• Shimmer
    +2

    But how do you know there's a "greater power" in the first place?

    • double2
      +2

      Because everything put together is the greatest power of all. It's a logical truth. You can then choose to call that God or not. It's just a device, bit then again my belief is that all religions use the term as a device to describe the same thing, just perhaps their texts may be abstracted from the fact.

      • Shimmer
        +1

        I think most people use the word "God" to describe a divine being with supernatural powers, such as omnipotence, omniscience, etc. Your usage seems different.

        • double2
          +1

          Actually, a lot of the time, people state that God is a force rather than a consciousness. The ideas of omnipotence and omniscience, as you mention, mainly serve to remind those discussing the matter of how the sum of all human knowledge that will ever be attained, will always be lesser than "God", which could just as easily be a mathematical constant to be in awe of the concept of, as it could be a conscious being

          Bear in mind, however, that if God is everything, and some things are conscious, God is therefore conscious in part. When you look at it that way, you see why God might "move in mysterious ways", as his consciousness is actually an emergent phenomenon manifested through the sum of all conscious beings.