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Originally posted by Dark Ghost
Sorry, this made me laugh. Although the jist of what your getting it is valid, you do not ask the right questions.
Thanks for being so kind as not to make fun of my questions as I am aware certain individuals would be very knowledgeable about science disciplines like chemistry and physics. And I agree that I was not asking the right questions, but glad you understood what I was getting at.
The problem I find with your answers is they are "self-evident" type answers. Yes, water is created by combusting hydrogen gas and oxygen (H20). But this does not answer where hydrogen or oxygen come from.
I'll give you an example of what I'm trying to say:
We know that Grey (Gray) is made from mixing black and white. I'm sure you can explain the chemical properties of both black and white and how they mix to make grey. But where does black come from and where does white come from?
[edit on 12/6/2009 by Dark Ghost]
Originally posted by jackflap
reply to post by MrGummyPants
I'll tell you how you can know for sure. You will believe. But believing isn't enough unfortunately.
James 2:19 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Demons know full well and we know what they are all about.
[edit on 12-6-2009 by jackflap]
Originally posted by Quantum_Squirrel
Problems with God and Why God must lie outside time.
Time is a part of the physical universe, inseparable from space and matter. Any Designer/Creator must therfore transcend time, as well as space and matter.
That is god Must lie outside time if God is to be the designer and creater of time.
If it is possible that time had a begining (big bang) its also possible it could have an end. Most theologians would Not want God to come into being at the beginning of time and cease to exist if it should come to an end.
And this is were Problems start to arise with 'God'
The difficulty of a timeless designer, however, is in making sense of the concept of design. what does it mean to design something 'timelessly'?
In human experience, a designer is a being who thinks through in advance the consequences of certain choices, and then selects one. But 'thinking' and 'in advance' are inescapably temporal descriptions.
Even if some more abstract notion of 'timeless design' is accepted, a further difficulty arises with the specifics of the designers choice.
Could the designer have choosen a different universe, or chosen not to make a universe at all? .... if the answer is no, then God had no alternative but to create this universe and plays no role at all in the explanation - and so does not merit the title 'designer'.
Nature is reduced to a subset of the divine being rather than a creation of this being. in fact this scenario might as well do away with a designer altogether.
Christians, however, traditionally believe something quite different.
They believe that God created this particular universe as a free act: that is, God was free to not make this universe. but this comes with its own set of difficulties, because we can ask why it was that God chose to make this universe, as opposed to a lifeless one, or one with maximum suffering. If the reply is 'it's unfathomable' then the chain of explanation peters out. If the answer is that the choice was blind then again the element of design is lost, because if the selection was purely whimsical, then the universe is reduced to a divine plaything.
But if the answer is that the decision to make the universe was a profound and considered one which proceeded from God's nature, then one is prompted to ask about the source of this nature. In other words who designed the designer? making God not god/designer/creator after all..
And this is the problem of God , and if God/designer/creator exists why he/she/other MUST lie outside of time ...
Originally posted by gilgamesh12
well anyone who has read through sitchins books and other similar authors can tell u that god in the bible is really many different things, nibiru , enlil, enki, sometimes marduk. The bible is a giant story book that covers many many years. There are storys that parallel the bible exactly that were written thousands of years before. Noah is Zuisadra, Enoch is really enmeduranki, Cain and Abel are really Enten and Emesh. Sometimes in the bible when they speak of god as making mountains shake and having lightning crash down, or his brightness in the sky blah blah, thats when the bible is talking about nibiru. When god allowed noah to survive, that was really enki providing him with information that nibiru was coming and gonna cause a flood. Usually the more stern acting god in the bible is enlil and the helping loving god is enki. Sometimes enki is portrayed as the devil as well. UMMM also when they talk of THE END OF DAYS, that happens quit often, the end of days is the end of zodiac ages. Back in the day different people would rule during different ages and during the changes all "hell" lol would brake loose. Also the Day of the Lord is really when nibiru comes back around every 3600 years. Each zodiac is 2680 i think it is or maybe 2860 years i forget, but 2860 and 3600 divided by each other are the golden ratio. The maltese cross is one of the first symbols for the planet nibiru, thats why it was around thousands of years before christ. Thats the real meaning of the cross. So god is nibiru and lots of other spacemen that looked just like us. So it is just all science really, the flying planet made earth and spacemen help us along with evolution. The biggest question is who made those spacemen or do they have a god? sorry for rambling on just trying to squeeze in info for those who dont like to read books all the way through
Originally posted by MrGummyPants
Originally posted by jackflap
reply to post by MrGummyPants
I'll tell you how you can know for sure. You will believe. But believing isn't enough unfortunately.
James 2:19 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
[edit on 12-6-2009 by jackflap]
Not to be disrepectful but i will not take Bible quotes as references, just as i will not take quotes from the Matrix as references. Both have some neat ideas but both essentially are a story written by another human being.
I'm not allowed to use wikipedia as a reference in my studies, a source which i find just as reliable as the bible. (Not to say that that fact alone makes me dismiss any chance of beleif), the bible is just untrustworthy and distorted.
That is god Must lie outside time if God is to be the designer and creater of time.
If it is possible that time had a begining (big bang) its also possible it could have an end. Most theologians would Not want God to come into being at the beginning of time and cease to exist if it should come to an end.
And this is were Problems start to arise with 'God'
The difficulty of a timeless designer, however, is in making sense of the concept of design. what does it mean to design something 'timelessly'?
In human experience, a designer is a being who thinks through in advance the consequences of certain choices, and then selects one. But 'thinking' and 'in advance' are inescapably temporal descriptions.
