"Where is God?" redux and addenda: Hume and Spinoza/

So I had wrote a devotional piece entitled "Where is God?".  In that piece, I postulate that God is basically in an around everything, by virtue of it being said that He knows all: in other words, the two conditions amount to basically the same omnipotence, whether He is or isn't in everything.

So here I go reading Hume, and he's pulling apart everything we think we know, poking doubt holes in the veracity of our thoughts, our senses, and saying that in the end we meet uncertainty in the form of confusion which begets indifference.

And he mentions God.

He says that Spinoza and Theologians would point out that God is in everything, that everything is a piece or component of God.  

Mind, I'm mildly educated in Theology, serving some eighteen months at a Bible Institute.

So I guess I'm partly in the camp of Spinoza and the Theologians, pointing to God, not as impossible or improbable, not as silent and unapproachable, or unproven, but certainly as very real and substantial as our natural world as we see it.

And asked to prove God, I would point to Hume's skepticism, and demand of them to disprove God, or conversely, prove anything about the natural world.

 

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