Originally posted by louman
I have never believed the big bang theory.....and as it states..... it is a theory....never has been proven! Roy Masters is the 1st person to come up with an alternate view in all of this time in a scientific way. He approches religion that way also. From a differn't perspective....not using a lot of religious terms that people have been turned off by. Jesus it may supprise you was not caught up with religion nor was he a scholar. Meaning he was not a scribe or pharisee.....saducee. He knew the scripture but didn't walk around quoteing it all of the time. He kept the law....fulfilled it even.....but didn't follow it religiously...verse and chapter....traditionally. When someone asked him a question he knew how to get to the root of the problem and speak truthfully. He did this by intuition. If something is right you can see it if your a seeking and intuitive person.....you may not be able to explain it in scientific terms....you just know it is the truth. Jesus said "you must become like children" ponder on what he ment by that.....it has deep meaning.
yes, and that's EXACTLY why IMHO a lot of christianity has lost all meaning. don't get me wrong, i *am* a christian, i just believe the the term christian spreads over a lot of stuff, from rastafarianism to that weirdo baptist church on TV with their 'god hates studmuffins, god hates you, god hates everyone except us' banners. that's another thing i find stupid, christian right's treatment of gays. it says in the bible that being gay is a sin, along with pretty much everything. it's impossible to live a life without sin, totally impossible, and that's exactly why god sent jesus, to die for sin, so that all are forgiven. the bible doesn't even put being gay very high up on the list of sins, yet people believe that god will forgive anyone of anything, including murder etc, yet at the same time they believe that god hates gays.
there's only one word for that, idiocy.
i'm shocked at what's done 'in the name of god' and i'm sure he is too
but the big bang. why religious people fear i have absolutely no clue. for the big bang to have occured, it had to come from a singularity, a singularity that came from nowhere, and i think you'd be hard-pressed to find a more reasonable explanation than god. where else are you gonna get an infinitely small infinitely hot explosion out of nowhere?
no need to be scared of it because it isn't mentioned in the bible. god didn't write the bible, people did, and people can be wrong. these people of course will have gained inspiration from god, but what he created is so far beyond them back then that they couldn't comprehend it, so let them come up with their own stories.
wouldn't it be boring if god told us exactly how everything was created, and how it all works? where would the fun be in science. life isn't a prison, it's an adventure, and to have an adventure you gotta have some fun along the way. god could *prove* everything in an instant if he wanted to, but he wants us to have some fun trying to figure it out, is the way i see it.
as for jesus saying, be like children, yes, it's a great line, with a lot of connotations. one one hand, children are blind in faith, and believe whatever they're told, and will always trust their parents (in our case god) to look after them. children are also rebellious however, and have great imaginations, and that's also what god wants us to do, use our minds and hearts to challenge what we believe, to explore our faith.
why is it you disagree with the big bang theory then btw? you think it conflicts with the bible? it is a theory of course, but so is pretty much ALL of science, most theories are just very credible and likely, and the big bang has a lot of evidence backing it up.
i'd love to read that paper though, i need to get the book, the ebook is a right PITA
