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>>A motherlode of irony<<

A Universe, billions of light years or more in diameter and God limits his infinite attention to a sphere about 8000 miles in diamater. Seems some people don't think God thinks very big.

"God limits his infinite attention to a sphere about 8000 miles in diamater."

The lightbulb almost came on...

Must be some pretty important happenings going on in that 8000 miles huh?

"A Universe, billions of light years or more in diameter and God limits his infinite attention to a sphere about 8000 miles in diamater. Seems some people don't think God thinks very big."

Great point. Traveling at a rate of speed that would take you around the earth at the equator seven times in one second, it would take you about three years to reach the nearest star. Not to sound like Carl Segan, but there are billions of stars in our galaxy alone and then there are billions of galaxies observable in the universe. It sure seems like god went through a lot of trouble just to put life on this one little dust mote located at the very edge of one unremarkable little galaxy out of all those billions. Personally, I would frankly be astounded if the universe isn't teeming with life. I don't know if any of them are dropping in on us or not but there sure are allot of credible people who have seen allot of unexplainable things. This includes both my parents who came rushing into the house one night when I was about 9 and turned on the TV just in time to hear the local news caster reporting in a condescending tone of voice, "Well, this must be the night for people to see flying saucers. It must be a full moon." What they both reported seeing while driving south on I75 just north of Detroit was a very large circular object with counter rotating colorful bands of light moving just faster than the traffic. When it got to be what seemed like about half a mile ahead of them, it suddenly moved of at a tangent to the freeway at what my father called "an impossible rate of acceleration.” They said it did this without making any decernable sound above the noise of the freeway. My father was college educated and was a First Class Quartermaster in the Navy during World War Two. Trust me, he was not given to flights of fancy. My mother noted that the drivers in the cars around them were all seeing the same thing. While I have not seen any UFOs myself, let alone any little green men. I remember clearly that night to this very day. I have rarely seen my parents so shaken. Just something for the "Alone in the universe" crowd to chew on.

"All of this nonsense implying that Humans arent the beginning and end of God's plan for the universe.

News flash...we are it. " - VaBthang4

"Amen. IMHO, the alien crap was another plan of the evil one to get people distracted from church and Christ by believing in nonsense. When Christ raptures the church, the antichrist will claim that aliens were able to "beam them up" because their simple minded belief in silly religious superstitions. He will of course ignore that Muslims and Buddhists and others were left behind." - Blood of Tyrants

Apparently, once God created man, he never thought to do aught else but watch and toy with us every now and then.

Being omnipotent has got to be more fun than that...

And on the 8th day and forever after God thought 'I did good, this creating thing is fun and all but I think I'll just play with my new toys and not make anything else.'

I wonder if God know's he was trapped in a book and can no long do anything else because it isn't written in that book that he does anything else until the end of man's days? I think I'll ask him that when I thank him for this day.

There is a school of belief that says God knows(And he might just tell us someday). Some folks think that God is beyond our understanding, Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent. Others figure he's just a book. Which category do you belong in?