Does God Think?

Question:this is hypothetical. assuming God exists is He a living entity ? Quickened, as it were? and if he is "alive" does He think? and in which language? or does He think in the way we believe infants do, without the benefit of language?
Can someone in terms I can follow explain the "Life" of God.

Obviously He does not need nourishment as we do so what then keeps Him alive? Does He stay alive and well simply by the attention we give Him? or is He able to sustain himself?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: this is hypothetical. assuming God exists is He a living entity ? Quickened, as it were? and if he is "alive" does He think? and in which language? or does He think in the way we believe infants do, without the benefit of language?
Can someone in terms I can follow explain the "Life" of God.

Obviously He does not need nourishment as we do so what then keeps Him alive? Does He stay alive and well simply by the attention we give Him? or is He able to sustain himself?

Some people see God as omnipresent and omniscient. He is at every physical point in the universe. If this is so, then he definitely thinks - he is thinking YOUR thoughts along with EVERYONE else's! This would also suggest he is alive in the same way - he's sharing YOUR life.

Some people see God as perfect and therefore unchanging. If this were so, then God cannot think - to think would be to change, and theoretically to become more or less perfect. Being omniscient, God would not HAVE to think - every possible thought and every possible solution to every possible problem would already be present in God's head. There would simply be nothing new left to put in there. Thinking would be pointless.

Of course, even if you ascribe the qualities of a living thing to God, if you still place God outside the universe as some do, then all bets are still off. It's possible that any of us might not breathe, think, or whatever in a place that is outside of time, space, and physical laws. The only way we can describe such a place is to say that it is indescribable.

There is a lot that we don't know about God, and that is why he is such a mystery. I know I wonder where God came from, and how long he has lived. Has he ever fell in love, not with us, but with a lady companion?
Whatever language that you speak, you will hear God in that language. I think God speaks the language that was in the beginning, before he made seperate ones.
I suppose God lives a busy life, listening to billions of people and prayers, and keeping all of us on track.
Just live in faith.

Too much, man. When you "assume God exists" you need to have those questions in mind already.

At best you could figure out what God DOESN'T do.

IN MY OPINION about what you said, he is living but in a spiritual sense, not a physical one.
He thinks, the language is probably something simpler, with ideas boiled down to their true worth. He doesn't think like infants do, since that's a strictly biological way, the same way insects and rodents do. ;-)

He persists beyond the scope of our comprehension of time if only because he is so strong that he will outlast it by an extreme amount of time. If he keeps going beyond that, it's because without being physical he is not dependent on energy, as we are.

He stays alive with or without attention.
As mentioned, he doesn't need to be sustained/

...my answer is going to be real "deep" for you but here it goes.... God "Is".....everything else is 4th, 5th or 6th place.
(He is Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Omnipotent)...I know, I know, a lot to absorb...but relax... don't let it concern you, He got the whole World in His Hand...but "you" on His mind.

It is because questions like this are debated that I call myself an ignostic. Before any rational discussion of the existence of God exist the very meaning of "God" must be defined. When you say God do you mean "the entire universe" as many pantheists do? If so I must admit that (by your definition) God exists. Do you mean a God that claims to be moral and yet asked one of his prophets to kill his son to prove his faith? If so, God does NOT exist. God means many different things to many different people.

Thinking is a biological process of the brain. Thus, in order to think, god would have to have a brain and thus a physicality.

As this does not correspond to any notion of those who profess a belief in god, we MUST therefore accept that god cannot think.

It could be argued by a christian, that Jesus was god made flesh and at this time was thus able to think.

I would think that believers would argue that, as god is omnipotent, he could think without needing a brain but as this defies all descriptions of thinking, it cannot be accepted into the debate.

The whole point of god of course, is that he must be unknowable, in order for religions to exercise their control.

"Does God Think?"

1. If God exist, He has all the properties God would have.
2. One of God's properties is being omniscient.
3. Omniscience is knowing all.
4. Knowing is not thinking.
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Therefore God doesn't think.

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Well if God does exist, he would be omni-everything (meaning omnipotent, omniscient, etc.)

First we want to establish a difference between thinking and knowing. The only difference I think (pun intended) we need is that thinking takes longer than knowing to show.

For example let's say we give a problem to a third grader learning the multiplication table, and we ask him what is "2 x 12" he would take his time responding to the question and finally say "24". If we were to ask a college student this question the answer "24" would just come out instantaneously. This is because the third grader had to think about the answer, while the college student knows the answer.

God is omniscient, he knows everything. Since he knows everything he does not need to think. Therefore, God doesn't think.