What monotheistic religions can teach us about God, and what that can teach us about minds.

[based_meme]

Religions that have an all-powerful creator God central to their belief system hold that God has a series of properties, for example, omni properties. The property of infinity is also central to this God. Different religious traditions ascribe different aspects of God being infinite. Christianity, for example, claims that God is infinitely good and is not capable of evil, whereas Islam claims that God is capable of both (infinitely loving and infinitely wrathful). A being that is infinite in every conceivable way has no needs, as the property of being infinitely powerful and capable precludes it. All conceptions of the creator God in these religions posit God as having a mind but no corporeal, material form.

The act of worship to this God is central to the religions. If God is all powerful and infinite, and has no needs, then it does need our worship. But if it does not need our worship (by virtue of its very being), and if religions claim that God ordains worship of all of its adherents, then it must follow that worship is a want - a desire. Religions also describe God as has having a will (the original, first, and most powerful will). The only things capable of having a will are minds. Thus, if God has no needs, has a will, and this will desires worship, then it must follow that the mind of an all-powerful God wills all things only out of desire.

And since God has no corporeal form, therefore, only minds can have wants and only bodies can have needs.

 

[Emba]

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