"A philosophic system is an integrated view of existence. As a human being, you have no choice about the fact that you need a philosophy. Your only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation -- or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, undefined contradictions, undigested slogans, unidentified wishes, doubts and fears, thrown together by chance, but integrated by your subconscious into a kind of mongrel philosophy and fused into a single, solid weight: self-doubt, like a ball and chain in the place where your mind's wings should have grown. Ayn Rand, Philosophy: Who Needs It"
The decision about examining philosophy is between: 1) to make your philosophy explicit, or 2) to be a slave to the subconscious notions, principles, and other people's philosophies picked up throughout life. To ignore the topic of philosophy is to be doomed to the second choice.
Since the God I presented "the creator of the universe" is not directly questionable through the current natural means of our existence, it is presently unfalsifiable. And because of this, contemplating a God of this sort would require a different use of reason, logic, and standard of evidence then the scientific processes our world currently is adhering to. It is because of this reason that a direct understanding of this God is unclear and the consequences of this are the various theologies which each claim a sort of independence, an absolute truth, above and beyond all others. You have to take man into consideration here and his errors he commits in hindsight.
"which God do you believe in?" would essentially be the same as asking a question like "who created the universe?".
The first presumes that there are separate Gods and the latter question presupposes a designer. Many a times do I ask an atheist "who created the universe?" and hear a response similar to "what makes you think that the universe was created?". In all fairness here Rev. Dawg, the two questions are contextually identical. The question "which God do you believe in?" eliminates a peripheral perspective to other possibilities. This is how I usually argue that all Gods are one of the same. But before I do, let me first note that I accept the rational faculties of logic, certain principles that make logic what it is- law of non-contradiction, law of excluded middle, law of identity. And according to these principles, yes, it's correct that God can only exist in one form (can't be intervening and non-intervening at the same time).
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