Can the Divine be a Person? | Episode 1305 | Closer To Truth

What if God were a person? A person has sense, knowledge, will, intent, feelings. A person can be compassionate, sympathetic, empathetic. If God were a person, there’d be hope that all might end well. Featuring interviews with Oliver Crisp, John Behr, J.L. Schellenberg, Deepak Chopra, and Edward Wierenga.

Season 13, Episode 5 - #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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[MikeKGullion]

While I greatly enjoy and appreciate Robert Lawrence Kuhn's documentary interviews on the variety of topics he explores, as he is sincere and objective (to the extent that's possible), I can't help thinking that Kuhn will eventually end up in the same place Socrates did i.e. "All that I know is that I know nothing." While it may first appear to be a copout, and def. shouldn't discourage philosophical and scientific exploration, I'm afraid one has to eventually face a brutal truth: we have very little knowledge of the big questions in the universe.

[williamburts]

As Krishna says in the Bhagavid-gita: " one should meditate upon the supreme person as the one who knows everything, as he who is the oldest, who is the controller, who is smaller than the smallest, who is the maintainer of everything, who is beyond all material conception, who is inconceivable, and who is always a person. He is luminous like the sun, and he is transcendental, beyond this material nature. Bhag: 8:9

[tomkwake]

“Person”ally, at 18:31 I like how Robert Kuhn describes the relationship of Religion to the Ultimate Reality/forces in nature. He knows how to ask questions that differentiates perspectives of all his interviewees from Science to Religion, very enlightening, Thanks!

[newdawnrising]

Great production and great persons to interview for these questions.

[johnchristopherlayton]

❤️❤️❤️THANK YOU ROBERT. I COULD NOT HAVE DONE THIS WITHOUT YOU. EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU ARE MY REASON FOR LIVING. PLEASE KNOW HOW MUCH GOD LOVES YOU.❤️❤️❤️

[dustinellerbe]

These Theologians talk in circles. None of it makes any sense whatsoever. I'm glad you stand up to them with logic. Thanks for the video content. Itd be awesome to meet you one day!

[rareone]

God is beyond our comprehension, that’s why we still only have just an idea of what god is but not the definitive answer.

[bastianrivero]

God is an all knowing energy that creates

[jrboi]

God is a family unit in which they relate to each other exactly as that. A family is one.

[johnchristopherlayton]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️YES YES YES YES YES YES YES. Sorry for all the comments but I just love these conversations! Thank you so much!

[AtheistCook]

As an atheist non physicalist i agree more with Deepak than the Christian philosophist, If Conciousness is fundamental then that thing they call god is not a person, much less a deity

[jeremiahmilazzo]

God is experiencing the world through you, along with you, and for you, for gods own reason

[barnabyrt]

The Orthodox priest gave excellent answers.

[Ndo]

Personhood is one of infinite facets of god. We cling to god as a person because that is the part we can relate to. God is a person and also not just a person.

[keramatebrahimi]

It is unbelievable you asked such a question.

[PaulKeetley]

God the Father, pure Consciousness, and God the Mother, Holy Spirit or Power, God the Son, Divine Incarnate as Human Being. We all are made in the image, power and consciousness of God. God's Realisation is seeing His / Her / Their reflection, infinitely, in every Human and in their Evolutionary Journey of Spiritual Realisation and ultimate Unity with God.

[TimeGhost]

The interpretation of God can feel like a person.

[moosestubbings]

God is within, we are all brahma, we are all one.

[anikettripathi]

Every particle of gold has similar properties as tons of gold. Similarly ever part of infinite is infinite only. But we don't prepare ourselves for infinite identity and happy with limited.

[kwesikamau]

We presume the presence of intelligence (as a function, not a mass of information content) is a priori. This supposition bears plausibility granted human exploration and experience. For me, the emergent point was, if God exists and is hidden, it would be incumbent upon God to reveal God-self. I experienced this revelation in a way consistent with hundreds of testimonies I have personally examined. Further, the content of the revelation (personally and the historical collective) I found overwhelmingly compelling in scope, coherence, relevance, and correspondence to tested and accepted knowledge.