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Anonymous wrote:How do you know there are no sentient beings living in any of those other galaxies? Maybe there are billions of other planets with life.

Because the bible would say that if it were so.

The Bible doesn’t mention anything protons or electrons. But they exist. The Bible was written by people, not by God. It’s not a Science textbook.

Agree, big time.

I heard a preacher on the radio say "who wrote Genesis? God. Because he was the only one around at that time." Of course it's highly unlikely God wrote books, and spoke of himself in the third person, but hey ... some believe the Bible is the literal word of God.

Moses could have received direct revelation from God as to what happened in the beginning. This would be consistent with the way God has revealed Himself in other parts of Scripture. For example, God revealed the future to the prophets, such as Isaiah and Jeremiah. It is, therefore, certainly possible that He could have told Moses what had happened in the past as He told others what would happen in the future.

There is also the likelihood that records of God's dealings with humanity were kept from the beginning. The personal touch in which we find these events recorded, such as Abraham's prayer for Sodom, and his offering of Isaac, gives evidence that what we have are firsthand accounts. We know that Abraham came from a country where reading and writing were common. It is possible that he could have collected any earlier records and brought them with him. Scripture also tells us that Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac (Genesis 25:5). It is possible that records from earlier times were among his possessions.

Although the events of Genesis concluded three hundred years before Moses was born there are still excellent reasons to believe he wrote or at least compiled the first book of the Bible. In addition, Moses could have written about creation without having been there by either receiving direct revelation from God or by making use of records that were already in existence. Whatever the case may be, the finished result was the inspired, inerrant Word of God.

Inerrant huh? So you believe the sun was created on the third day?

Too bad you don’t have a dog/job/sandwich to worry about. My beliefs are my own. Are you the guy that would cut his own child off for marrying someone who had a different belief system than he does? If so, it explains much.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you know there are no sentient beings living in any of those other galaxies? Maybe there are billions of other planets with life.

Because the bible would say that if it were so.

The Bible doesn’t mention anything protons or electrons. But they exist. The Bible was written by people, not by God. It’s not a Science textbook.

Agree, big time.

I heard a preacher on the radio say "who wrote Genesis? God. Because he was the only one around at that time." Of course it's highly unlikely God wrote books, and spoke of himself in the third person, but hey ... some believe the Bible is the literal word of God.

Moses could have received direct revelation from God as to what happened in the beginning. This would be consistent with the way God has revealed Himself in other parts of Scripture. For example, God revealed the future to the prophets, such as Isaiah and Jeremiah. It is, therefore, certainly possible that He could have told Moses what had happened in the past as He told others what would happen in the future.

There is also the likelihood that records of God's dealings with humanity were kept from the beginning. The personal touch in which we find these events recorded, such as Abraham's prayer for Sodom, and his offering of Isaac, gives evidence that what we have are firsthand accounts. We know that Abraham came from a country where reading and writing were common. It is possible that he could have collected any earlier records and brought them with him. Scripture also tells us that Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac (Genesis 25:5). It is possible that records from earlier times were among his possessions.

Although the events of Genesis concluded three hundred years before Moses was born there are still excellent reasons to believe he wrote or at least compiled the first book of the Bible. In addition, Moses could have written about creation without having been there by either receiving direct revelation from God or by making use of records that were already in existence. Whatever the case may be, the finished result was the inspired, inerrant Word of God.

Inerrant huh? So you believe the sun was created on the third day?

Excuse me, that should have been the fourth day.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you know there are no sentient beings living in any of those other galaxies? Maybe there are billions of other planets with life.

Because the bible would say that if it were so.

The Bible doesn’t mention anything protons or electrons. But they exist. The Bible was written by people, not by God. It’s not a Science textbook.

Agree, big time.

I heard a preacher on the radio say "who wrote Genesis? God. Because he was the only one around at that time." Of course it's highly unlikely God wrote books, and spoke of himself in the third person, but hey ... some believe the Bible is the literal word of God.

Moses could have received direct revelation from God as to what happened in the beginning. This would be consistent with the way God has revealed Himself in other parts of Scripture. For example, God revealed the future to the prophets, such as Isaiah and Jeremiah. It is, therefore, certainly possible that He could have told Moses what had happened in the past as He told others what would happen in the future.

