Language is inadequate to describe God. It always will be. The nearest we came before Christ, was :- " I AM, WHO I AM ". With Christ, that becomes " I am the Way, the Truth and the Life"...... and again..... "the Alpha and the Omega". .
I see your point, but it's not right. You can't just subtitute a word by another as if language was made of empty words. Every word carries a different reality inside. Only the word God can express this idea of God from the video. The word unicorn expresses a mythological being who is an individual (and God can't be an individual as you've heard in the video). If you state that an unicorn is God, you are generating a semantic contradiction. No creature can be like the Creator, our way of being is very different than His. We are contingents beings, He is a necessary being; we have differents levels of perfection, He is all perfection, etc...
@@brunotavares8099 If God is so far beyond human understanding then a theist could no more understand God than an atheist. In that case it wouldn't matter whether God was real or not. Some might say that God doesn't want us to eat pork and others say pork is OK. Some say that God commands that boys be circumcised. Others say circumcision isn't required. These issues have been debated for two thousand years with no resolution. So is God real? I don't care if He is or not and neither should you.
@@sananselmospacescienceodys7308 a theist can understand more God than an atheist only because God has revealed Himself to men. Otherwise we could only reach God through rational arguments that prove His existence is reasonable (Thomas Aquinas' five ways, for example). Look, I will say that again: the rational arguments on God only prove His existence is reasonable. The real prove of God is by personal experience, my friend. You are demanding the perfect description for an ice cream's flavor. Why don't you prove the ice cream yourself? You don't lose anything trying. You mentioned 2 rituals but without any context. Believe me, religion is not about doing a list of things to be ok with God, like a check list. If you are interested on God's subjects I strongly advice you to know the life of Jesus of Nazareth, there was no man like this. And if you are not interested I think you are wasting your time watching so profound videos
@@brunotavares8099 As a Deist I can relax you: your man-made version, or any other abrahamic man-made version of god, will soon be part of the realm of human mythology ;)
@@brunotavares8099 How am I to get to know Jesus? By reading the Bible? There's a problem with that. Humans can't agree on what the Bible is actually saying and for that reason there are more than 8000 different sects of Christianity. But what I've read of Jesus wasn't very nice. He said that anyone who loved mother or father, brother or sister, son or daughter more than him was not worthy of him. Not long ago I asked a street preacher if he loved Jesus more than he loved his own six year old daughter. The preacher vigorously insisted that he loved Jesus a thousand times more than he loved his little girl. The small child was standing right beside him listening as he said this. That's sick.
@@D-777i Yeah, I was wondering that too. The Internet and most chat boards since the beginning are in their forties now and remember to check their references before making a statement.
@@AS-np3yq Can you explain? It is my understanding that the "tao" is not an entity, but rather simply a "path". How can a path be "evil in his fruits"?
The fine tuning argument and the kalam cosmological argument are two ways that philosophers and theologians use to argue for the existence of god And the premises of these arguments are usually claimed to be supported by the recent scientific findings This suggests that for the majority of theists science can at least partially address the existence of god
Bishop Barron shares with us his version of the Hebrew god Yahweh and his Jewish son Yeshua/Jesus. I had been raised a Catholic for twenty years when I first began to hear the claims from other competing religions and later the non believing atheists. It was the absence of extraordinary claims and threats from the atheists that helped me to get through the contradictions in the Bible that were keeping me in a perpetual state of fear and confusion. Tragically, Bishop Bob has the same friendly voice and smile that caused me so much fear and mental conflict as a child so I cannot endorse his message. Signed: A 75 year old free thinking atheist.
If the word God is subjective, then the interpretation is with the individual, as the "relationship" is , by Christian definition "personal". For some, God is an incomprehensible being that creates universes for unknown reasons. For others, God is an emotional support animal.
Exactly. That's exactly why Christianity broke apart into thousands of different doctrines. It needs a "one true church" and a solid definition. The Catholic Church says it is that church, but it refuses to really define anything.
It’s not subjective though and nobody here said it was. Perhaps some people understand God differently but that doesn’t mean it’s actually subjective at its core.
I think this guy is saying he doesn't know what God is either... It's sort of a useless conversation he's having here because of that. And it's important to note, Aquinas is arguably not a very biblical or especially Christian teacher.
