Posted on 09/21/2010 6:09:15 AM PDT by LibWhacker
If tax dollars are being used for this you bet I feel boinked.
A quick read: only 431 pages...
Lurker wrote:
God can create whatever the Hell he wants to. He’s God you dimwit.
And I agree - but God cannot create something that makes him a liar - He does NOT lie. Ever. Not in all of space-time, outside of time, in different planes, dimensions, or realities. God does not lie. If He does, He is not God. He has said so Himself.
Thank you for sharing that notion! I’ll have to think about that transposition, when/where v where/when.
His Spirit sustains the extremely delicate balance of forces which allow our type of carbon based life to exist. As such, His Spirit then has a near infinite variety of changes or tweaks which He could make and yet sustain the whole. But if such tweaks were made in zones beyond what would effect our zone, would we even be aware of them?
While at dinner with a old friend, he offered the following interesting scenario which i had not heard before: if every cell and organ system in our body could be replaced with a silicone based/artificial replacement, slowly one at a time for instance, when the last organic cell is replaced, would we still remain human? of course there is a trap of logical fallacy in that notion, but it was an interesting conjecture.
Are you saying God can’t change his mind if He wants to?
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Are you implying you know the answer?
Do you know the difference between implying and inferring?
I’m not saying God doesn’t change, He did.
Heb 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
God doesn’t change His mind; He’s KNOWS all possible alternatives, and has made His decision. God doesn’t change, period, end of story; game over, the quarterback is toast.
God IS. God doesn’t change.
If He said it, it is.
The Creation of the World
1In the(A) beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2The earth was(B) without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3And God said,(C) “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
6And God said,(D) “Let there be an expanse[a] in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” 7And God made[b] the expanse and(E) separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were(F) above the expanse. And it was so. 8And God called the expanse Heaven.[c] And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
9And God said,(G) “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. 10God called the dry land Earth,[d] and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
11And God said,(H) “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants[e] yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so. 12The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 13And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
14And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for(I) signs and for(J) seasons,[f] and for days and years, 15and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. 16And God(K) made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. 17And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18to(L) rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
20And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds[g] fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.” 21So(M) God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22And God blessed them, saying,(N) “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
24And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
26Then God said,(O) “Let us make man[h] in our image,(P) after our likeness. And(Q) let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
(R) male and female he created them.
28And God blessed them. And God said to them,(S) “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit.(T) You shall have them for food. 30And(U) to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.
I don’t know what else you read into this - but what I read is God created the earth, and the sky. God then created everything on the earth, in the earth, and in the sky. God created:
27So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
(R) male and female he created them.
Frankly - it’s pretty blanket cut and dried. There is no other civilization, in the skies, that God created.
It’s black and white - I believe it.
Maybe he was lying when he said that. :-)
bttt
It makes too much sense that Ai is invented by every advanced society and once they start using nanobots things could get out of control we are talking about the number of skynet situations out of billions of star systems.
Very entertaining read and thanks for the ping!
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