They Say The Truth Shall Come To The Light...

So everybody grab your chains cause your boy that bright...

Yes indeed! As we proceed, to give you what you need! It’s your boy Sonny Redd, a.k.a. Sonnyredd, a.k.a. The Black Lex Luthor. Some of you may know me as “I hate that niggaa…”, “I can’t stand that damn…” or the ever popular, “Fuck you nigga, go to hell.” I swear, you ever hear some shit so much that you think it’s your damn name? (Though to be honest, I love it. It takes more energy to dislike someone than it takes to like them, plus the feeling lasts longer. Sonny“sucking the life energies from your soul”Redd.)

But, I am that I am. And you are all more fortunate for it. Today, I am going to do what no man has ever done before. I will prove God exists. My doing so will prove two points that will be relevant to our future discussions; (1) it will prove that I am the greatest thinker of the 21st Century (what, you didn’t think self promotion was on the agenda?), and (2) because the black church is the single most prolific and profitable business in the black community, I suppose y’all should have a background in what you are investing in – seeing as niggas got to have the ballin’-est everything, including Pastors. (“Nigga you ain’t ballin’.” “Nigga, what?!?!? I’m ballin’ so hard that my Pastor drive a Bentley! Nigga, now what?!?!?” And this is both a “you know somewhere somebody is having this very conversation” and a“Preachers are really pushing Bentleys and nobody calls them out on it, wtf?” digression).

What follows is a re-crafting of a discussion on Cynthia’s page. She asked if anyone could explain their belief in God without resorting to Bible thumping. A fair question, and one that most people wouldn’t engage in, largely because they are unprepaired (Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.) Me being the negro-nets bully that I am though, I hit that one head on. In doing so, I put in print my own thoughts on the subject. And I am better off for it.

Now bear with me as I reclaim my copyright! (Sonny “ulterior motives, don’t leave home without them”Redd.)

To apply logic to god requires that logic to define the indefinable. God by virtue of his omnipotence defies logic because the word ‘omnipotence’ defies logic. In short, if you look for God in logic and reason, you will be left wanting, not because He isn’t there, but because our reason and logic are both insufficient to the task.

The logical question of God and the rock illustrates this point. If God is omnipotent, can God make a rock that God can’t move?
The question tests not the limits of God, but the limits of ‘omnipotence’, which by definition have none. The question is also paradoxical, defeating itself with both outcomes.

If God can make a rock that God can’t move, then – logically – there is a rock, however massive and unimaginable, that God can’t move. His powers are thus limited by the size and weight of that rock.
If God, on the other hand, is so powerful that he cannot make a rock that he can’t move, because he can move all things, then his inability to create such a rock equally proves the limit of his power.

The resulting outcome is – of course – that there is no satisfactory answer. Which also disproves God’s omnipotence, because omnipotence cannot exist if omnipotence defies logic. And if God isn’t omnipotent, he thus cannot be God, who by definition is omnipotent.

As an aside, an interesting philosophy suggests that God is a sentient being that has merely created without any real power. He is the creator, but he has no power to change or affect the course of human events. I would suggest then that this being is unworthy of worship, and is thus no more god than our parents, who also created us. Thus, an entity unable to do all is no god, nor is he God.

But the paradox actually proves the existence of God, because the very nature of a paradox shows the limitation of logic. Logic will quantify a paradox, even explain why it is a paradox, but cannot decipher the paradox.

Omnipotence by its very definition is a paradox. If you start from a position that asserts God must be logically defined, then God cannot be omnipotent – logic and nature (science) limit His abilities.

In order for our logic to apply to God, we are left with either—(1) God cannot be omnipotent because omnipotence is a paradox that cannot exist, or (2) God is omnipotent, but we cannot ‘logically’ comprehend Him because we cannot comprehend the paradox.

But God not being omnipotent makes it clear that God is not NOT God, because that which limits God also controls and contains God—and is thus greater than God -- and therefore a God in and of itself.

Once we have disregarded all of that, we are left with but one conclusion; God is omnipotent and cannot be logically defined because omnipotence transcends logic, and thus God transcends logic.

And the only thing that can transcend logic is the Divine.