Well, I do NOT know these things. I know those are stories told to promote certain value systems. But maybe the Garden of Eden is a metaphor as well? Representing the innocence we have before we discover the evils in the world?
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Is God a Metaphor?
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Well, I do NOT know these things. I know those are stories told to promote certain value systems. But maybe the Garden of Eden is a metaphor as well? Representing the innocence we have before we discover the evils in the world?
And yet, other theists seem to disagree with this view.
I think theists all believe in a god that is a living being. To be without that belief, you would be an atheist.
MatthewA
Active Member
@Polymath257 that is something I believe was very real; and it shows the creation of human beings, but alas a person may need faith to believe that.
If you wanna say that it is a metaphor; I am gonna have to ask you where do people come from then?
If you wanna say that it is a metaphor; I am gonna have to ask you where do people come from then?
That's a question for the science. Why bring God into it at all?
Matthew 13:44
New International Version
44 “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.
One of my favorite parables.
Whenever you are drunk on delusion, there will be a Close Friend who will present you with this Jewel, and you must, without fail, present this Jewel to your Close Friend. Come a time when you take to hanging the Jewel around your own neck, you are, beyond doubt, drunk with delusion. Because this is the way things are, the world in its entirety is the One Bright Pearl.
(Talk about using metaphors!)
Or God is a metaphor for transcendent reality.
And yet, many seem to think this is not at all the case.
MatthewA
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@Polymath257
Science okay. I believe the idea of science is that we came from being fish people into to monkeys into humans.
To that question I desire to see an island of monkeys that are transitioning unto humans.
Anyway thank you for the discussion.
Science okay. I believe the idea of science is that we came from being fish people into to monkeys into humans.
To that question I desire to see an island of monkeys that are transitioning unto humans.
Anyway thank you for the discussion.
Here is one theist's take on this issue:
God Is a Metaphor: The Deeper Explanation | The Certainty of Uncertainty
@Polymath257
Science okay. I believe the idea of science is that we came from being fish people into to monkeys into humans.
To that question I desire to see an island of monkeys that are transitioning unto humans.
Anyway thank you for the discussion.
If you want the evidence that this happened, as in the science forums. But you might want to learn what the actual science says as opposed to a straw man.
MatthewA
Active Member
That is alright (I am arrogant do not feel like reading); What do you believe though @Polymath257 is God a metaphor to you?
I don't have a belief in God at all. but I have run across this view in some *theist* writings. It at least becomes understandable to me from that viewpoint.
syo
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Nah. Human ''values'' and human ''goals'' are all in vain. They are nothing. Gods are greater than this.
JoshuaTree
Flowers are red?
Guess I'm reading the intent of the author more as...
“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” - Sherlock Homes”
― Arthur Conan Doyle
That sounds very much like a metaphor doesn't it?
It can be meant that way or it can be meant in a way to point that God lives with all things as he is the source of all greatness, glory, beauty, light, praise ,goodness, etc.
It is important is to know what people mean, as a lot of words (sequence of them) can have multiple meaning.