RE: Book of Acts: Pure Fantasy
February 5, 2012 at 7:59 am
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2012 at 8:50 am by genkaus.)
(February 4, 2012 at 6:11 pm)brotherlylove Wrote: So, you're postulating an eternal past? The problem with that is, you can't have an infinite series of past events. The reason being, that you could not reach the present with an infinite past, because you would have to traverse an infinite number of events to get to today. The Universe would have to start somewhere for us to be having this conversation.
Nonsense. You can traverse an infinite past if you have infinite time to do so - which you do. The number line is infinite, it is still possible to traverse it.
(February 5, 2012 at 6:34 am)Forsaken Wrote: According to some versions of the Hindu belief, God came from a fire (Sada-Shiva [the supreme godhead] was born out of a single flame of fire; who then gave birth to other primary gods). So something did come before god, which rules out your idea of an eternal god. Now will someone explain how this flame came into being before the god himself.
One version of Hindu belief which I found to be particularly close to our current scientific understanding - the supreme godhead or Brahman, is all there is, that is it is the entirety of existence. In its unmanifested form it combines all matter, energy, space and time into one, almost-nothing point called Hiranyagarbha (golden egg or golden womb). In its manifested form, it is the entire universe and it gives rise to all gods, humans animals demons etc. The last time it manifested was about 4 billion years ago - a surprisingly close ballpark figure given that this was written by people who did not have the technology we do.
(February 5, 2012 at 6:34 am)Forsaken Wrote: Disclaimer: I personally believe Hinduism as a pile of shit, though better quality shit than Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Agreed. I consider Hindu mythology a fantastic piece of fantasy literature.
(February 5, 2012 at 6:35 am)brotherlylove Wrote: Judiasm is older. Hinduism dates back to 1500 BCE..Abraham lived 1800 BCE..Moses wrote the Torah in 1400 BCE using scriptures/oral traditions passed down from that time (and earlier).
The writing of the vedas dates back to 1500 BCE. The scriptures and oral traditions are even older than Judaism. Therefore Hinduism is older than Judaism
