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Author Topic:   Are religions manmade and natural or supernaturally based?
dwise1
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Message 223 of 511 (772051)
11-04-2015 2:40 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Greatest I am
10-13-2015 7:57 PM


Well, quite obviously, all religions are man-made. Isn't it obvious?
Could some religions be based on actual supernatural entities or other thingees?
Well, yeah. But what then? Everything else from that point on is man-made.
So then, what? Whatever do you expect?
Every theology (well, Christian ones at least) start with some Revelation. OK, so what then?
OK, so we interpret that Revelation. OK. Uh. What? We interpret that Revelation? We limited humans interpret that Revelation?
OK. So we limited fallible humans have interpreted Revelation. What then? OK, so other limited fallibe humans then interpret what we fallible human have interpreted about Revelation. And so on and so forth over so many generations.
After so many generations, different groups adhere to different theologies, all of which are really deviant versions of some original theology.
But in the final analysis, each individual theology is each individual's own misunderstanding of the theology he thought he was trying to follow.

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Message 461 of 511 (773641)
12-05-2015 5:08 AM
Reply to: Message 449 by ICANT
11-30-2015 11:24 AM


But I did propose that The Supernatural Power I call God holds the universe together.
I am an agnostic. I do not believe that we are even able to KNOW such things.
Ooh, the supernatural! What do we know about the supernatural? Nothing. Why is that? Well, because we don't know anything about it. Why not? Well, because we cannot observe the supernatural, nor measure it, nor determine whether it even exists.
Is there some "Supernatural Power I call God"? Maybe. Or not. Who knows? Who could ever possibly know? We cannot possibly observe the supernatural, so who could ever possibly be able to tell?
OK, so you personally believe in that "Supernatural Power I call God" that cannot possibly be confirmed independently. OK, fine. You have your concept of God.
OK, so how can you verify your concept of God? Objectively verify it. No, obviously not.
Now consider this. That "Supernatural Power I call God" encompasses things that far outstrips the capabilities of the human mind, such as trivial things like infinity. So how could any concept of "God" that your puny human mind could possibly come up with come anywhere close to the "real thing", that actual "Supernatural Power I call God"?
In other words, since you could not ever possibly actually define that "Supernatural Power I call God", you instead invented a metaphoric "God" to represent your ideas about that "God". You have had to created your "God" as something that your limited human mind could deal with, since that "Supernatural Power I call God" is completely outside of your puny human mind's ability to function.

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