God

Question 1

Who created God?

Answer 1

No one. An eternal, self-existent Being has no beginning, so he needs no creator.

Question 2

What about miracles?

Answer 2

If God made everything out of nothing, then what are the chances that he can change water into wine if he wanted to or make a blind man see?

Question 3

What difficulty does materialism (matter-ism) face with the problem of evil?

Answer 3

It’s hard to make sense of “purpose” and “things gone wrong” if there is “no design, no purpose, no evil and no good,” (Dawkins) and if we are driven solely by “a purposeless and natural process that did not have us in mind. (George Gaylord Simpson)

Question 4

What is the logical and proper conclusion of materialism?

Answer 4

Life is ultimately empty, meaningless, purposeless, cold, and void. Nihilism.

Question 5

What is the first manifestation of mind-ism (Spiritual Monism)?

Answer 5

Only the one thing - the impersonal God - is real. Anything that seems particular and individual is an illusion (maya) even you.

Question 6

What is the second manifestation of mind-ism (Spiritual Monism)?

Answer 6

In New Age thinking, the individual is not nothing. He’s everything. He’s God.

Question 7

What difficulty does mind-ism (Spiritual Monism) face with the problem of evil?

Answer 7

It cant’ make sense of the problem of evil. Good and bad are illusions.

Question 8

What are the three main answers to why we are here?

Answer 8

1. God - a personal Mind who created and governs the world of material and immaterial things including other minds.
2. Mind-ism (Spiritual Monism)- material and immaterial things, including other minds, are all illusions.
3. Matter-ism (Physical Monism)- You have a universe of material things with no immaterial things or other minds.