To All God's Children,
-->If a definition of God is that there is a superior being then there’s a simple answer to all this. The universe is a superior being and thus there is at least one and so that means there is a God. The universe just is so God just is. We all just exist. There’s no more thought needed than that. It’s funny that we argue about whether there is a superior being, but we’ve been looking at it everyday. My mother taught me in Sunday school that God was omnipresent and omniscient, but I don’t think I understood that until recently. Everything, everywhere, and every particle of your being is apart of a greater being.
-->For those against the universe is God argument: there are bodies of matter that are superior in size to us; and who are we to say that stars and planets have no consciousness or no self-awareness? Their self-awareness might not be the same as ours. We can look into the mirror and recognize ourselves and so do dolphins, and apes. There’s also a funny looking species of bird that also is self-aware, but I can’t remember its name. Perhaps the universe isn’t aware of itself but still has awareness such as plants have awareness, but cannot move and interact in the same way that animals do. Some evidence of the universe being God is it’s greater than us in size, we were created and born within it; and our minds and energy gives the universe its life.
-->And does being self-aware really mean that we’re alive? Aren’t we just a collection of organs and smaller organisms (e.g. good and bad bacteria)? Even a major corporation could be considered alive because it has a “body” comprised of a head (i.e. CEOs), a heart (i.e. office workers) and a circulatory system (i.e. the elevator system; just kidding on that last one). I guess the microorganisms living on the corporate body are all the little factory workers. Not very many people would argue with me when they say they are alive. So if the universe is comprised of many of the same smaller bits that our bodies are constructed of then why can’t the universe itself be a living superior being – a God? I’ve found a God and I believe it’s the same God that the ancient people worshipped with their fire and rain gods.
Showing posts with label existence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label existence. Show all posts
Friday, March 12, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Question involving the Big Bang theory
To All God's Children,
-->Think about this. We started out as a lump of matter that exploded into all that we see today. Okay, great. But who created this clump of matter? No one knows, but if matter can’t be created then the theory would suggest that no one did. Matter just is, as the universe just exists.
Big bang theory doesn’t explain it all anyway, because if we started as a large mass of matter (like Pangaea forming the continents) and then exploded in all stars, planets, and material in the universe where did the original blob of matter originate? Who created it? God? Then who created God? If God has no creator and It could not simply created Itself, then It has no beginning or end either. You see, it’s a never ending loop that makes no sense.
-->For a while in my life, it was hard to look at Jesus Christ in the stain glass windows. I spent most of my life worshipping him. When I was younger I told people I was Baptist just because that was the religion of my parents. If anyone had asked me what Baptists believed I wouldn’t have been able to tell him or her. There are people praise him like the incarnation of God. Some people believe that he is the son of God. Others believe that he is a messenger of God. If anything, I know Jesus was a messenger of truth. To know truth is to know of God.
-->Think about this. We started out as a lump of matter that exploded into all that we see today. Okay, great. But who created this clump of matter? No one knows, but if matter can’t be created then the theory would suggest that no one did. Matter just is, as the universe just exists.
Big bang theory doesn’t explain it all anyway, because if we started as a large mass of matter (like Pangaea forming the continents) and then exploded in all stars, planets, and material in the universe where did the original blob of matter originate? Who created it? God? Then who created God? If God has no creator and It could not simply created Itself, then It has no beginning or end either. You see, it’s a never ending loop that makes no sense.
-->For a while in my life, it was hard to look at Jesus Christ in the stain glass windows. I spent most of my life worshipping him. When I was younger I told people I was Baptist just because that was the religion of my parents. If anyone had asked me what Baptists believed I wouldn’t have been able to tell him or her. There are people praise him like the incarnation of God. Some people believe that he is the son of God. Others believe that he is a messenger of God. If anything, I know Jesus was a messenger of truth. To know truth is to know of God.
