>>Nice job, God. Cool stuff.<<
The God that created Evolution as part of a Universe that follows extremely complex rules that can be discovered and harnessed is awesome, almost beyond imagination.
A God that *zaps* things into existence is Gandalf writ large and easy for small/primitive minds to comprehend. Science in 2000 BC was unheard of except as recording empirical effects of phenomenon.
My God, who sent His Son to die for us all, created the complex Universe — and gave Man the ability to explore it, although we will never understand it all.
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Not really. Gandalf didn't zap things into existence. He was forbidden from exercising his total power as a Maia; his role was mostly to encourage and lead the free peoples. The Valar remembered well the ruin they made of Middle-earth when Ainu fought Ainu in the days before the sun and in the War of Wrath, and did not want to visit that fate on the Eruhini once more. But the prohibitions are only half the story; even a full-powered Vala like Morgoth couldn't create things ex nihilo. They were limited to working with what Iluvatar had created at the beginning of time.
“The God that created Evolution as part of a Universe that follows extremely complex rules that can be discovered and harnessed is awesome, almost beyond imagination.
A God that *zaps* things into existence is Gandalf writ large and easy for small/primitive minds to comprehend. Science in 2000 BC was unheard of except as recording empirical effects of phenomenon.
My God, who sent His Son to die for us all, created the complex Universe — and gave Man the ability to explore it, although we will never understand it all.”
Well said. Bravo, and thank you for posting.