How is my third point utter nonsense? Because it goes against what you believe? I read it in a book, written by a physicist with a doctoral degree. A test on the subject of non-living to living matter occurred in 1968. I'll have to reply again later to cite the test if you really intend on calling this utter nonsense. Kind of hurtful by the way.
I would love to cite any extrabiblical writings for you as well. You might be able to call me on this one, but I'm pretty sure their are, and I'm going to do a bible study on the case for christianity very soon. If I'm still commenting on this post, I'd be glad to talk about them.
As for the cause: I didn't say EVERYTHING needs a cause. Though all earthly things that we know need a cause. As for God, we don't know or can't know. God repeatedly says that He is, meaning he always has been. Scientists are able to conjure up theories about an infinite universe (though none of them are valid as the Standard Model is widely accepted), so we must be able to apply this to a god or God. Which seems much more likely. Showing that something must have created everything may be a weak link to the bible, but the bible gives us a valid creation of the universe as we know it.
The New York and Spiderman analogy may be valid, but comparing this simple, one city one superhero analogy to the Bible doesn't really line up. I believe all of the writings in the bible are based on true events and were written to be as accurate as possible, though in some cases they may have been written later than the event, causing a small amount of inaccuracy. Lists of kings, original tribes, Egypt, cities, bronze workings, Noah's Ark(?), Jerusalem and Israel and all of their historical sites, Solomon's cities, correct geography, the tower of Babel and more. Either these people corroborated to create the biggest lie ever told (which doesn't make sense bc they're all years apart, they were crazy with imagination, or they were telling the truth.
I won't address your talk on faith because it succeeds in being a nicely-worded opinion. Okay maybe I will, I think faith is very easily a virtue because without it loads of people would go crazy doing background checks on everyone they met, making sure they were telling their true name. I feel like you may think I'm still in the blind faith area for the basis of my beliefs. Anyway, that's my opinion.
I'll apologize for not really answering in order. I'm kind of unorganized like that I guess. Also, it's slightly annoying how livejournal has to keep making the reply columns less wide. And I will try to reply later with my utter nonsense, I recently wrote a persuasive paper on a topic that is sort of in this category of thought.
Re: Jesus the Bachelor
I would love to cite any extrabiblical writings for you as well. You might be able to call me on this one, but I'm pretty sure their are, and I'm going to do a bible study on the case for christianity very soon. If I'm still commenting on this post, I'd be glad to talk about them.
As for the cause: I didn't say EVERYTHING needs a cause. Though all earthly things that we know need a cause. As for God, we don't know or can't know. God repeatedly says that He is, meaning he always has been. Scientists are able to conjure up theories about an infinite universe (though none of them are valid as the Standard Model is widely accepted), so we must be able to apply this to a god or God. Which seems much more likely. Showing that something must have created everything may be a weak link to the bible, but the bible gives us a valid creation of the universe as we know it.
The New York and Spiderman analogy may be valid, but comparing this simple, one city one superhero analogy to the Bible doesn't really line up. I believe all of the writings in the bible are based on true events and were written to be as accurate as possible, though in some cases they may have been written later than the event, causing a small amount of inaccuracy. Lists of kings, original tribes, Egypt, cities, bronze workings, Noah's Ark(?), Jerusalem and Israel and all of their historical sites, Solomon's cities, correct geography, the tower of Babel and more. Either these people corroborated to create the biggest lie ever told (which doesn't make sense bc they're all years apart, they were crazy with imagination, or they were telling the truth.
I won't address your talk on faith because it succeeds in being a nicely-worded opinion. Okay maybe I will, I think faith is very easily a virtue because without it loads of people would go crazy doing background checks on everyone they met, making sure they were telling their true name. I feel like you may think I'm still in the blind faith area for the basis of my beliefs. Anyway, that's my opinion.
I'll apologize for not really answering in order. I'm kind of unorganized like that I guess. Also, it's slightly annoying how livejournal has to keep making the reply columns less wide. And I will try to reply later with my utter nonsense, I recently wrote a persuasive paper on a topic that is sort of in this category of thought.