There is also the likelihood that records of God's dealings with humanity were kept from the beginning. The personal touch in which we find these events recorded, such as Abraham's prayer for Sodom, and his offering of Isaac, gives evidence that what we have are firsthand accounts. We know that Abraham came from a country where reading and writing were common. It is possible that he could have collected any earlier records and brought them with him. Scripture also tells us that Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac (Genesis 25:5). It is possible that records from earlier times were among his possessions.

Although the events of Genesis concluded three hundred years before Moses was born there are still excellent reasons to believe he wrote or at least compiled the first book of the Bible. In addition, Moses could have written about creation without having been there by either receiving direct revelation from God or by making use of records that were already in existence. Whatever the case may be, the finished result was the inspired, inerrant Word of God.

Inerrant huh? So you believe the sun was created on the third day?

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Anonymous wrote:How do you know there are no sentient beings living in any of those other galaxies? Maybe there are billions of other planets with life.

Because the bible would say that if it were so.

The Bible doesn’t mention anything protons or electrons. But they exist. The Bible was written by people, not by God. It’s not a Science textbook.

Agree, big time.

I heard a preacher on the radio say "who wrote Genesis? God. Because he was the only one around at that time." Of course it's highly unlikely God wrote books, and spoke of himself in the third person, but hey ... some believe the Bible is the literal word of God.

Moses could have received direct revelation from God as to what happened in the beginning. This would be consistent with the way God has revealed Himself in other parts of Scripture. For example, God revealed the future to the prophets, such as Isaiah and Jeremiah. It is, therefore, certainly possible that He could have told Moses what had happened in the past as He told others what would happen in the future.

There is also the likelihood that records of God's dealings with humanity were kept from the beginning. The personal touch in which we find these events recorded, such as Abraham's prayer for Sodom, and his offering of Isaac, gives evidence that what we have are firsthand accounts. We know that Abraham came from a country where reading and writing were common. It is possible that he could have collected any earlier records and brought them with him. Scripture also tells us that Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac (Genesis 25:5). It is possible that records from earlier times were among his possessions.

Although the events of Genesis concluded three hundred years before Moses was born there are still excellent reasons to believe he wrote or at least compiled the first book of the Bible. In addition, Moses could have written about creation without having been there by either receiving direct revelation from God or by making use of records that were already in existence. Whatever the case may be, the finished result was the inspired, inerrant Word of God.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you know there are no sentient beings living in any of those other galaxies? Maybe there are billions of other planets with life.

Because the bible would say that if it were so.

The Bible doesn’t mention anything protons or electrons. But they exist. The Bible was written by people, not by God. It’s not a Science textbook.

Agree, big time.

I heard a preacher on the radio say "who wrote Genesis? God. Because he was the only one around at that time." Of course it's highly unlikely God wrote books, and spoke of himself in the third person, but hey ... some believe the Bible is the literal word of God.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you know there are no sentient beings living in any of those other galaxies? Maybe there are billions of other planets with life.

Because the bible would say that if it were so.

The Bible doesn’t mention anything protons or electrons. But they exist. The Bible was written by people, not by God. It’s not a Science textbook.

Agree, big time.

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Anonymous wrote:How do you know there are no sentient beings living in any of those other galaxies? Maybe there are billions of other planets with life.

Because the bible would say that if it were so.

The Bible doesn’t mention anything protons or electrons. But they exist. The Bible was written by people, not by God. It’s not a Science textbook.

W/I this Universe, these three classes of questions should be dealt with in fundamentally different ways.

You can ask a question whose answer is not only knowable, but already known.
You can ask a question whose answer seems to be knowable if we had enough information, and that information exists in our Universe, even if we don’t have it yet.
You can ask a question whose answer is not knowable, even if we were to obtain every quantum bit of information available in the entire Universe.

Science cannot prove the existence of God, but it cannot disprove God either.

David wrote in Psalm 8:3, “I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained.”

From a biblical standpoint, we then ascertain that God created the universe for his glory and our wonderment.

Other than that, it is a question unanswered.

Anonymous wrote:How do you know there are no sentient beings living in any of those other galaxies? Maybe there are billions of other planets with life.

Because the bible would say that if it were so.

Anonymous wrote:So that billionaires could build rocket ships and prove that capitalism is a gift from Jesus, along with guns.

Musk is a fundamentalist Christian? Who knew? (You need better anti-Christian material, your current stuff is embarrassing.)