Time and Existence
To All God's Children,
I believe that time is relative to our biological clocks that run according to our earth and the sun, but in fact time does not actually exist. The universe had no beginning (sorry big bang theory) and will have no end. It just is. I think this is a concept hard for many to understand because we have always seen the beginning and end of everything such as the beginning of a life and the end of one. Our lives run to a distinct beginning and to a distinct end, but that doesn’t mean that planets, stars, and galaxies exist in the same manner. Matter exists and is constantly being built up and torn down.
The earth is said to be some 46 million years old. But what is a year but one revolution around the sun. Therefore, the earth has revolved around the sun that many times. We can’t measure time in the whole universe by one planet who takes 365 (sometimes 366) spins until it revolves once around a yellow star that itself hasn’t always existed and will someday die.
I believe that time is relative to our biological clocks that run according to our earth and the sun, but in fact time does not actually exist. The universe had no beginning (sorry big bang theory) and will have no end. It just is. I think this is a concept hard for many to understand because we have always seen the beginning and end of everything such as the beginning of a life and the end of one. Our lives run to a distinct beginning and to a distinct end, but that doesn’t mean that planets, stars, and galaxies exist in the same manner. Matter exists and is constantly being built up and torn down.
The earth is said to be some 46 million years old. But what is a year but one revolution around the sun. Therefore, the earth has revolved around the sun that many times. We can’t measure time in the whole universe by one planet who takes 365 (sometimes 366) spins until it revolves once around a yellow star that itself hasn’t always existed and will someday die.
Friday, March 5, 2010
The Definition of God
To All God's Children,
-->I’m convinced that many philosophers are wrong. Just because the definition of a certain being is not true in all cases doesn’t mean that being doesn’t exist. However, what it might mean is that the definition of the being is wrong. God is all good, but because there is evil in the world God does not exist according to a Frenchman named Sartre. Well that’s just stupid; I can understand the idea that the Christian God is “all good” and that it’s logical for an omnipresent being to allow evil in its being. There’s so much that lies beyond what humans know there’s no way anyone can prove that God does not exist from such a simple statement.
Maybe God should not be defined as an “all good” being. The Taoists believe that there is a balance of good and bad like in the yin yang. Good vs. evil is all relative to your perspective of whether the action helps or harms you. If you label something as good then you must have something as evil. It makes the most sense to just not label it either way. But I guess calling God the all-powerful “neutral” would just sound lame.
Whatever, I’m getting off track, but essentially what I’m trying to say is that our definition of God might be wrong because; for one, God lies outside our understanding and therefore nearly impossible to limit him to a particular definition. I believe God should be defined as a spirit that lies beyond us, but within us – a disembodied current of life force thriving at the very core of existence. God is everywhere because the spirit is all matter thus we are included into its being; for we are nothing, but conscious matter ourselves.
-->I’m convinced that many philosophers are wrong. Just because the definition of a certain being is not true in all cases doesn’t mean that being doesn’t exist. However, what it might mean is that the definition of the being is wrong. God is all good, but because there is evil in the world God does not exist according to a Frenchman named Sartre. Well that’s just stupid; I can understand the idea that the Christian God is “all good” and that it’s logical for an omnipresent being to allow evil in its being. There’s so much that lies beyond what humans know there’s no way anyone can prove that God does not exist from such a simple statement.
Maybe God should not be defined as an “all good” being. The Taoists believe that there is a balance of good and bad like in the yin yang. Good vs. evil is all relative to your perspective of whether the action helps or harms you. If you label something as good then you must have something as evil. It makes the most sense to just not label it either way. But I guess calling God the all-powerful “neutral” would just sound lame.
Whatever, I’m getting off track, but essentially what I’m trying to say is that our definition of God might be wrong because; for one, God lies outside our understanding and therefore nearly impossible to limit him to a particular definition. I believe God should be defined as a spirit that lies beyond us, but within us – a disembodied current of life force thriving at the very core of existence. God is everywhere because the spirit is all matter thus we are included into its being; for we are nothing, but conscious matter ourselves.
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