| Subject: Did God have a beginning? |
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Date Posted: 02/23/04 9:00pm
This message is in conjunction with a previous post on this forum.
In the Bible it states at Psalms 90:2:"Before the mountains themselves were born, or you proceeded to bring forth as with labour pains the earth and the productive land, even from time indefinite to time indefinite you are God."
Is that reasonable? Our minds cannot fully comprehend it. But that is not sound reason for rejecting it. Consider these examples: (1) TIME. No one can point to a certain moment as the beginning of time. And it is fact that, even though our lives end, time does NOT. We do not reject the idea of time because there are aspects of it we do not fully comprehend. Rather, we live our lives by it.
(2)SPACE. Astronomers find NO beginning or end to space. The farther they probe into the universe, the more there is. They do not reject what the evidence shows; many refer to space as being infinite. The same principle applies to the existence of God. Other example: (1) Astronomers tell us that the heat of the sun at its core is 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit(15,000,000 degrees C). Do we reject that idea because we cannot comprehend such heat?
(2) They tell us that the size of the Milky Way is so great that a beam of liht traveling at over 186,000 miles per second (300,000 km/sec) would require 100,000 years to cross it. Do our minds really comprehend such a distace? Yet we accept it because scientific evidence supports it.
Which is more reasonable-- that the universe is the product of a living, intelligent creator? or that it must have arisen simply by chance from a nonliving source without intelligent direction? Some persons adopt the latter viewpoint because to believe otherwise would mean that they woud have to acknowledge the exsistence of a creator whose qualities they cannot fully comprehend. But it is well known that scientists do not FULLY comprehend the functioning of the genes that are within living cells and that determine how these cells will grow. Nor do they fully understand the funtioning of the human brain. Yet who would deny that these exist? Should we really expect to understand everything about a person who is so great that he could bring into existence the universe, with all its intricat design and stupendous size?
Drink this in. When is the last time you looked up into the sky at night an marvelled at the stars. If any one of those were a millemetre out all could go pear shaped very quickly. the same with the sun or the moon, if they were slightly off we would burn or we would freeze etc. To say that these are of coincedence is surely short sited. Something to think about.
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