(July 30, 2013 at 2:52 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(July 29, 2013 at 5:17 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Why bother? If everything which happens is according to God's plan (1)
And, since God is omniscient, he already knows that's he terrific and how thankful you are (2)
1. If we didn't bother, then Gods plan for us would have been not to bother.
If we don't ask, then God wouldn't need to respond. From our (time limited) perspective, God is continuously managing the universe.
He makes us worthy. We aren't worthy by our own efforts.
2. We need to tell him for ourselves. It builds us up.
If we didn't need to express it, we wouldn't feel it. We do feel it, hence the need to express it.
I've always been of the opinion that if you talk to your god, it shows that you have religious beliefs. If god talks back, you might be in need of a straight jacket.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
