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God
Can anyone shed light on this - if there is a God - where did he/she come from? Or how was he/she made??
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.To muddy the water for sake of interest, what if we combined the theory that god is everywhere and the theory that science evolved everything. According to quantum physics, all things are interconnected as everything is made of the same fundamental 'building blocks', and God is everywhere, is it not possible that we're all actually part of Him. In this light, if we consider God being these fundamental building blocks then he really is everywhere, and has been since the big bang.. if you belive in THAT.
clanad - shut up. god is an artificial concept. primitive man made a weapon for killing animals with, fire, a house, etc etc. this fella looked around & thought hmmm if i've made these things, who made this river & that tree? must've been someone like me. call it god.
hence man made god in his own image
incidentally god was sexless until fairly recently - the church decided to get rid of paganism, so wrote out all the sacred-goddess stuff & decided this fictional being should be a man to help support the patriarchal society of the day
ooh and much of the jesus myths was based on pythagorus - he "rose from the dead" (though it's acknowledged that he hid somewhere to fake his death) and he could walk on water.
Merlin
my sources are:
Keith Devlin's "The Maths Gene" for my first point about creating things
Leonard Mlodinow's "Euclid's Window" for jesus/pythagorus comparisons
as for my comment about male/female, i can't remember where i read that but i remember quoting directly from the original source during a debate in philosophy of religion last year
and yes, it is only my opinion but can you really expect any more that opinions in answer to this sort of question?
also a brief apology for any offence i may have caused, shouldn't be unleashed on the internet whilst wasted!
Shuuuut iiiiiit!!
Just because I haven�t had a decent argument in a long while, I shall agree with you in essence but argue nevertheless.
God is not an artificial concept; a concept cannot, strictly speaking, be artificial. He is a concept that satisfies a need. The God of the gaps was not �made� by primitive man in his own image � he was made with an image worthy of awe, praise and sacrifice � something greater than primitive man himself: �I can�t make the big red hot thing of light pass over every day � it must be something greater than me that does it�.
The God of the OT and the NT is genderless. He is referred to as �He� only by convention. To refer to that God as �she� implies that the person using the term wants to assert that God could be female when she can�t. Even if she wants to be � Oh all right then, if she insists.
Jesus was Pythagorus? That�s a new one. I have yet to see any worthwhile argument that denies Jesus of Nazareth existed. There is no reference, at least none that I have seen in the Gospel, to Jesus� assessment of the square on the hypotenuse.
But what is your own personal view of the whole thing? Because yes, actually I do expect more than opinion on this sort of thing � I expect rational and reasoned argument from a personal view.
So go for it.
I also wanted to say a couple of things to people who also responded to this question. 1. Scarlett , MURKY, & chris888 -- I totally agree with you three!!! 2. Tweed --How do you know? Just like I said you weren't there when all of this happened. Merlin and magicdice--You both shut up! You both know nothing of this God and nothing about anything!! If you know so much then why don't you go die and see for yourselves!!! This is all I have to say and I'm sorry for writing/typing so much but I really needed to express myselves and stand up for my fellow Catholics. Thank you and I'm out!!! --J.P.--