Taking questions on the Creation.

[Cabal]

No science is involved, just philosophy.

Incorrect.

 

[jpcedotal]

What did the serpent look like before God cursed it?

 

[CoderHead]

AV says it was a dragon.

 

[jpcedotal]

AV says it was a dragon.

Was there "fear" the emotion before the eating of the fruit from the Tree?

 

[CoderHead]

Was there "fear" the emotion before the eating of the fruit from the Tree?

I don't have the slightest clue. You know as well as I do the Bible doesn't get into much detail. All I know is the serpent was "crafty" and spoke so the humans did what God told them not to and now we're all in deep doodoo because of it. Oh, and serpents have to crawl on their bellies and get their heads stepped on by people now.

AV is the one who likes the dragon theory, not me. Ask him.

 

[AV1611VET]

I don't have the slightest clue.

Why not?

There was no fear factor involved during the conversation with the dragon.

 

[Tinker Grey]

I think it is a question of "would He", not "can He".

God is constant and never changes.

Can an omnipotent, omniscient god change his future mind?

 

[LifeToTheFullest!]

Can an omnipotent, omniscient god change his future mind?

Hmmmmm... can he build a rock so big he can't move it?

 

[Belk]

Nah... that's an old one. How about this question:

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

This, of course, assumes a post flood non malevolent wood chuck.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Can an omnipotent, omniscient god change his future mind?

And if such a god is "outside" time, when would he do it?

 

[Tiberius]

So man would remember it.....which we have...even the those who do not worship Him. Sure they might deny it, but all know what is meant when "The Flood" is discussed.

Of courwse, God, being God, could give Humans those memories by simply snapping his fingers.

AV, could you please respond to my question? Here it is again...

Couldn't God have given them salvation anyway? After all, he would have known who would have prayed for salvation, even if they didn't. Knowing things that would happen even if you change things so they never happen may be logically impossible, but you have agreed that God can do the logically impossible.

Is there any reason why God couldn't have done this?

 

[AV1611VET]

Of courwse, God, being God, could give Humans those memories by simply snapping his fingers.

AV, could you please respond to my question? Here it is again...

Couldn't God have given them salvation anyway? After all, he would have known who would have prayed for salvation, even if they didn't. Knowing things that would happen even if you change things so they never happen may be logically impossible, but you have agreed that God can do the logically impossible.

Is there any reason why God couldn't have done this?

I'm sure God has His reasons for doing what He did, when He did it, and the order that He did it in.

Your question has Calvinistic overtones in it, and I believe there's a difference between those who would have prayed and those who did pray.

Also, I'm sure that in the end, every person who ever goes to Hell will wish he would have prayed.

As one evangelist pointed out when he was preaching on Luke 16, the rich man never asked WHY he was in Hell; instead, he begged for someone to be sent to his five brothers to warn them about that place.

I agree with the evangelist: Those who go to Hell will never wonder why they were sent there --- they'll already know why.

 

[AV1611VET]

Of courwse, God, being God, could give Humans those memories by simply snapping his fingers.

God is not in the entertainment business --- salvation is critical.

 

[Thistlethorn]

I'm sure God has His reasons for doing what He did, when He did it, and the order that He did it in.

Your question has Calvinistic overtones in it, and I believe there's a difference between those who would have prayed and those who did pray.

Also, I'm sure that in the end, every person who ever goes to Hell will wish he would have prayed.

As one evangelist pointed out when he was preaching on Luke 16, the rich man never asked WHY he was in Hell; instead, he begged for someone to be sent to his five brothers to warn them about that place.

I agree with the evangelist: Those who go to Hell will never wonder why they were sent there --- they'll already know why.

So, when you go to hell, will you immediately understand that it is because you didn't worship Muhammed as your prophet?

 

[LifeToTheFullest!]

Did god create Koalas' with special nutritional requirements, in very narrow habitats in Australia, with respect to the flood or in spite of the flood?

 

[AV1611VET]

Did god create Koalas' with special nutritional requirements, in very narrow habitats in Australia, with respect to the flood or in spite of the flood?

Koalas may not have even been around then.

Only incipients boarded the Ark.

 

[LifeToTheFullest!]

What's an incipient?

How would one determine which incipient a koala was 'related' to?

 

[roflcopter101]

God is not in the entertainment business --- salvation is critical.

Actually, I've been floating a proposal for a new entertainment system for the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. The system would comprise of a rain of individual bits of steel wool set on fire and separated into portions small enough to completely combust before reaching the ground, with an additional pyrotechnics display in the area in front of the hotel in a vein that I hope is not too reminiscent of the Bellagio's show. Venture capitol has been a tad hard to find, though.
If God was a showman, his powers must have been Its forms of jokes. It must really be adding insult to injury when the red-hot particulate matter that burns you to death also smells like rotten eggs. It should have used something menacing like boiling->explosively combusting oil or something instead of sulfur/brimstone. If God wanted the sulphuric acid effect, burning fossil fuels would have achieved an acceptable amount for inflicting pain without the need for sulfur. There's simply just an abundance of less-flashy, more effective stuff It could have used to topple civilizations that wouldn't obnoxiously rub it in. Absolutely unbelievable.

 

[Tiberius]

I'm sure God has His reasons for doing what He did, when He did it, and the order that He did it in.

The old "God works in mysterious ways" cop out?

Your question has Calvinistic overtones in it, and I believe there's a difference between those who would have prayed and those who did pray.

But for a God who set up every tiniest law of the universe, there's no reason he had to set things in that way.

God is not in the entertainment business --- salvation is critical.

My point is that there is nothing that is acheived by God going to all the trouble of an ark and all that that he could not have acheived by simply snapping his fingers. Remember - he's God, he can do ANYTHING. And you yourself have claimed that God is not constrained by logic.

Koalas may not have even been around then.

Only incipients boarded the Ark.

So koalas evolved from an animal that was on the ark? Is that micro evolution or macro evolution?

 

[Gracchus]

God is not in the entertainment business ---

Then he missed his calling.

--- salvation is critical.

But, apparently, optional.