"Time is a fiction" and other musings
If God 'created' the world then who/what created God?
When I was twelve I asked my Lutheran pastor that question. I was told it was a question we don't ask.
Any wonder why I'm not a Christian?
Try this:
Time is a fiction.
I've just eliminated the need for something to create God; there are no beginnings and endings. I'm not saying it works according to the Biblical theology. But
Time is a fiction is a philosophy I carry with me anyway, so to cast any sense of asserted reality in light of the idea--well, it makes things simple.
Why is it in the bible - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are English names and also Joseph and Mary. As most of the bible is centered around Jerusalum shouldn't they be middle-eastern names?
Anyone's answer will be better than mine. Part of the answer, though, is that they're written in English. There's also San Mateo, San Marco, San Lucas, and San Juan. Anyone want to tell me the names of the gospels in Sami? Anyone? Anyone? (Really, I don't know. I just figured they'd be trippy variations.) However, being that I forget the actual root versions of all the names and am too lazy (high) to bother looking them up ... go with your gut.
The bible first talks about the seven days and then goes on to the animals and adam and eve. Where were the dinosaurs? Could it be when they made up the bible they didn't know about dinosaurs so didn't include them?
The dinosaur bones were just a big joke that the paleontologists haven't gotten yet.
I've heard a number of theories on that, none of which are satisfactory. I like Pratchett and Gaiman's take on it, that the bones were a joke.
But take your pick; most of the theories involve dinosaur-human coexistence.
No answer I've heard yet, aside from the "joke" answer, holds up to scientific scrutiny.
If God will forgive us all then why does he punish the snake so badly for eternity by taking his arms and legs so he has to move on his stomach the rest of his life?. And the serpeant also spoke to Adam and eve, so why is it we can't interact with them now via language? What language was it that they interacted in?
On the Serpent: That's one of my favorite questions. Put it another way:
Will the Devil be redeemed?
Of language: Maybe we lost the knowledge when we fell. Not being a Christian, I've never heard a satisfactory answer to that. However, one strong literary vein (from the fantastic, of course) suggests that humans actually knew the birdsongs and so forth until we stopped needing to in order to survive. Sort of an "Effervescing Elephant" thing. I have somewhere an angelic alphabet, and my copy of Doctor Dee and Edward Kelly might have some asserted vocabulary in it. But if that language exists at all, I doubt anyone has it right now.
If the snake was the satan then God created evil in essence. Gave him life and the ability to speak. So isn't God just as bad as the devil? The sole creater of Pain and suffering of billions of people. I mean everything has to go through the all mighty right?
This seems to be the sticking point. Put it this way: two-thousand years have gone by, and nobody can figure out what the Devil is actually for. The Devil is a middleman, an evolution of a social idea. If you're up for some reading, I would recommend Elaine Pagels,
The Origin of Satan. It should take care of almost any question you might have about the Devil. Well, fundamental question. Jeffrey Burton Russel also wrote several volumes on the Devil, but you'll have to raid secondhand shops to get them, most likely. It's fair enough to say that some theories legitimately hold the Devil to be the true redeemer. Christ died
once. The Devil suffers daily.
thanx,
Tiassa