What is God? | Episode 1003 | Closer To Truth

How can I assess whether God exists without exploring what kind of God is supposed to exist? So I examine God's essence and nature. Featuring interviews with John Polkinghorne, John Behr, John Hick, J.L. Schellenberg, and Timothy O'Connor.

Season 10, Episode 3 - #CloserToTruth

Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant.

Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

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[ezbody]

When I was a kid, I looked up to adults, wanting to grow up and be like them, smart and wise, but when I became an adult, I came to a shocking realization that most adults around me were just old children.

[contemplativepursuits]

The best channel on YouTube regarding deepest philosophical questions.

[rodburley]

It is like having a great mountain rising out of the plains. Well, everywhere you look at the mountain, it looks slightly different, depending on where you are looking. If you are up close, if you are far away, if you are to the north, the south, the east or the west—it all looks different, you see. But it is the same mountain. It has not changed with your perspective.

You may debate with others about the appearance of the mountain. You are looking from the north and they are looking from the south. Oh, the mountain looks so very different. You argue about its features and its manifestations. To someone up close, it is huge and monumental. To someone at a distance, it is just something out on the horizon. The experience is different. The perspectives are different. But the mountain has not changed. It has not adapted itself to people’s perspective or people’s position around it.

~Marshall Vian Summers

[BillEFabian]

This is the question that every thoughtful individual struggles with. The unexamined life is not worth living, Socrates.

[miltontorres]

Amazing..with each episode, my mind is getting closer to truth.👍

[HabibMohamadMohebian]

Hi. I’ve been watching your shows for some time. They are great. Each episode teaches so much and opens the mind to different perceptions to a seeker. Only thing is whoever is doing the sound is not doing their job right. When you are having your monologues between the dialogues, the sound is double, so you have to take the volume up and down.
In every show.

[he-man_]

@ 2:31 The interviewer answers his own question from the get go, “what do you imagine the concept of god means?”
Key word: Imagine

[jjt]

As an atheist, I considered this chapter as engaging as the rest. Good work.

[robotaholic]

For each interviewee their descriptions are just a reflection of their own values. It's so obvious if you take a step back lol

[JohnOrbit]

I'm amazed at my own ability to come up with completely different answers to these questions depending on the day of the week or the hour of the day. I'm also amazed at how long asking these same questions has gotten me absolutely No Closer To Truth.

[bkc]

outstanding series. great questions and world’s best thinkers on these issues. i really like polkingham’s “process theology” notion of an open future, ie, God does not know the future. but i wonder if this is too much a view of God bound by time, which is a constituitive element of our physical universe, but what about the universe (multiverse) beyond or outside of time, and God’s relationship to that bigger picture? Time itself is a problematic aspect to cosmology, in my thinking

[ruskiny]

Bottom line "it is stranger than we can think". RBS Haldane. Best reaction "take Jesus at his word". Tolstoy (endorsed by Gandhi, JSM and Einstein.)

[jeffreyphillips]

I often times hit the thumbs up button long before the video has run its course because i have yet to see one that's not thought provoking.

[JustMeProf]

When I was born, I was told what is GOD, life and so on. So, that's all leads up to believes made up by people. Life is about new experiences and knowledge. Ideas leads to emotions and beliefs.

[adriandegoede]

At long last someone who broadcast the truth!! Very inspirational and the truth!! Thanks for you refreshing channel!!

[rockybalboa]

Thanks Mr. Kuhn these are great videos. As my late Granma would say "thanks be to God."

[davetubervid]

A logical positivist or linguistic philosopher would also ask 'what do we mean by ''real'' or ''reality'' before asking the questions about God that Robert Kuhn asks his philosophers. Kuhn wants to know what is real without asking what 'real' means. Doesn't this defeat the purpose of his metaphysical questions?

[johnbuckner]

10:58
"Well, it all depends on what you mean by God."
LOL I was just listening & would have sworn that was Jordan Peterson with a swedish accent.

[asimtahir]

Robert very informative programs..keep it up. Could you please summarize main points of videos in the end that would be great.

[kevinhmingthantluanga]

One of the Greatest channel in Youtube..