Assuming the worlds population is now in the region of 6.5Billion humans - anticipating to rise 9.1Billion by 2050 - good old god can only spend 0.001329231 seconds on each human every day. Although in fact his time is reduced massively further because he would also have to look over every blade of grass and every ant etc.
If he had ever existed, other than in novels written by mankind, then he would have been one very stressed out dude !!!.
2006-09-28 23:31:22 · 20 answers · asked by Jon H 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
just a commect on another answer, humans created religion, now look how much all the christains are restrained by it:) also, time is a human concept, and one more point, IF god exists, he gave up ANY interest in this stupid little planet about.......oh wait a sec, HE DOESNT EXIST, so all your prays are just a waste of breath
2006-09-28 23:44:17 · answer #1 · answered by darren p 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
That's like saying your computer will have trouble adding 2 + 2 while your internet browser is open.
I can understand that you're an Atheist and you want to make a statement. You want other like-minded people to make their comment. Fair enough - apart from the fact your best answer will inevitably go to another exclaiming!!!!! Atheist!!!! Dude!!!!
At least try to use your common sense when asking one of your questions. I rely on Atheists mostly for common sense and realistic experience on Answers because so many of my faithful brothers and sisters have lost the plot and taken to making outrageous judgements, misquoting the Bible to suit their own right-wing, hate filled, twisted version of something that resembles Christianity only in name etc.
And besides all that, do you really think we'll last another 43 years?
Come on, use your brain.
2/10 for a badly thought out question. More effort required.
2006-09-30 02:33:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is outside of time... it is one of His creations, and therefore, is not limited to it (in the same sense that if you create a computer game, you are not limited by the invisible walls at the edges of your world, nor are you prevented from debugging your code simply by pressing the 'pause' button).
Now, going at the ultimate in basics in the understanding of what "God's time" is... one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day. That means that since there are 31,556,952 seconds in one year (and hence, 31,556,952,000 in a 1000 years... therefore, by proxy, 31,556,952,000 seconds to God in a single day), then by such a silly notion as limiting God to time, He is quite able to devote just over second to each and every person.
However, the converse is also true, in that your prayer that lasts the whole day, would be only 1/31,556,952,000 of a second to God. Think of how fast a prayer that only lasts a mere ten minutes, or the cry out of, "God help me!" lasts?
2006-09-29 03:49:09 · answer #3 · answered by seraphim_pwns_u 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God dwells in " the heaven of the heavens ". He never had a beginning, and He never will die !!! He is Spirit, and time is his creation, He is not governed by His creation !!! He invented time when He created the universe. I am surprised at your lack of knowledge of your very own " little firecracker " theory !!! Your big fizzle theory of how the universe invented itself out of nothing which somehow existed, though it didn't, really ... sigh ... anyway, yous claim that time was also invented at the start of the universe ... strange how yous use a tiny fraction of truth in your own theory of the universe, and of time, and then yous FLY OFF THE RAILS ON A CRAZY TRAIN of theories of how the universe, and evolution and everything made ITSELF !!!!
....sigh.... what a complete waste of brain power, these theorists !!!
2006-09-28 23:48:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your concept of God is very small. If he knows every thought of every human being at all times....sure that's a huge concept but if God created the whole universe....known and unknown and holds the atoms together and keeps our solar system revolving without varience enough to keep us all safe on our earthly home....if he can design everything down to the smallest living thing to the largest living thing intrically interdependent and complementing each other living thing...if dna is no mystery to him...if seasons come and go despite our polluting this planet....if he can reach out and speak to those who will listen...millions of us...then he can handle any job you puny human can think of and all the jobs you cannot even imagine! Your thinking about God is too small...my God is ALL MIGHTY, ALL KNOWING, exists out of time (outside of milliseconds,seconds,minutes, hours, days etc)and all powerful beyond any human concept.
2006-09-28 23:53:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
let us assume that life and all these wonderful things in this universe were created by an higher intelligence -this we assume because we cannot digest that something so complex came to existence by chance -but once we assume that we face an even more confounding problem! who created this being of much higher complexity.
The question before us is did thing get less complex like a higher being creating lower life forms
Or as the scientists say ,did things get more complex as time goes on creating life from non living things, creating higher life forms from lower life forms?
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We all believe, irrespective of our religion that the God we believe in created the world,and everything in it.If we do not accept this we are admitting another creator and God for those other people, and our God becomes a part-God .
If we believe that our God created the Universe and everything and everyone in it, then why are we fighting people who do not know about our concept of God, but are the creations of the same God?
What we should be doing is - knowing that everyone and everything - we know, and do not know are created by our god, and He would be angry if we hurt any one of His creations in a false bid to glorify Him! (Stupid are we not?)
To top it all; we are killing each other in a bid to get the right to define God our Creator!!
Are we not trying to be more than God when we are attempting to define Him and confine His activities to people who believe in our defenition of him?
can we completely, or even attempt to define God with our limited language and brain
The point is; let us not create God or Gods - it is the other way around Right? It is God who created us. Let us believe that God knows everything without our having to tell Him what to do! With an attitude of surrender -with the realization that God is beyond the capacity of our teeny brain to grasp, Let us live life as a celeberation of God's love, in having created us and this woderful world-let us regain the paradise that God gave us instaed of trying to put Our Creator in a capsule, and to sell him like a street hawker
2006-09-28 23:39:35 · answer #6 · answered by joey 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To give you an example of something you might be capable of understanding.
How can Yahoo! Answers receive all the questions and answers from around the world all at the same time?
The power of the computer.
Well God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent.
Look these words up in your dictionary.
As we say in Kenya, 'Put that in your pipe and smoke it'.
Yes it's an English saying.
2006-09-28 23:52:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You are putting GOD in a human category, which just doesn't fit for HIM. He is not limited by time, numbers, or even gravity as humans are. Why does the little human brain even suppose to think it is comparable to GOD? Where were you when he laid down the foundations of the world? Where were you when He placed the heavens and planets in their place. Why do you think you would even begin to compare yourself to HIM? There is none like HIM. He is LORD GOD and HE alone is Worthy of praise and honor.
2006-09-28 23:43:26 · answer #8 · answered by Godb4me 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
A website can be approached by hundreds simultaneously. God the Father is omni-present and mightier than the Asker could imagine or proclaim in his spritual-poverty
2006-09-28 23:59:59 · answer #9 · answered by sunamwal 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, you dont understand. Popular theological theory is that God created time. Given that time does exist, this conclusion does not contradict any other element of the theory. Being the creator of time itself, God is not restricted by it. It is not something we are to understand.
Also, He is said to be in all places at all times. He is conscious of all things at all times. You assume in your question that God can only tend to one any given person at a time. That is not the case. Popular theological theory attests his omnipresence, being in all places at once. He is capable of spending infinite amounts of time on each individual person.
Let me make clear that I do not believe this at all. It is simply the popular theory among educated theologians.
That being said, yes, a prayer can be thought in that time. It is merely an instantaneous thing.
Furthermore, I think your question is merely a very uneducated attempt to refute theological theory. You have failed in that attempt.
2006-09-28 23:40:13 · answer #10 · answered by Blue Devil 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