(March 20, 2014 at 12:04 am)snowtracks Wrote: God is revealed thru nature and revelation; God's attributes and identity are not discovered by the 5 senses since He is all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere-present --- "whom no one has seen or can see".Unless I misunderstand your beliefs, people saw him all the time. He spoke to them, wandered in the garden that he'd created for them, sat down to a meal with one of them, took on human form and spoke to them, touched them, healed them, fed them, got them drunk with water (to the extent that they saw him walk on it!), raised them from the dead, filmed a torture porn film for Mel Gibson, and finally raised himself from the dead before floating away on a cloud.
But apparently, at some point people said "we really should start writing this stuff down as it happens" and he decided that he'd had it with the media and stormed off into his new heavenly estate, the one that didn't stretch out over the dome of the sky. He'd miss having the Earth as his footstool, but the Greta Garbo Suite in the Great Universal Hotel of Can't-See-Me was just too attractive to pass up!
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould