/lit/ - Literature

>>22893756
>If you want to call the universe God that's cool I guess.
I wouldn't, for the simple reason that those attributes are exclusive to God, but they are not the only ones possessed by God, as there are other attributes to speak of in addition to these. For instance, the fact that there are degrees of goodness (and that anything is objectively better than anything else) already proves that God exists as well, by the fact that there has to be a measure or reference point for goodness, even if we can't or have never directly seen that which stands at the pinnacle of goodness. Or that which is effectively at the end of the trail. And the closer a thing is to God, the better it is. The privation of goodness OTOH is a greater degree of lack of the same goodness. The fact anything is objectively good proves this line of thought.

To argue against this, one would have to deny the fact that anything is better than anything else in any kind of objective sense. But to admit this would mean there would be no point to arguing anything at all, if one believes that is really the case. It's kind of similar to the breakdown you see from a radical skeptic who tries to deny existence. Because if a person won't admit that anything can even be right or wrong, then that person can't make any argument at all without self-contradiction. Trying to argue any idea at all inherently proves that the arguer thinks that at least one idea is right and hence, they believe that something is right. This grants the premise needed to make the argument from degree of objective goodness, which has just been proven.

"{A Prayer of Moses the man of God.} Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night."
- Psalm 90:1-4

>>20983903
The New and the Old Testament fit together like two intricate parts of a single intended whole, that's why Christ was able to say:

"For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?"
- John 5:46-47

>>20899032
The first answer is: there is a Creator.

>>20866072
"For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."
- 1 Timothy 2:3-6