2007-12-05 05:47:32 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Is the bomb greater than the bomb maker?
2007-12-05 05:54:04 · update #1
Aren't all creators greater than their creation? How powerful is the bomb, prior to its creation? Cannot the creator destroy the creation? If you make it can't you break it? Your logic is faulty.
2007-12-05 05:56:41 · answer #1 · answered by enamel 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is logic, not myth.
Yes, the bomb maker is greater than the bomb, because the bomb can't think, can't create itself, can't do anthing but explode. Ah, but even then, it can't explode on its own, it has to be detonated. It does
You paint a picture. Is the picture greater than you? No, of course not.
Someone builds a car. Is the car greater than s/he? No, of course not.
God created everything seen and unseen. There is absolutely
2007-12-05 06:10:42 · answer #2 · answered by Dolores G. Llamas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a myth that when anyone makes a thing that that thing takes greater prominence over the maker. It is not a religious fad.
If you designed and made a thing, how does that object suddenly usurp your existence? Would you then worship the object, whose very existence is dependent upon you? Would you become subservient to the creation?
2007-12-05 05:54:43 · answer #3 · answered by SANCHA 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
God must exist "outside" the universe in the sense that he existed before the universe and created it. This is why we say that God is transcendent to the universe, not part of it in that his existence would be radically different than the type of created existence we observe in the universe. One would expect an uncaused eternal existence that can create matter and motion (out-of-nothing) would be radically different than the caused finite existences we observe in the universe.
2007-12-05 05:57:08 · answer #4 · answered by Larry K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The myth is that there needs to be a creator at all.
2007-12-05 06:29:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason that some of us with too much time on our hands feel compelled to try and insult the faithful.
2007-12-05 05:52:04 · answer #6 · answered by Jonny B 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I thought that there was something wrong with that assumption...but I've never been able to come up with a comprehensive counter-example...
I guess that the main fallacy of it is that something needs to be created...but, even if you just simplified it to being that the cause has to be at least equal to effect, it's hard to refute...without going to Butterfly Effect territory...
2007-12-05 05:52:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The same way atheists cling to theories based mainly on coincidental events.
2007-12-05 05:52:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What in God's creations makes you think you know enough to make that statement. You honestly think you even understand the creation?
2007-12-05 05:50:43 · answer #9 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not a Myth.
God created all alone (Isaiah 44:24) - "Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb, "I, the Lord, am the maker of all things, stretching out the heavens by Myself, and spreading out the earth all alone."
All things created by/through Jesus (Colossians 1:16-17) - "For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created by Him and for Him. 17And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together."
2007-12-05 05:50:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