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Originally posted by SaturnFX
incidently, in the matter of a belief system, I have no problem with the concept of the sun being a deity, or a carrot, or a piece of toast, or wind, etc...all systems are simple matters of belief over facts anyhow, so it really is a moot point.
I think that the problem lies in the implied matter that the sun is the christian god...and thats not the case overall...if you went into philosophical hair splitting, the sun would be either Jesus or Lucifer, depending on which interpretation you wanted to go with...but the head God created the light...the sun...so therefore the sun is not God...
Morning star...sure (after all, it is a star, and you do see it in morning), or the light/savior/whatnot.
Originally posted by filosophia
A lot of people are saying that God is the Son of God, since there are many suns. But, if a skeptical person asked you to point the creator of life, the best thing to point at would be the Sun.
You can't point at gravity, you can point at an object falling, but that doesn't mean objects falling creates life. You can point at a theorem of gravity, but that is not a real thing, only an abstract thing. You can show someone a picture of the universe, or make your arms real big and indicate everything, but that is still not a specific thing. Even though the sun does not illuminate all parts of the earth (which would imply the Sun is not omni-present), other than that, the basic idea of a long lasting creator of life is the sun.
And God said, Let there be light: 2 Cor. 4.6 and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Originally posted by ProdigalSon
reply to post by Ex Plures-Unus
Who decides what life is and what is not?
The Atom is a self sustained entity that continously exchanges energy or even sub atomic particles for that matter, as much as you exchange energy and particles with the surrounding environment and entities.
Isn't the comming together of two different atoms by exchanging electrons and creating a molecule with totally different qualities as their "parents" some kind of primordial sexual reproduction and complexification by union of two "sexes", one being negative and one being positive?
It's just a matter of definition.
You have been around for what, some decades, humanity has been around for millenia. You should watch the entire Sun's existence since the begining till the end to come to the conclusion that it does not reproduce. Who knows maybe earth is the sun's "child".
Of cours i was joking, NOT!
I might add, where does the life-force come from if we are made from basically "dead" matter? What does make someone alive. Is being alive being sentient? What is being sentient? What if even atoms are sentient in a very low level that we do not fully understand?
Let's not be arrogant in labeling things as "alive" or "dead" when we have no power in having chosen to be alive in the first place.
There is however a simple geniuine and naive truth. We owe our life to the energy of Sun.
As I have pointed out before the sun is just the god of macrocosm, not the absolute one who i doubt anyone knows. But as far as our little world is concerned, as far as humanity is concerned, the Sun makes life possible, he is our God. The warmth that flows through our veins, the warmth of life is just sunlight transmutet to heat through a long process.
Truth is always simple, no need to go to far to find it, it is in the Sun-Light.
No religion involved here, no complex philosophy involved, just the simple facts of nature.
My GOD is he who makes my life possible, and we all agree that the SUN is what makes life on earth as we know it possible.
[edit on 25-7-2010 by ProdigalSon]
[edit on 25-7-2010 by ProdigalSon]
God, as in the supreme creator of life, must be the Sun
Originally posted by juveous
Originally posted by filosophia
A lot of people are saying that God is the Son of God, since there are many suns. But, if a skeptical person asked you to point the creator of life, the best thing to point at would be the Sun.
You can't point at gravity, you can point at an object falling, but that doesn't mean objects falling creates life. You can point at a theorem of gravity, but that is not a real thing, only an abstract thing. You can show someone a picture of the universe, or make your arms real big and indicate everything, but that is still not a specific thing. Even though the sun does not illuminate all parts of the earth (which would imply the Sun is not omni-present), other than that, the basic idea of a long lasting creator of life is the sun.
Are you saying that biologic life is impossible without the aid of a sun? what about artificial suns (theoretically) what if we can create a sun? Who's the God now? At what point are the components of a star no longer necessary to aid life? Why worship our sun but not distant suns with no life? Are those suns not worthy? What if we traveled near within range proportional to our current sun, would they then be worthy?
You can look at the conditions of the past and formulate an idea of how important the sun is for life, but if a skeptical person asked you how relevant is that for the future, the best thing to point out would be that the sun is not a God, but merely one of the sources that can aid in creating life.