“We demonstrate that the celestial body, the earth and finally everything we discern in the visible world could have come like seeds, even though we know full well that they did not come from them.”
Spinoza, Principles of Philosophy Of Descartes
instead of religious Revelation
“God created the world in its present order instantly, such as the plants on the Earth and Adam and Eve, not as children, but as fully grown people; “still, if we want to understand the natures of Adam and of the trees of Paradise, it’s much better to consider how children grow gradually in the belly of their mothers, and how plants grow from seeds, than to consider how they were created by God…”
“…In this spirit, perhaps we can create some very simple and easily grasped principles that can function as the seeds (so to speak) from which the stars, the earth and indeed everything we observe in this visible world demonstrably could have grown. (…) we’ll be able to explain their nature much better in this way than if we merely described them as they now are or as we believe them to have been created.”
Descartes, Principles of Philosophy
斯宾诺沙,在笛卡尔的哲学原理一书中指出,应该用理性之神去代替宗教之神(instead of religious Revelation)。这也是他泛神论的观点。
上帝创造这个世界秩序的同时,创建了植物与亚当和夏娃,而不是孩子。从这一点上,人的出现到底是先有父母,还是先有孩子,如果是前者父母如何来的,如果是后者,孩子如何来的。
“…本着这种精神,也许我们可以创建一些非常简单的,很容易掌握原则,可以作为种子(这么说)的恒星,地球和所有我们观察在这个可见世界明显增长。(…)我们将能够解释他们的自然以这种方式存在,或者更好的描述去相信他们的存在与创建了。”" ——笛卡尔的哲学原则
于是,神创造了我们,我们也创造了神。
这就是神,不能把神当成人,或者将神当成超人,否则就没有必要再发明一个新词,去指代神。
所以说,人需要神,神的出现是天然的,必要的。没有神,人类将无法思考,这是人思考的起点,否则人类无法解决何为我,何为存在。