that "God" is a word that somehow situates or orients the varieties of human reaction to the "that there is something rather than nothing" -- awe, fear, anguish, gratitude, joy, curiosity, rebellion, anger, despair, hope, love.
So, then, what is "God" without the humans that designate "God" ? Is that a nonsensical question ?
What was God before humans evolved ? An abstract potentiality ?
A blind vector awaiting its name ? Nothing at all ?
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Yes, in contemplating God, we are circumscribed by our human definition of God, and cannot get beyond it.
But then one can allow for the existence of a true self-existent God, designated x, algebraic symbol for the unknown. Isn’t there a branch of theology dedicated to the idea that God is intrinsically unknowable by man?
It’s not a well-known branch of theology because it has so little to say. But I find its case compelling.
To think that people have fought tooth and nail and killed each other over Nothing.
Lack of language doesn't negate the idea that God was before humankind or the world.
Just as there were dinosaurs before language some might insist there is also evidence of God before humans and would apply today's definition to it.
God isn't dependent on there being humans even though we know it through a human construct.
I guess it would depend on there never having been nothing and something always has been.
If "God" is an acknowledgement of some kind of ultimate reality, or even a state of becoming that ultimate reality, then surely there is, at the very least, a spiritual requirement to stop, contemplate and listen. After all, what's in a word, a symbol? Someone once said,"Don't look at the pointing finger, but to where that finger is pointing." And why do we always seem to restrict "God" to human symbolism? Are we really all alone in the universe, always have been, and always will be?
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