{"id":13306,"date":"2020-02-18T09:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T14:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=13306"},"modified":"2020-02-18T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:53:20","slug":"can-humans-ever-really-think-of-what-or-who-god-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/02\/18\/can-humans-ever-really-think-of-what-or-who-god-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Can humans ever really think of what or who God is?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"317\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/aw021820-1.jpg\" alt=\"Can humans ever really think of what or who God is? Or, are we bound by our human capacity?\" class=\"wp-image-13304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/aw021820-1.jpg 317w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/aw021820-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/aw021820-1-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/aw021820-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><figcaption>Can humans ever really think of what or who God is? Or, are we bound by our human capacity?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Humans do like patterns, and tend to attribute their creation to some kind of powerful being. That&#8217;s a teleological argument for God, an argument from design or purpose. Humans also have remarkable imaginations, but for the most part what they imagine tends to be amalgams of what they&#8217;ve experienced, except for perfection itself, which can only be imagined: that would be an ontological argument for the existence of God: God exists a priori. As your answer is related to both, I recommend looking up both teleological and ontological arguments for the existence of God in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\">plato.stanford.edu<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans do like patterns, and tend to attribute their creation to some kind of powerful being. That&#8217;s a teleological argument for God, an argument from design or purpose. Humans also have remarkable imaginations, but for the most part what they imagine tends to be amalgams of what they&#8217;ve experienced, except for perfection itself, which can &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/02\/18\/can-humans-ever-really-think-of-what-or-who-god-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can humans ever really think of what or who God is?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13325,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions\/13325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}