PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Theism
13 Feb 2013
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Holocaust survivor became a rabbi eventually a professor at uft. How being in a nazi survival camp changes someone"s faith. God of deism isn"t a god you can pray to. Relationship is between i and thou not i and it big difference. Mysticism lot of religions have mystic traditions. God is above human comprehension, even our human imagination can"t understand what god is like. Judaism is supposed to relate to humans and what they can relate to. Whatever meaning life has . encounter itself is the meaning of life. God is a bigger person" to us, not an equal partnership. Einstein rejects the idea of a personal god thought it was child"s play. Deism: god created the world and then left. Theism: god created the world; personal god; hope for something to happen. Near and far it can feel as though he"s near or far; but he"s never faraway.
