God Is Spirit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ม.ค. 2024
- Dr. Craig dials in on an important divine attribute in this second installment of the new animation series examining the attributes of God.
What is God really like? What attributes does he have? Why are they important for us to know?
Be sure to check out the follow-up Q&A videos that we'll be releasing on this topic over the coming weeks.
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Thank Craig for Dr. God
What a gift Dr Craig is to this world!
Seek first the kingdom of GOD and HIS righteousness and all these things will be added to you 🙏🏽
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Dr. William Lane Craig talks about the concept of God as a non-physical being. He argues that God is a spirit based on theological, philosophical, and scientific reasons.
Theologically, Dr. Craig points out that the concept of a perfect being leads to the idea of a non-physical God. A perfect being must be all-knowing and all-powerful, but a physical being cannot possess these qualities to an infinite degree. For example, a physical brain cannot contain infinite knowledge. Therefore, God must be non-physical.
Philosophically, Dr. Craig presents the cosmological argument, the fine-tuning argument, and the argument from the applicability of mathematics as evidence for a non-physical creator of the universe. The cosmological argument states that everything that begins to exist must have a cause, and the universe had a beginning, so it must have a cause beyond the universe, which is non-physical. The fine-tuning argument points out that the laws of physics are finely tuned for the existence of life, and this fine-tuning suggests a non-physical designer. The argument from the applicability of mathematics points out that mathematics is surprisingly effective in describing the physical world, and this suggests the existence of a mind that created the universe using mathematics.
Scientifically, Dr. Craig argues that the existence of invisible things like wind, gravity, and dark matter shows that we can believe in the existence of something we cannot see, such as God. Dr. Craig also criticizes materialism, the view that everything is made of matter and energy, and argues that materialism cannot explain certain facts about human nature, such as our intrinsic value, our first-person perspective, our intentional mental states, and our subjective experiences.
Overall, Dr. Craig argues that there are compelling reasons to believe that God is a non-physical spirit. If God is spiritual, then our focus in life should be spiritual rather than material.
very good thanks
Thank you for this lesson brother take care.All glory to Jesus.
Everything you say Dr. Craig just make sense ☝️ another master class explanation with great animation. . Christians need your videos Sir to defend against skeptics
if skeptics were not around, we would still be doing blood letting for medical treatment
@johnpro2847 Or casting out demons as treatments for epilepsy people 😂😂😂
Being a Skeptic is crucial and critical, thank goodness for it. I think you mean fanatical and stubborn to any evidence type, like Richard Dawkins, who admits to regardless of evidence of any kind even playful ones like “what if”, he will close his eyes and put his fingers in his ears singing La La La La! 😂
Mind blowing! This is Great! This just helped me so much! I got to put this on repeat!
Thanks be to God The Father and our Lord Jesus Christ for giving us these great Theologians!
And thank you, sir, and others like you!
More like this PLEASE.
Excellent Video Dr. William Lane Craig.
Super Awesome PRESENTATION about the God and human are, and how the human should live, all in just less then 12 minutes. ✍️👍👍👍
Thank you Dr. Craig, very much.
Hallelujah 🕊️
God bless you Dr.Craig! The lord truly has given you tremendous ability to study, understand, and explain these complex questions and observations 🙏🏽
A perfect wrap up of the best arguments on the existence of God.
Brilliant. Thank you .❤
Love this! God bless Mr. Craig. Love him. ❤👍
Thanks dr. Craig for explaining these complex arguments.
Though it's hard for me to believe that there's a God but you always makes me to think about this matter deeply.
Seek and you will find
I thought of another one - free will, the ability to effect outcomes, to control the brain, which is, itself (that which comprises the free will) within the brain. So it is of the brain, yet in a sense outside of it, along the same lines of the arguments given in the video.
What an excellent and heartwarming take on the Being of God. Excellent production values and sound. I hope and pray that we will have many more of these talks. I eagerly await the first two volumes of Mr. Craigs Magnum Opus.
All this is spot on. I can’t justify any other interpretation of the data.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We beheld his glory, the glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. Through me, Jesus, the Father is revealed, for I and the Father are one. I am the embodiment of God's love and salvation, the visible image of the invisible God. Believe in me, and you believe in the Father who sent me. I am the way, the truth, and the life - the revelation of God incarnate in human form."
