Humans may have purposes; why would one imagine that God has them? Shouldn't we be careful about anthropomorphizing God in this fashion?

Of what value to humans, is a god without purposes?

why should a god's purpose have value for human beings? what should have value for human beings is the purpose of human beings, or each one individually, moreso than the purpose of god.

i am not sure it would help any for me to know that there was a god with a purpose and what it was or not actually...and if he has one and wont tell me that is annoying, especially if he has a specific purpose in mind for me.

Did God invent Man as Man was inventing God? And whence this species Man who invented God in the first place.

For some, the apparently self-created Universe is god. But this does not satisfy for me the issue of consciousness, in which our ideas God and the Universe and Man exist in the first place.

For me, there is still the mystery of being, consciousness, is-ness. And we can say that it's a ghost in the machine, but this machine is founded in the ghost. Is it not a Moebius strip? For me, the question is more difficult than some recognize.

Although I accept the transcendence of the divine.

The notion that the divine is entirely inscrutable, without purposes, without attributes, without activity pretty much makes the "divine" a concept without any pragmatic utiltiy whatsoever. Worship of the complete unkonwn is I would say as a practical matter the same as a theism.

The key for me is the rational intelligiblity of the universe; and reason and intellect imply consciousness. One can say we impose these traits on our experience or one can say these traits are inherent in the structure of reality. I vote for the latter but then I am a rationalist, a romantic idealist of sorts.

Are you familiar with Nicholas Cusanus? His view of God is one I like use as an example of sophisticated theism. His God is very much transcendent, and to be approached by means of a negative theology. He was strongly influenced by Pseudo-Dionysus.

I agree that there's something transcendent, and that "God" is not a bad name for it. Just as Jung used the word, with no lack of conceptual sophistication...

Structure, structure, structure, i had a real hard time with this line and may have given up on it slightly, I dont know fully what you are saying here, sorry, this is not a slight on you, maybe i'm just blind?
But here goes;
I did not say God had a cause, a cause denotes purpose known, you know what is missing, you know what you are looking for, needs to be done.
God did not know, that was the essence of the purpose, knew there was something that must be done but does not have a clue as to the what,
the clue; enter us and our creation, our reason for being is to answer for God, to show God the way to answer Gods self.
But lets say that is what I said, 'God has a cause and motivation to find Gods purpose', that God was not fulfilled and the cause was to fill (i hope this is what you mean?)
Ok yes i just said that (then at least), at first, but end by saying God filled that motivation is without any cause or requirement. I did not say this exactly, not being even slightly 'exactly' contradictory, but i dont think i understand what you are saying.
I think i see, you are saying I said that 'the cause fulfilled is without cause left to contend?'
Is that what you are saying i said?
That the purpose of God fulfilled no longer becomes purpose, therefore negates itself, both purpose and God?
I am sorry you are hard to interpret or my interpretaion is laborious with this one line, please put it in simpler terms unless i got it correct.
Because i did not say this at all, God is not finished just because God realises Its purpose.



I have read on and think that your interpretation answer is that i said there was a happy ending, that there was an ending, a finish, that all was right and full and correct and done.
That God no longer needed fulfilment, no longer needed food.
God never ate before he was given the food of our love by us to him, God never knew what he was missing, therefore could not have taken what he did not know was possible.
If the requirement were a creation?
No, no, no, God is not fulfilled because of Gods creations continued existence, God has learned what is needed to fulfil God purpose, knows how to do it, does not mean it does not still need doing. Until the end of time or just us perhaps?
Just because God knows now the how, does not mean God would now knowing enough to be full would now stop his new found appetite form being fed.
Are you saying i said, God now knowing all, would stop creation, would end us?
Maybe God CANT stop this creation.
Maybe it is beyond God to kill, even if given the condition of death, God cannot kill, cannot end.
Enter next lesson,
But perhaps God is smart and knowing enough to not kill, knows and sees it achieves nothing, or as said just dosen't know how how.
Our reason for dying is something that has an answer but has a lesson that we need, and who is to say it is forever?
Our reason for murder has no answer or reason what so ever.
God does not murder, why should we? Not law so much as example.
Please get over the fact we have to die, it is not murder it has a reason, something i would like to expend/expand upon later.
Would that be the evolution of unfulfilment because of continued creation, that God must learn to kill us, is that a point that you are trying to make?
Because it exists, it is not whole?
Is this what you are asking?
Just because you have found your purpose, reason even cause does not then mean it must be over?
And if God is no longer hungry because God is fulfilled does not mean God still wont eat and savor, us especially tasty,
It could be also that which will feed his emptyness or absence of purpose?
God may in turn not let us destroy ourselves. Now there is some hope for you, me us all, we may just get away with humanities destruction of humanity, just hope we are worth enough to/for God to save that which he has sworn to learn from, not teach, not lead, or maybe that is what God is waiting for, Us to destroy ourselves, so God wont have to.

