Bungle ✡️ באנגלSomething that came up in my chavruta session last week...
Does God have an internal monologue? Thoughts?
Does thought imply internal debate which implies imperfection? Or does it imply perfection through a truly total consideration and reason?
Ari@bungle I think the first question is, how do you view God? I tend to take a pantheistic approach. Life, itself, is God’s internal monologue.
Benny Powers 🇨🇦️🇮🇱️@bungle Put this in the same category as "strong hand and outstretched arm"
Like, it's fun and cute to think "what if God was one of us", but lemayseh that's actually just a Christian pop song from the 90s
In the sense that it's a bit too navel gazing / anthropomorphizing / redundant? Or..?
Is it a bit like asking what God's favourite breakfast cereal or J-Lo romcom is?
@bungle Rabbi Tovia Singer likes to say that Torah represents God succeeding at making people in His image, wheras other religions are people's failed attempt at making God in their image.
artisanrox"Your thoughts are not my thoughts" etc.
So...
>Does God have an internal monologue? Thoughts?
IMHO yes.
>Does thought imply internal debate which implies imperfection?
IMHO God's internal debate doesn't imply imperfection as "creation" is literally whatever God wills it. No separation between the debate and the results, unlike us.
>Or does it imply perfection through a truly total consideration and reason?
I think more this. It's why God made malchim...to debate over humanity.