(September 28, 2011 at 9:41 am)Jesuslovesyou Wrote:(September 28, 2011 at 9:10 am)Stimbo Wrote: So why use the pronoun "he"?
In the French language we apply gender to objects, does this mean we think they are male and female respectively? I apologize for referring to God as 'he', I meant 'it'.
Apology accepted. Now all we need to do is work on the other misguided attributions you ascribe to this mysterious force. Oops - I mean Universe.
JLY Wrote:(September 28, 2011 at 9:10 am)Stimbo Wrote: Gravity is also an omnipresent force, one which does control the tides, yet no-one considers it to be anything other than what it is
Could gravity not be the hand of God(s)? Could the laws of physics governing the universe not be the law of God(s)?
I might have bought this except I see where you palmed a card. Are you seriously touting tide-controlling gravity as the hand of a god that you stated (correctly) does not control tides? How does that work?
Physical laws, by their very nature, are impersonal: gravity never answers my letters, and only rarely pops in for a chat. They are indiscriminate: a priest and a rapist (assuming they're not the one and the same person) will fall from a cliff at the same rate and with the same outcome, for themselves on a personal level and for society as a whole.
Interestingly, the same laws of physics you ascribe to a god have given us the scientific tools and techniques that terrify your god so much, it has to hide from them.
Also you are playing fast-and-loose with the word Universe again.
JLY Wrote:(September 28, 2011 at 9:10 am)Stimbo Wrote: What place, then, for the Jesus you believe loves us?
I didn't say I believed in Jesus.
Then stop telling me he loves me.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
