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I’m a regular Church-going Christian, and could definitely go along with that theory. As a gross over-simplification Jesus is a noun, the Holy Sprit is a verb,

I’m a regular Church-going Christian, and could definitely go along with that theory. As a gross over-simplification Jesus is a noun, the Holy Sprit is a verb, God is an entire language.

kendallpark 9y ago
Curious: what is the Father, then?
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- klez 9y ago
  In the context of the post I think that by God GP meant the Father. EDIT: I re-read the post and no, they didn't seem to mean that.
  - blowski 9y ago
    I just thought about it... and I'm not really sure. I'll cop-out and say something like "God is unknowable, undefinable, and constrainable".
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- rusk 9y ago
  In the Holy Trinity, God is the father, the son, and the holy ghost. I understand these terms to signify 'aspects' of the same thing.
pasta 9y ago
The Bible has a lot of different names for God to teach people about who and what he is. So you could say all those names explain the concept of God. This link provides some examples: https://www.gotquestions.org/names-of-God.html https://www.gotquestions.org/names-of-God.html Edit: maybe more interesting is the Wikipedia articles listing the names of different kinds of religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God
- blowski 9y ago
  Within the Christian tradition as I understand it, you could read every single word ever expressed about God and you still wouldn't understand. It's like an ant trying to understand a black hole by crawling around a library.
  - wu-ikkyu 9y ago
    >It's like an ant trying to understand a black hole by crawling around a library. Your analagy is akin to The Cloud of Unknowing, a spiritual guide to becoming closer to god by "unknowing", written by a 14th century christian mystic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing
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    - 09bjb 9y ago
      Similar to something I read in a Jack Kornfield book the other day, about a Zen tradition called "just sitting" where you dispense with any goals or concepts of enlightenment and, well, just sit. Presumably it gets you somewhere...or nowhere :)
  - coliveira 9y ago
    Black holes can be observed. God cannot.
    - 09bjb 9y ago
      Under what religious or philosophical tradition can God not be observed, even partially?
      - coliveira 9y ago
        You tell me. Has any philosophical tradition demonstrated the existence of god outside of the human imagination?
stult 9y ago
Well, at a minimum we certainly know Jesus was a word. In the beginning, at least.
- redial 9y ago
  That "we" certainly doesn't include judaism, or you know, the ones that wrote the book.
coliveira 9y ago
It is funny that god is a language, but he lived alone for the eternity. Was he communicating with himself alone?... Just another "mystery" that believers will sweep under the rug.
- padobson 9y ago
  What's truly interesting about this is your assumption that God is an individual, a single person. What's more interesting is the comment you're replying to actually describes the super-personal nature of God - what Christians call the Trinity. Writings expounding on the Trinity have filled many volumes of Christian theology - it's something far from being "swept under the rug".
- katzgrau 9y ago
  I think you're applying our concept of time to God. Time is a human construct. As for believers, you can see from this thread that there are many interpretations of God, but on HN they do lean toward the fairly abstract. Personally, I see our mere existence as proof of God. We can observe God because we are God. The only thing I've ever really been hung up on is the question of whether God can observe himself to validate his own existence. It's fairly paradoxical.
  - coliveira 9y ago
    > We can observe God because we are God. This is the god of Spinoza. A god that is everything and everywhere is, at the same time, nothing. It is nothing more than the worshiping of the universe.

I’m a regular Church-going Christian, and could definitely go along with that theory. As a gross over-simplification Jesus is a noun, the Holy Sprit is a verb, God is an entire language.

kendallpark 9y ago

Curious: what is the Father, then?

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klez 9y ago
In the context of the post I think that by God GP meant the Father. EDIT: I re-read the post and no, they didn't seem to mean that.
- blowski 9y ago
  I just thought about it... and I'm not really sure. I'll cop-out and say something like "God is unknowable, undefinable, and constrainable".
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rusk 9y ago
In the Holy Trinity, God is the father, the son, and the holy ghost. I understand these terms to signify 'aspects' of the same thing.

pasta 9y ago

The Bible has a lot of different names for God to teach people about who and what he is. So you could say all those names explain the concept of God. This link provides some examples: https://www.gotquestions.org/names-of-God.html https://www.gotquestions.org/names-of-God.html Edit: maybe more interesting is the Wikipedia articles listing the names of different kinds of religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God

blowski 9y ago
Within the Christian tradition as I understand it, you could read every single word ever expressed about God and you still wouldn't understand. It's like an ant trying to understand a black hole by crawling around a library.
- wu-ikkyu 9y ago
  >It's like an ant trying to understand a black hole by crawling around a library. Your analagy is akin to The Cloud of Unknowing, a spiritual guide to becoming closer to god by "unknowing", written by a 14th century christian mystic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing
  - deleted 9y ago
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  - 09bjb 9y ago
    Similar to something I read in a Jack Kornfield book the other day, about a Zen tradition called "just sitting" where you dispense with any goals or concepts of enlightenment and, well, just sit. Presumably it gets you somewhere...or nowhere :)
- coliveira 9y ago
  Black holes can be observed. God cannot.
  - 09bjb 9y ago
    Under what religious or philosophical tradition can God not be observed, even partially?
    - coliveira 9y ago
      You tell me. Has any philosophical tradition demonstrated the existence of god outside of the human imagination?

stult 9y ago

Well, at a minimum we certainly know Jesus was a word. In the beginning, at least.

redial 9y ago
That "we" certainly doesn't include judaism, or you know, the ones that wrote the book.

coliveira 9y ago

It is funny that god is a language, but he lived alone for the eternity. Was he communicating with himself alone?... Just another "mystery" that believers will sweep under the rug.

padobson 9y ago
What's truly interesting about this is your assumption that God is an individual, a single person. What's more interesting is the comment you're replying to actually describes the super-personal nature of God - what Christians call the Trinity. Writings expounding on the Trinity have filled many volumes of Christian theology - it's something far from being "swept under the rug".
katzgrau 9y ago
I think you're applying our concept of time to God. Time is a human construct. As for believers, you can see from this thread that there are many interpretations of God, but on HN they do lean toward the fairly abstract. Personally, I see our mere existence as proof of God. We can observe God because we are God. The only thing I've ever really been hung up on is the question of whether God can observe himself to validate his own existence. It's fairly paradoxical.
- coliveira 9y ago
  > We can observe God because we are God. This is the god of Spinoza. A god that is everything and everywhere is, at the same time, nothing. It is nothing more than the worshiping of the universe.