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29th April 2009, 12:18 AM
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In reference to apologetics, do you ever tell people, such as friends or coworkers, that the universe had a beginning, and that God is the cause for the beginning? If you do think that, then how do you answer someone who asks you how we know the universe has a beginning?
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30th April 2009, 06:27 PM
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Reps: 40,741,260,280,236,496 (power: 40,741,260,280,253) | | Originally Posted by philadiddle  In reference to apologetics, do you ever tell people, such as friends or coworkers, that the universe had a beginning, and that God is the cause for the beginning? If you do think that, then how do you answer someone who asks you how we know the universe has a beginning? If it has no beginning? Nothing could age. It would be eternal. Timeless...
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30th April 2009, 09:03 PM
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Could you elaborate? I don't see how the absence of a beginning of the universe would keep objects within the universe from aging. |
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Are you qualifying the space in which the universe is manifested, as being the universe??? . . .
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Reps: 438,424,544,228,374 (power: 438,424,544,231) | | Originally Posted by genez You can not age something that has always existed.
You tell me how its to be done? Elaborate.  .
The universe would be unageable (sweet word), but not things within the system since age is a relative term. An eternal prexistence of the universe would have no change on the fact that the fire in my fireplace is 2 hours old relative to the surface of the earth. The way we determine age now would not change were the universe to have no beginning. |
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Please.. Define your definition of "the universe." What constitutes, "the Universe?" .
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