CALVINISM: ITS DOCTRINE OF INFANT SALVATION

I am glad it "makes sense" to you that the Creation is expanding at thousands of miles per hour into an abyss of nothing. That is just the kind of intelligent design we would consider "sensible".

Even the very "existence" of empty space of such unimaginable proportions is an engima not for the physicists but for an intellect as well.

Or to accept as "sensible" that the entire existence as far as we can see is made up of zillions of planets circling themselves, being circled by smaller satellites, while circling a star that usually circles another or even two stars, all of which is part of a galaxy that circles a black hole that swallows up all that and spits it out somewhere else...and that of the 27 hextratrillion stars that are visible (that's more stars than grains of sand on all the beaches and in all the deserts on earth), and hundreds of millions of galaxies and billions of stars to choose from, God picked a tiny satellite in a peripheral arm of an average galaxy to make man in His own image.

Not only that, but He created the worlds we will never reach, never see and never know because we cannot physically get there. He made sulfur lava eruptions on one of the moons of Jupiter, which is itself a ball of gas just small enough not to become a second sun, and so on and so on. Even the variety of species on animals on earth that we never saw, and planets we never ate, and volcanoes and fish that need fluorescent chemicals and live in depths of water that would crush us into a paper-thin pancake...all that makes "sense" to you!?

Mixing colors of pain makes no sense to a child. It's attractive! It get their attention for a millisecond or so, but makes no sense, that you can be sure of. They don't spend a moment pondering why they like blue more than yellow.

Creation is expanding at thousands of miles per hour into an abyss of nothing.

You're composed of mostly nothing. Atomic nuclei(SP?) are mostly nothing. "Nothing" isn't that tough to comprehend.

27 hextratrillion stars that are visible

The number is known, how? Is that number larger, or smaller; than the number of all the hairs on peoples' heads since Adam? All of which are numbered by God.

all that makes "sense" to you!?

Not "all". Only that which I've pondered. Start small. Pick one thing. Spend some time trying to "make sense" of that one thing. "Almost makes sense" is close enough for most of us. Some things He did, I'm sure; just to make us wonder at His majesty, might, omnipotence, and power. Not everything has to "make sense", given those thoughts. Too, there's the things He's done to allow men to think they're "wise" and "proud" that they have "figured things out".

One thing that DOESN'T make sense to me, is why someone would prefer yellow over blue... Is that something you've figured out? I'd like to know.

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