tell that to him (or... myself ) ! :)

  • @En_theo

    @En_theo

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Jon So it must be a brainwashing at some point... even if it is to force us to recognize him instantaneously, it's still brainwashing since we would have "no choice" in the fact.

  • @greenspeed3619
    @greenspeed3619 Жыл бұрын

    We know as a species we tend to anthropomorphize things that we don't understand. This is how we created God. Any rational person admits there is no evidence for God.

  • @jamiboothe
    @jamiboothe Жыл бұрын

    It does not "matter", if god is the space between the matter that we call flesh. There is such a vast amount of space between the nucleus and random electron orbits around that nucleus, of the matter that makes up our bodies, that if space was god, God would be within our very nature, and without our very nature, and encompass the entire universe. If Space was God, then everything is mostly God. We literally swim in God, and are unaware of God, in the same moment.

  • @Jesusismykin
    @Jesusismykin Жыл бұрын

    That God, is Jesus.

  • @tedgrant2
    @tedgrant2 Жыл бұрын

    What is God like ? Many people have considered this question very carefully and derived many subsidiary questions. For example, "Does God love us ?" The answer is "yes", because it's preferable to "no".

  • @torbjrnsivertstl3548
    @torbjrnsivertstl35483 жыл бұрын

    The gospel gives room for human weakness and gives us both power and wisdom from God. When Jesus was on earth he did wonders, God did it. Still the Hebrew leaders didn`t believe in him and asked what wonder he would do to make them believe in him. Certainly they would expect Messiah to be a mighty king on the earth, but he said that they should not get any other signs that the Jonah-sign, for like he was in the belly of the fish in three days, Jesus would be under the earth for three days. He should be killed, but after three days he should rise from the dead. Apostle Paul said that the Hebrew asked for signs, then the gospel seemed to weak, the Greek asked for wisdom, then the gospel seemed folly. But God’s weakness is stronger than men and his foolishness is wiser than men. I see it this way, that since the wisdom was foolish it gave room for the power of God, and since the power was weak, it gave room for the wisdom. Since humans are weak creatures made of dust, they need it. There was room for the human, natural weakness and that is important for nature philosophy to have a chance and later it became important for nature science to develop. In the gospel Paul found the power of God and his method was to use it (1.Corint.1-2).

  • @bobbysamra9588
    @bobbysamra95883 жыл бұрын

    I have to agree with Sikhism 🤔

  • @brydonjesse

    @brydonjesse

    3 жыл бұрын

    What they are hindu who took up arms against Islam

  • @brydonjesse

    @brydonjesse

    3 жыл бұрын

    To diverge from hindu and the many gods etc would be buddhism, the right idea

  • @andreasplosky8516
    @andreasplosky85162 жыл бұрын

    "What is God Like?" Like a figment of the imagination.

  • @torbjrnsivertstl3548
    @torbjrnsivertstl35483 жыл бұрын

    Jeremiah prophesied about the new covenant. Jer.31,31 "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,'for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more." 35 Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar-- the LORD of hosts is his name: 36 "If this fixed order departs from before me, declares the LORD, then shall the offspring of Israel cease from being a nation before me forever." 37 Thus says the LORD: "If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done, declares the LORD." The Lord would make a new covenant with Israel, so he was quite sure then, that the heavens above can’t be measured and the foundations of the earth can’t be explored. He put the lights on the sky and made the ocean-waves, it reminds me that the light has wave-nature and it reminds me of the wave-function. There is certainly much up there that we can’t see, because the light has not reached us yet and we can’t see the black holes. So it can’t be measured. Radioactivity lifts up the crust of the earth to become dry land. It is explained by quantum mechanics and the collapse of the wave-function is hard to understand. It seems like the elementary particles have a certain degree of free will. And so have living creatures. If our thoughts are (like) the wave-function, what is our soul then? According to Jesus it is far more important for us that our souls are alive and saved for eternity, than our body survives, so we should first of all be glad that our names were written in the book of life in heaven. But when he rose from the dead, it was clearly the body also. So there is a very fundamental creation in the salvation, God creates something new.

  • @kwesimannabintenya8448
    @kwesimannabintenya8448 Жыл бұрын

    God is a Metaphor for Humanity Existence our cry to Evolve pass Man hatred of Mankind our Love War and Hatred ! .

  • @TreeBreezeL
    @TreeBreezeL2 жыл бұрын

    Any thing that exists is knowable God is not knowable by human understanding If it is impossible to know God by our understanding, then he is to us as though he does not exist Therefore, wondering about God is a waste of time

  • @ferodfriend792
    @ferodfriend792 Жыл бұрын

    Nobody can discribe God is like at less you understand what Jesus testified about Him. Our capacity to understand espiritual life beyond the earth, is tiny. Our mind and experience is limited to at least understand our Planet and all the natural laws that is subjected. We still try to understand The Univese laws. But we still not understand what is living a espiritual life , and it is not corncerned about religious practices,which is a different zone. Faith is a fruit of that espirituality, and listening Jesus make you undestand the whole Bible together to make us understand what His doctrine was all about except inducing you to a Religion. The doctrine of Jesus is related to the introduccion of the Life in the Espírit that He Himself Received from God. He wants from us to start believing in God just like Abraham did to start receiving Jesus Espírit Promised to Abraham when God pointed to Abraham that his generación will be like the number of stars in the sky. And it is not refering to the jews only but all af those no- jewish who believe in Jesus teachings( His doctrines). No one in Earth has seen God, ONLY Jesus. He is the Word of God Alive itself; so He knows exactly who God is . When you read the Whole Bible several times, it prepares us to receive the light that Jesus teaching is teaching about, that is: Life in Espírit, No Religion practices. He hate Religion because it doesn’t change human hearths. He knows that those practices are just Idolatry practices. God Bless our understanding of His Word, and His teachings through His Only Beloved Son and the Espiritual Life He wants Humans to LEARN and LIVE. He wants humans to be more concern to each other by changing his lives. He wants Humans to Love each other. That is a the first fruit of the Espirit living in us. God Bless you, professor.