What is God?

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I don’t agree. The whole concept of original sin is not only ludicrous, but utterly immoral.
I don’t want to get too off-topic, but I think the problem here is that you think we inherit somebody’s sin. While the terminology is admittedly confusing, what we’re really inheriting is the fallen state of man caused by that sin.
 
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Not really, The Princeton dictionary on-line says that a person is
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* S: (n) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, *soul*
“there was too much for one person to do”
* S: (n) person (a human body (usually including the clothing)) “a weapon was hidden on his person”
  • S: (n) person (a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party) “stop talking about yourself in the third person”
I highlighted the pertinent entry for you to make it easier to see. A thorough reading of reveals that a person is an individual, someone, mortal, or sole. An extraterrestrial would be a mortal and spiritual beings are souls.

Some clarity can be gained from a more thorough analysis using multiple sources such as the Webster dictionary.

Main Entry: per·son
Pronunciation: \ˈpər-sən
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French persone, from Latin persona actor’s mask, character in a play, person, probably from Etruscan phersu mask, from Greek prosōpa, plural of prosōpon face, mask — more at prosopopoeia
Date: 13th century
1 : human, individual —sometimes used in combination especially by those who prefer to avoid man in compounds applicable to both sexes <chairperson> <spokesperson>
2 : a character or part in or as if in a play : guise
3 a : one of the three modes of being in the Trinitarian Godhead as understood by Christians b : the unitary personality of Christ that unites the divine and human natures
4 a archaic : bodily appearance b : the body of a human being; also : the body and clothing
5 : the personality of a human being : self
6 : one (as a human being, a partnership, or a corporation) that is recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties
7 : reference of a segment of discourse to the speaker, to one spoken to, or to one spoken of as indicated by means of certain pronouns or in many languages by verb inflection
per·son·hood -ˌhu̇d\ noun

*As can be clearly seen, a human being is only one of the possible definitions of a person. I hope this helps illuminate and clarify your misconceptions on the subject.
You missed a salient one…
Key: “S:” = Show Synset (semantic) relations, “W:” = Show Word (lexical) relations
Noun
* S: (n) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul **(a human being) **
“there was too much for one person to do”
* S: (n) person (a human body (usually including the clothing)) “a weapon was hidden on his person”
* S: (n) person (a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party) “stop talking about yourself in the third person”

You sir, are a liar and a rogue…

I’m sorry that you misunderstood. Actually, the parenthetical is not part of the definition. The person, individual, … mortal, **soul **are more to the point.

I have again highlighted the pertinent entry for you to make it easier for you to see. A thorough reading of reveals that a person is an individual, someone, mortal, or sole. An extraterrestrial would be a mortal and spiritual beings are souls.

You’ll gain some insight by using additional references to help filter out your misconceptions as to the definition. I recomment Webster’s dictionary as well as others.

As can be clearly seen, a human being is only one of the possible definitions of a person. Again, I hope this helps illuminate and clarify your misconceptions on the subject.
Also, my dear brother, please do not reply with ad hominim attacks, an ad hominem attack detracts from your credibility as it commonly appears as a last resort when evidence or rational arguments fail to convince another.

One of the things that convinced me of the falsehood of atheism was that in my years as an atheist I used to see all of the arguments from the atheist side eventually degrade into this type of sniping and it occured to me that those doing that were not concerned about discovering the Truth, but about defending their pre-conceived athiestic beliefs.

May God watch over you and grant you every blessing.

Your brother in Christ.
 
Moonbeam,
I thought the substance of the argument revolved around your question; “What is God?”
So, how about you quit creating diversions and take up my challenge?
Yppop
I read some of your posts on that other thread.

They’re philosophical drivel, a complete waste of space.

Good luck in the fast food industry.

In the meantime, how about you take up my challenge. Give me some observable and quantitative data on God. Just one observation that can be ratified by a repeatable experiment will do.
 
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Ignatius:
I’m sorry that you misunderstood. Actually, the parenthetical is not part of the definition. The person, individual, … mortal
, **soul **are more to the point.

