RE: When faith tries to answer a simple question.
November 16, 2014 at 8:20 am
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2014 at 8:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 16, 2014 at 12:54 am)Lek Wrote: If I was an atheist, I'd go crazy trying to figure out how the energy in the universe always existed, as natural laws would require. It's kind of like trying to understand how God always existed, except that God doesn't have to follow natural laws.If you're excusing the questions themselves then you aren't trying to understand anything to begin with. Being an atheist wouldn't force you into being any more interested in these questions or explanations than you are now, and you don't seem to be interested in the least. In any case, that god doesn't "have to" follow the rules, so sayeth you, is ultimately irrelevant. If there is a "he", he plainly and demonstrably -did- follow the rules.
The existence of a god would offer no additional insight, no corrective information. If we discovered a god tomorrow, that wouldn't change the fact that said god wasn't a flooder of worlds, or a tinkerer of life, or a builder of planets, or a patron of tribes and cultures, or a moral examplar and lawgiver...etc. Think about it, you know..unless you'd go crazy.
For flavor, the non-question you posed above doesn;t have anything to do with your god narrative. Pick up your book. Start at page 1. What you may notice, is that there is already energy and a universe when the narrative begins. God isn't proposed -even by your own fairy tale- as an explanation for that. So, unfortunately, you're in the same boat as anyone else on that count.
Want me to hold onto your shoelaces for you until you figure that out?
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