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Can gods die? Can they be killed? Do they have an expiration date? Old age?
Or does one have to be immortal to be a god?
If our Universe is 12-14 billion years old - could the "god" that created it be dead by now?
Can gods die? Can they be killed? Do they have an expiration date? Old age?
Or does one have to be immortal to be a god?
If our Universe is 12-14 billion years old - could the "god" that created it be dead by now?
Not if he exists as the Christian faith describes him.
Humans have been wrong about a great deal. Especially those humans that wrote the bible thousands of years ago.
Isn't it quite possible they might be wrong?
14 billion years....something with a will and a conscience can exist for over 14 billion years?
I suppose they could. Our "god" could be a vastly intellectually superior being running a simulation. I suppose they don't need to be immortal.
"God" could be in the rules of the universe itself, and the current thinking is that universes do indeed die, in a way at least.
But speaking of the human-described gods, I have always viewed such a god's "death" as being when they stop having any substantial following. Ancient gods now considered to be part of "mythology" rather than "religion" have "died," so to speak.
What gave them life was human belief, and when they lose it, they become nothing but static children's stories.
Perhaps the better counter question is how do we know that time is a constant outside of this universe?
Can gods die? Can they be killed? Do they have an expiration date? Old age?
Or does one have to be immortal to be a god?
If our Universe is 12-14 billion years old - could the "god" that created it be dead by now?
Bluntly: no. Time is a portion of our universe. Whoever created the universe would exist outside of Time. It cannot ever be an "I Was" or an "I Will Be", but only the "I Am".
Time doesn't exist outside of what we call the Universe?
You know this how?
Can gods die? Can they be killed? Do they have an expiration date? Old age?
Or does one have to be immortal to be a god?
If our Universe is 12-14 billion years old - could the "god" that created it be dead by now?
According to the Vedas (Indian Scriptures (Hare Krishna)) one day of Lord Brahma (the creator of this universe) is six billion years. Lord Brahma lives one hundred years of these days and then dies. A great Demon Hiryanikisipu asked Lord Brahma to make him immortal but Lord Brahma said he couldn't do it because he wasn't even immortal.
It’s seems perfectly reasonable to me to conceive of a deity who did exist but doesn’t any more for some reason, be that “dying” by some definition, going elsewhere or maybe being consumed as part of the process of creating the universe in the first place. None of those ideas seem any more or less likely than the eternal interventionist god of most mainstream faiths.
Can gods die? Can they be killed? Do they have an expiration date? Old age?
Or does one have to be immortal to be a god?
If our Universe is 12-14 billion years old - could the "god" that created it be dead by now?
Good question.
Bluntly: no. Time is a portion of our universe. Whoever created the universe would exist outside of Time. It cannot ever be an "I Was" or an "I Will Be", but only the "I Am".
Time doesn't exist outside of what we call the Universe?
You know this how?
Man's concept of a given god at a given time does and will change. In that regard the answer is yes, a concept of god can die and does and will.
The life force that is "God" "Allah" "Yahweh" "Universe" is pure love. There is no beginning and no end to that.
God is only alive in humans. As long as humans live, god will live.
When humans die - god dies with them.
Is that what you're saying?
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