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Originally Posted by MidasGirl  Just out of curiosity, why do you feel a compelling need to believe in one and not the other? What harm would it do your mind to be open to the possibility, possibility now, that intelligent design and random chaos are all part of the big picture? Do you define God as so limited that he/she/it/whatever can't comprise both these possibilities? Or is it more that your mind refuses to comprehend the possibility of both? IOW, do you think it has anything to do with the Truth of who/what God really might encompass, or does it have to do with your (our-humans) need to define things based on what we are comfortable with? |
Because the God I believe in told me (through the bible) that he created the universe with intelligent design.
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Originally Posted by MidasGirl Why do you think God has a need for this restriction? That in order to be forgiven you have to ask? Why couldn't he just wake up one morning and feel that he's on a forgiving roll and just go about forgiving.......how would that hurt his ego? If god expect YOU to forgive without even being asked (or does your religion teach you you have to wait for somebody to ask you for forgiveness in order to to it?) why is it so hard for him to do the same? Talk about not walking his talk........ |
you are right, I had my theology a little backwards. My dad went to seminary, not me
When you do something wrong, God has forgiven you as soon as you're done. Asking him for forgiveness makes you feel better on the inside. its like a shrink or something.
But even if God has forgiven you, you have stilled sinned and thus become less than perfect. Thus you can no longer be in the presence of God. In order to bridge that gap, God sent the ultimate sacrifice to earth to purify humanity - Jesus. And since God gave us free will we have the choice to either accept his gift of purification or to reject it. Other wise humans would just be like pawns on a chess board.
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Originally Posted by MidasGirl Now, of course my belief is that we create God in our own image. Which is the reason it's so easy to blast Steve for his article. He hurt the ego of the people who've created God. I have a hunch God(if he exists) could care less what a blogger had to say.........he's got more important missions, methinks. And I think he only has 24 hours in a day, just like you and I, eh? |
But how you could you create God, who is perfect, from your image, which is imperfect? That just doesn't make any sense! Unless you are saying that your God is imperfect, but if that is the case, how can he be God? Wouldn't there be another entity above your God that is slightly more perfect, and one above that one, and so on? If God was imperfect, could you "kill" him? Would you then become God? And if you became your own God, what would you have power over? Yourself?
(Those are all hypothetical, I'm not suggesting I think that you believe any of it)