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The origin of the universe cannot be determined scientifically

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I'm not sure why you would limit someone who barely posts in the forum as it is.
This section isn't for people who deny young-earth creationism. If you question dogma strongly enough, you'll get bounced. Seen it happen many times.
 

Derf

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Seems like a way to ask where the deity comes from?
No, it asks for admission of a greater creator. DNA is an instruction set for building a creature, implying a creator. To then ask for the instruction set for the creator says the creator was created himself, thus a greater creator is needed. To avoid the infinite regression, Christianity's creator is an uncreated being, because He creates everything but Himself.
 

Idolater

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No, it asks for admission of a greater creator. DNA is an instruction set for building a creature, implying a creator. To then ask for the instruction set for the creator says the creator was created himself, thus a greater creator is needed. To avoid the infinite regression, Christianity's creator is an uncreated being, because He creates everything but Himself.
What about logic? Does God create logic? It's hard to imagine. It's hard to imagine logic not existing at any time.
 

Stripe

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"All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made."

There are plenty of things — all of them intangible nouns — that God did not invent. Love, truth and life among them.

That should be obvious. If you think otherwise, answer:
Was He alive when He created life?
Were things true before He created truth?
Did He love when He created love?

Also, time.
 

Idolater

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"All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made."

There are plenty of things — all of them intangible nouns — that God did not invent. Love, truth and life among them.

That should be obvious. If you think otherwise, answer:
Was He alive when He created life?
Were things true before He created truth?
Did He love when He created love?
Yeah this is all 'self-existence' stuff, which I believe. Logically, God existing implies these things simultaneously, like they all 'come into existence' at once, like 'a package deal', or, and this is what I believe, He is 'self-existent' and there never was any 'time' (see below) that God didn't exist, and so therefore was never any 'time' that logic and love and geometry didn't exist either. It's not as if God 'made' these things, but He is certainly responsible for them existing, 'by virtue of' His own (self-) existence.
Also, time.
I don't know about that. I don't conceive of time as like logic or geometry.
 

Idolater

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What @Stripe said.

God is rational, and has always been rational, as far as I know. So logic has always existed.
What I was getting at was that using logic to argue for God's existence is invoking logic, which begs the question whether logic itself is a created thing. It's kind of assumed to exist on its own, when making a logical argument for God's existence.

idk. Could be making something out of nothing.
 

Derf

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What about logic? Does God create logic? It's hard to imagine. It's hard to imagine logic not existing at any time.
In addition, (also as Stripe said), logic is a concept more than a thing. Like sin, which God did not create.
What I was getting at was that using logic to argue for God's existence is invoking logic, which begs the question whether logic itself is a created thing. It's kind of assumed to exist on its own, when making a logical argument for God's existence.

idk. Could be making something out of nothing.
Creation ex nihilo?

Using logic to understand God hardly equates to causing God's existence.
 

1Mind1Spirit

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I was just out shooting at ice going by in the river, one of my favorite things to do this time of year, and I decided to come back and take a second crack at this.

God is there now, ready to engage you in a "chat"

Your pride, your hubris, your willful dismissal of Him, the exercise of your free will - these stand between you and God. You will not see God until those are all stripped away, until you are brought low, until all that you love and cherish are taken from you. It's a fearful thing.
Yup.
 
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