Even if some more abstract notion of 'timeless design' is accepted, a further difficulty arises with the specifics of the designers choice.
Could the designer have choosen a different universe, or chosen not to make a universe at all? .... if the answer is no, then God had no alternative but to create this universe and plays no role at all in the explanation - and so does not merit the title 'designer'.
Nature is reduced to a subset of the divine being rather than a creation of this being. in fact this scenario might as well do away with a designer altogether.
Christians, however, traditionally believe something quite different.
They believe that God created this particular universe as a free act: that is, God was free to not make this universe. but this comes with its own set of difficulties, because we can ask why it was that God chose to make this universe, as opposed to a lifeless one, or one with maximum suffering. If the reply is 'it's unfathomable' then the chain of explanation peters out. If the answer is that the choice was blind then again the element of design is lost, because if the selection was purely whimsical, then the universe is reduced to a divine plaything.
But if the answer is that the decision to make the universe was a profound and considered one which proceeded from God's nature, then one is prompted to ask about the source of this nature. In other words who designed the designer? making God not god/designer/creator after all..
And this is the problem of God , and if God/designer/creator exists why he/she/other MUST lie outside of time ...
[color=PURPLE]Quantum_Squirrel :That is god Must lie outside time if God is to be the designer and creater of time,
[color=YELLOW]Watcher : Why.
[color=PURPLE]Quantum_Squirrel :If it is possible that time had a begining (big bang) its also possible it could have an end. Most theologians would Not want God to come into being at the beginning of time and cease to exist if it should come to an end
[color=YELLOW]Watcher : Why would "God" have to start when the universe started?.
[color=PURPLE]Quantum_Squirrel :And this is were Problems start to arise with 'God'
The difficulty of a timeless designer, however, is in making sense of the concept of design. what does it mean to design something 'timelessly'?
[color=YELLOW]Watcher : From a certain point of view you are correct but if you view "God" as more or less the ultimate scientist running a experiment in search of understanding existance *as some do* that problem goes away. After all human scientists exist well before whatever experiment they may run. I don't agree with this point of view but it is none the less valid in my opinion. My view is that the universe/"God" is more organic in the way of a classroom/nursery/womb were souls are being taught what it is to be.
if you view "God" as more or less the ultimate scientist running a experiment in search of understanding existance *as some do* that problem goes away.
[color=PURPLE]Quantum_Squirrel :In human experience, a designer is a being who thinks through in advance the consequences of certain choices, and then selects one. But 'thinking' and 'in advance' are inescapably temporal descriptions
[color=YELLOW]Watcher : Possibly not. We are by our very nature at the moment linear beings and are escapably tied to it. I don't think this is one limitation we can see past..
[color=PURPLE]Quantum_Squirrel :Even if some more abstract notion of 'timeless design' is accepted, a further difficulty arises with the specifics of the designers choice.
Could the designer have choosen a different universe, or chosen not to make a universe at all? .... if the answer is no, then God had no alternative but to create this universe and plays no role at all in the explanation - and so does not merit the title 'designer'.
Nature is reduced to a subset of the divine being rather than a creation of this being. in fact this scenario might as well do away with a designer altogether.
[color=YELLOW]Watcher :I fail to see how one could cease to be a designer or anything for that matter simply because they are under the compulsion to do so.
[color=PURPLE]Quantum_Squirrel :Christians, however, traditionally believe something quite different.
They believe that God created this particular universe as a free act: that is, God was free to not make this universe. but this comes with its own set of difficulties, because we can ask why it was that God chose to make this universe, as opposed to a lifeless one, or one with maximum suffering. If the reply is 'it's unfathomable' then the chain of explanation peters out. If the answer is that the choice was blind then again the element of design is lost, because if the selection was purely whimsical, then the universe is reduced to a divine plaything.
[color=YELLOW]Watcher :There are a great many things that are unfathomable to us yet still they exist. The whys of gravity being one of them..
[color=PURPLE]Quantum_Squirrel :But if the answer is that the decision to make the universe was a profound and considered one which proceeded from God's nature, then one is prompted to ask about the source of this nature. In other words who designed the designer? making God not god/designer/creator after all.
[color=YELLOW]Watcher :I view "God" as a child of another "God", just as we are it's children, albeit very young and not "out on our own" as it were. ..
[color=PURPLE]Quantum_Squirrel :And this is the problem of God , and if God/designer/creator exists why he/she/other MUST lie outside of time.
[color=YELLOW]Watcher :I don't agree but you did put together a very reasoned post....
Originally posted by gilgamesh12
oh my god... blah blah blah god is the great scientist, god is subjective, god is inside all of us, blah blah blah. so many confused minds basing things on pure feeling. please all, read my other post. Yes god was a scientest, enki, and a warrior and a planet. The bible was written to help preserve history for those who already know it and control the minds of those who dont with a monotheistic god. Those people that came along time ago made many mistakes. They were not perfect beings, they fought, and had sex with many women and so on, They are or were no different then us. PLEASE READ MY OTHER POST ABOVE. Unlike everybody else im trying to show you the real anwser to your question
oh my god... blah blah blah god is the great scientist, god is subjective, god is inside all of us, blah blah blah. so many confused minds basing things on pure feeling. please all, read my other post. Yes god was a scientest, enki, and a warrior and a planet. The bible was written to help preserve history for those who already know it and control the minds of those who dont with a monotheistic god. Those people that came along time ago made many mistakes. They were not perfect beings, they fought, and had sex with many women and so on, They are or were no different then us. PLEASE READ MY OTHER POST ABOVE. Unlike everybody else im trying to show you the real anwser to your question