I have again highlighted the pertinent entry for you to make it easier for you to see. A thorough reading of reveals that a person is an individual, someone, mortal, or sole. An extraterrestrial would be a mortal and spiritual beings are souls.

You’ll gain some insight by using additional references to help filter out your misconceptions as to the definition. I recomment Webster’s dictionary as well as others.

As can be clearly seen, a human being is only one of the possible definitions of a person. Again, I hope this helps illuminate and clarify your misconceptions on the subject.
Also, my dear brother, please do not reply with ad hominim attacks, an ad hominem attack detracts from your credibility as it commonly appears as a last resort when evidence or rational arguments fail to convince another.

One of the things that convinced me of the falsehood of atheism was that in my years as an atheist I used to see all of the arguments from the atheist side eventually degrade into this type of sniping and it occured to me that those doing that were not concerned about discovering the Truth, but about defending their pre-conceived athiestic beliefs.

May God watch over you and grant you every blessing.

Your brother in Christ.

I am not interested in how you define a person, nor how you rationalize God. I want you to show me an observation that can be tested by a repeatable experiment to demonstrate God’s existence in a quantitative way.
 
Were any of you around when being Atheist was intellectually fascinating?

times have changed apparently…:tsktsk:
Not really. They haven’t changed much at all… After several thousand years, people still can’t drag their minds away from the apron strings of fake parent figures.
 
I read some of your posts on that other thread.

They’re philosophical drivel, a complete waste of space.

Good luck in the fast food industry.

In the meantime, how about you take up my challenge. Give me some observable and quantitative data on God. Just one observation that can be ratified by a repeatable experiment will do.
You sound like a person who would be suicidal not because of depression, but of curiosity lol

sorry just the vibe i’m getting
 
Moonstruck, you have said that you do not intend to mock us or our beliefs, and in good faith I have taken your word for it. Words like this, though, express the opposite. One does not suggest that a “sick idiot” must have come up with a belief that one is not inherently mocking as stupid or bad. You have used other phrasing and sarcasm similarly confrontational, and it is exactly the sort of thing that rightly causes people who hold our beliefs to take your posts personally. Please watch yourself on this sort of behavior, if your intentions are sincere and you honestly don’t want to come across as mocking people and/or their beliefs. Thank you. 🙂

Blessings in Christ,
KindredSoul
Since it has been made clear to me by several people on this forum that we’re playing prison rules, unwarranted attacks on what they believe my career to be, uncharitable and caustic remarks on my personality, I’m afraid it’s gone beyond playing nice now.
 
And you sound like a pontificating, overweening, prancing loon.
wooooooooah settle. I was just saying that because you want observable data of God. No one on this forum can give it to you, there is no need to continue the debate.
 
Actually, somebody else, probably you, asserted that I was “a mere Scotch technician”. I do have an extensive knowledge of physics and qualifications in the field of physics. My job is technical in nature. I’m not sure why you don’t see how it’s perfectly possible to be educated as a physicist and work in a technical field?
Taking a couple of physics courses and/or self educating in the subject does not make you a physicist. What you claimed is nothing more than an egregious example of self promotion especially when done to add additional credibility within a debate.
Incidentally, I’m in my early middle age. My career spans a little more than 3 days.
Obviously you miss the point rather badly; the 3 (actually 2 days+1/2 hour) days refer to the time that transpired from your entry into this forum (5/10/10) and your implied claim of being a physicist(5/10/100). Now do you get it; IT’S SARCASM?
Not that my career is any business of yours. I find this line of attack, this vulgar, priggish snobbery, absolutely distasteful and contemptible on your part.
You brought up the apparently faux career positions in your posts; all I did was point them out as a self-serving attempt to add credibility to your arguments. After all a physicist has more credibility than a technician when pontificating about physics, especially when the technician makes a completely false statement about the creation of matter. As far as your comments re: my line of attach: thank you, I obviously have been successful in engaging you in the tenor you set in this thread by your rejection of discourse.
I don’t have to answer the challenge on Angular momentum for you. It was already answered decades before I was born. Whenever any particle is created or annihilated, the net angular momentum must always be exactly equal to zero. It is angular momentum conservation and mass energy conservation that cause particles to exist.
I don’t know what kind of physics they teach in Scotland, but it sure is different than the physics I learned.

