PetriFB said:
http://koti.phnet.fi/elohim/arguments.html
The purpose of the following lines is to contemplate those obstacles, which one may encounter on the way leading to eternal life and why some people don't turn to God so easily. The purpose is to deliberate especially over those outlooks and thoughts, which lie in the minds of many people and make them negative toward spiritual matters and God's call; in other words reasons, why they turn their backs on God's salvation and grace.
So, when we start searching for reasons and obstacles, why these people don't turn to God and on what grounds, especially the following points are relevant. They appear again and again in the lives of many people and are a reason for why spiritual matters and God's call are neglected by them.
Let’s begin by analyzing the concept of ‘eternal’ before we add the ‘life’ to it.
Eternal denotes an escape from time – space being but another aspect of the temporal.
To be timeless is to be unchanging, devoid of becoming and simply being.
Being, the notion of ONE, is the cessation of existence.
To be not-temporal is to fall out of existence and never change - singularity.
To never change is to be inert, stagnating, unmoving, devoid of dimensions.
Consciousness is the apprehension of change, the universal flux, need.
Consciousness is one thought followed by another in a continuous stream of temporal alteration.
Self-consciousness is the looking-back upon one’s self, by arbitrarily separating a piece of consciousness and objectifying the rest – giving the impression of duality and the mind/body illusion.
When I refer to an ‘I’ I am referring to a hypothetical unity that has past and I am observing it in hindsight.
The same can be said for the concept of ‘Here’ and ‘Now’ and the number ‘1’.
These concepts are generalizations encompassed between the beginning and the end of a thought. This is why they are imprecise concepts and can be infinitely divided.
There is no Here, Now, Self, One because there is no absolute, no stability, no inertia.
If there were it would drop out of existence.
We can only imagine what an absolute void would be like because the concept is beyond out conceptual abilities.
We are products of change and we can only relate to it.
Our concepts concerning the void or substance or matter are all in relation to our own temporal flow.
Something is considered hard or stable when it alters slower in relation to us.
So, in essence, consciousness is a temporal phenomenon caused when universal flux produces a temporal direction and manifests itself in alteration, giving birth to different speeds of it (matter).
The future represents – as Sartre said – my potential for becoming and my past the sum of my choices in this becoming.
If I would actually become and Be then I would cease existing.
I can look to the past, and even to myself in it, because the past has ceased being temporal, in other words, it has ceased to alter and is fixed as a memory in my mind.
We can then study the fixed.
The accuracy of our study determines our awareness of the events that occurred.
Consciousness, and its enhancement of self-consciousness, is essentially matter, change, trying to stabilize itself by becoming more efficient in its resistance to change.
Therefore consciousness cannot exist and has no reason to outside necessity.
It is a product of it and in the service of it.
This makes the entire idea about a conscious God ludicrous, to say the least.
An omnipotent, omniscient being would have no reason to think, it would be perfects table, inert, timeless and spaceless.
The only way we can justify God is by making ourselves a manifestation of his struggle to create himself.
