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Maciamo claims to prove that a personal god cannot exist:
a) a personal god is claimed to have emotions
b) emotions and feelings require a material brain to exist
a) The Christian god clearly has emotions, for example:
But are there any personal gods that aren't claimed to have emotions?
b) Is Maciamo right that a material brain is required? i.e. Can information be stored in a non-physical way?
2) Can something be created out of nothing? According to the First Law of Thermodynamics, no, but that only applies to closed systems. Is it clear that the universe is, and always has been, a closed system?
3) I suppose this depends on what you mean by 'universe'. To me, the universe is everything that exists or has existed, so god would have to be inside the universe. Is it meaningful to talk of something that exists outside the universe?
1) As I see it, the first part of this proof rests on two things:Maciamo said:I reject the very concept of god for several reasons, explained in various threads in this subforum. In short, a personal god (i.e. with human emotions, a gender, feelings such as love, anger, compassion...) cannot exist because:
1) emotions and feelings require a material brain to exist.
2) An immaterial god could not have created the "existence" without creating itself, which is impossible, out of nothing.
3) With an eternal Universe (i.e. that has always existed), God could only exist as being all the Universe of part of it. Part of it doesn't make much sense, and all of it equals calling it the Universe itself.
a) a personal god is claimed to have emotions
b) emotions and feelings require a material brain to exist
a) The Christian god clearly has emotions, for example:
1 Corinthians 13:4-8; I John 4:7-21; Psalm 106:1; Hebrews 12: 5-13 said:God Is Love
But are there any personal gods that aren't claimed to have emotions?
b) Is Maciamo right that a material brain is required? i.e. Can information be stored in a non-physical way?
2) Can something be created out of nothing? According to the First Law of Thermodynamics, no, but that only applies to closed systems. Is it clear that the universe is, and always has been, a closed system?
3) I suppose this depends on what you mean by 'universe'. To me, the universe is everything that exists or has existed, so god would have to be inside the universe. Is it meaningful to talk of something that exists outside the universe?