Fulfilment is not an ending.
It is in most respects freedom and ultimate beginning.
But i think I get your point, that if God had found fulfilment. what would be the point of God or of us?
Maybe God has new plans, or is finally letting us make our own without the needed environment needed responsibility.
maybe God knows that love is just the beginning, not an ending (which if i did say contradict, i never meant to say it was an ending).




I agree tentatively with what you, I think you are saying about love.
God learned love from us, to use it anyway, did I not say that? the condition was to become us.
'Love all the time, none of the time, utterly randomly without explanation'
I get what you are saying I think, that love is only provable through an act, an example, to know it exists?
But this is what i am saying here and now; apart from love being our purpose, love is there if you believe in it and even if you dont, ask for it, create it, it is there just waiting, at the least waiting to be found.
God finally found love and may very well still be baffled that it was his creation (or maybe, just maybe, God was existed as love and being the only thing God did not create has no idea about what love is meant for) when he did not even know it was in Him, baffled that it was his creation that has to fill God, not as is popular that God fills us, that has to be earned and as said asked for.
God fills us if we ask God (even when we dont), we fill God whether God needs it, asks for it, or not.
We can find love not necessarily within God, but do not doubt that it is because of God we are abled to do so, the first thing in existence is love, so God does not even know where he or love comes from?
not knowing that God had it as we have it, not knowing what it meant to use it, and give it as well as receive. God did not know.
Who is to say we dont experience it all the time? but just dont know how to which is the fulfilment part, we may not have reference, it is sanctity gift, it is there to be given first not just received.
You could be saying 'You dont know you have love unless you give it,'
Also i hear you say 'Love is only conditional in that we must share it in order to know it.'
Doesn't mean it's not there all the time.
Love dosen't fade or go numb, WE DO.
You can only take something for granted that is always there?
But the fact we have purpose and a need to find it means we need to realise it first.
And it is only in doubt that distractions such as hate and fear arise.
Distraction could mean that we were that which created these things, not God. There goes our free will again.
God has never been distracted, therefore God did not create the distraction of even as far as evil (which is one why i dont really believe in evils existence, another time).
Well the fact God now is fulfilled may give God the chance/time to enquire into these things further such as hate and fear.
God felt them in his moment of doubt and pain as man could should and would and finally through this experience found that his love was needed to be given/gifted freely, found that he had it to give.
No longer contingent upon any law but for the asker asking.
Truely free but for need.
We all need love, to do or to be.


'For deity love is completely different', only that God is love, and god couldn't know himself until he found that he was without, until he found he was man child and not just love, not just God alone.

God didn't know what God was until he met and was us.
Did I say requirement?, I suppose evolution of anything is required to grow.
God didn't need to give us love (purpose found) God chose to do so, God needed to only upon fulfilment.

'They cant both be true'?
What? that God is love without condition, but requires to know it?

Requirement again denotes God knowing what it was that would fulfil It's self, self before family.

I do not stand in the camp that God knew all to begin with, was an all knowing being, maybe now, not then.
I hope i painted that my God and understanding of Gods understanding is a journey, is an evolutionary God and Man is a purpose quest justice.
We were the first experiment that could choose their own pattern?, choose their own history, present, future, WE ARE THE FIRST, (even if it is going on on in other planes and planets and peoples)
God created something It did not know what direction it would choose, I think else why give us the ability why choice?
And if this then unknowing God that created It's comparative in order to know by example Its Self,
And by our example, our example, It evolved, meaning it was less before and became more after.

And i think the contradiction you mistake me for making; Is that God finding this more, this fulfilment as i call it, will then stop evolving, can now turn off his evolutionary purpose?
Perhaps, perhaps not.
Maybe there is more for God to learn and grow into, but i hazard to say it wont necessarilly include us? If the two are ever seperateable?
But that would also mean God would have to abandon his newish Human nature his human understanding, human fulfilment. His family, his now responsibility. We need his there to love.
And where as a father may abandon themselves,
the Children never truly abandon their Mother or Father.

I know this probably doesn't come close to answering what you put, but i did try.
Answer; I didn't exactly contradict myself, you tried to do it for me, good effort though.

Thanks for your time

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What were the specific statements i made that were contradictory? this may help us for next time.

sun, i really like the way you think!

i probably sounded a but cynical and maybe even sarcastic when i said it wouldnt help me to know whether god had a purpose or not...and even though it doesnt help me in any practical terms, it certainly sounds beautiful the way you put it. much better than religion-and it doesnt put any burden on humanity either. kind of an awesome concept really...leaves me spellbound not knowing what to do about it.