τι ομορφη εικονα !! ο ΘΕΟΣ ειναι επιπλεον εκτος απο λογικη ΕΙΝΑΙ ΚΑΙ ΟΜΟΡΦΙΑ !! Αυτο ειναι το θαυμα του ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΟς !
Love the presentation of this.
Somehow, seeing that futuristic "brain in a vat" really helps you 'think' about our physical and mental limitations!
Glory be to God.Thank you, it's very insightful.
GOD I thank you for creating Dr. Craig, he is an amazing gift to our generation ❤❤❤❤❤.
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Waw, God is good
Excellent, succinct and reasonable. Lesser alternatives fail miserably.
I think many atheist would rethink their position on atheism and theism after watching this master piece and wonderful video.
I don't think so. As someone who was a Christian, this stuff is only convincing if you've already decided to believe, and are looking for ways to justify what you believe rationaly after the fact
@@travissimpson7829 I think if we compare then what Dr Craig said is more plausible than atheist explanation of god's existence and his attributes.
@@munafghori4052 He said he's arguing for" the existence of a non physical god" . That doesn't make any sense. If something is non physical, and outside of time and space ,it doesn't exist by definition. It's not possible to make a conscious choice or even have a thought with no time
The kalam doesn't work because nobody has justified the first premise. You have to prove that everything that begins to exist must have a cause. Even if you could prove the first premise(which nobody has), that doesn't get you to God because that doesn't rule out multiverse hypothesis. Or a god that created the universe, then stopped existing after he created everything as a few examples
@@travissimpson7829- Out of curiosity, then what were you believing in if you hadn't believed as a Christian that God was Spirit? I mean, Jesus Christ nailed that clearly that God is Spirit. That is, a non-physical being. Didn't they teach you this in church when you were a Christian?
And yes, it is possible for a non-physical being to exist beyond time and space.
A non-physical being isn't occupying space.
Also,ime is relative. It's not absolute.
That makes it possible for such a being to exist. For time to exist, there has to be movement. To move, there has to be space.
One object has to move with respect to another that doesn't move. Else, there is no time and there is no space. This makes both time and space relative since we know our universe isn't infinite but began to exist.
Now, if you want to find God without arguments, just head over to Tom Loud to find this non-physical being revealing his power in the name of Jesus Christ.
@@lifethroughromans8295 we actually don't know the universe began to exist and isn't eternal. Common misconception. If God can be eternal, then there's no reason why the universe can't be. That's called special pleading.
Jesus was a physical person.
The ancient hebrew and Christians actually didn't have a concept of a soul that is separate from the body. They thought yhwh was a physical being. He even had a wife named ashura originally. That idea of a soul and non physical entity didn't come around until 200 years after Jesus died.
Amen. Thank you for this.
I love your conclusion Sir. . that's very true and its the opposite that really our culture now, to seek for Material things.. we must go back to Seek His Kingdom first and righteousness
Thank you Dr. Craig and his team for helping draw clorser to God.
Great !!!
I feel like he makes everything easy to understand. Thank you
Excellent video on God
Love it ❤❤❤ Thank you Dr.
Need more videos like this on you tube from you Dr. Craig 🥺
Great great video! More of these please! It's simple to understand,.not too long,keeps you engaged and makes you think. Congratulations!
Great way to organize this material. "Our brains don't feel happy" That's like a Zen koan. Such points raise the relevance of all religions, since spiritual practice is a widely developed skill.
Oh my God, what clarity, what dept of understanding !
Or just wild imagination.
Glad I got some philosophy of mind along with this.
Another masterpiece brother!
Masterpiece of mental gymnastics 😂😂😂
Extremely amazing masterpiece Dr
This was great! 😭
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Amazing work Dr. Craig & an incredible job by the editors. the video was very engaging
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Excellent!!!
Amen, thank you.
Wonderful
Excellent
WLC is a great ambassador for Christ. I admire his whimsical manner as though his faith is so strong that the gates of hell won’t prevail against it and that joy is the final note 🎵 of religion at its best. Such a contrast with most loud mouthed demagogues in public today especially a certain ex president
Thank you so much ,, God is light too and in him there is no darkness at all.
I appreciate you sir 💕
Excellent presentation!
Awesome!
Christ is the lord. Thanks!!
