Did God have a mother?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Your opinion is based on raw ignorance; you haven't a clue how much contact with him meant to me in 2011 and since.

My opinion is based on your posts and Sonhouse's posts so it is not
based on "raw ignorance" - although I do acknowledge that you
know far more about "raw ignorance" than I.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
My opinion is based on your posts and Sonhouse's posts so it is not
based on "raw ignorance" - although I do acknowledge that you
know far more about "raw ignorance" than I.

Correction: "My opinion is based on your posts and Sonhouse's posts..." as received and decoded through a subjective lens.

Originally posted by sonhouse
I am talking about the human attributes attached to the Jewish god which has morphed into Christianity and Islam.

'I am a jealous god' and so forth. These are, in my humble opinion, NOT something a real god would EVER say, considering such a god allegedly can call in whole universes at its whim. I say its because it would probably not be biological at al ...[text shortened]... he stage for thousands of years of gender bias.

I see no other interpretation of these facts.

we aren't talking about all the inconsistencies in the bible, ever. we are talking about you attempting to ridicule religion by trying for another weak reductio ad absurdum.

now you gave up arguing that and you bring up the genocidal god and the mysoginistic god, all of which have nothing to do with "god looking like humans"

Originally posted by PatNovak
There is no subtlety here. You are making a distinction without a difference. It is logically consistent to say that if A is similar to B, then B is similar to A. There is absolutely no difference in the information provided between the statements: "man looks like god" and "god looks like man." In both cases, we know what man looks like, and therefore we make a conclusion about what god looks like.

humans aren't god. humans may have some god-like attributes, yet god is more. if A includes B it is wrong to say A is like B.

Originally posted by Zahlanzi
humans aren't god. humans may have some god-like attributes, yet god is more. if A includes B it is wrong to say A is like B.

But if Man has some of god's characteristics then god must have some of Man's.

Made in God's image means that we have self consciousness, mentality, conscience, volition and self determination as He does. God's Character [the absolute, perfect, uncompromising attributes shared by each member of the trinity]: sovereignty, perfect righteousness, justice, love, eternal life, omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence, immutability and veracity.

Originally posted by Zahlanzi
humans aren't god. humans may have some god-like attributes, yet god is more. if A includes B it is wrong to say A is like B.

Your statement "if A includes B it is wrong to say A is like B" is clearly false. Just because B is a subset of A does not mean B cannot be similar to A. For example, I ate pizza for supper. A pizza slice is a subset of a pizza, and the slice is similar in certain respects to the entire pizza.

How similar (or dissimilar) god and humans are isn't important to my point. My only point is about logical consistency. If humans are a little like god, then god is a little like humans. If humans are a lot like god, then god is a lot like humans. If humans are nothing like god, then god is nothing like humans.

In an earlier post, you said "its not god that looks human, it is humans that are godly." I took this to mean that you think humans are similar in some fashion to god, but god is not similar to humans. That is of course logical nonsense, and that is what I was objecting to.

Originally posted by sonhouse
The very idea that a god would look like a human is ludicrous.

Why ..........

What would God look like?

Remember.................you worship beautiful men and beautiful women.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
sonhouse has an exceptional and multi faceted intelligence and the global experience to go with it.

And yet this doesn't stop him from being ignorant of the truth.

Sounds like a complete waste of that same intelligence and experience.

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" -- Mark 8:36, KJV

Originally posted by sonhouse
If not, how could he look human?

he had a mam dad brother sister pet dog & cat and a budgie called otto. they lived in a council flat in Norwich

Originally posted by wolfgang59
But if Man has some of god's characteristics then god must have some of Man's.

depends on the magnitude.



has anyone ever said "the sequoia is like a large bonsai"? in explaining bonsais, we use the analogy "little trees". we don't refer to trees as little bonsais.

Originally posted by PatNovak
Your statement "if A includes B it is wrong to say A is like B" is clearly false. Just because B is a subset of A does not mean B cannot be similar to A. For example, I ate pizza for supper. A pizza slice is a subset of a pizza, and the slice is similar in certain respects to the entire pizza.

How similar (or dissimilar) god and humans are isn't importan ...[text shortened]... not similar to humans. That is of course logical nonsense, and that is what I was objecting to.

your example has nothing to do with our discussion. a pizza is made up of pizza slices, each being pizza. in that case pizza is not a set of slices but rather a whole object which you divide in an arbitrary number of subparts.


if you want to make the pizza as an example, you must state it differently.
pizza is food. if you eat pizza you eat food. if you eat food you don't necessarily eat pizza. pizza is like food. food is not like pizza.

Suzianne is the only woman pious enough to be gods mother.

Originally posted by Zahlanzi
we aren't talking about all the inconsistencies in the bible, ever. we are talking about you attempting to ridicule religion by trying for another weak reductio ad absurdum.

now you gave up arguing that and you bring up the genocidal god and the mysoginistic god, all of which have nothing to do with "god looking like humans"

I didn't give up on the Mysoginistic and genocidal stuff at all. Are you saying it's ok for a god to have those attributes?

How can you say just what attributes a god would have?

All I am saying is we project our OWN attributes to a cleverly designed man made god for the express purpose of controlling populations.

We can NEVER know the true attributes of a true god.

Only what that god would communicate to us but IMHO that has never and will never happen.

I can't see how people could ever read "I am a jealous god'' with a straight face🙂

The thing is, if a being sufficiently more advanced than humans showed up, you may think it a god. But you would not know anything about its true agenda, whatever that may be and you would not know anything about what kind of pecking order there may or may not be among other gods if such exist at all.

So such a being comes down to Earth, can cure the sick, etc., calls itself a god and you better worship me, you really think this is the top of the line god that would require that?

Wouldn't you want to understand what is going on in the background of such a being? What would be the agenda of such a being?

Why would such a being want to muck around with mere humans, for instance?

Is everyone on Earth so dense and gullible as to believe the words of such a being when they know nothing about it?

Everyone just assumes this deity has some kind of pure purpose, assuming it exists.

That does not HAVE to be the case.

It might be also such a being wants to prepare the way for the next step in our kind and we have to go, softly.

Just a point I am making, not that I believe any of this stuff, just pointing out possibilities as much as it will definitely rankle the religious.

The religious just fall for every stupid book supposedly written by a god with out ever even TRYING to think things through, just follow it blindly and then collide with the culture across the river that happens to have a different book.....

Originally posted by sonhouse
I didn't give up on the Mysoginistic and genocidal stuff at all. Are you saying it's ok for a god to have those attributes?

How can you say just what attributes a god would have?

All I am saying is we project our OWN attributes to a cleverly designed man made god for the express purpose of controlling populations.

We can NEVER know the true attrib ...[text shortened]... ly and then collide with the culture across the river that happens to have a different book.....

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