Problems with this section (Agnosticism)

by Frank Paris , Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 01:07 (5267 days ago) @ David Turell

"I hope you will respond to my post of Saturday."-I don't know what post you're referring to. As far as I know, I have responded to every post made to me on this forum that asked questions. The only question I can find that you might be referring to is this: "What I am really asking, is it your concept that God is a universal intelligence, composed entirely of energy, an energy that may create material items, but remains pure energy and immaterial."-If that's it, I can't find my reply to it. So just in case, I'll answer it again. If I recall, it wasn't much of an answer because I didn't understand the question. First, I don't know what you mean by "a universal intelligence." Second, I don't know what you mean by "composed entirely of energy." I asked if by energy you meant E=MC**2, in which case I would never claim that God is composed entirely of energy, as then basically energy is just another form of matter: they can be converted into each other. The final part of your question, "but remains pure energy and immaterial" is just as ambiguous, since energy can be converted into matter. The only sense to the terms, matter and energy, that make sense to me belong to the universe, and what God is "made out of" is outside of the universe. You can't really specify what God is "made out of." He's just God and is only "made out of" himself, nothing we can point to in the world. The whole question smacks of "substances," which went out with Kant, if I remember my philosophy 101.-I also remember talking about God as being the source or ground of all process, and matter and energy are just processes. I also talked about panentheism, where God can get inside matter and energy and come up into the world through them. But until I know precisely what question it is that you think I haven't answered, I'm probably just wasting my time here.