gallileo60 said:
Shortstack said:
Mrs. O wrote:
The very idea of God is that of a supreme being who is omnipotent and doesn't have the same form and function as our scientific findings.
God is not "real" in the sense of body and form - therefore, doesn't heed the "realities" of human life. (he sent his son, a human being, for that very reason) God is not of flesh and blood.
B
I fully agree with your evaluation. In the Bible, we're told that when Moses went up on the mountain to meet with God, he asked God several times to let him look upon His face. God told him that he could not withstand His Glory. But, after repeatedly begging, Moses was told to get himself into a large crack in the rock and he would be allowed to view God's Glory as God passed by. Being in God's Glory is what made Moses' hair turn totally white and his entire body GLOWED brightly. Moses glowed so brightly that he had to put a cloth over himself so that the others in his tent could get to sleep and not be kept awake by the bright light.
By that turn of events, God took a familiar form (that of a man) so that Moses could "look upon" something familiar. I found this occurrence very interesting because when God walked and talked with Adam; and later, with Job, they didn't have that result. Makes me wonder if God did that with Moses because Moses thought he was deserving to look at God when Adam and Job did not request that honor. Adam and Job were, I think, more deserving than Moses and so were not subjected to such a display of power and authority. I think maybe Moses had to be reminded of his "place". God seemed to get a little irritated with Job's constant questioning of "why" things happened the way they did and finally asked Job, "where were YOU when I set the very foundations of the universe?" Maybe that question could be presented to some folks today in today's society.
Yep. Maaaaybe.
Mr. Saturna,
You could be correct.
If he was all mighty, he could have let Moses look at him with NO HARM....
Try re-reading that last paragraph again.
gallileo60 said:
Shortstack said:
I still wonder, if we don't have a god for the origin of the Universe, how it is explained - that everything which exists simply popped out of nothing? Or do they say it was just "always there" which is at odds with the expanding Universe? Just wondering...
Roy
Mr. O, that is the question that has been asked for centuries and will probably be answered only after we each, in turn, step to the otherside.
Did God just pop out of nothing
? If you believe he did, than why is it so hard to believe the universe just popped out of nothingSame theory...
I'll say it AGAIN, God is eternal; He always was, is, and shall be. And, yes, God created the universe by speaking it into existence.
bigwater said:
Shortstack said:
My basic belief is still that life began HERE and that water will be found throughout the universe, but NOT animal and / or human life. Since I am not perfect, I MAY be wrong, but unless life is actually found somewhere else, other than this planet, I will continue to believe that Earth is IT.
Well I'm willing to assume for argument's sake that there is a grand creator and that life was created from that hand. But that being the case, why would he stop at creating one world when he has an endless universe to use as a canvas? As an artist, I get consumed with my work... I complete one design and I can't wait to start another. Same thing with the treasure hunting. You find one cool hit, and you can't wait to get out and do it again. Why would the grand creator spend five days (or five days times a thousand years) creating earth, and then just retire? I mean he's been around forever right? He's gotta get bored doing nothing. Maybe creating worlds is his hobby. Maybe we were the latest and greatest creation he made after many miserable disappointments. Maybe we were the miserable disappointment and he's made other worlds much better than ours before or after.
What,
did he just create our one little world in the entire vastness of the limitless universe, and is now satisfied to just sit back and listen to our prayers?
Yes. And if you want to know WHY. Don't ask ME. Ask GOD; HE'S the one who did it; not ME.
Jesus told His disciples, "I go to prepare a place for you. If it were not so I would not tell you." Now, have you ever wondered why He'd have to prepare ANOTHER PLACE for us, if there were OTHER places in the universe where we could live ALREADY existing?
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And I say again, if he was almighty he could do anything, including letting anyone see him without harm...If he can not do that he is not almighty....
Yep! Isn't that the Atheists' Anthem?
(Singing); "What goes up; MUST come down. SPINNING Wheels... B, S, & T; WONDERFUL song! Ss & Mrs. O; MAYBE, we need the AGE OF AQUARIUS to help "solve" what hasn't already been solved. 
Coffee? 
