riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

Oh brother, a question like this has no answer but will generate pages of opinions.
Theories come and go as time goes by.

I have thought about what was before the bang, the bang had to have the substance we see so where did it come from ?
Why the bang ?
what was before it ?
We live and perceive in a three dimensional world.

When I look at the Bible about God and Heaven I see a another dimension which can be called the heavenly realm.
Are there others ? I do not know.

I love the images from the telescopes of the unimaginable size, beauty and all etc. etc. of the universe we live in.
bruce

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

An intriguing way of describing religion.

Regarding the concept of "time," aren't our calendar and our clocks based on our planet's rotation and its revolutions around the sun? Time elsewhere is likely a far different concept from what humans came up with.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Did anyone ask you to apologize or imply that you should? So far this has been an amazingly polite and thoughtful conversation.

Papa Joe Loc: Midwest U.S.

I would say I'm in agreement with that Nun who responded as she did. The 'higher power' (God Almighty) who created the 'big bang'. I believe all things were created by the Lord God...
I believe Our Father God always was, and created everything that has been created, including the Scientists who try to explain Him away. I believe life as we know it would be a useless waste of time without my belief as such.
God Bless,
Papa Joe

riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

Hey Linda, I wonder how the Flat Earthers can spin this ?
Bruce.

Retina Loc: Near Charleston,SC

Having the capability to understand some basics about the chemistry and physics behind fire does not preclude the possibility of an intelligent designer and creator. It only means that we are endowed with brains. It reminds me of my introduction to molecular biology and my immediate reaction to the complexity of polymerases, transcription, and process and all the components involved with the translation from the language of DNA to the protein language. Until that time I had accepted evolution as the explanation for how all life and how the tremendous variety of species came about. After all, Moses' synopsis of the history of today's world and its life is remarkably similar to how science describes the evolution of life. That's pretty good for a Hebrew orphan raised in ancient Egypt. Darwin was not aware in the slightest of the actual mechanisms required for evolution as the explanation for life. It fails to address the problem of irreducible complexity when applied to each and every sub-cellular mechanism. He did not attempt to explain away a creator, only that a creator was not directly responsible for the ultimate variety in life forms. Dawkins, on the other hand, struggled to come up with fanciful rationalizations to explain life without a designer. He has good reason, as do many others, to fear that there may be a creator who desires us to live as intended. It is often asked, even in an earlier post, why is there so much pain and evil in the world? Nearly all suffering is the result of greed and hatred by men in direct and intentional opposition to God's laws, yet those who pretend to know more then any imagined god blame him instead. The remainder of suffering from natural causes are opportunities for man to help others, as God has also ordained, but we only rarely answer this call and again blame him. We tend to give ourselves full credit for our health, wealth, and imagined safety and quietly ignore, if not openly exploit the weaker among us. As for me, I am glad for the evolution of cameras and for their intelligent designers and creators. I can hear CHG_CANON now: "And on the sixth day, we created the MILC."

Ava'sPapa Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

I believe in God and my beliefs can't be changed just as I wouldn't try to change anyone else's beliefs. No proof...all faith. My question is this (which really can't be answered), how did everything come to be? In our limited, human reasoning everything has to start somewhere. Big Bang, billions of billions of stars, billions of years...where did it start??? I remember contemplating this with the help of a certain substance in my youth and occasionally I contemplate it today with an unfettered mind. Omnipresence (beyond my comprehension) may be the answer. It IS actually the answer that I accept.

POVDOV

There are many gods that are believed in by people on this planet. I'm afraid I don't care much for any of them. The one thing I can believe in is this Planet EARTH. I can see, smell hear and touch itl. It is all powerful and is slowly getting angry at the way it is being treated. I really don't like being told my god was a gift from another god for christians to have and ruin.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Rid yourself of the concept that everything has to start somewhere. That’s a human construct since we see ourselves having a beginning and an end so everything else must have a beginning and an end. The universe does not operate by our rules of time, rules that require a beginning and an end. My intuition alone tells me this.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

The answer is in the Bible. God did not make automatons. He created sentient beings, both angels and human beings with choice. What we are seeing in this world is the result of bad choices. God, could, ofc, have surrounded himself with robots praising His name for eternity and there would have been no evil in this world, but then, ofc, this world would not be at all. By knowing Him, however, we ARE empowered to rise above the human nature that we were born with and become more like God Himself in our daily lives and, in fact, to be used by God for His purposes.

Note: I have been warned about posting theological posts in Chit-Chat, but this post is in response to a theological post already in Chit-Chat.

Bogo Loc: St.Louis, Mo

Well Said, Sir

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Your answer is in the Bible. Others find their answers elsewhere.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

Since we live in a simulation something/someone must have created it...

bwa

windshoppe Loc: Arizona

Shakespeare's King Lear said to his daughter, Cordelia, "Nothing can come of nothing." Perhaps he had read Aristotle's "Physics," which articulates that idea. Or the philosopher Lucretius who in his book "On the Nature of Things" says that nature's first principle is that "nothing's brought forth by any supernatural power of naught....Beholding many things take place in heaven overhead or here on earth whose causes they can't fathom, they assign the explanation for these happenings to powers divine. Nothing can be made from nothing--once we see that's so, already we are on the way to what we want to know."

For my part contemplating the universe makes my head hurt!

Overthehill1

I don't worry about it. I'll find out after I'm dead. Or I won't.