Does a belief that an Intelligent Agent created the world in 6 days constitute insanity?

Answer 1

Definitions of Insanity/Insanity Rule Definition

M'Naughten: person does not know right from wrong

Durham: behavior is the result of mental illness or mental defect

American Law Institute: mental illness or defect led to a lack of capacity to appreciate the criminality of the act or to an inability to conform to the law

Insanity is more a legal definition than a psychological diagnosis. There is no defined diagnosis of insanity in the DSM IV.

Since there is nothing illegal about believing in creation, it is not insane.

Answer 2

I would not say that insanity is rht right choice of words. How about "haven't a clue, so I'll take the easy way out and go with your idea..."

Early civilizations could see the stars with their naked eyes but had no concept of their distance from Earth, or their total life span. They had no precise means of calculating the extreme distances involved in outer space computations.
Further, many believed that the Earth was flat, and that the Sun revolved around the Earth up until medevial times. So, it is also possible that some other early beliefs were incorrect. Right?

Now, I don't wish to say "Bah Humbug" to all that theology ourt there. However, I think it is worthwhile to think for a moment...

1.) If the Earth was made in six days, or so, where do you think all of the raw materials to make it were stored? How did they (all the materials) got transported from the warehouse site to the site of Earth's construction?

2.) Given that you are really into item 1 (above), and are fully convinced that a being called God created Earth, then are you also in agreement that all people that live on Earth now, or ever lived on Earth are/were called
Earthlings? Now, given that you buy that simple English
Word Definition, let's try another...An Alien is someone who wasn't born on the Earth, and probably never lived here. Right? If the two rather simple definitions are agreed as being correct, then this intelligent being who made Earth was an Alien. Right? And, he wasn't standing on Earth when he made it. Right? So where was he standing, sitting, working?

3.) Greek Mythology suggests that Gods were both Male and Female. Isn't it curious to some of you that God is always perceived as being Male? And if you will, God, being some kind of life form, had a Mother and a Father. Yet we never hear anything of them. Isn't that odd to you? An entity just appears and everyone takes it for granted, the sudden appearance with no explanation, no family lineage discussions, no credentials, etc. Yes, making a bush burn, and some other demos might help clarify the situation, but I can't recall any real discussions of God's lineage.

So, I don't think "insanity" is the right word. I think ignorance of the facts is a more correct description of the mental state
of most of the masses. After all, the writings of the various Churches were kept guarded from all but a few for many centuries. The Churches only revealed some information
from the anchient texts and scrolls to the masses when they felt it was appropriate to do so. So, how could the ignorant masses know anything different from what the Churches, and Church Leaders told them? Well, they couldn't, because most could not read and write. That training was also closely protected and only granted to a chosen few who demonstrated the willingness to be molded and conform to accepted doctrines.

Answer 3

Since I know God now, one of the questions I want to ask Him is why it took Him so long to create the world and everything in it. He could have done it instantly but He took 6 days for a reason. Everything God does is orderly and has a purpose. The Bible is a masterwork. He tells us to read it "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little." The more one reads the inspired Word of God the more in awe I stand before my Lord. The more I consider that I am fearfully and wonderfully made and I consider the anatomy of the human body, I stand in awe of God.

Intelligent Agent - doesn't even start to describe the Trinity, The Father God, the Son Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit my teacher and comforter.

Insanity - My mind has been totally mastered by the Master Himself. I believe. I have faith. I have hope. I have love.
Call me whatever you want. Words can't hurt me. I know who I am in Christ Jesus and that is all that matters.

Answer 4

Only if you insist on defining the "Intelligent Agent" using the narrow terms that man is capable of comprehending. The tendency is to try to box God up in a tidy little package that we can understand completely. We cannot understand an eternal being using only our limited capabilities. How can the created question the creator?
We can't even comprehend an unlimited universe let alone a God without beginning or ending.

Answer 5

Well one could ask the opposite of that question. Does a belief that the world was created in a short period of time out of nothingness constitute insanity? I don't think our finite brains could even comprehend the answer. However, if my believing in an intelligent creator forming the world in 6 days (and resting on the 7th) constitutes insanity...then sign me up for looneyville!

Answer 6

i've got faith thet Genesis is the reality and lays the very commencing up for the the remainder of scripture. for this reason that places me below your upstart American church identify. So be it yet i'm British! I even have faith that God created the universe in 6 days and in many situations ask your self why he took so long. in spite of each and every thing he would have achieved it in an instantaneous. God did no longer denounce evolution as a results of fact there is not any such element. How can God denounce some thing that does no longer exist? All Gods capacity to the church homes that denounce the evolution lie and desire to place introduction coaching in simple terms, in colleges. properly stated Andy.

Answer 7

God counts time differently than we do. God's day is a thousand years with mankind.

He told Adam in the day you eat from that fruit you will surely die. Adam lived for 930 years and he died in 3096 B.C.E. Gen 4:8-26; 5:5-24 Jude14

Methuselah lived 969 years.

Yes God took 6000 years to do the creation and then he rested for 1000 years....

Next Jesus will rule over the earth with 144000 of those taken from the earth for 1000 years. His Messianic Kingdom rule will be a blessing for all mankind. He will raise the dead, teach us all what God requires of his servants, and will make the earth a paradise and all inhabitants will have perfect , healthy, bodies.

'With' Jehovah all is possible but 'without' him nothing can stand.

Answer 8

No it isnt because a huge if not the majority of the world believes/ claim to believe that someone or something more intelligent than us made us, so i dont think it is an insane idea, someone must have a good enough reason to.

Answer 9

I really think this "Intelligent Agent" idea that came from Jose Phillip Farmer's "Waterworld" series, is fascinating. A breakthough idea that i have loved since i first read it in 1980 or so. But even if there was such a thing, just like in the book, the agent's wonder as well. It keeps you humble, well, it keeps me humble.

Answer 10

No. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.

People's beliefs do not make them insane, crazy or even off balance. That is why in order to be locked away you must be a danger to yourself or others. People's beliefs and faith in the unknown do not make them dangerous.

However, people who judge others for their beliefs are dangerous, just not physically.