(September 3, 2016 at 4:22 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(September 3, 2016 at 4:12 pm)Whateverist Wrote: So if you don't think God is literally all power, do you think he actually made everything out of nothing? Or was he more like an advanced alien race, working with the materials he found all around him?
What do mean by "So if you don't think God is literally all power"?
It just seemed that if you were saying life as we find it -with childhood cancers, starvation, psychopaths, and so on- was the "best God could do" that you were essentially scaling down the omni-powerful bit. It is always amazing to me that people are willing to jump from "more powerful than I can imagine" to "limitlessly powerful". What do puny humans know about that difference, or the difference between "eternity" and a "hell of a long time", or "all knowing" and "smarter than me". I think it is weird for people to make "omni" a definitional given regarding their secret, special friends.
(September 3, 2016 at 4:22 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: God IS his Word and the Word IS God...
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. - John 1:1
That makes the Word all powerful.
Everything that was made was created by the Word...
Again, you weren't there to see it. You don't know how to replicate it. Yet you claim to know that the trick to the creation was the logos. Why not just say "my theory is God created everything through the word because I've decided to double down on what everything the bible says and to do my best to understand it in the most literal, unimaginative manner possible"?