Guys, purposes are not purpose, reasonings are not reason,
Meanings are not meaning.

Not so much just a concept with me, belief and even religion are not always as stiffling as most, who think they do not ascribe, would have you think, or you suspect yourself.
Religion and Faith are the best only if in equal measure, you must have faith to be religious and must be religious to have faith. You achieve things. You become achievable, something to aspire/inspire toward.
All we need remember is that we are a law unto ourselves that needs to be passed, needs adhearing to, needs to be imposed.
We dont get ourselves for free, might work.

Thanks for liking me though

I really want to focus on what you say here at the end. To reiterate:



You realize you are saying we are slaves then? Think about it? Okay god creates me, and now i should feel some obligation to repay god with some obedience? Well what if i don't want this life then? Can i kill myself and not suffer hell for doing so? No. Well not according to the doctrine you can't. So in other words you are forced to live and are forced to obey god or else face damnation. It isn't optional, not according to what a majority of Christians like to try and sell. There is free will to choose and you can choose not to accept god, but then you are faced with damnation for making that choice. Yeah great options and compassionate ones at that.

I don't want to play this stupid game, so if I have free will, where is my option to not play?

God created the universe as a manifestation of His love for His creatures, in particular humanity, and Islam became the fabric woven out of this love
love is the essence of creation Just as a mother's love

God created the first man who is Adam from the elements of the earth, then He breathed in him from His spirit and created Eve from him. After He lodged them in paradise to see different types of favor and bounties God prepared for righteous people from his offspring, He willed that they come down to the earth to inhabit it.
So the aim of their life on the earth was to dwell it by what Allah likes of useful deeds, good morals and good dealings, they also breed and propagate and teach their children and grandchildren to keep and fulfill their covenant to God by obeying Him, remembering Him, being thankful to Him and worshiping Him properly. Whoever keeps to this, he is the guided and the happy one, God makes his life a good one and makes him happy in the hereafter by His favor in paradise. And whoever disobeys Him and follows his desires and wishes spoiling and corrupting in life and destroying crops and cattle though he knows that God doesn’t like mischief, such man is a disbeliever in God’s bounties and not keeping his covenant to God, so God despises him, scorns him and gets him in Hell on the Day of Judgment to face torture as he is a disbeliever and ungrateful.

God's purpose is to bring out the best in man through the free will of submitting his lower nature to the higher power. God is wisdom and wisdom is god and wisdom is female in essence who is able to be in both light and darkness at the same time.

All gods have come forth from chaos, just exactly where and how is a little story. M

God exists because we created Him and His purpose was to create us therefor, He existed to create, support and govern over the Human Species.

The purpose of God who has neither beginning or end and is all that exists and in all that exists is simply to continue to exist.

needing or requiring a purpose but that in itself is a perfect answer as far as I am concerned. Because if a god can lack a purpose, then why can't I?
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Yeah, why not said the electronic car manufacturer of twitter at 2:30 a.m. then why can not she?

She and them get to interrogate God.

The question is what is Man and Woman's purpose if you can't agree with how to take care of yourselves. Meaning, you are in service to each other on your own market and yet I get calls all of the time that you want credit for what you get credit for already. So...where is your welfare check? I do that but macro style is what the Government would say...don't call back on this private line called my home address.

God is responsible for big things like issuing your lie which is what it is until it gets a sole and that is all done by the age of 1. Then, a surveillance team to watch your best of creation. The Holy Spirit does not care about details so it knows when you are sleep on your face. Or when you are a bastard or not. Naughty? We do not submit as the assistant to the reception for the office of big words. That fat bastard is not fat usually. Saint Dick is his code name but you or your monkey relations network of psych kid alias haven loons and we do not know what is going on. Christmas is credited to those who participate - NO STEALING credit from the two creators in training. So, they delegate a third party judged man with large gate to take credit and the kids rightfully think for a short time, "My parents are connected with a real servent of their bidding." I was different so I had to assign where it would have gone anyway...but adopted kids seemed to enjoy knowing. Personally, I would have said to them they needed more time on the magic dictator ride but with guidance that God has not been reported to associate but pays the bill quarterly.

God's purpose is many things and not all the same to one person. I see it, and it is seamless when he is involved in respect for the good works with the Saintest. NIK is his unspoken name, and it stands for Nothingatall Inocent Kingdom is your God-like God. National Inhabitants Keeper. No Innocent Kept for NIK which is KIN in superencryption mode. Now, I Know...began many short conversations.

Since God is perfect in all respects, he has no defects, so he wants to fix his defects by setting a goal. God created the world because he is God. For example, because I am rich, I help the poor, build houses, invest and... I have the money and God exists. Because he exists, he wanted to create the world and everything in it.