Can God make 2+2=5 in our universe? Can God make the element of carbon have 50 electrons in our universe?
No?
Then why do Christians believe a virgin conceived?
Why do they believe that Eve was created out of Adam's rib or dust or whatever?
Why do they believe a man walked on water?
Why do they believe a burning bush spoke?
Why do they believe a snake spoke?
Aren't these logical impossibilities just evidence of mass delusion?
2007-10-22 08:14:21 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sweetie, a serpent IS a snake. :D
2007-10-22 08:21:14 · update #1
don't forget about the incestuous populating of our planet, both when adam and eve did it and when noah, his wife and his daughters did it....and noah collecting two of every species. good list, but there is a lot more delusional stuff in there.
yes, there is mass delusion going on. its sad.
2007-10-22 08:19:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
The only logical impossibility you list is the math (2+2=5). Now, I could make 2+2=1, just by working fro a base 3 system. The nature of "carbon" rests on what we give that name to; if we give it to an element with 50 electrons, that is carbon (conventions can be changed with no logical contradiction). Virgin births have been observed in other species, so there is no logic that necessarily denies it. We are only solutes in water, so we are dirt. Etc.
A logical impossibility is one that denies something in the premises one begins from or contradicts the meaning of a word. None of your examples do either of these, other than the math example. The problem is that evidence contradicts the claims of all Abrahamic believers, but not logic.
2007-10-22 08:27:04 · answer #2 · answered by neil s 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are predisposed to believing that the world you perceive is reality. More importantly, you are attempting to define the parameters of action for an Entity that you can not fully perceive nor explain with the limited mental capacity you possess (not that anyone else has more).
Do some study for yourself rather than accept the opinions of others.
The biblical explanation is that the God who engineered the human anatomy after calling every atom and subatomic particle into existence, created a life in the womb of one of His created beings. No sperm required.
2015-08-06 08:30:05 · answer #3 · answered by D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then why do Christians believe a virgin conceived? - Have you not heard of invitro fertilization?
Why do they believe that Eve was created out of Adam's rib or dust or whatever? - DNA hon, DNA
Why do they believe a man walked on water? - How can you not?
Why do they believe a burning bush spoke? - The bush didn't speak, God did
Why do they believe a snake spoke? - not a snake, a serpent
Aren't these logical impossibilities just evidence of mass delusion? - no, of course not, we'll just wait until science can show how it can be done, then wait for you to put it together.
2007-10-22 08:19:52 · answer #4 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 5⤊ 4⤋
your question is faulty. You ask, if God can not do that which is logically impossible,
God does the logically impossible, they are called miracles. Now you can dismiss them by saying they did not happen, but you can't undo them by saying something.
God is limited only by his just righteous nature not to sin. Beyond that, he does actively work in his creation, whether you accept it or not.
conception is a miracle, if you honestly know anything about how that happens. It happens all the time, and logically it should not
2007-10-22 08:51:01 · answer #5 · answered by magnetic_azimuth 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
But God can do all of those things. Even I can make 2+2=5 in this universe. All I have to do is redefine what 2 and 5 are and teach others to believe the same. After a generation or so, no one would question it. Kind of how no one questions the existence of Palestine even though there has never been a Palestine in the history of mankind. Yaser Arrafat called them Palestinians so there must have been a Palestine, right? Wrong.
2007-10-22 08:21:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Lots of women get pregnant with implants. Possible.
Eve from a rib? Today we have cloning.
Some animals can walk on water by morphing their feet and allowing the surface tension of the water to support their weight. Why not a smart human?
The trees spoke in Oz.
Parrots speak.
People are being disillusioned about atheism today, as the god of science and social engineers get more and more control of the masses.
2007-10-22 08:23:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Dude, Christians believe Snakes spoke, bushes spoke, they believe that there is a long bearded white man that will set traps for you and should you fail will burn you alive for eternity, with pain and suffering, and choke you with smoke and punish you and kill you and kill you again. But he loves you!!
But you are suprised they believe in Virgin Birth!!
2007-10-22 09:35:26 · answer #8 · answered by LetsGetReal 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The One who created the heavens and the earth is perfectly capable of causing a virgin to conceive, and all the other phenomena you mentioned.
By the way, I think you're using a rubber definition of "logic."
2007-10-22 08:29:12 · answer #9 · answered by words for the birds 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God created natural law at the same time He created the universe. God is SUPERNATURAL and not bound by natural law, So He can choose to bypass natural law, whenever He wishes. We call that a miracle, but it is no problem for God, the First Cause and Creator of everything in the material realm. It is not illogical for God to act outside natural law.
2007-10-22 08:22:10 · answer #10 · answered by A.M.D.G 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Logically, it is very possible.
in vitro fertilization
Function: noun
: fertilization of an egg in a laboratory dish or test tube; specifically : mixture usually in a laboratory dish of sperm with eggs which have been surgically removed from an ovary that is followed by implantation of one or more of the resulting fertilized eggs into a female's uterus —abbreviation IVF
2007-10-22 08:39:53 · answer #11 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