Imagine...everything has always existed

The video is very repetitive but I know he was trying to drive his point home...which he did. However, toward the end, he all of a sudden he said something different that caught my attention personally.

He said that religious people think that they are nothing like God. He mentioned the Muslim religion in particular. I don't know if the Muslims agree with that but I know the Christians don't agree. We believe humanity was made in God's image. Humanity doesn't share the likeness of flesh and blood because God is a spirit but we share the likeness of God mentally, morally, and socially.

Mentally, meaning human beings can reason and choose. This is a reflection of God’s intellect and freedom.

Morally, humanity was created in righteousness and perfect innocence, a reflection of God’s holiness. Our conscience or “moral compass” is an indication of that original state*. Whenever someone writes a law, recoils from evil, praises good behavior, or feels guilty, he or she is confirming the fact that we are made in God’s own image.

Socially, humanity was created for fellowship. This reflects God’s triune nature and His love. Every time someone marries, makes a friend, hugs a child, or attends church, he or she is demonstrating the fact that we are made in the likeness of God.

Part of being made in God’s image is that Adam had the capacity to make free choices. *Although they were given a righteous nature, Adam and Eve made an evil choice to rebel against their Creator. In so doing, they marred the image of God within themselves, and passed that damaged likeness on to all of their descendants. Today, we still bear the image of God , but we also bear the scars of sin. Mentally, morally, socially, and physically, we show the effects of sin.

The good news is that, once a believer then God begins to restore the original image of God, creating a “new self, created to be like God
 

Last edited:
The first law of thermodynamics states that the energy of the universe remains the same. Though it may be exchanged between the system and the surroundings, it can’t be created or destroyed. Until this is disproven, the narrator of the video is correct: Everything has always existed. What he doesn't say is whether the energy of the beginning (if we assume that energy was all there was) transformed into matter randomly (Big Bang) or by design (God). He also avoids to discuss whether there was anything before the energy existed.

If we try to explain this using plain human logic and working on a straight line we may not reach an answer. If we leave logic behind then we can have options like "God existed before the energy and he was the one who created it" or "We are not moving on a straight line but in circles. There was never a beginning and there won't ever be an end. The universe will transform from energy to matter and then back to energy over and over and over again". The problem with the latter is that science has given a time of the "beginning". I wonder if that is actually the time of the beginning of everything or just the beginning of this circle.
 
Lara said:
The video is very repetitive but I know he was trying to drive his point home...which he did. However, toward the end, he all of a sudden he said something different that caught my attention personally.

He said that religious people think that they are nothing like God. He mentioned the Muslim religion in particular. I don't know if the Muslims agree with that but I know the Christians don't agree. We believe humanity was made in God's image. Humanity doesn't share the likeness of flesh and blood because God is a spirit but we share the likeness of God mentally, morally, and socially.

Mentally, meaning human beings can reason and choose. This is a reflection of God’s intellect and freedom.

Morally, humanity was created in righteousness and perfect innocence, a reflection of God’s holiness. Our conscience or “moral compass” is an indication of that original state*. Whenever someone writes a law, recoils from evil, praises good behavior, or feels guilty, he or she is confirming the fact that we are made in God’s own image.

Socially, humanity was created for fellowship. This reflects God’s triune nature and His love. Every time someone marries, makes a friend, hugs a child, or attends church, he or she is demonstrating the fact that we are made in the likeness of God.

Part of being made in God’s image is that Adam had the capacity to make free choices. *Although they were given a righteous nature, Adam and Eve made an evil choice to rebel against their Creator. In so doing, they marred the image of God within themselves, and passed that damaged likeness on to all of their descendants. Today, we still bear the image of God , but we also bear the scars of sin. Mentally, morally, socially, and physically, we show the effects of sin.

The good news is that, once a believer then God begins to restore the original image of God, creating a “new self, created to be like God
Click to expand...
I believe the same, Lara.
 
why do yall believe in ONE big bang? the universe is vast and could hold many big bangs....and as to adam and eve being evil then you are not fully into the religious thing...for as I have read lilith the FIRST wife of adam was the evil that charmed eve into learning the truth of the garden...
 
Just another lunatic with yet another self conceived theory of everything with amounts to nothing. If he is so righteous why is he expounding his theory by himself in a car?
 
As the world famous naturalist, Sir David Attenburgh put it....

Every society in the world has found it necessary to produce a story to account for the fact that humanity is on earth. The Australian Aboriginals think that the first humans were regurgitated by a great rainbow serpent in the sky, the people in Thailand think the beginning of the world was a huge pool of milk and a snake was pulled by demons, and the milk coagulated and that formed human beings and there was a time, two and a half to three thousand years ago, when people on the east end of the Mediterranean thought woman was made from the rib of the first man.

If somebody says to me I believe every word of the Bible is true, you can’t argue against that degree of irrationality…there is actually a way of looking at the natural world and seeing the evidence and it’s all there. And what’s more it’s the same evidence whether it’s in Australia or Northern Europe or wherever. It’s all the same—it all produces the same answer and you can all see the evidence—if you reject that then there’s nothing I can say.
 

You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top