Indeed not, He is “the” Abrahamic God. The God who revealed Himself to Abraham and is followed by the Jewish, Christina and Islamic religions.
Logic. The beginning of life cannot be ascribed to any entity that already possesses life.
Yes. We will all attain nirvana, eventually. That tetralemma will apply to us after our last death.
He did. We all did. Our existence now is due to our birth. Our birth is due to our failure to attain enlightenment in our previous life. The Buddhist approach to the world is very different to the Abrahamic approach; this is just one example.
Very well, let us avoid the fallacy by using a new word: “doshef”. I shall use “living” to describe material life and “doshef” to describe the approximate equivalent that God posesses, and which is translated in the Bible as “living”.
I accept evolution because the evidence overwhelmingly supports it. Evolution is a process which explains the origin of species, not the origin of life. The science of the origin of material life is called Abiogenesis, and has non-living chemical (name removed by moderator)uts with very primitive living proto-cells as its output.
It is your authority, so I use it here. You would not agree with the description of your God in Buddhist scriptures, which would divert the discussion.
Yes. A chessboard is a compound entity, so its different parts may simultaneously have contradictory properties. All humans, the Buddha included, are compound entities, so they may also have contradictory properties. The tetralemma can apply to compound entities.
How do you explain the wholeness of your being. You are one person, perceiving, thinking and feeling, planning and carrying out those actions. In a universe of chemical reactions, here we are knowing that through time we are separate and connected. This is undeniable reality, our being here, whatever this is; the rest pure conjecture, however sophisticated the relationships that reveal what is known. The numbers that amaze you that are part of that connection with the world, these very concepts, you tell me how they are merely the product of organic molecules, coming together to bring about the whole that is you-in-the-world. Some scientist “believe” is correct; and yet they have formulated no physical force to explain it. They could actually; science fiction, seeing the gaps, has done so.
It applies to us now. Well, maybe not entirely. In a way it does and more so as we grow in Christ.
So are you claiming that life cannot arise from purely natural biochemical processes and can arise only as a result of divine intervention?
Yes, it seems obvious actually.
This trick question is the point in regards to things like the chessboard statement. Often even with factual math trick wording can confound most humans, therefore in regards to such things issuing a “stumper” thought process is the same as this trick question
Yeah, but now you’re playing the bellhop trick. Where’s that matter (on which natural processes operate) come from?
Where your God comes from?Yeah, but now you’re playing the bellhop trick. Where’s that matter (on which natural processes operate) come from?
He comes from nowhere; He was always there. This is what we’ve all, very patiently, been trying to explain.
You didn’t get my point. Assume that there is close box on the table. We, I and you, I says there is nothing in the box and you say there is. We cannot convince each other unless we open the box. I think it is very sincere to say that we don’t know.
If someone we trust, who has never lied and has no reason to lie, tells us what is in the box, but that opening the box is for some reason (it doesn’t matter why) impossible…
The materialist says that matter comes from nowhere and has always been there in some form or another.
I have to laugh when I recall the learned men science who worked so hard to disprove the peasant superstition of spontaneous generation… That flies sprung from meat, or mice from rags… And now they’re falling back on exactly that.
E=MCsquared explains it all. As long as potential energy exists, there is also the potential existence of matter.