RE: The ultimate question !
November 27, 2008 at 2:44 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2008 at 2:47 pm by chatpilot.)
1 Corinthians 13:11,12 states....
11.When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12.For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
According to this scripture,until we are resurrected and in the presence of god for eternity we will not fully know or understand such mysteries as the origins of the universe,life,matter etc.In my view this is yet another cop out answer to a question whose answer still eludes us.I do not claim to know the actual origins of the universe,matter,or life itself but I do think that natural selection and the big bang are more plausible explanations than a supernatural eternal being that was is and forever will be.
The phenomenon of religion world wide and throughout the ages is nothing more than another one of mans speculation on such questions as those mentioned above.No research is involved only mere speculation and the invention of gods to explain to the satisfaction of primitive man those things which even now in part remain a mystery.Since we dont have a beginning piont I am not a fan of infinite regress because I refuse to believe that at the end of the line that starting point was god.Maybe in the future during or after our own lifetimes science will discover a plausible explanation for the beginning of everything as we know it.But in my view religion is not the answer, the whole "if you cant explain it god did it" does not fly with me nor does it convince me otherwise.
Verse 11 states "when I became a man I put away childish things",in my opinion the belief in a deity as the explanation for something so important is childish and indeed primitive thinking.It's ironic that according to the scriptures Jesus agreed with me.
Luke 18:15-17
15.And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
16.But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
17.Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
In other words unless you come to the lord as a child (innocent/ignorant) you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
11.When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12.For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
According to this scripture,until we are resurrected and in the presence of god for eternity we will not fully know or understand such mysteries as the origins of the universe,life,matter etc.In my view this is yet another cop out answer to a question whose answer still eludes us.I do not claim to know the actual origins of the universe,matter,or life itself but I do think that natural selection and the big bang are more plausible explanations than a supernatural eternal being that was is and forever will be.
The phenomenon of religion world wide and throughout the ages is nothing more than another one of mans speculation on such questions as those mentioned above.No research is involved only mere speculation and the invention of gods to explain to the satisfaction of primitive man those things which even now in part remain a mystery.Since we dont have a beginning piont I am not a fan of infinite regress because I refuse to believe that at the end of the line that starting point was god.Maybe in the future during or after our own lifetimes science will discover a plausible explanation for the beginning of everything as we know it.But in my view religion is not the answer, the whole "if you cant explain it god did it" does not fly with me nor does it convince me otherwise.
Verse 11 states "when I became a man I put away childish things",in my opinion the belief in a deity as the explanation for something so important is childish and indeed primitive thinking.It's ironic that according to the scriptures Jesus agreed with me.
Luke 18:15-17
15.And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
16.But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
17.Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
In other words unless you come to the lord as a child (innocent/ignorant) you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.
There is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition
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