What I mean is that what if God created everything in the beginning, wound it up, and let it run it's course, only coming back to make repairs and regular maintenance?
In your opinion, is this a plausible explanation of God?
2007-03-22 04:58:30 · 20 answers · asked by Maverick 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes. Since he gave us free will we are able to proceed as we wish. To allow this he would have to allow us to make some mistakes. The only reason he would intervene is to save mankind from itself (ex: Jesus Christ, Moses, Abraham).
2007-03-22 05:18:11 · answer #1 · answered by You Ask & I Answer!!! 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a common argument for the existence of God by design, and is relatively feasible.
"The Argument From Design is often stated by analogy, in the so-called Watchmaker Argument. One is asked to imagine that one has found a watch on the beach. Does one assume that it was created by a watchmaker, or that it evolved naturally? Of course one assumes a watchmaker. Yet like the watch, the universe is intricate and complex; so, the argument goes, the universe too must have a creator.
The Watchmaker analogy suffers from three particular flaws, over and above those common to all Arguments By Design. Firstly, a watchmaker creates watches from pre-existing materials, whereas God is claimed to have created the universe from nothing. These two sorts of creation are clearly fundamentally different, and the analogy is therefore rather weak.
Secondly, a watchmaker makes watches, but there are many other things in the world. If we walked further along the beach and found a nuclear reactor, we wouldn't assume it was created by the watchmaker. The argument would therefore suggest a multitude of creators, each responsible for a different part of creation (or a different universe, if you allow the possibility that there might be more than one).
Finally, in the first part of the watchmaker argument we conclude that the watch is not part of nature because it is ordered, and therefore stands out from the randomness of nature. Yet in the second part of the argument, we start from the position that the universe is obviously not random, but shows elements of order. The Watchmaker argument is thus internally inconsistent.
Apart from logical inconsistencies in the watchmaker argument, it's worth pointing out that biological systems and mechanical systems behave very differently. What's unlikely for a pile of gears is not necessarily unlikely for a mixture of biological molecules."
2007-03-22 12:02:35 · answer #2 · answered by Kodan 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You are not far from the truth. Time was created by an infinite God to organize the finite world He created. He does maintain it to some degree but will call an end to it when everything is done that needs to be done (ie: when all the prophacies are fulfilled).
It is a pretty good metaphor of the concept of time; not an explanation of God Himself though.
2007-03-22 16:44:44 · answer #3 · answered by jb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we look at a watch and its complexity, we automatically assume there is a maker/designer. However, I constantly read posts by people who discredit (or try to) the existence of a creator of all things that we embody, are surround by, and discover everyday. So, (and pardon me for jumping off-course for a minute), I am floored when I hear people talk about evolution as if it's proven.
What is amazing is that God is our Maker - period.
If God were a watch-maker, would he take all the components of a watch and put it in a bucket and wait for billions of years as these components take on a life form on their own??? Not my God.
My God is Omniscient, Omnipotent, and Omnipresent. My God would take his "hands" to form us and take care to make sure all of our physical needs are met.
My God would then give us an instruction manual to tell us the dos and don'ts, right and wrongs, good and bads.
My God is not a watch-maker. He is the one and only CREATOR.
2007-03-22 12:25:23 · answer #4 · answered by Roxie J Squared 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plausible? No. Pls use Additional Details re God / plausibility if there's anything relevant... I see God only as impossibility.
2007-03-22 12:03:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think of it more as he comes back and takes back with thethe pieces that works on the clock. Leaving behind the bad pieces that caused it to mess up. Those bad pieces get taken a sledgehammer to them for 7 years and he comes back after that with the good pieces and cast the bad pieces in the trash.
2007-03-22 12:04:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
No more plausible than the idea that a god created the universe and constantly keeps it running.
2007-03-22 12:02:01 · answer #7 · answered by boukenger 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not really. It comes down to the fundamental question - who designed the designer? And I am far more inclined to believe the big bang theory (or any other comparatively simple beginning) than some intelligent being suddenly coming to existence.
2007-03-22 12:03:10 · answer #8 · answered by andy4bes 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well if winding the watch refers to the Big Bang then it's technically possible, but ultimately meaningless.
2007-03-22 12:17:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not in Christian theology, at least.
That would mean that God had no interaction with His creation. No revelation. No miracles. No Jesus.
No way.
2007-03-22 12:01:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