Understandings and definitions of God differ for each culture and person in the world. As similar as some views may be, yet to find out what or who God is, would be a quest the individual must take for oneself. This personal quest does not necessarily mean Christianity, any of the Abrahamic faiths, or any other particular religion. You can find your belief or faith on your own, but to believe in God is to believe in a higher power. You may decide whether and what higher purposes influence your life, decisions and activities.
Define intelligence: the ability to put facts together and create relationships, and realize that this conceptual activity is shown in science and reality in general.
Consider what is complex, intelligent human-thought -- no one can really explain that with certainty... It is not binary logic (not 0's and 1's) as in a computer which is strictly programmed.
Even a super-computer is very much like a kind of lower animal that builds a certain kind of home, eats a particular way, all by (pre)programmed instructions called instincts. Ants, gnats and bees with tiny mental facility can do amazingly coordinated actions, but humans exceed even the capabilities of super computers in independent learning and multiplexing of varied complex relationships (though not pure speed in repetitious actions or lengthy calculations as that is not the humans' great strength).
Consider the proposition that God is by definition an "intelligence", an authoritythat/who decides "reality" including how, when and why that works freely or to what extent it is controlled and that is higher in all ways than humans.
Don't be surprised that some people seem to expect/require God to make the earth acontrolled, pain-free zone without consequences for the individual and other human activity:
Such limits do not allow that God could organize reality around complex layers of good versus evil with myriad consequences/rewards, and that it's not necessarily at all as simple as such simplistic thoughts would require (consider that God has no such preconceived limitations).
One is evidently largely responsible for oneself, but one is sometimes at the wrong place such that ones path may cross that of a psychopath like Adolph Hitler. And, ones people/or nation may (unwisely) follow such a megalomaniac -- then this does not cater to easily scripted concepts of an explainable "god in a box" (you may need to open your closed mind/box) -- but of course some may wish to tell you about a mousy, limited god...
Don't worry that people may want to tempt/persuade you to agree with them to deny the actuality of the all powerful God -- because their "logic" is not based on any real definite authority: just upon their own denial-logic. Be glad when that denial-logic makes you sad: be glad that you have sympathy and love for them.
Define intelligence: the ability to put facts together and create relationships, and realize that this conceptual activity is shown in science and reality in general.
Consider what is complex, intelligent human-thought -- no one can really explain that with certainty... It is not binary logic (not 0's and 1's) as in a computer which is strictly programmed.
Even a super-computer is very much like a kind of lower animal that builds a certain kind of home, eats a particular way, all by (pre)programmed instructions called instincts. Ants, gnats and bees with tiny mental facility can do amazingly coordinated actions, but humans exceed even the capabilities of super computers in independent learning and multiplexing of varied complex relationships (though not pure speed in repetitious actions or lengthy calculations as that is not the humans' great strength).
Consider the proposition that God is by definition an "intelligence", an authoritythat/who decides "reality" including how, when and why that works freely or to what extent it is controlled and that is higher in all ways than humans.
Don't be surprised that some people seem to expect/require God to make the earth acontrolled, pain-free zone without consequences for the individual and other human activity:
Such limits do not allow that God could organize reality around complex layers of good versus evil with myriad consequences/rewards, and that it's not necessarily at all as simple as such simplistic thoughts would require (consider that God has no such preconceived limitations).
One is evidently largely responsible for oneself, but one is sometimes at the wrong place such that ones path may cross that of a psychopath like Adolph Hitler. And, ones people/or nation may (unwisely) follow such a megalomaniac -- then this does not cater to easily scripted concepts of an explainable "god in a box" (you may need to open your closed mind/box) -- but of course some may wish to tell you about a mousy, limited god...
Don't worry that people may want to tempt/persuade you to agree with them to deny the actuality of the all powerful God -- because their "logic" is not based on any real definite authority: just upon their own denial-logic. Be glad when that denial-logic makes you sad: be glad that you have sympathy and love for them.
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