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.