RE: God, Energy and Matter
September 2, 2019 at 5:48 pm
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2019 at 6:05 pm by Lek.)
(September 2, 2019 at 5:22 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Quote:I don't know, but is that quasar more important than you and me? Can that quasar think, love or reason? It would appear that the sun has more effect on me than that quasar.
But you said, 'We're all a part of the whole which supports the rest.' Your weird sentence structure aside, I take that to mean that everything in the universe supports everything else in the universe. I would like to know how I support that quasar.
The notion that everything is of equal importance is necessarily false, as 'importance' is highly subjective. Is a pile of maggot-infested buffalo poo equally as important as your sick child?
No, I'm pretty sure that a quasar can't think, love or reason, but that's got nothing to do with my question.
I agree that the sun has more effect on you than the quasar, but that's got nothing to do with my question. But according to your 'everything is equally important', the quasar should be just as important to your continued well-being as the sun. Since it clearly isn't, your claim is false.
Boru
I have a different idea of what makes something important. I believe that the whole universe is a manifestation of God. Since it's all a part of God it's all equally important.
Nature has an order where the stronger and more intelligent seem to rule and we think of this when determining importance as far as survival goes, etc. But doesn't mean that the hunter is more important than the prey, which sustains it. There's a balance in nature and I'm sure that applies to the universe. We've ignored the seemingly insignificant on earth and see where it got us. Some things have turned out to be more important than we thought.
(September 2, 2019 at 11:59 am)Simon Moon Wrote: Yes, as humans we define our own purpose.
Sure we do define much of our purpose here. I'm saying God also has a purpose for his creation. I guess I did decide to search for that purpose, but I believe because God has impressed it upon me as he has on billions of other reasonable people.
Quote:Yes, a purpose created by each of us, even you.
That's where we disagree. I didn't create God's purpose for me.
Quote: Your wishful thinking has nothing to do with what is real.
It's not wishful thinking. It's a philosophical opinion coming from reasoning and revelation.
