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>> I was just thinking, that if ALL contradictions exist in harmony in God,

>> then His 100% existence and His 100% non-existence must also exist in

>> harmony in Him. Then to say that He doesn't exist or that He exist are

>> both only half truths, or?

 

>In the absolute truth there are no half truths, they are all complete

>truths

>coexisting in the absolute. A half truth is a material concept, as if they

>can't be true at the same time, or as if only together they form a complete

>whole. Krishna's non-existence would be the impersonal Brahman.

 

So when the atheist says God doesn't exist then it's true? I guess it is

then. But at the same time it's also true that He exist.

 

>But speaking to an atheist, I would just say that because nothing is

>impossible for God, therefore He can prove that He doesn't exist, but since

>He can prove He doesn't exist it means He exists, so therefore He is not an

>atheist. IOW, if God can prove He doesn't exist He is not an atheist. How

>can God prove anything if He doesn't exist?

 

And that a logical contradiction, but then we can say that all these

contradictions exist in harmony in God.

 

>The fallacy of the atheistic argument is that they say if God can prove he

>doesn't exist, then it follows He must be an atheist. But that doesn't

>logically follow in the case of God. Again they have committed the blunder

>of submitting God to their own human conditioned mindset.

 

I agree.

 

>> I guess the devotees then prefers to emphazise

>> His existence while admitting that His non-existence is also there, while

>> the atheists only acknowledge His non-existence, which is why they are at

>> fault. This acintya-shakti of Krishnas makes it very difficult to reason

>> about Him :) The concept God no doubt leads to different contradictions,

>> but that would also be expexted since Krishna trancendental to logic, and

>> if He wasn't then He would be limited.

 

>Exactly. Therefore Jiva Goswami said, that to understand God, first you

>must

>understand that He is inconceivable.

 

Yes :)

 

Ys, AKD

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