Not exact matches
If the Fed is going to do
God's work and save the
universe from natural market forces, it will have to print even more money
than last time around.
It takes more faith to believe that this
universe and creation was created by accident
than to believe that it is the devine work of
God.
I was more devout
than you yet I have yet to see any proof of your «
god's» existence anywhere throughout the
universe.
If you say
God of the
universe than it is just Him
The assertion that
God had no beginning is no more plausible
than the
universe had no beginning.
No one says that — what they say are» - there is no room for
God in explaining the universe, so that is not evidence for your god — prophesies are not proven to be more than coincidences, so that is not evidence for your god» etc. et
God in explaining the
universe, so that is not evidence for your
god — prophesies are not proven to be more than coincidences, so that is not evidence for your god» etc. et
god — prophesies are not proven to be more
than coincidences, so that is not evidence for your
god» etc. et
god» etc. etc..
yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the
universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use
than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a
god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?
I feel sure in my heart that the
universe doesn't contain a
god, so I guess I'm atheist, but I can't really claim certain knowledge any more
than Christians can.
God is more
than enough for me, and I thank him for creating the
universe, and sending Jesus to die for our sins.
You say you will never see if you don't take your hands off your eyes and yet refuse to look at the world from any other perspective
than your own Hebrew
God derived
universe and you will make or accept any excuse that allows you to keep believing you are right.
The simple fact is that if matter can neither be created or destroyed in a normal chemical reaction
than how does the «
god» come up with something out of nothing... remember matter CAN NOT be CREATED or DESTROYED, so if this
god follows the normal physics and chemistry
than it could not have created the
universe either... it just exists b / c it exists..
It took
God more days to create earth
than the rest of the
universe.
Many people do not marry in a church, even more (billions) do not celebrate the birth of Jesus, probably even more do not cry out to any
gods, or may to other
gods other
than (yours), and many people consider life elsewhere in the
universe because science and reason points to that possibility.
To believe that
God created a mature
universe and that everything was designed is actually easier to believe
than to believe that everything just happened by chance, that matter just appeared from nothing and that present DNA was not designed.
And even though this
universe is meticulously designed,
God having infinite power did not exhaust or deplete any of His power to create it nor to sustain it, and rather
than losing or wasting anything, this creation adds to His glory.
If there was a
God who intelligently designed the
universe and life then why would we have anything bigger
than our solar system inhabited by single cell organisms?
If there is no
God and the
universe is a chance result of some great accident, then we are nothing more
than bundles of chemicals and nothing matters.
But even if some force more intelligent
than us was involved in the creation of our
universe, it's still a huge leap from there to the Abrahamic
God that self - satisfied early man.
Look at the world /
universe and then decide if that is true or if you could have made the
universe better
than god did.
Your
god sounds more like a petulant toddler
than the omnipotent and omni - benevolent creator of the
universe
Long ago, Edgerton noted that the Gita's theism «differs from pantheism... in that it regards
God as more
than the
universe» (4:149).
And why should they not revere You, great [as is your] Self, more to be prized even
than Brahman, first creator, Infinite, Lord of
gods, home of the
universe?
If we love
God, then it does not take much for us to say yes because it is so much more fun in living with
God than floating out there in the vast
universe with no love for eternity.
I can not imagine there is not something «greater»
than ourselves in the
universe but do not call it
God.
I am not crediting
God, but I'd rather have a doctor who believes in something bigger
than us all,
than a cold atheist who doesn't have hope, or pray and isn't driven by anything in life other
than a selfish belief that he is the most intelligent thing in the
universe.
Any
god that could have created this
universe present a problem far greater
than the «
universe from nothing» problem.
You believe
God did it, but you don't have a clue what he did, so in point of fact you don't know any more
than any of us how the
universe was created.
igaftr, yes you are right cats and all the animals in the world including you is part of the
universe, eveything is
God, it took Him 13.7 billion years for us to arrive what we are now, meaning the true reality of our existence, you are probably less
than 50 years old, so how can you expect to equate yourself or pretend to understand Him,
God Who is 13.7 billion years old.
L'Engle challenges us to imagine a
God that is bigger, the creator and sustainer of a
universe that, as modern science is revealing to us, is much more mysterious and complex
than we generally suppose.
