An Experiment?

[seebs]

I think science acknowledges the gaps, but proceeds to ignore them.

Theology does not (for me, anyway) answer questions like "what is the boiling point of lead" or "how can I predict the effects on a species of geographical isolation for a few hundred years". These are "gaps" in theology - but they aren't, really, because they aren't gaps in the areas it proposes to address.

I see science and theology as essentially unrelated fields, like poetry and biology. I don't object to science not answering non-scientific questions, any more than I object to theology not answering non-theological questions.

If you feel that you need answers, you will of course seek for them, but this doesn't mean that people who don't feel the need for those answers are making a logical error; it means they have different needs than you do.

 

[Stormy]

So, if God couldn't provide you with an answer that you could understand about exactly why "He Is"

Jerry : God is... that I am sure.

But he has made no attempt to explain his existence other than... I am.

I know that one of his qualities is to be all knowing.

I wonder if that refers to God himself ?

I wonder, does God know "how" he always was ... and is ... and will be?

I think I will ask him when we meet face to face.

I hope you are there to hear his answer and help me figure a way out of trouble if I anger him.

 

[Jerry Smith]

I hope you are there to hear his answer and help me figure a way out of trouble if I anger him.

If God exists and is Transcendent, I doubt He is angered by anything we humans might do. We must appear from His Grand Perspective as harmless and innocent creatures, even the worst among us. I don't picture God as the type given to torturing insects that crawl the wrong way across the bottom of the jar...

 

[Stormy]

Originally posted by Jerry Smith
If God exists and is Transcendent, I doubt He is angered by anything we humans might do. We must appear from His Grand Perspective as harmless and innocent creatures, even the worst among us. I don't picture God as the type given to torturing insects that crawl the wrong way across the bottom of the jar...

The god that you imagine is an uncaring god that is much less than the Father that I know.

The Father that I know is not the wicked god that you imagine him to be.

I love having these talks with you.

You are very deep and interesting.

 

[Jerry Smith]

I don't imagine a wicked God, or even an uncaring God. I was trying to reassure ( ) you that you need not worry about being "in trouble with" God --- He's not an ill-tempered school master, I don't think.

 

[madarab]

Stormy, I can answer the second part of your question. You came into being because your mommy and daddy loved each other very much.

 

[Angel75]

Originally posted by Stormy
If it was a weapon than someone would have had to be in command of it.

Who? I am sorry Seesaw but you are not making much sense to me.

You must know more than your telling.

Or do you really have no idea and no answers?

i believe he was just going along with your joke. (you know, when you said huh what big bang? is that from some big weapon or something? obviously not verbatim, but i think ya know which post of yours i am referring to)At least i would think/hope it is a joke, the big bang theory is basic elementary school child knowledge

 

[sampo]

Originally posted by Stormy
God says " I am "


I refuse to believe that anything... just is.

IMO There are reason to everything.

God says "I Am", yet you refuse to believe that anything "Just Is"? Contradicting yourself again.

If there is a reason to everything, then what is the reason for God?