How can we understand something even more complex than the universe? This doesn't make sense. I mean the universe baffles the minds of even the most creative geniuses, and for people to tell you that there is this all powerful god in the sky, and that they understand it, sounds ludicrous to me.
2007-11-27 14:52:30 · 28 answers · asked by icananswerthequestion 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I like what Carl Sagan has to say.
"In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from. And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and decide that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question? Or, if we say that God has always existed, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?" --Cosmos p.257
2007-11-27 15:02:52 · update #1
If one applies logic and reason to religion, one invariably discovers how ridiculous religious belief actually is.
Its not a complex case, as you've discovered yourself. The only reason it's still a factor in society is because people flatly refuse or are unable to apply logic and reason at all.
Theists tend to accuse atheists of being arrogant, whereas I belive its the height of arrogance to claim that you have all the answers in a universe nobody truly comprehends.
Any sufficiently advanced culture will appear as gods to those less advanced. That is evidence that undeveloped minds will seek immediate explanations for things they cannot comprehend. That is the basis for spirituality.
Religion is the corruption of spirituality to control the masses. In a time when formal law didn't exist, how better to control the masses than to make them fear something they could never see nor escape?
Thousands of years of brainwashing later, you shouldn't be expecting to combat such indoctrination with mere logic and reason.
2007-11-27 15:05:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
That's right we can't comprehend the universe or some of life's most baffling mysteries. But does that mean that there are not answers? No. There is a all mighty powerful God up there in the sky. He's the Alpha and Omega and forever will be. See humans have been for years and maybe centuries have been trying to prove that God doesn't exist, but he does. He does exist. No matter how many tests, theories, evidence and such they try and prove it's always wrong. Just look it up in the Bible. It says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth." God has always been there. How? We may never know. Again our small minds can not comprehend something as major as that.
2007-11-27 22:59:59 · answer #2 · answered by AsianBarbie 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your question begs for a challenge to your assumption. I'll do it with the Socratic method: What if the universe actually IS comprehensible, even if our limited minds cannot comprehend it? That could easily imply that there is nothing incomprehensible about the universe, and so any supposed "incomprehensible" events or beings would simply be imaginary.
This is one of the more interesting logical proofs against the existence of anything supernatural. I like it because it's simple, yet profound, and puts the responsibility for "knowing" on those who are brave enough to be curious and not merely accept "revealed truth."
2007-11-27 22:59:22 · answer #3 · answered by kwxilvr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For someone to claim to understand God IS ludicrous, I believe in several places of the Bible it states that we do not know all about God. The Christian religions must all be taken on FAITH (as would any other religion believing in a high being). Because you to not understand it, or because it sounds ludicrous to you does not make it untrue. Do you understand everything about the universe, and if you do not, does it make it unreal?
I also believe that most scholars would never claim to understand GOD, but rather they have an understanding, they feel, of the texts used to base a religion on. How one text and idea relates to another. NOT the actual being/personality/physical characteristic/ molecular make-up, etc., of GOD, that is a very, very big difference.
Wishing you peace and contentment in your life, however that may come about.
2007-11-27 23:05:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
god is there but were not sapost to comprehend it how was he created how did he make every thing we will never no cuase we cant comprehend the relisation of something with out a creator and a reason source so we dont understand fully and we ? but then how can the universe be created with the big bang theory were did that dust come from god made it all and i no that for a fact there is no other prosible reasoning how did we come from harmful bacteria we didnt god made us all theorys of evolution and the big bang conredict them selves god is the only logical explination we just cant comprihend how its possible
2007-11-27 23:01:06 · answer #5 · answered by L☺sêr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jehovah is more complicated than the universe since he is the source of the power that created and sustains it. See Isaiah 40:26. To boggle the mind, Jehovah has the power to listen to the prayers of every person on the earth and answer those prayers, all at the same time.
We can understand much about Him because he reveals what we need to know in the Bible. We can read of the live's of men and if he approved or disapproved of what they did. He tells us what the future holds for his worshippers, paradise life in a beautiful, clean earth or life in the heavens for others.
His name Jehovah means "purposer", and indicates that not only can he accomplish his purpose and he can also be whatever is needed for us; a counselor, educator, executioner, comforter, and miracle worker. Nothing he has promised has failed to come true.
You are correct in thinking that we will never understand everything about Him even if we lived forever. He invites us to get to know him at James 4:8. "Draw close to God and he will draw close to you."
2007-11-27 23:10:00 · answer #6 · answered by Tessie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just as we can comprhend things about our Universe we can comprhend things about God. Just as we will never know everything about our universe in this lifetime we will also never be able to fully understand God now. Nobody here on earth understands God completely. There are misteries still yet revealed and its somethign to look forward to. This expanse of this Universe says something about our God who made us and pondering the work he has done gives a clue into more about who he is.
2007-11-27 22:58:23 · answer #7 · answered by spunn_out 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are confused. Understanding that there is a God, is different then understanding God Him self. We understand that God loves us, that he sent His Son to die for our sins, and yes even yours. And we understand the things in the Bible are Gods word. But the one thing you are right about is that as humans, we will never understand the complexities of God. He is so great and wondrous. It does baffle the mind of all the things that make God who He is, and will not be fully known by us, until we are with Him in Heaven.
2007-11-27 23:05:45 · answer #8 · answered by jenx 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
whoever says that they fully understand God, has a very small and limited view of God.
If they fully understood him he would not be much of a god!
However, make sure you aren't simply miss understanding when they say that does God exists. Just because they say he exists does not imply that they understand every thing about Him.
2007-11-27 23:01:56 · answer #9 · answered by cabe J 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most people who say they understand the universe usually want you to follow their understandings and interpretations of that understanding, those who have come to a peaceful harmony with life just see the simplicity of the thing and in quite harmony hope you will likewise find the same.
2007-11-27 23:00:49 · answer #10 · answered by nikola333 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