God doesn't need us. We need God. All of this is starting to come into focus. We were dead, and we were given life. Our lives will be taken away. We get to participate in this, God's creation, for a short time, and all He asks of us is to live these borrowed lives consciensciously while we can. This whole mundane world can be a blindfold, distracting us from simple, enumerated truths, or it can be utilized, as I believe God intended, to enlighten ourselves and bring to bear mortal, flesh-laden guardians of the word and will of God to protect his worldly creation.
The vast universe of knowledge within which we as mankind have immersed ourselves has caused me to feel torn between scientific truths and the doctrines of the Christian faith. I've come to realize that the perfection and beauty of the natural laws that sustain this universe in seemingly flawless equilibrium are, in fact, the highest testaments to the encompassing wisdom of its necessarily and obviously divine Creator. No new knowledge that we may encounter could be construed to negate His wisdom or disprove His supremacy, but would only stand to firm the grounds on which that supreme wisdom is based. What we learn, He has already known, engineered, if you will, and only gives to us as we mature to accept it.
God doesn't want to make it hard for us to please Him. He doesn't want to weigh us down with obfuscated rules or loads we cannot carry. On the contrary, He wants it to be the easiest decision we've ever made to recognize, not decide, that our lives are, have been, and always will be His.
Go ahead, folks...... Rip this apart. I want..... no... I need a challenge.
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yada yada yada everything seems so amazing about the world that it has to have been created.
thats the gist im getting. isnt it possible that the world just is and that it didnt require a creator? jsut because everything seems so amazing and fits together so well doesnt mean that someone of something made it...
perhaps im misreading it but thats what im getting
also, i have poor spelling skills
You are taking the wrong fundamental approach at what I'm saying, I think. It's also possible that I'm abundantly inarticulate in presenting things to facilitate the right approach. The idea isn't that things are so amazing that they simply must've been created... the idea is that the relative beauty and "amazingness" of the world isn't inconsistent with the principles of creation, as I had once considered..... Once you premise that there is a higher power in the universe, it becomes clear that all of the natural phenomena within the creation are intentional. I don't believe that saying the universe operates in perfection should be used to prove or disprove the existence of God.
In fact, I don't believe that's something you should prove or disprove. The existence of God is, to some people, fact. It would be blasphemous for them to contradict that. For me, the existence of God is a state of mind....
God didn't build the mountains and the trees in a woodshop out back.... it's not like that.... it's difficult not to try to humanize God when asked to prove His existence. Believing God exists to me is a fundamental element of the existence of man, earth, and the heavens around it. They are necessarily symbiotic. I'm sure I've only muddied up the waters more here..... I'm in the process of clearing this up for myself as well, so there'll be more on this in the future... Thanks for not being afraid to talk, even if you are afraid to sign your name :P
okay now im just more confused.
also...you know who this is...jerk
-DONOVAN
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