If the net angular momentum must be zero, then angular momentum obviously has no effect. What you are saying is that if angular momentum is present then creation or annihilation won’t take place. You’re original statement “The law of angular momentum and the law of conservation of mass energy are largely responsible for the matter we observe in the Universe” implies the creation of matter at the first moments of the creation of the universe. In your more recent posts you seem to have picked up on the Higgs mechanism. However physicists do not know the cause of the creation of matter, they assume it has something to do with the Higgs Field. And if it turns out that the Higgs Field is responsible, you will have to concede, since the Higgs particle is a scalar quantity for which the angular momentum is zero, that you are dead wrong. No?
To put this in a very simplistic way, each point in spacetime is potentially any particle at large, concentrate an appropriate amount of energy at an appropriate frequency and hence wavelength into a point in spacetime and the matter / antimatter couplet that corresponds will be created. For want of a better analogy, conservation laws make particles stay particles. Without them we would live in a universe of pure energy. There would be nothing.
Come on Moonstruck, you must know that the creation of the particle/antiparticle couplet was predicted by Paul Dirac’s equation, but the couplet creation can only occur within the constraints of the uncertainty principle, which means the couplet disappears almost as soon as it appears. It couldn’t possibly be the reason for the creation of matter. There is no consensus hypothesis for matter creation or for the asymmetry of particles over antiparticles (baryogenesis) let alone one having to do with angular momentum.
Momentum is actually written into Einsteins famous equation on transmutation of mass / energy. E = mc^2 is a truncated version that assumes zero momentum.
Let E = energy, m = rest mass, c = light speed in a vacuum and p = momentum.
and the full equation is E^2 = m^2 * c4 + p^2 * c^2
I am quite familiar with the extended version of Einstein’s equation and I know that he derived it by substitution of relativistic mass into the classical formula for kinetic energy, but in no way does it relate angular momentum to the creation of matter, which is the point of your claim. That “p” in your formula AIN’T angular momentum!
Now, I have to work long days through the week. My leisure time is somewhat limited. If you want me to respond to everything you say, you have to break it down into bullet points for me. I simply don’t have time to answer everyone the way they possibly wish me to answer them, not even your majesty himself.
Some advice: If you truly are interested in other person’s ideas, for example an answer to the question, What is God?” then try to enter into a discourse rather than creating a twaddle of bullet points. I offered you an opportunity for discourse; you for whatever reason were not up to the challenge, you preferred the twaddle and I have realized, finally, that this forum is not set up for discourse, which is alright with me; it is I that is out of place. So have fun with your twaddle; you should be a very popular respondent.

Yppop
 
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I am not interested in how you define a person, nor how you rationalize God. I want you to show me an observation that can be tested by a repeatable experiment to demonstrate God’s existence in a quantitative way.
Only material things are quantifiable and measurable. Are you saying that you believe only in material things?
 
