Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 65 (9162 total)
5 online now:
Newest Member: popoi
Post Volume: Total: 915,819 Year: 3,076/9,624 Month: 921/1,588 Week: 104/223 Day: 2/13 Hour: 0/0


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   A Question of the Heart
taylor_31
Member (Idle past 5924 days)
Posts: 86
From: Oklahoma!
Joined: 05-14-2007


Message 21 of 36 (402776)
05-29-2007 11:05 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Faithful Servant
05-29-2007 10:07 PM


Faithful Servant writes:
There is much research in this area but, the bible is direct and to the point about the who, what, where and when with regards to cognition. It tells us who created it (God), what it is (a soul), where it comes from (His own image) and when it was created (preordained before time). It doesn't give us ALL the answers, and it tells us WHY it doesn't do that as well.
The Bible does give us explanations, but I personally find scientific solutions much more satisfying.
Scientific solutions are falsifiable and testable, as well as being based on natural occurences. This makes them more reliable and universal than religious explanations, which are often based on assumptions and supernaturalism. Scientists are in the process of giving us answers to the questions you posed. (They might already have several answers, but I can't understand half of them )
Faithful Servant writes:
Sin is NOT, contrary to popular belief, doing "wrong". It is not doing the will of the creator, plain and simple.
But which creator are you talking about? There have been many "creators" throughout history, and "sin" has mutated over time.
Aztecs sacrificed people to Huitzilopochtli, the Sun God of their culture. They were "doing the will" of their creator/god; so according to your criteria, they were not sinning. Of course, you must have been thinking of the Christian God, but they had no knowledge of any such God.
According to your criteria, why were the Aztecs sinning?
Faithful Servant writes:
But, science can only understand nature because it uses nature to try and explain unnatural concepts.
I don't see how the concepts are unnatural, though. If they're entirely made up of natural processes, then they should be natural. (Unless there is an supernatural force behind everything in the universe, but I don't see any evidence of that.)
Faithful Servant writes:
If, in the beginning,(there has to be a beginning because this universe contains energy that is slowly being depleted, eventually to nothing) there was NOTHING, where did ANYTHING come from?
I honestly don't know because I'm not trained enough in physics to understand the theories. There are, however, people on this forum who can help you. As for me, I'm not very curious about it; we're here, and that satisfies me for now.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 16 by Faithful Servant, posted 05-29-2007 10:07 PM Faithful Servant has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024