How do we love a non-physical being? Anything non-physical cannot be sensed by us. How do we express love without using any of our senses?
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Great video, Dr. Craig.
I have a question about the connection between the arguments for a creator (e.g. the Kalam) and the arguments for a perfect being (e.g. Anselm's ontological argument):
How do we know that the creator is the same being as that than which none greater can be conceived? What if they are talking about two different beings?
Another reason I think not everything is physical is that physical objects obey laws. No two photons go at different speeds. No two elections have a different charge or mass. The law or thing that forces all these physical things to be the same cannot itself be physical, or it would need laws to apply to it.
Thank you for this. And yeah, Jesus is also non physical. I believe in Jesus as Savior and Lord in Spirit as well as physical.
Thank you for the video!
I like what you are saying, but one question comes to me as I watch this video. In Genesis 1:27 God creates human in His image. Has that something to do with how the human look or is it only in spirit? :)
Does this change with AGI in robotics?
Ruach in Hebrew means breath or breathing. It has to do with the physiological process of lungs moving air/oxygen in and out of the body. Its physical. The greek word pneuma means the same thing.
Zeitgeist is similar. Saying "thats the spirit!" Works too.
The word is used metaphorically not literally. It is used to refer to non-physical mind of God. There is no word in human language to indicate directly who God is.
“The man who puts The Fear of God in atheist”.😮 Richard Dawkins is wise to not face Craig, He who absorbs and digests, 💩(Richard)😂. Great video, this alone should be shared, it’s very strong argument 😊
The video says more about what God is NOT than what God IS. Also, The first 5’ is all based on presupposition that God already is. The final third states what HUMANS are, which is valid, but then seems to extrapolate to the existence and identity of God from such characteristics. Combined, while important facts are stated, they hardly make the case that God, if there is one, is Spirit, or describe any important spiritual characteristics of His. I say this as a Bible-believing Christian, so, no intended bias against Dr. Craig (in fact, just the opposite). The last minute is, thankfully, spot-on.
f skeptics were not around, we would still be doing blood letting for medical treatment
8 years of Bible /theology University and seminary over 40,000 dollars wrapped up in 11min and 21 sec. Lolol 😅
If I knew all that, I'd think 40k was well spent. Just think you could have spent that much to become a expert in lesbian dance theory, and you wouldn't have qualified for a godly wife, which must be worth at least 20k.
This line of thinking about God is predicated on our fallen state assessment of what is ‘great’.
Just as a child might think, wrongly, that their father is great because he doesn’t feel pain. When in fact the father feels pain acutely, but his real strength is his ability and willingness to endure it for a greater good. What the child imagines is ‘numbness’ as a virtue and not endurance.
Likewise, we are currently limited in our spiritual refinement as fallen people and this impairs our ability to fully value God’s qualities in proper context.
One issue being that we don’t really know what we are describing when we say ‘spirit’. We have a vague, abstract notion but we don’t really have a true sense of what spirit is.
In fact, there is no true such thing as ‘matter’. Even on the atomic level which is pretty high up, what we experience as solidity and matter is really opposing energy fields that surround atoms and which are electrically generated. If you keep going down level after level you will find ever more subtle forms of energy. We just create the idea of matter in our conceptual framework to help us understand the complex and related energy fields.
We may well find that God in fact configures His spirit in a way that manifests as ultra subtle energy in part and this is further configured until we have the foundations of what we think of as matter.
If this is the case then it would essentially mean that the entire physical universe as well as the world of the afterlife is ‘part’ of God. A sort of external form to his spirit. In other words, God created the universe as a womb in which to ultimately conceive and bring to term God’s children.
I will be giving a talk about this on my Pathfinding channel. Just click my name to find it.
That sounds like a pretty out there theory matey. You better have some good logic to back it up.
I agree on both counts.
I'm confident in the logic of the argument I will present.
But first I'm completing work on a thesis/talk I will give on my channel which challenges Molinism. The talk will defeat some aspect of Molinism and enhance another aspect. I'm probably going to title the video 'Molinism 2.0'
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Well firstly, although what constitutes "great" may be subjective to some degree (is it better to be timeless or simply omnitemporal), there are some qualities that are obviously greater than others (is it better to be omnipotent or have limited power).
