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Author Topic:   The Historical Jesus: Did He Create the Universe?
GDR
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Message 9 of 13 (915754)
02-17-2024 2:24 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by ICANT
02-16-2024 7:22 PM


Does it matter
ICANT writes:
My question is where did that energy come from and science says "we don't know".
It seems to me as a Christian you are asking the wrong question. I suggest that it matters to you as you keep tying yourself up in knots by basing Christianity on your particular way of understanding the Bible.
It appears to me that you understand the Bible as being a collection of books that were more or less dictated by God. That understanding of the Bible turns God into a schizophrenic being; sometimes a God of peace and sometimes of a God ordering genocide..
How about understanding the Bible as a collection of books written by numerous authors and redactors with a narrative reflecting the growing understanding of God and His place in our hearts and minds.
It doesn't matter whether or not God created the physical world. What matters is the life in the world that perceives and experiences this physical world in a particular way with the senses we have been given. More importantly than that though is the creation of conscious life, and further, conscious life capable of empathy, and morality.

He has told you, O man, what is good ; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God.

Micah 6:8


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