Hello everybody :)!
So, to my philosophy class, I had to write an essay, in which I had to create 3 arguments to fundament my position regarding a problem/question/etc. I chose to write about God and Creation, but as I was researching, I came across a few important points and concepts that were confusing, and I would really apreciate it if you could help me.
It all started with this Sebastien Faure's text, in which he stated that God could not have created the Universe, because he simply had no need to:
"6 argument:
God did not create without a reason, but it is impossible to find a single reason to justify the act of creation:
Regardless of the way you intended to examine it, creation is inexplicable and enigmatic, it fails at making sense.
There is one thing that is obvious: If God created, as you say, it could not have accomplished this magnificent act - whose consequences should be, inevitably, proportionate to the act, and therefore incalculable - without having a primary reason.
Very well. What was this reason? Why did God took the resolution to create? What boosted God to do this?
Multiply, in this order of ideas, those questions, gravitate, as you will, around this problem; Examine it in all its aspects and in every way, and I challenge anyone to solve them in another sense than the inconsistencies.
For example: Imagine a child raised by the Christian religion. His catechism said to him, and their teachers confirm that it was God who created him and placed him in the world. Suppose that child questions himself: why did God created me and trew me to the world?, and demands a sensible and rational answer. He will never get one.
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But let's analize the question and deepen the problem. With our thoughts, we will examine God before creation. Imagine it in it's absolute condition. It is completely alone; sufficient for himself. It is perfectly wise, perfectly happy, perfectly powerful. No one can add it wisdom, no one can increase it's happiness, no one can strengthen it's power.
This God does not experience any desire, because it's happiness is endless. It can not pursue any goal, since nothing is lacking in its perfection. It can not have any goals, since nothing's lacking in it's power. It can not be determined to do whatever, because there it has no need. "
Yes, I'm well aware that this text is from many years ago, and therefore many of the concepts and ideas are different from our's, but I was searching here, and I found this discussion topic, in which a channeler (?) (http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/forum/topics/freedom-of-individuality) claimed that the Consciousness behind Creation had the need to experience physical realities and to share it's creation so it could compreend itself. But my questions is, if this Consciousness is perfect, absolute, All That Is, infinite, as the author said, why did it have this needs, as it is perfect and absolute in any way, as described in the text?
PS: I'm sorry if this isn't making any sense, it's 1:36AM and I'm extremly tired >_<
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