As for your statements about matter, energy, and what fundemental reality is composed of, God is simply immaterial meaning that he isn't made of anything (not even some subtle energy). And to say the idea of an immaterial being is impossible is to assume materialism, which in turn, would be begging the question. But of course, you state that we don't have a true sense of what a spirit is then conclude that it is a form of some subtle energy. Now, apart from being an arguement based on personal incrudelity, we shouldn't expect to fully understand it when we are physical beings that abide in and perceive a physical world.
I increasingly find that apologists try to lock their discussion/debate partners into their own created suppositions and insist that there’s is the only framework that things can be discussed in or that the other must accept their suppositions or that they just assume they do. Ironically they are similar to atheist debaters in that point.
I do not accept that god is omnipotent. There are not just logical constrains on God but there are others too. God being greater than any other being or being the greatest being humans can imagine isn’t the same as saying God has limitless power.
Jeus said, ‘God is spirit’.
Well, I don’t think that is grounds for generating an entire philosophical framework to impose upon God.
Someone might say ‘God is love’. Does that mean God doesn’t also have other aspects to His nature? Of course not.
God reveals the aspects of Himself that his children are spiritually and culturally evolved enough to bear. Even Jesus said there were other truths but we could not bear them yet.
I have seen no logic that can establish that any being, including God, can create something from nothing. I know Dr Craig believes in creatio ex nihilo but that is just a belief of his and he provides no logic for it.
That being the case, it is my current position that God created our spirits from this own the same way a mother and father together with the material/nutrients of nature create a babies body. In just physical terms, no new matter was created, just re-purposed and extended. So that is how God brought about the physical realm as well as the realm of the afterlife. They, including your physical body, are extensions of God.
How God created discreet, distinct eternal souls apart from Himself is the true mystery. I very much doubt it was done creatio ex nihilo.
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@@pathfinding4687 Well of course God is love and of course there is still more to his nature. However, I think a pantheistic interpretation ignores other observations that we have.
For instance, if God is the same thing as the universe, then God would have had to create himself upon the beginning of everything, which is logically impossible. Further, energy (however subtle) is by nature a thing that takes up space and time. You can't have a spatial and temporal thing existing without any space or time.
Now you could say that God/the universe has always existed, but then you would run into problems with infinite regression, one being that if there was in infinite amount of time that had to pass before creation, then creation would never happen. Whereas with God being seperate from creation, we can just say that he exists timelessly sans creation, and that his decision to create and the event of creation happened at the same instant (the first instant) which avoids any infinite regress. (For more on Gof and his relationship to creation and time, I would look at doctor craigs work on that, as he explains it much better than me. PS: he does give logic for creation ex nihilo, some of it has to do with the things I just said.)
Further, this pantheistic theology has been known to bring people down some heretical paths. Some have concluded that since we are extensions of God himself, we don't need a savior and that we are not naturally sinful, which would directly contradict biblical teaching. So be careful on the road you tread on.
Dr Craig, please define ‘spirit”. What is a non physical being; Is it made of matter? How does any of this correlate with humans being made in Gods image?
Dr, Craig has had discussions on this, but it’s probably good to wait for his systematic philosophical theology to come out where he will define what that means in depth
@@adamduarte895 When will his “systematic philosophical theology “ be published? I understand that Gary Habermas is publishing volume 1 of his Magnus opus, “On the resurrection- evidences” at the end of the month.
@@horridhenry9920 I think Habermas' work will just be a 1,000 plus page bible study
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hi, what is the mathematic probability of oxygen created by its own?
Now the quote in Genesis " Let us make man in our image" starts to open up wider. Almost every living creature has perceptible feature like eyes, nose, mouth and ears and primates look uncannily close to humans. Making man in His image and that of the heavenly host might mean SPIRIT as described here. Animals have instinct and most can actually love and even think to solve problems such as ravens, crows, dolphins, orcas and chimps to mention a few. Human beings on the other hand are an imperfect and often blurry 😂image of the Spirit while Jesus, was the embodiment of God Himself.
So when the bible was written did god already know we would be sending robots to Mars?
Also, if god is non-physical and has infinite size and energy, does that mean we were not made "in his image" after all?
Please explain. The kids want to know.
If God is Spirit, non-physical... is heaven on a spiritual or physical plane/place? If it is spiritual/ non-material, where did Jesus' physical/material body go to during the ascension?
