Triplethreat
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Well, I didn't word that the best way, but I don't see it as just writing a book. If God exists outside of time and space, which is the only way he could create it, then the Bible is more like a timeline. And God's words bring things into being. I think belief is foundational to the universe. You need it in eternity as well. If the timeline was set, then how does free will exist? Well, I don't claim to know all the ins and outs, but I think it works on multiple levels. But that is a whole discussion about the reason for existence and free will.
That was perhaps an unfair question of me. I didn't mean it like that, I was just curious. But it's a bad question because how would you know what you do. But I guess for people that believe they are in that position, at least you understand how hard it is to convey.
Feelings and enlightenment I don't prescribe too either because that can be very deceptive. That is why there are so many different interpretations. The truth is the truth regardless. But it's hard to describe how you would know it, because everyone thinks they do, so that brings us back to where we started.
I'm sure you already heard the arguments. I don't think you would accept the answers I give to these questions with your view. It comes back to belief. And if there was evidence, you would have to believe the evidence is true and that it is interpreted correctly. Why did God take it through a process? Well, if he created the world, it wasn't trial and error. He knew what he was doing. But it still went through a process. The meaning of all that I don't know off the top of my head. I do believe existence in itself is a process for a specific reason with a beginning and end.
Could God create the world in 6 days? He could create it in 6 milliseconds if all powerful. And if all knowing, there is a purpose for doing things the way he did them. Was the form of the Earth void for billions of years and that is why science comes to that conclusion? Yet the creation portion was as it says so both sides are correct as far as that goes? I don't know, but it might go deeper than our understanding.
I think every verse of the Bible works on multiple levels. One has to be literal. Like I said, I think it is inconsistent to think otherwise. It doesn't make any sense to say God is true but the Bible isn't. Then we aren't talking about the same thing. If he can't part a sea, or reveal his Word through people, then he sure can't create the universe and doesn't exist.
Bravo man.
This is the type of stuff I look for when reading a thread like this. That is how you convey the message.
I especially like that you don't try to act like you know everything, because it's not possible to interpret the book perfectly. There are so many questions that come with that belief as well. That no one will ever know until the end, if there is god.
I am not sure what I really believe in. I want to believe in the creation and a god, I was certainly raised that way. I absolutely hated that I was forced into believing something when I was a child, and that I didn't even have a chance to question it because my parents believed so firmly.
For this reason, I question everything now. I will keep questioning until I find an answer I can get behind fully.
I will say this, if there is a god, science goes hand in hand with the plan. It isn't God vs Science. It's god + science.