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d_r_siva asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

Can human mind understand what is Almighty?

No.

Writers such as Chillingworth and David Hume had argued that

human understanding is limited.

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosopher...

http://ezinearticles.com/?David-Hume-Essay---Enqui...

http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/john_loc...

http://robertpriddy.com/bey/1.html

Almighty is eternal. Almighty is Omnipotent. Almighty

is infinite. Human mind can understand only finite things.

The popular old phrase says "God only knows every thing".

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    We can attempt to understand. The sages of India used to do it. They had a wide vision and broad perspective. They used to gaze at the sky and the stars and analyze things! (Think of Tulsi Das, Kabir Das, Thiruvalluvar ...)

    Think of even the western writers of old, they also had a wide vision! (For instance, Victor Hugo knew about God much better than the pastors of this age).

    (Today most of us do not see beyond our computer screens - some have narrowed down to the 3 inches of the mobile device)

    Religions came in between. Started evangelism (this I speak of every religion), and we lost that wide perspective, we are trying to squeeze the Almighty into the small boxes of narrow view ports! (And our preachers,. evangelists, spiritual gurus ... all are narrow minded - they want to squeeze God into their small boxes!)

    There is nothing more elevating than thinking of Almighty.

    You asked this, and as I am writing this, my mind tells me that you and me are one under that Almighty! Oneness comes from such wide thinking.

    (I may sound stupid, because I am not good at expressing my thoughts)

    .

    Source(s): TaZ
  • 1 decade ago

    Most people want to, try to, and hope to understand the Almighty. That's why people believe in themselves, and have something to live for, even if they think they have nothing. A popular say tells: We not only live with bread, but also with the word of God.

    As you said, the Almighty is spread throughout the infinite Universe (giving it infinity), but lives in every living being heart, and probably even in energy and matter.

    Attempting to understand God is the same as trying to see from our chair Planet Earth. It is there, we know or feel it is there, and at the same time we want it to be there.

    Some days ago, in a Physics and Chemistry lesson, I was questioning myself how can electrons know exactly how many energy they have to be apart from eachother in an atom, how can so many elements combine together to give us water, air, soil, why did the ozone lyer appear to protect us from sun rays, among many other factors, and I stood up and asked: "Is this all a big coincidence or was it planned?".

    I believe if we want to undestand life and infinity, we must try everyday to understand God.

    Source(s): My teachers, the word of God and some philosophers' words, among them, my grandfather.
  • 1 decade ago

    Not to play Devil's Advocate (no pun intended), but I believe that I will have to (respectfully) disagree with you and the previous answerers.

    As you and I had done earlier, we should examine Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. A quick (and poor) hashing of it would simply be that 'there is no self-sufficient sub-system that may function solely on its own truth'. Or, worded more plainly, everything has a higher truth above it. Naturally, this begs to question what that truth is. Atheists say the infinite characteristics of the universe. Theologians say God. What we choose to call it really doesn't matter, as long as we recognize that there is an initial truth that kick-started everything else.

    That being said, we may state that we now DO have a system (note that this is THE system, not a sub-system) that is self sufficient and that operates within itself.

    We must now also recognize that we are sub-sets of this system. That we, being minor systems within this larger one, must adhere to and operate under, the same guiding principles that the larger has set forth.

    Therefore, we know that we operate under the truth of the larger, that what the larger follows, we follow. SHOULD we begin to operate under the same conditions that led to this truth (NOT what the truth follows, as that would be a paradox), we find that we COULD reach our limit, which is THE truth. So, we do have a limit of understanding. It just happens that that limit is God (or the Infinite Universe, whichever you choose to view).

    But you aren't mentioning Godel or any of this jargon with higher truths, you're discussing ideas of individual knowledge of and its purity.

    When we are looking at epistemology, its hard for names like Locke and Hume (and Descartes and Feyerabend, but that's another story) NOT to come up. After all, Hume was really one of the first to thoroughly ask "just what do you truly know?". And I agree with him (at some points), but to his ideas do have error. His philosophy operates under the assumption that we have two separate bodies exchanging information through sensory. However, his ideas fail when we examine something that does not provide sensory. Currently, the only two (I generally consider them to be the same, but that's just me) examples I can think of are logic and math. We defined logic. We defined math. Does that mean that we are susceptible to Godel, as well? Yes (and no). Math is an evolving subject. Its both rigid and flexible. We had pre-Euclidean geometry, then Euclidean Geometry, then Riemann based, etc. So, each "era" of math is very susceptible to Godel's theorem, but the one following it debunks the previous "higher truth". It's only a matter of time until we evolve to our limit.

    Haha and, as Calculus bears witness to, we may infinitesimally approach that limit. We may get that difference down to zero.

    Cheers.

    Source(s): Sorry if my thoughts were convoluted or hard to follow (I didn't have much time to frame my ideas). Feel free to email me with more Theology questions (truth be told, I find discussing them entertaining). P.S. Check out Paul Feyerabend. Very unique ideas. (Oh! I also feel that Hobbes was more correct than Locke, but that's just me).
  • 1 decade ago

    The Almighty created the human kind to see himself. We are only filling all the parts being emptied by He Himself.The mind is a common and set to choose the good and bad. So therefore the mind is always set to understand what the Almighty wants and needs.He has set so that each and every human kind listen to his wisdom,truth and faith.

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