How are then we made in his image AND likeness ? And how can then we worship him in spirit ? are we also inmaterial beings ?
Moreover devoiding God of his Body just because Human mind cannot comprehend his omnipresence and power is placing limitations on the God of the Bible.
Never forget, We were made in the image and likeness of God! God is a person, a personal God, He is a Father.
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Idk why this has no audio.
Most Christians think god is a Zeus-like figure and has to be male. It's a projection since most can't see past the material world and they've been brought up that a male father figure is always the leader. They also believe he's a patriarchal daddy dictator.
All this breaks the 3rd commandment and thus misses the teachings
Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God ~Matthew 4:4
If I read James 1:5, don't leave out 1:6, 7 or 8 (King James Bible throughout)
See. Proverbs 17:28, 4:7, 4:19, 4:23, 18:12
Isaiah 1:18, James 4:6, Psalms 34:7-8, Psalms 37:4, James 1:2-4
Without any faith in a relationship mankind will ooze pessimism, negativity, and endless suspicion.
See. HeBrews 11:1 &6
Did Jesus speak Greek? I thought it was Aramaic.
His mother tongue is Aramaic. . but He for sure speaks Hebrew when in Jerusalem. . and possibly Greek as it is like the universal language that time..
Jesus is multi-lingual for sure.
Same with us in the Philippines, I speak Hiligaynon & Cebuano as mother tongue, but I know how to speak Tagalog (Filipino) national language.. and of course English.
How much more could Jesus be with so much Wisdom as God
But the Gospels don't say any of this, and he was a carpenter. My point is Craig states here that Jesus spoke a Greek work (pneuma, I think), when in fact that was the Greek used by the Gospel writers. Is Craig not being inaccurate?@@user-py6oe6pl3n
What evidence is there for that?@@Dizerner
Greek was the language of academia, so I doubt common Jews in Palestine would have spoken it.@@Dizerner
Look it up.@@Dizerner
Tons and tons of evidence for the existence of God will not persuade an atheist who is determined to be nothing else but an atheist.
All I can say to the materialists is. .poltergeists are invisible but there is good documented evidence they exist! Both God and poltergeists are spirits. .
Accidents also happen too. So the existence of a universe might be an accident
Ok, i believe in spirits but i don't believe there is a god who wants to burn me or someone else forever.
Assuming you mean the God Dr. Craig affirms, why do you think he wants you or anyone else to burn forever? - RF Admin
@@drcraigvideos Because i don't believe there is a god.
@@darkforest4789 Right, but Dr. Craig does believe in God. Why do you think the God Dr. Craig believes in would want you or anyone else to burn forever? - RF Admin
I am in need of help, my life was destroyed by my father, no one cares, Doctors wrecked my life, my God given right are violated, I have been punished tortured and abused for 19 years. my family is bad, Christians don't care. if I even say hi to a woman I go to jail, police say I am the criminal, the judge is a satanist and says 'I don't care if everything is a lie' and threatens to punish me worse for saying my rights are being violated. I begged God and was given gifts and a mind that corrects me. God wants people to care, I can't continue to believe in Christianity if no one can help me, I went to a church and they said they only give spiritual messages and to leave. a group of catholic priest said they would kick Jesus out of their Church and would not help me
I ask with true humility. Does 0 really exist? Is 0 a man made construct? If 0 is not real, are our mathematics incorrect?
We can use 0 as an object in true mathematical statements without committing ourselves to the existence of numbers. Take for example the sentence "My walk this morning was refreshing." The term "walk" is used as an object in the sentence, but scarcely anyone would commit themselves to the existence of objects called "walks." Likewise, use of numbers, even in true sentences, needn't commit us to their real existence. - RF Admin
In other words, photons dont bounce off God. We cant see Him.
The Father is God, The Son is God, The holy Spirit is God, but
There's only one God, isn't that
A logical impossibility ? Are the
Three person simply different
Name for the same thing ? No,
Because each has unique experiences, For example, Christians believe that Jesus
died, but the father continued
To live, This means that the one God was both dead and
Alive at the same time. I can
get my head around this doctrine. Will someone help me to understand this ?
Sorry I cannot help you. However, I think you hit the nail on the head with “ logical impossibility “. The trinity is a mathematics defying celestial equation: one plus one, plus one, plus one, equals one.
If you read about the “Johannine comma”, you will find an explanation as to how the concept of the trinity came about.
