Does God Have a Nature? | Episode 810 | Closer To Truth

What does it mean for God to have a "nature"? Will contradictions emerge that deny God? Or can we know even a little of what such an incredible Being might be like? Featuring interviews with Brian Leftow, Keith Ward, Bede Rundle, David Shatz, and Alvin Plantinga.

Season 8, Episode 10 - #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.

#God #Theology

[kazilziya]

As we get older or are faced with terminal illness, all these questions forces us to look into the face of the otherside.

[irfanmehmud]

"What's driving my desire to know or even care (about God)?... misdirected evolutionary psychology? .... or sensing actual transcendence?... how else to approach God?"

[danielalexander]

Good question, but you need to recognize that not only is the answer to this question unknown, but more importantly, it is unknowable.

[josephturner]

God isn't a personality. God is us.

[mojo]

Haven't watched the video yet, but this is probably the best, most precise, and most profound question that could possibly be asked about God.

[jamesruscheinski]

God's simplicity is that his nature does not change in his attributes and in his creation.

[yeungkc]

Professor London's response is the most sensible ever found on YouTube. It is sufficient to say God is the Creator having obvious attributes, what goes further is simply eloquent verbosity.

[AAA-ww]

I know about God a lot.

I may write some of them when I have chance.

Metaphysician philosopher

[rudy]

Based on the pure act of existence—that I am, that you are, that anything is—I resolve to Pantheism. In that sense, then, God is nature, or the inverse is or more true, nature is known by us as God. By knowing our own act of being, we know Being. We are of It and cannot be separate from this primal act “to be.” Our personal contingency to be is based not only on our birthing—a cosmically profound act—but also upon every breath, drink and repast. Let us not worship, rather, let us celebrate! To your health!

[johnmartin]

No one can claim to have answers about God, about all matters because we are only human!

[LawrenceMeisel]

Please do a program on Process Theology.

[credterfe]

The basic nature of God is that He has a mind, mental powers, intellect. God is an expert in logical thinking that all logicians should look up to. People who are thinking about heavenly issues have been given some of His nature.

[bjm]

God has divine nature, superior nature. God is supernatural. For God is a Spirit, a living force with a body of divine, superior and supernatural forces and energy. Humans exemplify the nature of God in a physical way.

[jamesruscheinski]

God is divine being. Being, that God is life; divine, that God is goodness. God's attributes grow out of his nature as divine being.

[bipolarbear]

'Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?' - Epicurus

[grnDestiny]

I get scared sometimes as if I turned out as a number in this horizon and there are infinite, infinity’s that turn out in reality (even only counting the possible ones) means it may actually be up to nature deciding where I become conscious, if again... actually not too scared lol

[matthewteal]

it tells you in the scriptures the identity of God, God is good, God is love, God is light, God is sound(word)

[seeloonchai]

God said be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. Several chapters down the road in Genesis God selected a special family and destroy the rest of humanity. Is that the nature of God?

[cgee]

I’m not religious, maybe a bit spiritual, but if you just know, you know!
I think religious people call it Faith

[profile_]

Physicist's speak of the 4 Fundamental Forces of Nature, but what about the 'force' of Causality that underpins them all ? Perhaps 'God' *is* the principle of Cause & Effect itself.