This one puzzled me even as a kid in the catholic church.
No believer has ever given me a reasonable answer for it.
How can some strange intelligence being there to create the cosmic stuff make more sense than the cosmic stuff just being there.
If God were there before the cosmic stuff, then he is made of whatever God would be made of. It doesn't matter if it's nothing like atoms or energy as we know it.
So you end up with old chicken and egg routine.
Doesn't it make more sense to just take one of them out of the equation and just say "the chicken (cosmic stuff) was always there, there was no egg"?
2007-04-07 02:51:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"The ultimate unconditional first cause" makes no sense at all to me.
2007-04-07 02:59:12 · update #1
And this guff about spirit rather than mass is completely missing the point.
If spirits are real, then they ARE, in effect , something.
2007-04-07 03:00:37 · update #2
If something is real, it can be discribed.
2007-04-07 03:01:14 · update #3
What makes sense to me is that the real "God" is that stuff of the Cosmos, which makes everyone and everything a tiny part of "God". I see the Cosmos as having a kind of intelligence and consciousness, as manifested through scientific laws, but nothing even remotely like ours. And it's definitely not humanlike; it makes no judgments, never interferes with us, doesn't care if we are aware of it or not. I believe Judaism and Christianity, and most religions, began with a sense of this, but degraded their "god" by humanizing "him".
2007-04-07 03:04:30 · answer #1 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ok so you at least once were a believer. In the Bible it never actually says how God created the Universe. In Genesis it is the account of how God created the earth. In the New Testament it does say: "By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible."
So we know he did create it it just doesn't have to line up with the creation of the earth.
Not to mention that the Big Bang Theory proves that scientist thing there was a beginning to the Universe that was caused almost instantly. Now I find it more believable that a Almighty Creator did this than a little explosion flinging stars billions and billions and billions of lightyears away.
So the answer to your question God (the egg) came first.
2007-04-07 10:01:30 · answer #2 · answered by With His Guidence 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The creator is spirit...not mass. The cosmic is made up of mass in one form or another. Either viewpoint requires faith.
For myself however, I felt called by something and I wanted to believe in God so I started looking for him and suddenly, there he was in my heart. Once that occurred I had no more doubts. I still have lots of questions...but no doubt. The Holy Spirit is an amazing thing.
2007-04-07 09:58:58 · answer #3 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
there is a question before me
i can see it didnt come from nowhere
so science says we dont seea writer that wrote it thus there is no proof it was writen
sure it looks like some intelligence wrote it but as we cant proove or see the writer we theorise it must have evolved from all the other questions
e see simular words so clearly those words evolved to this [your ]question
i cant see you dude
so i presume to believe there is such a thing as you
but science cant see you dude
your question just spontainiously ''evolved from the other questions
as has this answer
i could ask youto prove yopu egsist but seeing your intelligent and so i presume you are real
just as i know god is real
why should i prove any thing to you
thisd reoply was spontainiously typed by the 7 billionth momkey
yeah right
god allways is allways will be
your question is allready mutated [evolved] into another
2007-04-07 10:04:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because a Creator could have not been bound by time so that's how He is eternal, and we can't understand Him because we only use 10% of our brain capacity at most.
2007-04-07 10:19:09 · answer #5 · answered by Me Encanta Espanol 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are 3 essential areas into which evolution cannot move and cannot solve.
1. It cannot bridge the gap from nothing to something
2. It cannot bridge the gap between something to life
3. It cannot bridge the gap between life and humanity. That is self-conscious human life with a free will
2007-04-07 10:02:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ever thought of the possibility of the ultimate, unconditional First Cause?
2007-04-07 09:55:41 · answer #7 · answered by Adia Azrael 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