Any good Systematic Theology text would have a few chapters on the doctrine of the Trinity. Craig has written on it on his website and within his scholarly works.
Tell me what law of logic this defies.
Great video! Thank you!
@@PreachingAMessage “Noncontradiction, excluded middle, identity”, the foundation of logic.
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No perfect mentioned in spirit 😂😂😂
I am a spirit too which means im God too
He must be a human form
If he sits on a thrown
Jesus is a image of GOD
TRINITARIANISM created this coinfusion
God is spirit, and just as he is spirit God isn’t worshipped by men’s hands but rather in spirit and truth
See references:
”Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.“
Acts 17:25 NKJV
”God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”“
John 4:24 NKJV
”But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.“
John 4:23 NKJV
”It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.“
John 6:63 NKJV
The idea that God is nonphysical is nonrepresentational and impossible to conceptualize. No human has ever witnessed or had knowledge of a nonphysical being, and moreover such a being is actually impossible to conceive since all the allegedly substantive characteristics of this being are actually nondescriptions. With respect Dr. Craig, all of your explanations of God’s nature are non-explanations. Below are my arguments.
You say God can’t be material and omnipotent because there is no matter of actually infinite size and energy. This argument is bad because the concept of omnipotence can’t even be conceptualized in a nonphysical universe. Einstein explained that energy cannot exist without matter, space, and time. The idea of nonphysical energy or nonphysical power is unintelligible and nonrepresentational.
You say God can’t be material and omniscient because a brain with infinite knowledge would have to be an actually infinitely large. This is a silly argument because God’s brain could have potentially infinitely small synapses like a nanocomputer. This argument is also self defeating because if you believe God’s omniscience is immaterial, then you already believe knowledge is inherently immaterial and does not require physical space. Knowledge by nature is abstract and could be stored in a material brain of any given size.
It is impossible to conceptualize a being with no physical qualities. If God can’t be conceptualized, it would be impossible to have faith in him, believe in him, and have any degree of knowledge of him. When you listed things people can believe in that are “invisible,” I noticed you only listed things that exist in the physical universe. This is because it is actually impossible for you to describe something in a nonphysical universe. “Invisible” is not comparable to “nonphysical.” This is a comparison fallacy.
In the video you defined spirit as an immaterial agent. This is essentially a nondefinition since this cannot be conceptualized. No human has ever understood or witnessed actions or beings existing in the absence of matter. We can conceptualize other nonphysical ideas, but not literal people, literal places, or literal things. There is no such thing as immaterial substance or immaterial matter.
You say that God cannot be omnipotent and material because he would have to have actually infinite mass and energy. I argue that you cannot even describe the word omnipotence or power without conceptualizing it in the physical universe. In the physical universe, energy cannot exist outside of space, matter, and time. The notion of nonphysical energy or nonphysical power is unintelligible and nonrepresentational.
If God has power over light he could be omnipotent through E=mc^2 without having infinite corporeal mass. God could also be omnipotent through omnispeed which would not require infinite corporeal mass because he could consume mass and energy at a potentially infinite rate equal to expenditure. Or you could simply say God has a potentially infinite amount of omnipotence, which is functionally superior to the notion of completed or actual omnipotence. God must be potentially omnipotent rather than actually omnipotent or else he wouldn’t be able to create a rock he couldn’t lift. Actual omnipotence is metaphysically impossible and contradictory. Potential omnipotence is possible and not logically absurd.
If god is spirit then god not exist, because the spirit does not exist.
Why think that? - RF Admin
Jesus Christ is all powerful and all knowing... But not Non physical. The premise is flawed.
I cannot stress how much I disagree with this guy. All he is doing is making assumptions. Assumptions based on the limitations of his own puny mind (in comparison to God's). In my opinion, he knows no more about God then a rock that one would pick up from the ground.
Why? Because this guy is just a mortal imperfect man who thinks he knows stuff! Stuff that no man would know unless it was revealed to him by God.
Does this man make such a claim? No! So why does he tell us like he knows?
Because he is arrogant and self glorifying in his assumed wisdom.
To answer for God one needs God to reveal it. Otherwise, it is just opinion! Which, has a far greater chance of being wrong especially when it is being presented as fact and truth.
God is what He is! Let Him answer for Himself exactly what that is or isn't!