RUMINATION

RUMINATION

To call God as a being having infinite attributes is logically untenable as attributes necessarily are finite. Hence, God being the possessor of finite attributes in consequence would become finite Himself which is absurd as God by definition must be infinite. Hence, the infinite God must be devoid of attributes which would make Him formless, genderless, spaceless, timeless, beyond causation, in short, transcendent, having no connection whatsoever with one or more universes of name and form. Hence, God cannot be immanent at all. And God missing from the universe makes the universe either self-existent phenomenally, apparently, or absent altogether. At any rate, by definition, it is a Godless world then. So, atheists do have a point and a very valid point at that, although their line of argument is quite different. 

Another reason why it is a Godless world is that the universe, both in its external physical aspect and in its internal mental aspect, is material, as both body and mind are matter. Hence, if God is immanent, then He is matter, too, which by definition is absurd. So, there again we see, it is a Godless world. 

Written by Sugata Bose