Of course we don’t exactly understand God’s nature but nobody ever said we don’t what he is. And how exactly is Aquinas not a very biblical or Christian teacher?
Gods are not a question of "who" so much as "what," and it seems pretty clear that the Christian god is a mechanism for social control to a few, and a way to remain a child for most. When I look at gods, all I see is a coping reaction to the disquieting intuition that we all experience our finite existences in an amoral universe.
As long you believe in supernatural everything is possible. You can be eloquent and speak smart but at the end of the day,you have to believe that people with wings are flying somewhere around us, up and down,why would they have wing if not for that purpose!
Barron seems to be concerned here with attempting to articulate what he believes God isn't, rather than what God is. The closest he comes to expressing what he thinks God is occurs at 1:50 in the video - “God is that great ocean of existence from which the world in its entirety comes. Not something in the world, but the condition for the possibility of the world." So, God is a "condition", rather than a being that exists apart from the world, or that is, apart from the universe as a whole (i.e., God is not an immaterial, timeless, spaceless, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent, all good BEING)? That is to say, God is NOT how most Christians (or Jews and Muslims, for that matter) would define the Abrahamic God.
All over the far ancient world thousands of years before any of today's religions God was known to be a tree Goddess that sends out crescent shaped flowers into the heavens & the tree itself was a goddess who came out of the crescent & delivered her son to earth to rule man's souls. In the Bible she is depicted as a woman standing on a crescent moon in heaven & delivering her son to earth where he was lifted onto the throne of God to rule mankind. And also the tree sends a serpent-like vine branch (serpent rod, Caduceus) to everyone & it goes into their feet & up into their body & the crescent flower opens & the tree goddess brings out a soul & places it into man, with a son of hers to guard the soul. This is why a crescent shaped rib was lifted out of Adam & a woman came from it. That crescent with a woman on it rising out of man is the image of God & it was depicted as the image of God thousands of years before Moses. The tree is frequently depicted in far ancient art manifesting as a bush besides people's feet & placing the serpent rod into them, & the tree sends its branches through the ocean of God that the earth was created in & those branches are the tunnels people find themselves in after death & they provide safe passage for people's souls through God's ocean back to Eden where the tree is rooted. This is the origin of the story of a spiritual bush appearing to a man in the bible & telling him it is God, & telling him to remove his shoes & giving him a serpent rod that created a safe passage through the ocean for him & his people. That is what God is. A Tree that also manifests as a woman & as a small bush beside the feet, & she delivers her sons to earth through her crescent flowers & He rules from the throne of God. All peoples from all over the world worshipped her in far ancient times & then as time rolled on man forgot about her & forbade people from mentioning the knowledge of Her & Her Tree. But the knowledge is the oldest knowledge remaining on earth & is found in much ancient art from all over the world. I had no idea that catholics do not believe that God has a body or a form! That is absolutely shocking & shows their complete lack of knowledge of God. Personally I have been visited by The Goddess of Heaven all my life & She always shows me Her Son & transforms into a tree before my eyes. I had never heard of her nor read about her but she has visited me all of my life, & later in life I looked at ancient art & saw that it was depicting her & her works. And then I saw that the Bible mentions her coming from a crescent in heaven & delivering her son to earth to be our God. She brought Her Son here only a few hours ago & He spoke to me in a pure heavenly voice. Anyway I'm sure you'll delete this but it's all a fact. Have a great day P.S He says science has examined nature & there are no supernatural elements in it, & yet science is discovering that there are many invisible forces in life forms that cannot be explained & so they cannot honestly say that there is no supernatural side to nature simply because they are still in the process of discovering exactly what life is. There are billions of reports of supernatural events taking place & it takes a very dishonest person to claim that none of those events actually happened or that they can all be explained with science when science learns their secrets. Ancient people were visited by beings from the spiritual/supernatural side of life & that still happens today all over the world. They were called crazy then & they are called crazy now. That is just a cheap way of sweeping them all aside so that people don't have to think about them.
