RE: My House Did not have a Builder (or did it?)
December 30, 2017 at 12:22 pm
(This post was last modified: December 30, 2017 at 12:23 pm by Whateverist.)
(December 30, 2017 at 11:11 am)Dan Brooks Wrote:(December 29, 2017 at 2:30 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: bold mine
I'm not sure it's just/only lazy. I think that for most it fills or helps them with an emotional need. The biggest one that comes to mind is fear.
But Genesis tells us how God made it. It doesn't go into the technical details of "how" He did it, but it tells us the order in which He made everything. It's not like we just made it up. It's just a matter of whether we believe the account or not. So how God did it, is beyond our understanding in a certain sense. The fact that He said, "Let there be light," and there was light, has to be accepted (for a believer, that is). We don't know how God could do that. God is beyond our understanding.
Nice to see that you recognize that "god did it" doesn't at all explain how anything came to be. It is equivalent to saying "everything came about as a result of factor X, about which we know nothing". Of course you do have a book which you arbitrarily accept as authoritative but, to your credit, you recognize that nothing in it actually tells you "how" god did anything .. just a few stray references to the order in which they happened.
At least where other xtians will say "hah, you atheists don't have answers to the big questions", you are someone who would pipe up to say "well, actually we don't either". Welcome to a forum where you can say what you think.