Taking a couple of physics courses and/or self educating in the subject does not make you a physicist. What you claimed is nothing more than an egregious example of self promotion especially when done to add additional credibility within a debate.
I have a degree in a physics related subject. As far as my work goes, I have no intention of discussing that with you, you’ll only come back and tell me, in the absence of evidence, that you do something far grander.
Obviously you miss the point rather badly; the 3 (actually 2 days+1/2 hour) days refer to the time that transpired from your entry into this forum (5/10/10) and your implied claim of being a physicist(5/10/100). Now do you get it; IT’S SARCASM?
The lowest form of wit. I can see why you enjoy it.
You brought up the apparently faux career positions in your posts; all I did was point them out as a self-serving attempt to add credibility to your arguments. After all a physicist has more credibility than a technician when pontificating about physics, especially when the technician makes a completely false statement about the creation of matter. As far as your comments re: my line of attach: thank you, I obviously have been successful in engaging you in the tenor you set in this thread by your rejection of discourse.
I brought up my career because my credentials were questioned, that I am “a mere Scotch technician”.
I don’t know what kind of physics they teach in Scotland, but it sure is different than the physics I learned.
Well now that’s fascinating. You mean to say you’ve actually learned something? The evidence for you having any education is even thinner than the evidence for God.
If the net angular momentum must be zero, then angular momentum obviously has no effect.
If I earn a million dollars this year, and spend a million dollars, my net income is zero. Does the money have no effect?
What you are saying is that if angular momentum is present then creation or annihilation won’t take place.
Wrong again dumpling head. My goodness, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

What I am saying is that if there was no angular momentum conservation law, the particles in the Universe would instantly diffuse into energy.
You’re original statement “The law of angular momentum and the law of conservation of mass energy are largely responsible for the matter we observe in the Universe” implies the creation of matter at the first moments of the creation of the universe. In your more recent posts you seem to have picked up on the Higgs mechanism. However physicists do not know the cause of the creation of matter, they assume it has something to do with the Higgs Field. And if it turns out that the Higgs Field is responsible, you will have to concede, since the Higgs particle is a scalar quantity for which the angular momentum is zero, that you are dead wrong. No?
If it turns out that the Higgs field is responsible, the Higgs boson will be bound by the law of conservation of momentum.
Come on Moonstruck, you must know that the creation of the particle/antiparticle couplet was predicted by Paul Dirac’s equation, but the couplet creation can only occur within the constraints of the uncertainty principle, which means the couplet disappears almost as soon as it appears.
Not always. Some matter antimatter couplets are sustained, accroding to current theory with an infinitecimal bias towards matter. That is why matter exists.
It couldn’t possibly be the reason for the creation of matter. There is no consensus hypothesis for matter creation or for the asymmetry of particles over antiparticles (baryogenesis) let alone one having to do with angular momentum.
Actually, there is. Protons have a half life. So do anti protons. If that half life differed even fractionally, there would be a bias.
I am quite familiar with the extended version of Einstein’s equation and I know that he derived it by substitution of relativistic mass into the classical formula for kinetic energy, but in no way does it relate angular momentum to the creation of matter, which is the point of your claim. That “p” in your formula AIN’T angular momentum!
The p is momentum. I never said it was angular. The conservation law still applies to momentum.
Some advice: If you truly are interested in other person’s ideas, for example an answer to the question, What is God?” then try to enter into a discourse rather than creating a twaddle of bullet points.
Would you rather I posted enough twaddle to fill the pages of War and Peace the way you do? I lost interest in what you and the other people on this thread had to say the minute it became obvious that I wasn’t going to get a straight answer.
I offered you an opportunity for discourse; you for whatever reason were not up to the challenge, you preferred the twaddle and I have realized, finally, that this forum is not set up for discourse, which is alright with me; it is I that is out of place. So have fun with your twaddle; you should be a very popular respondent.
I wasn’t up to the challenge? I have absoutely no interst in discourse with you. I think you’re utterings are absolutely moronic and I think you’re a vulgar prig.

You do have one redeeming feature. You’re ill mannered.
 
I wasn’t up to the challenge? I have absoutely no interst in discourse with you. I think you’re utterings are absolutely moronic and I think you’re a vulgar prig.

