Rambling Comments on God

Rambling Comments on God

I do not know if there is one god, many gods or no god at all. After thinking long and hard on the matter, I come to no conclusions.
It is my opinion that no one knows for sure that a god exists. I say this while well-aware that many people claim to know; some say they know there is a god and others say they know there isn’t. But “knowing” that god or gods exist, that they are real in the sense that they materially affect material things, doesn’t imply that they do exist. On the other hand, “knowing” that there is no God in any, shape or form does not imply they do not exist.
“Knowing” that God exists is the same as having faith that God exists.

Having had some little but surprising experience with hallucination, I am amazed at what the human mind can convince the owner of that mind is there but isn’t really there. Thus eye witness accounts of appearances of the Virgin Mary, angels and various saints do not convince me that these manifestations of God were actually there. Magicians earn their livings by convincing the eye that something occurred that didn’t really occur.
I think it is all about faith that a particular god exists, which for those with faith, is the same as “knowing” that a particular version of God exists. If God were real in some obvious way, then God wouldn’t be a god anymore. If there is a God then It must necessarily be forever unproved; for if its existence were proved, It wouldn’t be a god anymore. God should be beyond human understanding else It is just another comic book super hero.


Given that the concept of God is beyond human understanding, how does one talk about God? What is God? What is meant by the word “God”? What is God made of? If God exists then It must be made of something. What does it mean for God to exist if It is made of nothing? Is God everywhere? Is God internal or external to the universe?
God, The Spirit and The Word are undefined terms. As far as I know there are not a set of axioms that God satisfies; certainly not a set that any sizable number of people agree on.
A God starts out as The One True God. A True God satisfies an amorphous set of axioms that arise from convenience and are sometimes added after the fact.
I don’t know how many One True Gods there are but it seems to me that asserting the existence of One True God is similar to asserting that there is One True Point; and you know which one it is, except that few are willing to kill and die for their “One True Point”.
The idea is that finding The Unique One True God is like finding The Unique One True Point, it’s a meaningless task.
There can’t be two “One True Gods” that are very different. I suppose that The One True God of a Baptist Church in Atlanta may be a little different than The One True God of a Baptist Church in Los Angles but nothing to get upset about. When the difference reaches some critical point the 2nd Baptist Church is born.
The Hebrews and Arabs apparently both started out in the Tribe of Abraham and they eventually came up with very different “One True Gods”. They were so different that acceptance of one implied rejection of the other. This has led to animosity.
Then the Northern Tribes came on the scene with their own “One True God” and put Him into the fray.




Philosophers and theologians try to define God but if there is more than one definition, then for all practical purposes you don’t have a definition of God, you have an argument.
According to Karen Armstrong in “Battle for God” an early Muslim scholar said that all religions are correct; different religions are different faces of God. This more or less makes sense but so what? This idea didn’t stay the hand holding a sword on its way to erase one of those faces.
I think that in a practical sense the existence of God is not a philosophical question but a psychological question. People who have a “One True God” aren’t interested in logically defining that Being. Their Being satisfies their psychological needs without befit of axioms very well, thank you very much.
I don’t think that logic convinces that God exists nor does logic convince that God doesn’t exist. How much a person believes or disbelieves in God does not depend on logic, it depends on the psychology of the person, depends on how the person’s brain is wired. The actual existence or non-existence of God seems to be logically independent of how many people believe God exists.