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Originally posted by OccamAssassin
reply to post by SuperiorEd
You are only deceiving yourself.
You should have read my post a little more carefully.
Notably, the last sentence!
FYI Science is based on defining limitations. How can one define the creator? An entity of infinity!
Originally posted by vjr1113
i think you are arguing TAG in some weird way.
god is outside of our universe and we cant even fathom it.
so why even argue for it if it's outside of our understanding?
you gain nothing.
edit: it's very arrogant to say we are the perfect image of god. even tho we dont know what god is. that's how emperors and kings got into power. fortunately, no one buys that argument anymore.edit on 9-7-2011 by vjr1113 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by vjr1113
reply to post by SuperiorEd
i guess i misunderstood.
even so, we cant understand god, so in a way you will be right. but the basis of your argument comes from the bible that reads "god created us in his image" or something like that. problem is that man wrote that verse. see where im going?
i could say zeus created us in his image, and i would be just as correct as you.
Originally posted by vjr1113
reply to post by SuperiorEd
no
man wrote the bible. man wrote the islamic bible, man wrote the muslim bible.
it's as simple as that.
bible verses cannot prove the bible.
its like arguing 2+2=2.
no.edit on 9-7-2011 by vjr1113 because: no
Originally posted by vjr1113
reply to post by SuperiorEd
thats cool dude, your beliefs are true because your god can do all.
everyone has a right to their beliefs.
Originally posted by traditionaldrummer
Originally posted by seabhac-rua
I've always wondered, if God created man in his own image then does God have nipples? Why would God have nipples?
if God created man in his own image..
...why aren't we invisible?
My chief objection is your theme that interfaces modern scientific ideas to that of ancient manuscripts comprising the bible. Doing so--from my point of view--arrogates these ancient authors' viewpoints by attempting to map an understanding of the world & heavens to that of modern society. For instance, should we deduce that Moses had waves, particles, & the Uncertainty Principle in mind when he authored the Pentateuch? I think not. The scientific understanding of ancient Jews & Gentiles were much more parochial--which is not to suggest that ancient Man was not clever or observant. Despite this, I don't find distinctive language in the bible such that modern scientific correlations may be easily assumed or deduced from the bible.
If nothing else I think it's mistaken to interpret the bible from the perspective of one's era & culture rather than that of its authors, e.g. God as verified by physics. The books of the bible reflect their authors' time & understanding of the world & heavens--not that of 21st century Man. Moreover if frames of reference & perspective are to have application in this discussion, then why not interpret the bible according to each author's points of view according to his or her own culture & time? I ask this question because systematic theology (and your threads on this topic strike me as a treatise of Christian theology) became schismatic in proportion to changes in culture & technological/scientific advances with time; hence, Gnosticism, Catholocism, the Reformation, Calvinism, et cetera. Schisms in Jewish orthodoxy are even detectable in the New Testament: enter Sadducees & Pharisees. The underlying effect: theological inconsistencies that proceed further from each author's culture & time.
I don't agree that Genesis 1:27 (version NIV) parses with the literalism you've expressed. It's not a point of "head bumping" contention per se, but I don't see it.
As best I can tell, "in his own image" is a prepositional phrase modifying man. The follow-on "in the image of God he created him" seems much more like a literary style reflective of that time period & found in other passages & books of the bible. Beyond this I don't read "in" with such literalism. If there's internal evidence that conclusively demonstrates otherwise, I'm presently unfamiliar with it.
The piece I was least clear on concerned your use of the excluded middle; and it's not that I necessarily disagreed with your logical formalism, but rather that I'm unclear how you are applying this principle & its relationship to the notion of the Trinity.
Originally posted by RealTruthSeeker
Originally posted by traditionaldrummer
Originally posted by seabhac-rua
I've always wondered, if God created man in his own image then does God have nipples? Why would God have nipples?
if God created man in his own image..
...why aren't we invisible?
First you need to understand what the meaning of image is in it's original language.
The word for image is צלם, and said, tselem. As in, Genesis 1:27
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
The word tselem does not mean we "look" like God because God is a spirit (Wind) Tselem means "shadow'.
We function like God on a small scale. Let's also not forget that it says "in his own image", it doesn't say we were created with the same power or attributes as God.
No such concept is found in real science, and there are only (even inductive) parallels or similarities, where you make them up.
Using a postulate taken from faith, doesn't support any claims of scientific validation. It's not in accordance with scientific/logical procedure to introduce such speculations on the way.
Quote: ["Light behaves according to the observer."]
You have claimed this elsewhere also. It's not more correct this time, than the first. Light does NOT behave according to the observer, because 'observer' in this context is a made-up concept.
Quote: ["Since the observer collapses the indeterminate wave of probability, the observer creates what is observed."]
Nope. This is new-age quantum religion on a "What the bleep do we know" level.
Quote: ["Why is the Son the Word? A word is a wave. All particles have an associated wave in physics."]
There are different types of waves manifested in existence and acknowledged by science. How does that lead back to any theist mythology?
Originally posted by NOTurTypical
reply to post by SuperiorEd
Wow, this thread is really going to piss people off.
S&F