2007-11-13 08:05:33 · 22 answers · asked by Page 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just curious....
2007-11-13 08:05:49 · update #1
I asked this before and I never really got a good answer. I figure it was just God and Satan hanging out playing chess and drinking a few beers or something. I imagine they were awfully bored.
2007-11-13 08:56:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hypothecating that he does exist, or had existed, one cannot theorize as to what God was doing prior to the creation of the universe. Also keep in mind that asking a question like what he was doing denotes action of some sort, and yet action or “doing” only makes sense with reference to time. Yet, time, as quantum theorists can attest, only started to exist when the universe came into being, so to talk about action or doing something before time, makes no sense.
Aside from this problem there are others, if we suppose that time does not fit this definition, and instead is just an eternal constant. The first problem is that we have finite intellects, so to speculate as to what an infinite mind is doing, has done, or what he did before he created the universe, is impossible. This I think is the fundamentally folly of religion. Religion in all its pomposity claims that we human beings, who have finite intellects, can know with great detail the inner workings and the will of an infinite mind. Half the time we cannot even decipher the will of our own children, and many of us disagree as to the intent of our founding fathers on such seminal issues as church state separation, and yet both our children, and the founding fathers live or have lived in this space-time continuum. If we cannot fathom with exacting detail the minds of those, who are or were so similar to us, how are we to assume that we can know about a mind that is so unlike our own, who occupies a domain that supposedly exists outside our own universal framework?
Another interesting point, which few ever ponder, is worth mentioning. If God exists, and he is defined as an eternal being, then by that very definition we should not exist at all. For eternity means that time has no end or beginning. If time has no beginning, then God would have existed for an infinite time prior to our existence, and therefore he would never have reached the point to where he decided to create us. Such is the conundrum one faces when speaking of the existence of an eternal God.
God, as the Oxford professor Peter Atkins replied in his debate with theistic philosopher William Lane Craig, is a vacuous explanation, which doesn’t explain anything, but adds an unnecessary mystery to an already mysterious universe.
2007-11-14 05:55:49 · answer #2 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in accordance to Genesis, it replaced into God and the powerful ones who created all the spirits of guy and lady at introduction, and then a actual physique for Adam. if it is the case, God has been there the completed of the existents of guy. God says: If an evil guy turns from his evil approaches and starts off to DO what's nice (help the orphan, widows undesirable and so on.) i visit forgive all of his evil approaches and account his artwork as righteousness. yet whilst a righteous guy turns from doing what's nice, i visit forget approximately all of his righteous acts and account to him in elementary terms evil. that's what God, and Jesus the two stated. desire that facilitates Chris T.
2016-10-16 09:46:34 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cheating at Scrabble, thinking up a way to make us all look silly (then said "Ha! The Ouija Board!") and trying to work through personal gender issues.
2007-11-13 08:38:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Considering he is supposed to go back for an infinite amount of time....
I guess he was infinitely bored hehe.
I pity this God character, b/c whereas all-powerful and all-knowing are beautiful concepts...it would get lonely.
2007-11-13 08:13:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bored
2007-11-13 08:09:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, first he created the universe. Then he sat on his *** for 10 billion years. Then he created our solar system. Then he sat on his *** for another 3 billion years. then he created some early single celled life forms. Then he sat on his *** for another 1.5 billion years. Then he created humans.
sorta' hard to believe, isn't it?
2007-11-13 08:15:22 · answer #7 · answered by Morey000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He simply existed, perfectly content for eternity past. Then he finally got bored.
2007-11-13 08:11:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOOD QUESTION... What was nothing before nothing.. Grand old question of all time.. for the ages.. Energy, awareness, all bursts into existance into a perfect presence with life, but is it Creation or just accidental? hmmm
2007-11-13 08:12:45 · answer #9 · answered by Antiliber 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Worshipping himself.
2007-11-14 02:14:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