I don't understand it. I really do believe in God and know Jesus died for all of our sins. I just don't understand how God was just there. Does anyone know? Or will it remain a mystery?
2007-02-07 12:13:01 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God has always been there. He never had a beginning, He has just always been there. I know that seems IMPOSSIBLE to grasp from a mortal, human standpoint. We can imagine there being a forever, we can imagine something not having an end. But not having a beginning? Seems impossible. But please imagine this -
A small two-year old toddler is playing with his building blocks. He is small and innocent, with not a clue about the real world swirling around him. He knows nothing about government, taxes, the economy, or even how to read or write. His mind is too young and underdeveloped to possibly fully grasp these things. It's virtually impossible to try and explain to this two-year old how a debit card works, or how we elect the next President of the country. His mind just CANNOT understand, no matter how you may explain it. The only thing he knows or cares about are the plastic blocks in front of him.
Now think of humans in general scampering around this little earth of ours. We're fully absorbed into our lives, into our existence here and now. We cannot understand or comprehend how the spiritual world may work, or how God does any of the things He does. Why? Because we are mortals. We're only humans, and simply incapable of understanding greater, deeper things outside of our mortal existence. Just as the little toddler can't even begin to try to understand how the complexity of the real world works, so we cannot begin to understand how the complexity of the spiritual world works.
2007-02-07 12:36:18 · answer #1 · answered by Redeemed 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is a hard concept. There are so many things we as humans don't understand. Evolution is also hard to understand. Picture this. Nothing absolutely nothing out there. Then all of a sudden two particles with just the right amount of life giving molecules crash into each other. If there was nothing, where did these particles come from? Then out of those two things came the ocean. And in the ocean a amoeba or maybe many amoebas that become everything in this universe. Some amoebas become fish, some sharks, some whales, some dinosaurs. At some point this creature that has gills decides he wants to breath air. He leaves the ocean and becomes what a bird, a plant? The world is his oyster. He can be what ever he wants. At some point he becomes man.
If I showed you a trash can. You would say so, it's a trash can. But that trash can was intelligently designed. Designed by humans. A simple trash can has an intelligent design. How can we assume that every living thing just happened per chance by one little molecule. Our eyes are amazing things, our sense of smell. The little bones in our ears. The way our white blood cells fight disease. DNA. How can we say that everything we make or invent is by intelligent design, except us. We and everything around us is a mistake????? I don't think so.
So yes it is hard to believe in something I can't see. But you are there, and I can't see you. I can only see your words. I can't see your brain either, but I know that you have one. A brain, a heart, and you can breathe. God gave you all of those things.
Believe, have faith. You are part of the brotherhood of Christ. You are a Christian.
Blessings
2007-02-07 20:31:35 · answer #2 · answered by charity 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Can you understand how there is no highest number?
Can you understand infinity?
Can you understand eternity?
Can a glass of water contain the ocean?
If you fully understood God, wouldn't you have to be God?
Can you see how tiny and limited your little brain is?
If there are an infinite number of things to know, and you learn 10 trillion times 10 trillion things, you would be no closer to knowing everything that you were when you learned the first thing.
When you sit in your room and stare at the wall, the things you perceive are few indeed compared to the things that escape your attention. How small minded is the man who trusts in his own understanding!!
"For since in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, God was well pleased through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.....because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men." (I Corinthians 1:21,25)
For your enjoyment, I suggest you read Isaiah 40:12-31; just one passage on the greatness of our God.
2007-02-07 20:35:36 · answer #3 · answered by William F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you really believe God was more than just a man and that He created us and everything around us than why can't you except that He didn't create us capable of understanding everything. We are limited in our thinking. There are lots of things scientist don't understand but it was simple for God to make these things. The Bible says the wisdom of man or this world is foolishness with God. God proved Himself by resurrecting from the grave and by prophesies in the Bible so just believe God.
2007-02-07 20:30:51 · answer #4 · answered by slick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no evidence that this is true or could ever be true.
Think of it this way:
You're asserting that this huge, ancient, complex universe was created by something even more complex. The problem with this is that we know that complex things -- from stars and galaxies to butterflies and babies -- don't just come into being; they start small and simple and disorganized, then gradually sort themselves out and get bigger and more complex. We have mountains of evidence for this process.
So it's not logical to claim that the Most Complex Being -- i.e., god -- is the only thing that didn't undergo that process.
Nevertheless, that's what the believers claim; and when you ask them to prove it, they will then claim that they don't have to because their faith overrides the need for evidence.
2007-02-07 20:23:54 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you define a God as existing outside of the universe and out side of time, you've defined him out of existence, he could have no effect whatsoever on the cosmos and would be for all intents and purposes non-existent, blind, and impotent. So obvious any God-like being that exists does so inside of our universe. When our cosmos began, so did time and space.
Now if God had no creator then how did he come into existence? If there was no creator then the only other explanation is evolution. You can take that any number of ways. ;-)
2007-02-07 20:31:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will always be a mystery, that's the point. Everything in the universe can be explained by science, however God is separate to the universe, and therefore the same rules, such as the laws of physics, can't be applied.
2007-02-07 20:19:27 · answer #7 · answered by Gav A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't. God is not an open book. He usually gives information on a need-to-know basis, and He hasn't told us that. Will He ever tell us these things? Only He knows. But first we have to develop into beings that would be capable of understanding.
2007-02-07 20:24:58 · answer #8 · answered by Amalthea 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This may come as a shock to you but no one can pay for your screw ups but YOU!
The idea that some guy thousands of years ago could die and that somehow negates any evil thing you do is an attempt by Christians to negate personal responcibility for their actions!
As for this God it is man made crap!
People made the whole thing up! Don't try to find a logical reason for it. THERE IS NONE!!
2007-02-07 20:20:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not particularly a religious person myself but it's something I've wondered about as well.
I asked my Dad who has been a committed Christian for 30 plus years and he didn't know either.
It leads to the question - if God created everything then who created God?
2007-02-07 20:17:49 · answer #10 · answered by Trevor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