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Originally posted by smithjustinb
I just find it amazing and purpose affirming that a massive beyond massive ball of brilliant light floating around in the nothingness of space can create physical matter, concentrate it into other not so massive but still massive balls of matter and mass and then one of those balls start growing things on it that hold a capacity for intelligence and emotions that give the living growth on the balls creative potential. Don't you?
Originally posted by smithjustinb
It really puts things in perspective as to who we really are as creative intelligent star people. Man in God's image.
Originally posted by smithjustinb
I just find it amazing and purpose affirming that a massive beyond massive ball of brilliant light floating around in the nothingness of space can create physical matter
......concentrate it into other not so massive but still massive balls of matter and mass and then one of those balls start growing things on it that hold a capacity for intelligence and emotions that give the living growth on the balls creative potential. Don't you?
It really puts things in perspective as to who we really are as creative intelligent star people.
Man in God's image.
Originally posted by Wandering Scribe
Seems to me like it would have been just a tad bit simpler to say: "amazing, isn't it, to think that our sun—brilliant and blinding—could have given rise to the circumstances which have allowed life on Earth, in all it's sentient beauty, to flourish."
I had to re-read your post a few times, OP, to get that you were referring to our sun, and the chemical reactions is has caused, which have brought about the physical manifestations of our current reality.
As an addendum, why do you think it is important to acknowledge "god" in this? More specifically, who, or which "god" are you acknowledging, and why is that "god" so vital to the natural reactions our sun undertakes? To me it seems as though our sun would have done what it did with, or without "god".
~ Wandering Scribe
reply to post by TerryMcGuire
If that's the case, why does everything seem to false and plastic, superficial and devoid of meaning and significance, lifeless? It seems to keep on getting worse too, and increasingly more difficult to hold sway so that one and all might have the opportunity to experience the fullness of the joys of living to the full, even to overflowing.
Originally posted by The Matrix Traveller
The Word “LIGHT” as used in the N.T. in English came from the original Greek Writings.
Example from The N.T. “The Gospel According to JOHN” Ch. 1 verse 4 Quote;
In Him (GOD) was LIFE, which was the LIGHT of MEN.
In Greek ΦΩΣ contracted from ΦΑΟΣ
Also ΦΑΩ meaning Daylight or the LIGHT of the Sun , Star etc.
They did NOT worship the SUN but they did Worship "The LIGHT of MEN which is The LIFE of GOD..
i.e. they did worship the LIGHT from the SUN, Stars, and FIRE.
Remember Moses and The FIRE on the Mount ???
Another example from The N.T. it is written Let "The Day Star" (SUN) rise in your Hearts.."
edit on 4-6-2011 by The Matrix Traveller because: Syntax Error