samuel said:
Here's another good one. He created everything from abdolutely nothing = zilch.
It's by simple faith that those who believe do. Human understanding cannot rationalise these things.
That kind of faith can only come from God, and that rationalises him. And confirms that he is.
The simple premise that something cant be created from nothing means that there must be something that transcends nothing. We cannot create space and time from the confines of space and time. Thus, space and time were created outside of space and time.
The days of "Stargate SG-1", "Contact" and the almighty "Discovery Channel" are incapable of answering these questions, but they feel the need to come up with their own science fiction answers because it proves to them (in a blind way) that there cannot be an all powerfull creator. They do not understand that logic cant support their conclusions.
So to say that "Human understanding cannot rationalise these things" is not absolutly true. We know that you cannot create something from nothing, therefore we conclude that God is both something and created outside of the construct that we dwell in.
50, there is no "Who came first, the chicken or the egg?" question to be asked. It cannot be asked in the context of the begining of our construct's existance.
Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Job 38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
Psa 18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Pro 8:29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment:
when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Isa 40:21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isa 51:13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker,
that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
Job 22:12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
Job 25:5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
Psa 8:3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
Psa 147:4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
Isa 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Amo 5:8 Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:
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