Is God dead? Or is God neither/something else entirely?
The Abrahamic religious tradition talks about God as a “Living God.”
For sake of this argument, we need not assume that God does exist or does not exist. So, let’s assume that God exists.
By strong induction, we can say that all living beings start to live at some discreet point in time.
We can point to no living being and show that it did not first start to live.
Life, as I refer to here, is biological life. Some other kind of life is not logically impossible, but any other type of life is merely speculative (even if this or that holy book tells you otherwise).
Let’s ignore death for this argument.
I think it is both common and fair to define God as eternal, including having no starting point in time (either existed before time, or time and God always existed prior to our spacetime — pick your poison).
Does our strong induction that any given living being started to live at some discreet time t therefore lead to the conclusion that God is not a living being? (more…)