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Old 03-14-2008, 09:06 PM   #14 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru
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Originally Posted by willravel
"God is the anything" is a simple mislabeling. God is not "anything". God is a deity, whether you consider he/her/it/them to be mythology or not. It's a personhood, not some concept of all that is.
Will, you've skipped over entire bodies of philosophy through the ages.

EDIT: (God is not necessarily a personhood.)

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Edit: if when one says "I believe in God" they are actually saying they believe in anything, then they're not even necessarily a theist or deist. They're just way too open minded.
This is something else entirely.


We need a clarification of just what we're talking about when we say God.
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