You do have one redeeming feature. You’re ill mannered.
And with that, I think you reveal your true level of intellectual discourse and I can no longer compete on your level of twaddle. You are the master; for God’s sake you are so good at twaddle you got me doing it. I do believe however that I haven’t attacked you personally; I may have tweaked you nose a couple of times but it was more in the line of humor than the invective you have dumped on me: vulgar, priggish snobbery, absolutely distasteful, contemptible, philosophical drivel, moronic, vulgar prig, dumpling head, ill mannered. Well if the verbiage you associate with me is an example of Scottish manners, then your calling me ill mannered would be a complement. It was nice of you to mention one of my redeemimg features. Call me some more names
I brought up my career because my credentials were questioned, that I am “a mere Scotch technician”.
You joined on 5/10/10 and listed “technician” as your occupation
On thread “Is Science Grounded on Faith”
  1. 5/12/10 at 7:29am, you wrote in post 108: “I am an engineer…”
  2. 5/12/10 at 8:01am, you wrote in post 115: “…but as one physicist to another…”
  3. 5/12/10 at 11:04am, I wrote in post 136: “And you, a mere Scotch Technician…”.
    I suspect this rather mild example of nose tweaking on my part was what instigated the firestorm of name calling that you peppered your posts with. Obviously it was BEFORE I used the “mere technician” phrase, that you tried to increase your credibility by promoting yourself as an engineer and a physicist. Now if you have the least amount of intellectual honesty you will have to concede that your direct, positive, confident, unequivocal statement “I brought up my career because my credentials were questioned, that I am “a mere Scotch technician” is dead wrong. And that reveals your true level of credibility.
    And I rest my case!
    Incidentally, I just remembered I did allude to name calling once when I added you to my list of Cacouacs, a word that was used in a very amusing way during an early (in history) conflict between theists and atheists.
    Yppop
 
You joined on 5/10/10 and listed “technician” as your occupation
On thread “Is Science Grounded on Faith”
Why do you think it’s impossible to be a technician and have a degree in the field of physics?
  1. 5/12/10 at 7:29am, you wrote in post 108: “I am an engineer…”
  2. 5/12/10 at 8:01am, you wrote in post 115: “…but as one physicist to another…”
  3. 5/12/10 at 11:04am, I wrote in post 136: “And you, a mere Scotch Technician…”
I suspect this rather mild example of nose tweaking on my part was what instigated the firestorm of name calling that you peppered your posts with. Obviously it was BEFORE I used the “mere technician” phrase, that you tried to increase your credibility by promoting yourself as an engineer and a physicist. Now if you have the least amount of intellectual honesty you will have to concede that your direct, positive, confident, unequivocal statement “I brought up my career because my credentials were questioned, that I am “a mere Scotch technician” is dead wrong. And that reveals your true level of credibility.
And I rest my case!
You do not know what academic qualifications I have. Nor do you know what I do for a living. As a matter of fact, I switched careers around eight years ago. I am a technician and I do have a degree. I don’t understand why this is a problem for you? I’m not claiming to have cured cancer or flown to the Moon, I am simply claiming that I studied physics and biology, and in neither class did the word “God” ever come up.
Incidentally, I just remembered I did allude to name calling once when I added you to my list of Cacouacs, a word that was used in a very amusing way during an early (in history) conflict between theists and atheists.
Yppop
I’m sure your Cacouacs observation was rapier like in it’s ascerbic precision, but since I’ve never heard the word before in my life and don’t consider any more of your invective important enough to look up, I’m afraid it’s lost on me.
 
Why do you think it’s impossible to be a technician and have a degree in the field of physics?
What is God - as a question is in the subject of METAPHYSICS and, in part THEOLOGY your scrip, real or unreal is hardly relevent to this field, as essentially metaphysics means BEYOND PHYSICS - trying to apply a “scientific method” to areas by nature “beyond” science is absurd 🤷
 
I don’t want to get too off-topic, but I think the problem here is that you think we inherit somebody’s sin. While the terminology is admittedly confusing, what we’re really inheriting is the fallen state of man caused by that sin.
Yeah, a state imposed by god. Immoral.
 
What is God - as a question is in the subject of METAPHYSICS and, in part THEOLOGY your scrip, real or unreal is hardly relevent to this field, as essentially metaphysics means BEYOND PHYSICS - trying to apply a “scientific method” to areas by nature “beyond” science is absurd 🤷
Well, you see, I don’t believe that there are any areas beyond science except in the realms of fiction.
 
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