I sometimes think God is like a kid that got an ant farm for his birthday. He was really into it for a while and did a bunch of stuff with it and then got bored with it. He comes back occassionally and is super into it for a hot minute.
So it’s like the ants asking why does he have this enormous room instead of just a bigger ant farm? We are just one piece of his existence, I suspect.

So that billionaires could build rocket ships and prove that capitalism is a gift from Jesus, along with guns.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you ever wonder if there are other "Gods". Like not as a sin, God is God and the only God WE know and worship. But maybe he has a brother, Rod, and a sister, Dod, who each got their own solar systems to run?

God would have mentioned this in Genesis. He created the heaven (singular) and the earth. I take heaven to mean everything that is out there. (And the sun on the third day don't forget. . On the other hand, Zeus had brothers, and the Hindus have multiple gods, so yeah, it is possible.

Assume "the earth" means our planet, the third stone from the sun. Does "heaven" mean everything else, all 200 billion to two trillion galaxies? Plus all the nether regions?

Yeah, that's the way I read it. It's open to interpretation of course. But I don't want to consider your "nether regions."

What are the other 200 billion-2 trillion galaxies for then?

What?

Why did god create 200 billion - 2 trillion other galaxies if they are all lumped in as "heaven", and everything else is one planet earth?

Who knows. I took it to mean the earth is, as you said, the third rock from the sun, and "heaven" is everything else out there. Maybe the writer didn't want to take the time to say "and 200 billion to 2 trillion other galaxies."?

I am not asking about the writer. I am asking why did god make such a huge universe if he only wanted sentient people on this one little planet?

How do you know there are no sentient beings living in any of those other galaxies? Maybe there are billions of other planets with life.

Sentience is limited by human perception of sentience. Just because we don't see sentience in other planets doesn't mean there isn't sentient beings there.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you ever wonder if there are other "Gods". Like not as a sin, God is God and the only God WE know and worship. But maybe he has a brother, Rod, and a sister, Dod, who each got their own solar systems to run?

God would have mentioned this in Genesis. He created the heaven (singular) and the earth. I take heaven to mean everything that is out there. (And the sun on the third day don't forget. . On the other hand, Zeus had brothers, and the Hindus have multiple gods, so yeah, it is possible.

Assume "the earth" means our planet, the third stone from the sun. Does "heaven" mean everything else, all 200 billion to two trillion galaxies? Plus all the nether regions?

Yeah, that's the way I read it. It's open to interpretation of course. But I don't want to consider your "nether regions."

What are the other 200 billion-2 trillion galaxies for then?

What?

Why did god create 200 billion - 2 trillion other galaxies if they are all lumped in as "heaven", and everything else is one planet earth?

Who knows. I took it to mean the earth is, as you said, the third rock from the sun, and "heaven" is everything else out there. Maybe the writer didn't want to take the time to say "and 200 billion to 2 trillion other galaxies."?

I am not asking about the writer. I am asking why did god make such a huge universe if he only wanted sentient people on this one little planet?

How do you know there are no sentient beings living in any of those other galaxies? Maybe there are billions of other planets with life.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you ever wonder if there are other "Gods". Like not as a sin, God is God and the only God WE know and worship. But maybe he has a brother, Rod, and a sister, Dod, who each got their own solar systems to run?

God would have mentioned this in Genesis. He created the heaven (singular) and the earth. I take heaven to mean everything that is out there. (And the sun on the third day don't forget. . On the other hand, Zeus had brothers, and the Hindus have multiple gods, so yeah, it is possible.

Assume "the earth" means our planet, the third stone from the sun. Does "heaven" mean everything else, all 200 billion to two trillion galaxies? Plus all the nether regions?

Yeah, that's the way I read it. It's open to interpretation of course. But I don't want to consider your "nether regions."

What are the other 200 billion-2 trillion galaxies for then?

What?

Why did god create 200 billion - 2 trillion other galaxies if they are all lumped in as "heaven", and everything else is one planet earth?

Who knows. I took it to mean the earth is, as you said, the third rock from the sun, and "heaven" is everything else out there. Maybe the writer didn't want to take the time to say "and 200 billion to 2 trillion other galaxies."?

I am not asking about the writer. I am asking why did god make such a huge universe if he only wanted sentient people on this one little planet?

Good question. I have absolutely no idea.