On Dec 24, 2015, at 8:31 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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>> But "God" (proper noun) is very simple (simplicity being a universally
>> recognized Divine Attribute) and the nonexistence of any entity
>> corresponding to that Name is easily provable.
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> I'd certainly be interested in seeing the math on that one.
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>> (If, as the Buddha taught, all existing things come about through
>> "conditioned origination," how can a totally unconditioned entity like
>> "God" possibly exist)?
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> I'm not well-educated enough to wax philosophical on it in the correct
> terms, but it's an interesting question whether "existence" is even the
> right word for a status before, above, and beyond space-time. Does
> capital-g God "exist" in the same sense as my bottle of merlot or a beluga
> whale? Maybe not, but was that ever even the question?
The point is that the word "exist," in its universal usage, has no sense in which the sentence "God exists" is not false.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64