Assuming it does, of course.
No lengthy scripture or slippery get-outs, if possible, please. Thanks to all.
2007-09-10 04:37:35 · 8 answers · asked by Bad Liberal 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
honestly, it doesn't make sense to me. I hate it when people use that argument and think it makes sense. Really, I choose to believe in God because SOMETHING came from nothing at some point in time, whether it was God, or God's God or matter that exploded. No matter what you believe, you have to have faith in something, and that is what I choose to put my faith in. Anyhow, I hope you don't take that as a "get out", as that is just how I deal with it since I acknowledge the problem.
2007-09-10 04:45:41 · answer #1 · answered by mountain_laurel1183 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does it make more sense that the universe has always existed and did not need to be created?
The universe, and time itself have a beginning. That's where scientific evidence points to.
Science also tells us that everything that begins to exist has a cause.
The universe began to exist.
Therefore the universe has a cause.
Whatever caused the universe must be changeless, timeless and immaterial. It must also be uncaused because there can't be an infinite regress of causes.
I call this cause God.
2007-09-10 05:14:02 · answer #2 · answered by layawakex10 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Created" implies time. If there were no such thing as time, there would be no beginnings and no creations. Existence itself would be rather a slippery concept, and I'm not sure it's something a human being can wrap his/her head around.
Relativity makes it clear that time is a function of energy and matter. Without those two, time does not exist. If God created the universe, then He created time when He created everything else. "Before" that, there was no such thing as "before", and the question of who or what created God becomes a meaningless noise.
For what it's worth.
2007-09-10 04:48:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe life, matter, or energy and time is "eternal" or "Constant"
For example: take a seed, you put it into the ground, it grew up to be a tree. Its no longer a"seed", but a tree.
You go cut down the tree, it became lumber.
You made the lumber to made a table, now its a table, not lumber.
Now you burn the table, it became ashes.
My point is, there is only different phases of existence, from the seed to being ashes, it still what it is, a eternal substance.
2007-09-10 07:31:36 · answer #4 · answered by Wahnote 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the only logical explination. There must be a Supreme or Most High Being. Things do not work or operate by themselves. An Intelligent Being had to have been behind what you see today.
2007-09-10 04:46:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure that God is subject to linear time, as we are, at least while we're incarnate. I've also wondered if 'eternity' is outside of the sequential time continuum. That's really no harder to contemplate than any instance of infinity.
2007-09-10 04:46:40 · answer #6 · answered by Dianne A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a deity does not need to have been created or have a beginning... why does anything else?
This is the thinking of finite minds.
2007-09-10 05:18:26 · answer #7 · answered by KC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is infinite. You know, infinity. Always. Forever.
Good luck. Some people can't comprehend infinity. Hope you can.
2007-09-10 05:05:00 · answer #8 · answered by mecasa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