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QUOTE]I'm sorry but that makes no sense to me. Why would he do that? What about allllllll the other planets he created? He doesn't care about them or the life they may support? Why go through the trouble of creating EVERYTHING if he's not going to use it?

I think he is using it. To impress us mostly, and show us how powerful and awesome he is. Have you ever camped out under the stars on a really clear night, and it ll just feels so huge, and you sit back and think about how your staring into the universe on a giant rock floating and spinning through space at thousands of miles an hour. Pretty powerful.

Also the angels have a lot better view than we do, and they worship him too.

And not to mention that God is a master artist.




Not everything is meant to be taken literally. But generally, if it says plainly "such and such happened" yes I believe it. Prophecy though, for example, has much symbolism.



There is nothing, absolutely nothing in God's word that has been proven wrong. I've read through the Word and I can't remember it ever saying the earth is the center of the universe, or that the earth is flat. Those errors were made by men, not God's word.

But it turns out we are actually pretty close to the center of the universe as I pointed out before.



Eh, I don't think so. Anything with the words "templar" tends to make me wary. Maybe I'll check out the description.



To put it bluntly, because everything fits, and I will not deny the Truth.

Here's one last food of thought for you. I hear the same objection to Christianity and religion over and over. Among these are " religion is just a form of mind/people control" and "religion hurts more people than it helps" and "religions causes so many wars".

How is it that so many people are so quick to judge the religion by the actions of wicked people? Yes, I believe Christianity has been used a form of mind/people control, and I believe that evil people in high places in religion have used it for selfish and evil purposes. I believe that many (almost all actually) practicing Christians and many many other followers of other religions have done very much harm and gotten into lots of wars.

BUt how does this compare with what Jesus and the bible teach?

Didn't Jesus say that most people were going to hell and would act wickedly? yes he did.
Didn't he say that there would be many would call them selves Christian but they really weren't? Yes he did.
And do the actions of almost all Christians fit with the rightousness taught in scripture? No way, they're corrupt, lost in darkness.

But the truth is that so many people refuse to recognise this because to do that would be to recognise God's righteousness, and people don't want to see that. My main point is, don't blame Christianty for what a lot of evil so called Christians did.

I think you also mentioned something about meteors bringing life from outer space.

For rocks to travel from another planet to earth carrying life, or vice versa, the rocks would have to be ejected with the force of a meteor impact, travel for extended periods of time, and be subjected to cosmic radiation. These factors make it highly unlikely that a life form could make the trip. It is remotely possible that there may be life present on nearby planets if the life was ā??seededā? from earth. The SETI project, which listens for intelligent signals from outer space, and the recent Mars missions have failed to introduce any evidence. Astrobiology remains a science with no data to support it.

In any case, even if this proved to be remotely possible, think about something else. Even if life came from a meteor, it would have had to evolve on another planet first. So you're really right back at the drawing board.

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Well, the whole idea of the life coming to earth is based of the fact that there are some forms of bacteria and things like that which can survive very extreme conditions.

If God is such a powerful and incredible being, why would he need to create people just to be impressed be him? Is God really that insecure?

If he created everything, then why would there be so much scientific proof of things the contradict the bible. We know that the universe is older than the Bible says. (I'm not sure how old it says it is but from the little big of genesis that I read it sounds like a lot less than 13 billion years old). If I am correct, it sounds like in the Bible that the first two people were around pretty quickly after the universe was created. We know that there was a very long time that there were no people on earth. In fact, if the timespan of the earth were reduced to one minute, then humans would have only been around for 1/10 of a second.

About the earth being close to the center of the universe, that can't be, seeing as there is no center.

I would say personally, that if I did believe in God, I would be more of a dieist (the idea that God is a sort of "clock maker"). I think that if God really loved everybody and controlled everything, he wouldn't make such horrible things happen. It makes more sense that he could have just triggered the Big Bang and let the Universe run itself out.
make it legal Reviewed by make it legal on . wtf happened before the big bang? i was high one day and was thinking about the big bang and stuff. and thought what happened before the big bang? scientist always talk about the big bang and everything that happened after that, but none talk about before the big bang? Rating: 5