On 1/14/2015 6:25 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
In Buddhism: Samantabhadra Buddha declares of itself:
"I am the core of all that exists. I am the seed of all that exists. I am the cause of
all that exists. I am the trunk of all that exists. I am the foundation of all that
exists. I am the root of existence. I am "the core" because I contain all phenomena. I
am "the seed" because I give birth to everything. I am "the cause" because all comes
from me. I am "the trunk" because the ramifications of every event sprout from me. I am
"the foundation" because all abides in me. I am called "the root" because I am everything."
Various thinkers over time have, apparently through reason, come to a similar
conclusion:
"Geometry existed before the creation, it is co-eternal with the mind of God, Geometry
provided god with a model for creation, Geometry is God himself." -- Kepler
"To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is
a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology." -- Hilda Phoebe Hudson
"I would say with those who say ‘God is Love’, God is Love. But deep down in me I used
to say that though God may be Love, God is Truth above all. If it is possible for the
human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that
God is Truth. Two years ago I went a step further and said that Truth is God. You will
see the fine distinction between the two statements, ‘God is Truth’ and ‘Truth is God’.
I came to that conclusion after a continuous and relentless search after truth which
began fifty years ago." -- Gandhi
And how are all your examples different than "God is money" or "God is power" or "God is a
bearded dude in the clouds" They are just instances of a simple formula: "I think X is
really important and deserving of your adulation. So God is X"
Some people say "God is love", Bruno says "God is unprovable truths.", Paul
Tillich
said "God is whatever you value most." But just because somebody says
"Unicorns are
rhinocereses" doesn't mean I have to start believing unicorns exist, or
that that
when I say unicorns don't exist I'm denying the existence of rhinocereses.
Do you believe in a source of reality beyond the apparent physical reality we find
ourselves in now?
No. I don't "believe IN" anything. I entertain hypotheses.
Brent
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