Atheists Are Justified - Too Humble to Name 'What No Human Knows'
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
November 21, 2017 11:15am CST
I visit a few 'Atheists vs. Theists'-groups on Facebook, and it generally seems that atheists take "some definition of 'God' which can't possibly work and proceed to further explain why it doesn't work (and why therefore God can't exist)."
Maybe that's what brought me to propose that "neither Atheists nor Theists exist"---if 'knowing what something is' is part-and-parcel of 'believing whether it exists,' then--one of God's features being "that God is indescribable by humans"--humans can't 'believe God does-or-doesn't exist!
Thinking about this, I remember that God is said to have given the human 'authority to name the animals.' https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Genesis%202:19
Maybe that's the 'secret reason' (not 'what they think,' but the subconscious cause) that atheists don't believe 'anything humans can name' is the same being that gave us authority to name things. How can anyone hope to 'name "God"'?
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
21 Nov 17
@mythociate I think both believers and unbelievers have desribed God well over the centuries. To atheists he is just whatever belevers want him / her / they to be - invisible (to most of us), immensely powerful, magical, etc - to atheists he is just an absense - some definitions / descriptions humanize God (not just in Jesus) but giving him hans, eyes, a beard, imposes boundaries and limitation on the infinite - to believers God is everything they can imagine plus more - to unbelievers, there simply is no God beyond faith and imagination
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