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I think maybe a bit like this: remnants of protein from plants in warm water in Africa, two strands of protein that combine and form a bond, the sun is always a "pressing" force, so from there you have the first "will". The will never gets stronger than this first bond unless the one who controls this will allows itself to grow stronger. Plants are life too, they feel their surroundings, so they have a soul too, animals and humans are just more intelligent, they don't necessarily sense more of their surroundings than plants do, but they think more.

Were there two protein bonds that made the first plant too, I don't really know, I would assume so, but maybe rather that there was something before protein. More advanced life requires protein to build a physical body, while plants may have something even simpler,


how does this view fit into the picture of a Creator and the first will?
 

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I think maybe a bit like this: remnants of protein from plants in warm water in Africa, two strands of protein that combine and form a bond, the sun is always a "pressing" force, so from there you have the first "will". The will never gets stronger than this first bond unless the one who controls this will allows itself to grow stronger. Plants are life too, they feel their surroundings, so they have a soul too, animals and humans are just more intelligent, they don't necessarily sense more of their surroundings than plants do, but they think more.

Were there two protein bonds that made the first plant too, I don't really know, I would assume so, but maybe rather that there was something before protein. More advanced life requires protein to build a physical body, while plants may have something even simpler,


how does this view fit into the picture of a Creator and the first will?

From the perspective of the biblical narrative in Genesis, it is God's Will that is sovereign over the material world and prompts life.
 
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From the perspective of the biblical narrative in Genesis, it is God's Will that is sovereign over the material world and prompts life.

Is this God sort of the same as the feeling you have inside of someone listening, or outside our body?
 
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Is this God sort of the same as the feeling you have inside of someone listening, or outside our body?

From what my minuscule mind can cobble together, it's the sort of God who exists eternally but, as Blaise Pascal noted, is hidden and beyond our ability to comprehesively analyze. This ends up meaning that we unfortunately won't be able to answer every question about 'how' God performs in the universe or by exactly which processes He invisibly distributes His Will.

Does that make any sense?
 
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I think maybe a bit like this: remnants of protein from plants in warm water in Africa, two strands of protein that combine and form a bond, the sun is always a "pressing" force, so from there you have the first "will". The will never gets stronger than this first bond unless the one who controls this will allows itself to grow stronger. Plants are life too, they feel their surroundings, so they have a soul too, animals and humans are just more intelligent, they don't necessarily sense more of their surroundings than plants do, but they think more.

Were there two protein bonds that made the first plant too, I don't really know, I would assume so, but maybe rather that there was something before protein. More advanced life requires protein to build a physical body, while plants may have something even simpler,


how does this view fit into the picture of a Creator and the first will?
I am no scientist, but the idea of two strands of protein possessing a "will" seems unlikely in the extreme. You say that plants feel their surroundings, so they must , in your view, have a soul. But a soul is not required to feel surroundings. I cannot think of anywhere in the Bible where we read that plants have souls.
 
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From what my minuscule mind can cobble together, it's the sort of God who exists eternally but, as Blaise Pascal noted, is hidden and beyond our ability to comprehesively analyze. This ends up meaning that we unfortunately won't be able to answer every question about 'how' God performs in the universe or by exactly which processes He invisibly distributes His Will.

Does that make any sense?

Well, I`m not gonna try to analyse God, I often pray to him
 
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Well, I`m not gonna try to analyse God, I often pray to him

That's always a good place to start when any of us are on a journey to explore Christianity.
 
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I think maybe a bit like this: remnants of protein from plants in warm water in Africa, two strands of protein that combine and form a bond, the sun is always a "pressing" force, so from there you have the first "will". The will never gets stronger than this first bond unless the one who controls this will allows itself to grow stronger. Plants are life too, they feel their surroundings, so they have a soul too, animals and humans are just more intelligent, they don't necessarily sense more of their surroundings than plants do, but they think more.

Were there two protein bonds that made the first plant too, I don't really know, I would assume so, but maybe rather that there was something before protein. More advanced life requires protein to build a physical body, while plants may have something even simpler,


how does this view fit into the picture of a Creator and the first will?
God created everything...
 
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