God vs Mind by Gray Moore

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Firstly, I would just like to say that I am proud of anyone who can make it through Hume and not want to immediately jump off of a cliff because wow! His ideas that he proposes through Philo are insanely cynical but also mind-boggling, I believe, to the Christian. What I really want to touch on is his idea of God or Deity vs Mind or Thought. He essentially states that us believing in a God and saying that he is a separate mind from us is contradictory. He poses a kind of question (or at least what I got out of it) that how can we separate our mind from that of the deity we worship? Philo very clearly likes playing Devil’s Advocate but I honestly think he uses large convoluted words and sentences to distract from the point that he actually is misrepresenting Christianity. Yes, we do believe in a God with His own separate mind, but we believe that in order for him to make our kids what they are, He has to be of some greater intelligence which just goes towards proving that He exists. I kind of think that Philo is just digging a huge hole for himself but he manages to do it very slowly over time. I believe that we can entirely separate ourselves from the Mind of God because his mind still exists without us, but ours does not exist without him. His is completely independent from ours (which we touched on in class) but he is so gracious and loving enough to want us to exist. The life that He gives to us is a blessing and even though I am having to read deep, philosophical theory that I don’t entirely enjoy, I am extremely thankful for the fact that God loves me enough for Him to let me exist.

Comments

abbiehedden said…
Gray, your blog really shed some light on Hume's work! I cannot say that I didn't want to jump off a cliff after reading but that's besides the point. I think it is good to remember that God's mind is superior to ours and that, according to our beliefs, He created ours so it would stand to reason that we cannot exist without Him. C.S. Lewis said that "an atheist can't find God for the same reason that a thief can't find a policeman" and I think that argument should fit somewhere within Hume's work. Great post.
October 7, 2019 at 5:18 PM
Kayla Gill said…
This book does definitely make you question yourself. I can honestly say though, a lot of the questions Philo proposed, I had considered before. Maybe not as in-depth as he has but along the same lines. It is in our human nature to question what we don't know and even what we do know. Honestly, there is so much about God that we truly do not know. That is when faith comes into play. There is a reason that some of the questions of God aren't laid out in front of us. I think Philo's problem is he does have a problem seeing something not only bigger himself physically, but mentally. He can not understand the fact of not knowing. Great post!
October 7, 2019 at 6:15 PM
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