I heard that it's God's way of telling the world, some things man cannot comprehend
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The reason that water expands upon freezing is because of the strong hydrogen bonding between the water molecules. Water is polar having a positive end nearest the Hydrogens and a negative end nearest the Oxygen atom. Therefore The positive ends of some water molecules attract the negative ends of other water molecules. When water reaches 4 degrees Celsius the molecules have been pushed as close to one another as they will be. Below 4 degrees the water molecules begin to align themselves into the crystal structure of ice. This requires the water molecules to widen the angle between the Oxygen Hydrogen single bonds . When this happens the water molecules take up more space hence expansion.
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It is not explained in the Bible
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maybe god didn't think-it-thru...
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Because something doesn't seem to make sense to you.  God told me it's ok for you to doubt.
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My children and all children. In a off-beat way it's like God is telling us that the world will keep turning, life will go on, and he has sent this child as a message for all of mankind to behold. It seems that He is saying, " Look upon this child and behold the purity, innocence, and beauty of creation". It is to bad that we grow up and choose other paths through life but God lets the world be reborn every spring through His miracle of birth and if you need proof of this, go look. Outside, a maternity ward, everywhere. The most precious person on this earth to me is my five year old granddaughter. To look into her eyes and see the wonderment and purity of her world is the best way for me to have a positive outlook on life( and believe me I really need that some days)!
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MY GRANDMOTHER USED OT TELL ME THAT GOD MADE IT SO THAT ANIMALS COULDN'T TALK SO THEY WOULDN'T TELL US ABOUT THE MANY THINGS THEY CAN SEE THAT WE CAN'T.
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No it isn't a good plan since it probably wasn't God's plan to begin with. The Bible was created by the church and by religious leaders. So the way God reaveals himself to humans is through personal experience with each one. Of course most of us won't realize that He is doing so.
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Excellent observation. This being was clever enough to hijack the universe and mess up god's plans, but somehow he doesn't know how to read.
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Didn't know that...Thanks...\n\nFist of I will tell you this....\n\n May God bless and keep you and may He cause His face to shine upon you...May your steps be order by the Lord and may He give you grace for another day.\n\nNow, I will try to share the Truth with others and tell others of His love.
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He didn't really give it a name as far as I can remember from the Bible.
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Tell him in so many words that everyone has a different idea of God and God means something different to everyone. He is someone who watches over you in life and when life seems bad thats when God is trying to teach us the most, and he is not a person but a feeling inside of us that lets us know we'll be ok in life. As far as death is concerned tell him that when its time for people to leave the earth God will play with them until their loved ones can join them. I wouldnt explain a concept of hell. The world is negative enough as it is you could tell them maybe that when you die you get a pair of wings, but the bad people in life have to do extra stuff in heaven to get earn their wings...im not religious thats why i can answer this ? without being biased and preaching from the bible. I would encourage him when he gets older to take a world cultures class because i loved it and that was the best class i got the most out of.
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It's called faith.  We believe in what can not be explained.
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Actually, I think it would be quite difficult to "understand" the Bible as each concept that is presented is contradicted by another.  It's hard to understand a book that has no clear message.
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A very astute observation.\n\nScripture assures as that God can know all things, but being all powerful certainly he has the ability to refrain from knowing certain things if he so chooses.\n\nThus, at Genesis 11:5-8 God is described as directing his attention earthward, surveying the situation at Babel, and, at that time, determining the action to be taken to break up the unrighteous project there. After wickedness developed at Sodom and Gomorrah, Jehovah advised Abraham of his decision to investigate (by means of his angels) to “see whether they act altogether according to the outcry over it that has come to me, and, if not, I can get to know it.” (Genesis 18:20-22; 19:1) God spoke of ‘becoming acquainted with Abraham,’ and after Abraham went to the point of attempting to sacrifice Isaac, Jehovah said, “For now I do know that you are God-fearing in that you have not withheld your son, your only one, from me.”—Genesis 18:19; 22:11, 12; compare Nehemiah 9:7, 8; Galatians 4:9.\n\nSelective foreknowledge means that God could choose not to foreknow indiscriminately all the future acts of his creatures. This would mean that, rather than all history from creation onward being a mere rerun of what had already been foreseen and foreordained, God could with all sincerity set before the first human pair the prospect of everlasting life in an earth free from wickedness. His instructions to his first human son and daughter to act as his perfect and sinless agents in filling the earth with their offspring and making it a paradise, as well as exercising control over the animal creation, could thus be expressed as the grant of a truly loving privilege and as his genuine desire toward them—not merely as the giving of a commission that, on their part, was foredoomed to failure. God’s arranging for a test by means of “the tree of the knowledge of good and bad” and his creation of “the tree of life” in the garden of Eden also would not be meaningless or cynical acts, made so by his foreknowing that the human pair would sin and never be able to eat of “the tree of life.”—Genesis 1:28; 2:7-9, 15-17; 3:22-24.
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I've never quote thought of it the way you just stated, but I myself have decided to cut out the middle management and talk to the boss himself. Like the middle man in sales, I buy direct and avoid other's profit$, (prophets?) I don't make a point a claiming to have any great revelations for the world, in fact, I make a point not to, as I know most people would have about the same interest in my divine revelations as I have in their's, not to mention being considered a nutjob. Why don't some of the bigmouths today such as Pat Robertson realize how they must look to the world? I don't even take much stock in what the prophets of old of any religion ever had to say about the almighty ultimate power of the universe. Some people might say things about the problem of having every ding-a-ling on the planet running around touting  his own brand of theology, but that doesn't seem like it would be a problem if that's how the master of the universe wanted to disclose himself to the world. To me, it's all about controlling other people with fear and superstition while gaining prestige and nothing more. God's judgement sounds to me like just another way of saying "You just wait until your father gets home." Well, my father has an open-door policy and allows me to communicate with him about whatever is on my mind without having to go through the middle man.  - 'nuf said!
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Contrary to what a lot of Englightened people on here will have you think, the Bible isn't just for scholars or spinners. If it is true, the Bible is God's Word to man, then I think it is safe to take the book at face value assuming that most people were quite illiterate at the time of its first use. \n\nGod would not make his only word to man undicipherable to all, save the rich intellects of the world. This seems like the biggest, most obvious trap, out there! The rich have the key to salvation, but of course they do! The rich Europeans, to take it even further and make it better! Give me a flippin break. This is getting stupid.\n\nThis is one of the major "flaws" in the entire idea of the Bible being God's Word. Does God not know that most people on Earth are hardly literate, can't understand Hebrew or Aramic, and by inspiring a 3,000 plus page text, he has put the salvation of nearly everyone on earth in the hands of a very few who can actually READ who came from Europe and were bent on ruling the world at all cost??! Impossible for God to do such a thing to 90% of the rest of his own creation!\n\nSo, read the Bible just as it comes to you. Yes, God asked God why he forsakened himself. That is the surface interpretation, no spin. Unless your parents could afford to send you to private school, where they teach you how to spin, I mean interpret the Bible, or unless you were born into Christianity where there are churches all around you that teach these spin techniques, you would never know that when you read page 2,198 in the Bible, that it is ACTUALLY refering to page 1,328 which REALLY means what page 498 said in the third paragraph referring to page 20.\n\nThe logical or face understanding of the text, is that God called out to himself(strange indeed), in a manner that seemed  much like begging of himself to help himself. It's ridiculous.
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You are right!  God's way is the best way and there is no way around it!!!! Those 'theories' are so not logical!  I am NOT a monkey!  GO GOD!