@brushsaid How are we expected to love God when 'God' is an abstract concept?
Hi brush, not seen you posting much in recent years.
In response to your question I would retort that the God of the bible isn’t an abstract concept as he is comprehensively described in the creation accounts, his dealings with early man’s civilisations, in poems and songs, his principles and wisdoms are laid out in proverbs and of course he manifested in the flesh in the New Testament books.
I was thinking that we have lots of accounts of God's working but these are all man made. We never actually see God, we only hear of him/her/it from scriptures.
I think we can admire, appreciate nature and all the automatic things we don't have to think about; breathing, blood circulation and plants growing etc.
I was thinking that we have lots of accounts of God's working but these are all man made. We never actually see God, we only hear of him/her/it from scriptures.
I think we can admire, appreciate nature and all the automatic things we don't have to think about; breathing, blood circulation and plants growing etc.
I fully agree. You are completely free to not believe in a God and appreciate the wonder of the natural world.
I am completely free to indulge myself in whatever apparent delusion I choose and recognise a creator’s hand in the same natural world.