by therevealer 4 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Under the heading of "where did god come from"
A brother once said something profound to me about this subject.
He said: If someone created God, who? And who created that one? And who created the one before him? And before that one? And on and on and on...
Succinctly he said something I'll never forget: "The buck has to stop somewhere."
Logically, there would have to be a start, a beginning, a first, a top dog, a boss, someone: And of course, we know that is Jehovah. The buck stops there.
That was neither logical nor profound. No offense.
"If someone created God, who?" Nobody created God. A person or people created the IDEA of God, just like someone created the IDEA of Gharlane of Eddore. Creating the concept doesn't create the actual literal being.
"And who created that one?" His parents.
"And who created the one before him?" His grandparents.
Etc.
"The buck has to stop somewhere." Yeah, as far as humans are concerned it stops in the ocean a couple billion years ago.
"Logically, there would have to be a start, a beginning, a first, a top dog, a boss, someone: And of course, we know that is Jehovah. The buck stops there."
This doesn't follow. At all.
The irony of my post being taken as my serious thoughts that this is logical or profound is neither logical or profound. Really Mad Sweeney, I didn't think it was either. Rather it shows just how stupid the dubs are. How can it make a logical or profound impression on anyones thinking. But this dub thought it was. He probably thought that the explanation of an overlapping generation was such as well and fine spiritual food from the gb to boot. But thanks for reading and commenting.
Do not assume the existence of more entities than necessary, which is occam's razor (though it's usually translated as "the simplest explanation is the most likely to be true" or more accurately "the most parsimonious answer is likely to be the most correct").
Infinite regress by that standard would be the most insane answer possible. But saying the buck stops somewhere is also less likely to be true because it is still assuming too many entities to start things off. If one must assign a special property to something like "eternal" then why not just say the universe always existed in some format (that is to say not static for obvious reasons) and cut out all extra entities? The universe always existing is a simpler answer than an extra entity always existing and then creating another entity, which then creates the universe, and is simpler still than an entity always existed and then created the universe. Cut out the fat and you are more likely to be correct.
A brother once said something profound to me about this subject.--If someone created God, who?
Silly JW, God is the product of quantum evolution.
