(October 21, 2013 at 6:17 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote:(October 21, 2013 at 6:07 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote: What if the universe always was? What if was never created or brought into being by anything, and it just...existed?
You have time, space, energy and matter converting into each other and generally things that occur and happen in a sequence so there's a lot going on there but of all of this has to start somewhere. You can see the universe as like a ball rolling down a mountain, the mountain isn't and can't practically infinitely tall but will have a summit where everything will be in a resting state and from here the action can be kicked off. You have a starting point for everything that exists which is always there.
The bible is a comic book, not a science textbook. And you are still stuck with other religions claiming their god as the gap answer, and all of you are still stuck with the problem of infinite regress.
It never occurs to any of you that "all this" is a product of a "what" and not a magical "who".
What is scaring you so much at the thought of this being it? What is scaring you so much at the prospect of being finite and ultimately irrelevant to the past when you didn't exist, and to the future when you will not exist? To me it is like being frightened needlessly at the seasons changing.
My life is no different than yours. My life was no different when I did believe. I simply got to the point where filling in that gap with a stupid projection of human qualities on the invisible, made no sense.
Many here who used to believe can tell you the big sense of relief once you realize you don't have to defend that garbage. It was understandable when our species didn't know any better. But you look silly now.
