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Does God question his existence?

Jedster

Well-Known Member
Does God ever wonder how or why he exists?

According to the Rig Veda creation hymn. The answer is : Maybe or maybe not.(see last line)
HYMN CXXIX. Creation.
1. THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it.
What covered in, and where? and what gave shelter? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water?
2 Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider.
That One Thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature: apart from it was nothing whatsoever.
3 Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness this All was indiscriminated chaos.
All that existed then was void and form less: by the great power of Warmth was born that Unit.
4 Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire, the primal seed and germ of Spirit.
Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent.
5 Transversely was their severing line extended: what was above it then, and what below it?
There were begetters, there were mighty forces, free action here and energy up yonder
6 Who verily knows and who can here declare it, whence it was born and whence comes this creation?
The Gods are later than this world's production. Who knows then whence it first came into being?
7 He, the first origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it,
Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not.

Rig Veda: Rig-Veda, Book 10: HYMN CXXIX. Creation.
 

SalixIncendium

अग्निविलोवनन्दः
Staff member
Premium Member
Does God ever wonder how or why he exists?

God, as I view the concept, doesn't wonder. God is without such mortal attributes. God simply observes. God simply is.

In Hinduism, there is are two concepts of God (Brahman), Saguna and Nirguna. The former is God with attributes, the latter is God without. I see the former as a tool(s) to realize the latter.
 

stvdv

Veteran Member: I Share (not Debate) my POV
Whose eye controls this world in highest heaven, he verily knows it, or perhaps he knows not

My guess: "third eye" is meant in this context (otherwise it would state "eyes"). So it's about awareness/witness. Not about "intellectual knowing"
 

blü 2

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Does God ever wonder how or why he exists?
Everyone is curious about their origins. We're still trying to map the path from chemistry to biochemistry, and I dare say God is still trying to map the path from nature to supernature, and the evolution of [his] ancestors.
 

taykair

Active Member
Suppose you were god. You knew everything -- including, perhaps, how and why you existed. What could you possibly wonder about?

Nothing. But suppose then you decided you wanted to know what it 'felt like" to wonder about something? How could you go about finding out what that was like?

I wasn't going to respond to this. I really, really wasn't. But I just can't help myself.

Isn't the cause for "deciding you wanted to know" the same as that thing which we call "wondering"? If so, then it would seem that your statement is saying, "But suppose then that you wondered about what it felt like to wonder...".

Or am I missing something? I wonder...
 

Sleeppy

Fatalist. Christian. Pacifist.
Good question..

No. God doesn't think;

1) Not constrained within time.
2) No need.
 

Salvador

RF's Swedenborgian
God, as I view the concept, doesn't wonder. God is without such mortal attributes. God simply observes. God simply is.

In Hinduism, there is are two concepts of God (Brahman), Saguna and Nirguna. The former is God with attributes, the latter is God without. I see the former as a tool(s) to realize the latter.

How would a non-interventionist God be distinguishable from no God?
 
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