God is uncaused. This means God does not have parts else He would be made of those parts. A thing without parts cannot have an internal and external. Those qualities require parts. In its most simple composite, it would require an inside and outside, which are parts. Read #8. God not being made of parts does not have even an inside and outside. Reality consists of the uncaused God and any physical reality God causes and sustains in existence.
If I was a SMART theist!!! I’d tell you that god is nominal (has a name and position), but you deny this about god! I’m going to be straightforward to you…
You are insane!
Otherness is required of all beings!
You’re arrogance that god is and is not otherness is the worst “thought crime” I can imagine.
You have to follow the logic of the cosmological arguments. Sure, God is mysterious. But, real nonetheless. It’s not insanity to believe in God. It’s accepting the truth the logic of the cosmological arguments prove to you. You really ought to read #12. Understand that something has to be UNCAUSED. So, what is uncaused? I can knock out infinite regress, so that leaves God as the best explanation.
It’s not semantics. Read #12. Something has got to be uncaused, or we wouldn’t be here but there would be nothing. The only question left is what is uncaused?
Does the triangle have a mind? The triangle transcends god. God will never be greater than a point, a line or a triangle. The idea that you think an intelligent being is greater than this is absurd.
You know, the funny thing about people who believe in god, is that EVERYTHING is the MIND of god! (Omniscient - knows all) (omnipresent- pervades all) (omnipotent - not only caused but DOES everything!)
Evolution causes suffering. You are really asking whether God can avoid creating us through evolution? We are the products of evolution, so evolution is in our DNA. We cannot be something else but what we are.