Christians: Why is it so difficult to believe our universe/matter has always existed?

Question

You believe god can neither be created nor destroyed??? He/she always existed.

btw "No similar questions found". yay!! Does this question qualify as an ORIGINAL question. Lol

The-Cricket VT: i know scientific evidence pints to our universe had a beginning. Matter has always existed. If you read my question I did mention matter.

Answer 1

they believe snakes talk. need i say more?

Answer 2

at the beginning, the massive Bang hypothesis helps the theory that this universe had initiating. Secondly, philosophically one might allure to the 1st reason Argument: "the main widely used arguments for God's existence are the ''5 techniques” of Thomas Aquinas. certainly one of them is the argument from layout, which we appeared at final week. the different 4 are variations of the ''first reason” argument, which we detect right here. The argument is actual incredibly uncomplicated: each little thing desires an evidence. no longer something merely is. each little thing has some “adequate reason” why that's. occasion: My dad and mom brought about me, my grandparents brought about them, etc. even though it is not that straightforward. i would not be right here without billions of reasons, from the massive Bang by the cooling of the galaxies and the evolution of the protein molecule to the marriages of my ancestors. So the universe is an limitless and complicated chain of reasons. yet does the universe as an entire have a reason? Is there a accepted reason, an uncaused reason, of the entire technique? If no longer, then there is an “limitless regress” of reasons, without first link interior the super cosmic chain. if so, then there's a accepted reason, an eternal, self sustaining, self-explanatory Being with no longer something above it, in the past it or helping it. it might ought to describe itself besides as each little thing else — for if it mandatory some thing else as its rationalization, then it would not be the 1st reason. the style of Being might must be God. If we are able to coach there is the style of first reason, we will have proved there's a God. If there is not any First reason, then the universe is almost a railroad prepare shifting without an engine. each vehicle's action is defined, proximately, by ability of the action of the vehicle in front of it: The cabin vehicle strikes because of the fact the boxcar pulls it: the boxcar strikes because of the fact the farm animals vehicle pulls it: etc. yet there is not any engine to tug the 1st vehicle, and consequently the entire prepare. that would desire to be impossible, of direction. yet that's what the universe is like if there is not any First reason." Peter Kreeft

Answer 3

I'm an atheist, and I find it hard to believe in anything without a beginning - including the universe. Are you saying you're perfectly comfortable believing it always existed? Woudn't that mean time had no beginning? Thats a pretty crazy idea, since time is always changing, and for it to change without a beginning is contradictory.

God is... well, God isn't really considered to be anything material or physical, God is sort of considered a general presence of consciousness. I agree with you... that it also seems weird to suggest God always existed.

But if you were brought up believing in God, you couldn't have it any other way... ie. God couldn't possibly have been created - since God is by definition the creator. Thats why they believe it (although I don't agree with it myself).

The question itself seems to be an effort to prove (or at least support) God's lack of existence. Why bother - you're not going to convert any Christians to atheism. And its obviously not to support your own belief in atheism - since it doesn't seem as though you're going to get converted into a Christian.

Answer 4

Funny, I do remember similar questions.

My answer is this: It isn't that it's "difficult" to believe. It's that the scientific evidence points to our universe as having a beginning.

Edit: Yeah, I did notice that. But as far as matter goes, I don't know. Maybe it has always existed, or maybe God created it.

Answer 5

There is no empirical proof for either. It is well accepted among scholars that the Bible is an ancient document with many thousands of hand made copies. Even though many people (educated) do not believe what is recorded in the Bible, it is the first witness to origins. Evolutionary theory is secondary, and there are many people (educated) that do not believe what its proponents claim either.
So.......how can "you" not believe God has always existed and that He created all matter?

Answer 6

They believe that only God can be neither created nor destroyed.

Either that or they never learned how The First Law of Thermodynamics (conservation of energy/matter) works.

Answer 7

Why do you and so many other atheist spend so much time saying there's no God?If you don't believe there's a God,fine...move on.Every time a religious question is placed,some atheist has to contribute their obvious opinion.

Answer 8

All of these question and anymore you might have about our Creator and His universe can be answered in the first book in the Bible.

Answer 9

They think their god is a "he"...

And yes, it is interesting that only their god can be eternal, but not other things, like our universe or the energy in it.

Answer 10

they believe in talking donkeys, and global floods...i wouldn't put much merit there

Answer 11

Interesting... cause God creates the world.Only he is eternal,not his creations..