Hmm: The Mysteries Of God & Creation
Darren Stansbury
May 25, 2005
God knows I'm writing this. In fact, He knew I was going to write this before He created anything. As we know, God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent, which leads me to ask ...
I'm not questioning the existence of a supreme being or a spiritual world. I'm questioning our concept of God. I'm not one to think that the order in the universe and in nature happened by chance.
Is it by chance that Earth is the appropriate distance from the sun and has all the elements needed for life to emerge and flourish unlike other planets we know of? Is the timing of the sun's rising and setting by chance? Is evolution by chance? Is symmetry in nature by chance? How about animal instincts, such as that of the Chinese alligator?
I've read that the Chinese alligator digs its den 10-feet deep by 75-feet long. Is it by chance that it achieves these measurements by instinct alone? How about one generation after another of birds and butterflies migrating to the same places every year?
Is it by chance that our world is populated by organisms that can think, read, write, speak, build things, develop medicine, harness energy and philosophize about God and spirituality? Are planet Earth and we humans unique in the universe? What if we are? What if we are not?
- As an omniscient being didn't He see that as the archangel Lucifer, Satan would lead a rebellion against Him? Why create beings you know will try to dethrone you?
- Nothing impure is allowed in God's presence. So, how was it that Lucifer and his minions were in Heaven?
- If God is omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent why does He need angels working for Him anyway?
- He knows everything about everyone and everything long before they exist. He sees what our eyes can't such as spirits, atoms and subatomic particles and the future. He knows the names, thoughts, genetic makeup, life stories and more about people yet to be born. He knows when we and they will sin. So, He knows long before we're born whether we'll join Him in Heaven or be condemned to Hell. So, if he knows this about us how is it that we have free will?
- Why does He punish or condemn us for doing what He knows we'll do well in advance?
- For a mission as important as our salvation why did God incarnate Himself as Jesus in just one region of the world? Why not North, Central and South America; Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, Greenland, Iceland and other places besides Israel?
- Why do so many Christians have such miserable lives?
- Why did he create us or anything else? Was He bored? Was He lonely? I've read that we were created to worship Him. Does He really need us for that?
I'm not questioning the existence of a supreme being or a spiritual world. I'm questioning our concept of God. I'm not one to think that the order in the universe and in nature happened by chance.
Is it by chance that Earth is the appropriate distance from the sun and has all the elements needed for life to emerge and flourish unlike other planets we know of? Is the timing of the sun's rising and setting by chance? Is evolution by chance? Is symmetry in nature by chance? How about animal instincts, such as that of the Chinese alligator?
I've read that the Chinese alligator digs its den 10-feet deep by 75-feet long. Is it by chance that it achieves these measurements by instinct alone? How about one generation after another of birds and butterflies migrating to the same places every year?
Is it by chance that our world is populated by organisms that can think, read, write, speak, build things, develop medicine, harness energy and philosophize about God and spirituality? Are planet Earth and we humans unique in the universe? What if we are? What if we are not?
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