Can a God exist?
I suppose atheists have every right to claim that they don’t believe in the existence of God(and I suppose this is the Judeo-Christian God overall as well as all of the others), but does this disbelief a metaphysical and logical necessity rather than only a metaphysical and logical POSSIBILITY?
In my view, a godless world and a world containing a God are indistinguishable from one another on further rational reflection, unless one wants to invokes miracles and the like. I argue that God (if God exists) is ultimately a disembodied consciousness that enjoys complete causal control over the physical and phenomenal(psychological) states of the world( a view that I call: causal monism, as distinct from a view of “dualism” that holds that man operates independently of God).
As before, consciousness is the only “substance” or entity in the actual world that lies beyond the reach or scope of sensory perception, and it is usually sensory perception that we use to determine whether or not something exists. One has no empirical knowledge that I have conscious experiences and neither do I have empirical knowledge that they are conscious, as it is conceptually coherent that other humans are consciousless automotons for all we know, since consciousness is unavailable to sensory perception.
By this same reasoning, a God could exist beyond information gained by the senses because such a GOd is “composed” of the one actual material in the real world that is beyond the scope of the sensory: consciousness.
Any other conceptualization of God fails scrutiny by the senses because by such concepts, such a God should be sensorily perceived by an appropriately situated actual being. But a disembodied consciousness is “supposed” to be imperceptible precisedly because consciousness qua consciousness is “supposed” to be imperceptible…and is.
But that is only my view,
Jay M. Brewer
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