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God ?

God ?

It is impossible to understand the logical status of term "God."

The term "God" itself raises fundamental problems.

Because God has no noumenon at all to be studied,

And God is not a phenomenon available for scientific study either.

Actually, the concept of word "God" has any meaning

And the sentence "God exists" is factually meaningless.

Can we properly ask whether God 'exists'?

If we do so, what precisely are we asking?

Does 'exists' have a single meaning,

So that one can ask, in the same sense,

"Do flying fish exists?

Does the dragon exist?

Does the square root of minus one exist?

And does God exist? " . . . .

The theist also uses the term "real", and claims that

God is real or a reality.

But what do these words mean in this context?

The problem is essentially the same whether one employs

"exist", "fact", or "real".

The sentence "God exists" is not factually meaningful;

That is, it is neither true nor false1x

If talk of God is factually meaningless,

Then the sentence "God exists" is factually meaningless1x

The "God" cannot be considered a proper name,

Since asking what it refers to makes no sense.

And the concept of God has any meaning.

Actually, such a religious language is meaningless

Because it is not verifiable in principle.

By SangBong Lee (Philosopher & Poet)

Copyright 2000, SangBong Lee. All Rights Reserved

Reprinted by permission of SanBong Lee

 

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