Believers, how do you explain that a higher being created the Universe?

Question

Did your God use magic to create all from nothing?

Have you ever doubted the Creation story?

What do you think about evolution?

Answer 1

God using magic? Now thats a first.

God uses His power of Will to create things. :)

He says Be and they are.

I can doubt anything but the existence of God. I wont let anyone shake my belief in that manner. So yes I can very well doubt the creation story. But if you believe that God created you out of nothing, there can really be no story that will tell you in detail how He did it. The story goes: He said BE! :)

Physically we could have evolved from something..I have no problems believing that. Its just that humans can rarely be sure of anything, were not exactly the smartest thing to have existed. So I will be skeptical of human theories any day.

I think evolution in the sense that is simplifies the human existense into nothing but a body and a couple of organs, is seriously insulting to the existence of humans.

Just because the only thing we see is our body doesnt mean its the only thing that makes us who we are.

Ive read a good article about this one. It said that humans have grey matter in their head that sees colors in real life :)

Now evolution might try explaining physical aspects of humans...but they cant tell you the differences in personality when they see bones.

As it is, Hitler and Ghandi look the same in the grave and no one can tell you what made them who they are just by looking at their bones.

Answer 2

The bible says God created the universe by faith meaning he just believed that he could say or think it into existence and it happens. It is impossible for us to understand but he has always existed and has always been the all powerful God. I never doubted the creation but I was taught evolution in school. I figured there must have been some balance between the two. I don't believe in evolution at all anymore because it has been disproved.

Answer 3

I'll be the first to admit that I *don't* have knowledge of the nature of God, so I can't begin to explain exactly how he created the universe. Do I have any proof that God created the Universe? No, I don't. But regardless, I do believe in a higher power. I feel it. Is this something that I can prove to someone else? No, but I don't have to. I don't feel like anyone else has to share my beliefs and I certainly don't force it down anyone's throat.

I don't take the Bible literally. I believe that the creation story was written in simplistic terms because earlier man didn't have the knowledge that we have now. The writer(s) of Genesis couldn't comprehend of millions of years, so they wrote the timeline in a measurement that they could understand -- days. They couldn't possibly understand how the stars, sun, and planets were created, so it was written that God just spoke them into being. When the Bible says that God formed man from the dirt of the earth, I think its a metaphor that he brought him forth from what he had already created, not that he actually formed a person out of clay.

It seems to me that if God has existed forever, that before he began the creation of the universe, he had alot of time on his hands. So why snap your fingers and make an "instant world", when you can set things in motion, watch them develop, and give them the occasional nudge in the right direction.

I think science is a gift from God also. It allows us to more fully understand the nature of the world we live in. Just as our relationship with God grows for each one of us, I think that God intended for us a race to grow as well and to seek out answers. I think that the Bible is a good starting point and guiding tool, but when God created us, he made us with an inherent questioning nature. Certainly he didn't intend for this one book to be the answer for all of our questions forever.

Answer 4

I look at it as an issue relative to the context of what is being read. Of course He didn't make the world in three days. But at the time this stuff was being written, no one had concepts of great amounts of time, like we do now. If they had dug up some dinosaur bones, they would have written it up differently. Why can't we just say, evolution is the process God uses, and that mutation is the way God selects which beings have the most will to survive, and therefore will. Let's stop arguing about it and try to have multilevel belief systems for a change.

Answer 5

This is asked alot so let me explain. I believe God created our "space-time" universe. Since God is not subject to his creation, God didn't require a "beginning" unlike his creation (God exists outside of time), God is also infinite (outside of space). The universe can't be started w/out the time dimension, therefore, I believe that God was the first "cause". Metaphysicists say that God exists in a "circular" unconditional reality, therefore God has no beginning or end.

Think about is this way, A computer programmer is not subject to the functions of his program

Answer 6

Technically, both theories are unproveable even by scientific standards. (and by that I mean good objective science)

And technically, BOTH theories take a measure of faith to believe in them.

For me, it takes more faith that I have to believe in evolution.
The faith I have is a gift from God according to the Bible, and it is sufficient to sustain my belief in Creationism.

Ex. : In the Big Bang theory, atomic particles are crashing into one another and matter is created as a result. Cool.
1) In all other scientific models, explosions are destructive, not constructive.
2) Where did the atomic particles come from that began colliding with one another?
(If you tell me they were just always "there", that's what I'll tell you about God: He was just always in existence.)

Answer 7

Dear Mr. M. Knoxville:
If you wish to use the word 'magic' ....O.K.
Magic is simply science that man hasn't as yet got his mind around.
What would you expect of a vastly superior being?
That he could only do as we do?
Evolution is full of holes.
Until most of those holes are filled, I personally, shall stand at a distance.

Answer 8

I think God used the laws of nature as His tools and set things up so they would work how he wanted (maybe even with some little tweaking along the way).

Answer 9

you start with Gen1:1 and work your way through. God doesn't need magic unlike all those douters and unbelievers!

Answer 10

No doubts whatsoever, my God is all powerful. : )