I'm curious to know how these people who allegedly added the Holy Ghost into the doctrinal mix as some sort of personage hundreds of years after Jesus died viewed using some sort of "great spirit" for making doctrinal proclamations before Christianity. Is this a pagan practice?
Well in that case God is able to time travel to an imaginary future (I'm talking imaginary as in imaginary numbers because a rock that endlessly gains weight never arrives at this perfect future) and pick up the rock at the end of all times and at the end of all things then time travel back to...
In the end I'm going to use Kilgore Trout's comments as a copout. It's just a silly, little world game that tries illustrate God's omnipotence. But it has its glitch.
Pretty smart. You think both theism and atheism lead to unfulfilled expectations just like the person stuck in the schizophrenia and the outside observer won't find any evidence of their contradicting theories as to the cause of the delusions.
I still have to disagree on the hatchet theory...
I think you're wrong. The Holy Ghost is a person just as much as the Father and the Son are persons. But, unlike the Father and the Son, he is only a spirit and does not have a body of flesh and bones. He looks like the preexistent Jesus (Jehovah). In the beginning of Genesis 1, Ruach Elohim...
Interesting, but I'll stick to my beliefs on this one because I happen to know the Jews of the time were looking for a human sacrifice to fulfill the law of Moses and some saw this foretold-of Messiah who was supposed to be the king of Israel as the perfect "Lamb of God" (Jews sacrificed lambs...
All it's trying to say is that Mary conceiving Jesus was an act of the Holy Ghost i.e. it didn't require sex and thus Mary was still a virgin after the affair. But Jesus is the Son of the Father, not of the Holy Ghost, and when the Holy Ghost impregnated Mary it was with God the Father's sperm...
In the beginning, God was a spirit surrounded by nothing. Either a minute spec of sentience without what we would call physical matter, or a vast mist of intelligence that enveloped the infinite realm of space (outer space). We know that God was once a spirit because God calls himself a spirit...
This opens up a can of philosophical worms. First, I am considering that God is greater than any of his creations. So to call the rock in this paradox God seems somewhat blasphemous. That would be like calling a fly God. Also, any of God's creative activity is not as great as God Himself...
But a rock of increasing weight cannot be lifted instantly...He has to keep applying force as the weight increases. Thus, he never finishes the work of lifting the rock. Yet, at every instant, he is holding the rock up.
That's not rational at all. If there was ever nothing, there would still be nothing. But we have a lot more than nothing in our universe. We have intelligent life. Just like humans can create electronic computers that can practically think, humans had to have an intelligent designer. The...