This full view of
God lifts up a
God who is more
than a Creator who made the world out of nothing, more
than the
God of the big - bang theory who began the
universe and then left it to run on its own -
In order to take possession of mc, my
God, you who are so much more remote in your immensity and so much deeper in the intimacy of your indwelling
than all things else, you take to yourself and unite together the immensity of the world and the intimate depths of my being: and I am conscious of bearing deep within me all the strain and struggle of the
universe.
Glorious Lord Christ: the divine influence secretly diffused and active in the depths of matter, and the dazzling centre where all the innumerable fibres of the manifold meet; power as implacable as the world and as warm as life; you whose forehead is of the whiteness of snow, whose eyes are of fire, and whose feet are brighter
than molten gold; you whose hands imprison the stars; you who are the first and the last, the living and the dead and the risen again; you who gather into your exuberant unity every beauty, every affinity, every energy, every mode of existence; it is you to whom my being cried out with a desire as vast as the
universe, «In truth you are my Lord and my
God.»
The body of
God, then, would be nothing less
than all that is — the
universe or
universes and everything they contain of which cosmologists speak.
Unless
God is able to present himself a little more convincingly
than in some often reinterpreted texts from 2000 years ago, I prefer to accept that the
universe we observe is the one and only existance.
Nothing in the world is more intensely alive and active
than purity and prayer, which hang like an unmoving light between the
universe and
God.
God who created the
universe with those laws is no more their prisoner
than the thief is prisoner of the laws of arithmetic.
«Many Christians still at bottom look upon
God as one of the most selfish, self - absorbed Beings in the
universe, far more selfish
than they could think it right to be themselves, — intent only upon His own honor and glory, looking out continually that His own rights are never trampled on; and so absorbed in thoughts of Himself and of His own righteousness, as to have no love or pity to spare for the poor sinners who have offended Him.»
Similarly,
God as the Ground of evolution is really the «Within» of the
universe, its depth, if you will, more immanent to the
universe than the
universe is to itself, such that the
universe is unthinkable apart from it, and yet, paradoxically, is not part of the
universe.
At the Easter Vigil after the first reading from Genesis chapter 1, describing the creation of the
universe by
God, the prayer that follows says: «Almighty ever - living
God, who are wonderful in the ordering of all your works, may those you have redeemed understand that there exists nothing more marvellous
than the world's creation in the beginning except that, at the end of the ages, Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.»
Since
God is present throughout his
universe, he is near, and within us — literally «nearer
than hands and feet.»
Those who think
God can not mean well toward us because he «sends» us suffering can prove their point only by showing that there is a way to run the
universe, compatible with the existence of other real powers
than just the supreme power, which would be more fully in accord with the totality of interests, or by showing that
God sends us the suffering while himself remaining simply outside it, in the enjoyment of sheer bliss.
Lastly, I can honestly admit that if proven wrong today, tomorrow, or in the future and someone gave me empiracle evidence that
god exists, that gravity is not constant on earth, that the sun IS actually revolving around us and not the other way around, I would be more
than happy to revise my current view of the
universe around me and change accordingly.
But the most amazing thing to me is that there are people who think that the
universe is too complicated to exist without having been created, and yet accept that there is a
God who exists without having been created, and yet who is more complicated
than the
universe!
everything in the
universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more
than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or
god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them, then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.
Actually, that is how the ancient Hebrews thought the «
universe» was structured and it would have made more sense for their
God to make something so economical rather
than a super vast, almost completely empty expanse with us just a tiny island.
Because
God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the
universe than we do now to be sure that no such
God exists.»
those who have already decided that
God does not exist and that all processes must have a naturalistic explanation, do not see the obvious evidence that the
universe was designed, rather
than happened by chance.
I find burnt toast to be great for a hangover, which is obviously proof that the judeo - christian
god does indeed exist and created everything in the
universe thousands of years ago in perfect order, even though there are trees older
than the
universe...
This evidence doesn't support your
god's existence OR being the one actually start the
universe any more
than it proves Odin's, Quetzlcoatl's, Ra's, Kronos's, or Ahura Mazda's existence or claims of starting the
universe.
Even if you can't bring yourself to call it «
God,» it is undeniable that the cause, whatever it is, must be transcendent and preexistent, as it had to have existed before everything else in order to have caused everything else; it must be immaterial, as its existence preceded the existence of matter; it must be intelligent, as evidenced by the complexity of the
universe it caused; and it must itself be uncaused, existing necessarily rather
than contingently.