Who is This God Person Anyway?

God is ‘That Than Which None Other can be Greater’ or, in other words (sic),

 ‘That Than Which None Other can be Greater’ is God.

So, if one removes all prejudicial and pre-conceived ideas that one may have about God and his existence or not and starts asserting that ‘That Than Which None Other can be Greater’ is God I hope that we now have a proposition on which we can all agree: .

Then it begins to make sense. Find out whatever it is that you believe to be ‘That Than Which None Other can be Greater’ and you have God.   ‘Simples’ as Alexi says!

If you believe that God is a supernatural being, he exists. If you believe that ‘God’ (I.e. ‘That Than Which None can be Greater’) is the laws of Science, then he/it exists. So, God exists, that is an irrefutable point.

Any discussion about which of the 2 ‘Gods’, Science or the Deity, is the greatest, or between Theists; which of their Gods is greatest and with believers in the same God, which version of their God is the greater ceases to be a rancorous fight but a question of comparison and debate.

To me, being Christian, ‘that than which none other can be greater’ is Jesus Christ and I am prepared to discuss and compare my beliefs with any one, what I am not prepared to do is row about it.

Let’s have a look at Psalm 1 in the Bible

Psalm 1

King James Version

1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Replace or translate the theistic phraseology into ‘Scientific’ terminology and there is little in there to argue about is there!

Let’s move on to Psalm 40:

Psalm 40

King James Version

40 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.

4 Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

5 Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.

10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me.

14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.

17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Do the same transposing of words and you will find another uplifting and affirming statement.

One’s process to find God is an inward not an outward journey. If one finds him and ‘follows’ him   then as it says in Psalm 40 verse 2: He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 

My God has given me certitude and confidence, I am no longer at the mercy of doubt and prone to thoughts and behaviours that ‘offend’ my God.

An argument based on or worded in emotional and scathing language ‘offends’ the ‘God’ (or principle)of reasoned and methodical scientific thought. One’s standpoint must be on the firm ground of reasoned thought processes, not personal insult and calumny (Psalm 40 v2)

I have read ‘arguments’ from the likes of Dawkins, Dennet and Hitchens that are couched in a most unscientific, unreasoned tone so as to make them useless and petty and I have read  stuff penned by written by Werleman, Steel and Thackery that are total tosh, yet these writers call upon Reason and ‘Science’ to justify their outpourings,  (outpourings that are totally unjustifiable!)

A quick dip into the New Testament:

Mark 12:28 Jesus Christ says ‘ This is the first commandment, You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength, and this is the second ‘you must love your neighbour as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.’

So it becomes apparent through their writings that these atheist writers do not Love their ‘God’ with all their heart otherwise they wouldn’t write such poorly argued papers and books.

I once had a delightful twitter conversation with an atheist who gave me a list of all the gods they didn’t believe in and I think that one of the authors I mentioned above has pulled the same stunt as well. That’s not atheism. To me Atheism is ‘There is no Deity and there are no non scientific entities, full stop.

The statement ‘I don’t believe in God’ is also ridiculous because for someone to say ‘I don’t believe in x’ requires ‘x’ to exist for them not to believe in it’s existence!

I am informed that the 19^th century German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach argued that if there was no God then religion is a matter of Anthropology.

If Yahweh does not exist then all the horrible things that he did in the Old Testament cannot be ‘blamed’ on him, and maybe they did not happen at all but the writers chose to write about theological and psychological things in a language and a style that was pertinent and understandable to the people of that age. How should we read the Bible today to make sense of it?

Think about it.