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Originally posted by Marilyn
God created the universe and everything in it. Everything in the universe works in harmony with God (according to his will)...except MAN. We are the only thing that goes against God's will. With that in mind I believe our knowledge in a lot of things is limited. IMO, there are just some things God doesn't want us to know (right now)...most likely we would make some kind of big mess with that kind of knowledge.
Marilyn~
Originally posted by Marilyn
Well, I'm one of those people that does accept things completely based on faith. Not everything mind you, just the things pertaining to God.
Marilyn~
Originally posted by PuRe EnErGy
Well to find that out you would have to sit GOD down and figure that out..
which means sitting EVERY tangible thing down at the same time and asking, and then listening.. which means planets, plants.. gas, people, pets... etc... etc.. EVERYTHING... molecules, atoms.. each level of intelligence..
okay... sooooo once you accomplish that feat, come back and lemme know...
because I don't think theres any ONE with a white beard thats going to sit you down and explain it...
Originally posted by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal
You are the man with the white beard
Originally posted by PuRe EnErGy
Originally posted by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal
You are the man with the white beard
Thank you sir.
[edit on 2/10/2007 by PuRe EnErGy]
Originally posted by PuRe EnErGy
Thank you sir.
Originally posted by daniel191159
Theoretically, if a deity did exist and was not of this universe (made of matter) then there is no problem with the assumption that said deity had always existed.
Our universe consists of matter and energy, both of which affect gravity. This is because gravity is a byproduct of matter and energy. Also, time is a byproduct of gravity and matter (also time is affected by speed but that is not relevant to this post).
If a deity was composed of a type of energy that is not the same fundamental energy as our universe is made of then, theoretically, it would not be bound by gravity as all things in our universe are.
If something does not exist in matter then it is not affected by gravity. Therefore it is also not affected by time.
If something exists outside of time then any reference to a stage in life(creation or death) becomes a nonsequitor to its existence.
Originally posted by SuicideVirus
Man, you gotta stop thinking in those old mechanistic Newtonian ways! You need to stop thinking about cause and effect that way, since time doesn't move in just one pokey direction on a quantum level. Check out your Feynman diagrams. The forward flow of time is just an illusion so that DNA knows when it needs to refresh itself.
Here's the deal. "God" is what happens (or will happen) when order (DNA) eventually encompasses everything in the Universe. At that point - or probably sometime long before that, but you get the idea - the entire universe becomes self-aware and reflexively creates itself "backwards" in time when its consciousness collapses its own wave function.
Originally posted by daniel191159
Therefore, the universe can NEVER reach a perfect, all-encompasing state of order.