@c00Iumesque what d0es "He rules from the throne of God." mean? h0w d0es he "ruIe" ? what "Invisibie f0rces" in "Iife f0rms" have "scientists" disc0vered ? y0u are d0ing exactIy what he is d0ing, nameIy, arr0gantIy cIaiming y0u have excIusive access t0 kn0wIedge when reaIIy y0u just have a big eg0
Isnt it funny that everybody who knows " exactly who god is and what he wants" ALWAYS is in 100 % agreement with their version of god? Not a single disagreement....its as if he thinks EXACTLY like their version of a god....gee, I wonder why? 😮 It would really be cool if this dude could offer ANY kind of evidence to back any of his claims....
you claim something that isn't in any sense of the word as we use the word. the problem here is that whilst atheists say they don't believe in GOD (the one offered by you, for are many offerings), you are saying GOD does not exist.
@@juanpelaez5435 I understand just fine. This is what’s called moving the goal post. The vast majority of Christian’s argue one thing, people like Hitchens and Dawkins show the massive flaws in their argument, and then people like this guy come around and say no no no you don’t reeeaaally understand, God isn’t real like that he’s real in an unknowable way… kinda like what you’re trying to do to me. It’s an inauthentic way of arguing, and it just highlights how poor their arguments are.
Definition of Theism: the blind faith belief that you can read the minds of other people . . . and of imaginary beings, as well . . . and the 100% constant failure for such claimants to ever actually read any minds whatsoever. The reason why Theists need their gods to be imaginary: If their gods were real, then those gods may be verified as something other than the gods which Theists claim that they are, and those gods' minds, thoughts, opinions, wishes, demands, etc... may be verified as being other than Theists claim, and since Theists claim to speak for and define their gods, Theists would then be verified to be wrong and to be verified as giving false witness about their gods. Religious Apologetics: the attempt to redefine gods and other religious claims in response to skepticism about those gods and religious claims, which is evidence that apologists do not believe in consistent gods and religious claims, but evidence instead that Theists believe that they as mere mortals can change the definition of their gods and religious claims on a personal whim in response to other mere mortals' skepticism. Theists are the ones making god claims, so it is up to Theists to define those gods for then other Theists as well as for Atheists to accept or reject. Atheists are merely rejecting the gods which have been presented to them so far. Theists of other religions, other denominations, and other personal opinions also reject gods which they do not accept. Definition of Gods: whatever Theists want their own gods to be, whatever Theists need to define their gods as to hide them further in the gaps and away from skepticism, and whatever Theists define gods of other religions as. Therefore, Atheists are doing nothing more shocking than other Theists are also doing, and many Theists are far more shocking in their rejection of and shell game around gods, and the vast majority of humanity are Theists of other religions, so why are so many Theists so fixated on Atheists and their skepticism instead of on the skepticism and games that they themselves as well as other Theists play? Furthermore, all Monotheists by definition and in fact most Polytheists as well reject an infinite set of gods other than whatever gods they believe in, whereas Atheism's primary definition is merely not accepting gods, with only some Atheists further saying that gods do not exist. In other words, Atheists so often get blamed for insisting that infinite gods do not exist, when it is the vast majority of Theists who actually insist that an infinite set of gods most definitely do not exist, and the word for accusing others of what you do is hypocrisy. So, a more elaborate definition of Theism: the blind faith belief that your imaginary friends are real, that an infinite set of other imaginary friends are not real, that you can speak for your imaginary friends, that you can speak for the infinite set of not real imaginary friends sufficiently to know that they are not real, that you can speak for the minds of your fellow Theists and thus know that they are believing in the exact same imaginary friends as you are believing in, that you can speak for the minds of other Theists and thus the imaginary friends that they believe in differently than you, that you can speak for the minds of Atheists . . . and that you can change you mind about all of the preceding at any time as often as you wish on your own personal whim.
Nope, he says marvel heroes are not real, but the living, thinking and loving conscience behind material reality is truth and you can connect to it by jesus christ.
@@AS-np3yq n0, y0u are b0th n0w saying exactIy that "marveI her0es are fake but invisibIe superman is reaI " and y0u d0nt see h0w infantiIe this makes y0u s0und ?
The "God" that this priest talks about, is nothing at all. He is talking about nothing, using words but not saying anything. He also contradicts himself. Finally what this priest talks about has nothing to do with Christianity, or Jesus, so why is he does he care?
This explains precisely nothing. it is waffle. it is certainly not brilliant! if you say that god is not a physical being and is not in the universe, then you are saying that god does not appear in existence , which is what we said all along - god does not exist I rest my case
Science WILL destroy "God". 100-200 years tops. Read Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity Is Near". Once humans achieve immortality, through technology, what can a "God" promise them?