Does God make the rules of the universe? (Please read details thanks)?
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I suppose one could argue that God "so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son."  In other words, God wanted to make clear how much he cares for us.
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God is the Creator. He was here from he begining. He created the univers, and everything in it. Email me: moccasinsister@yahoo.com. He died for our sins so that we can spend eternal life with Him.
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Which god u referring to? \n\nAnyways, if he created everything without a concept of good or bad, then why would there be laws against rape, murder, etc or charity work, blah blah...\n\nI think your question is flawed, sorry, and no offence.\n\nPerhaps you're trying to say that everything in the world is created by humans, even concepts, am I right or wrong? Atheists like to do that, but what they fail to realise is, if that's the case, then WHY? For what?
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No he only works in obvious ways. god works in mysterious ways because he is a sneaky bastard.
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God never goes further than the mind that invented him.\n\nHis universe is usually very limited.
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You can, this a false dicotomy that is wreaking havok on our nation and it's views of religion and science.  there is nothing to suggest that God did not use the laws of physics that he created and science later discovered to creat the universe and world we live in now.  This means God used the Big bang to make the universe, and used evolution (through devine intervention) to make life on earth, even humanity.\n    The creation story put forth in Genesis is not meant to be taken literally and anyone who does so is ignorant, and does the cause of Christianity more harm than good.  It seems likely that this story of creation is a myth ment to teach the primitive Hebrews who first recieved it, the proper relationship between Man and his God.  Remember, these people knew nothing of science so a creation story going on about expanding space-time and gene flow would mean nothing to them.\n   In fact, while science is a wonderful example of God's power and glory, the creation story is really one of the most insignificant things in the bible.  What is important is the message of love conveyed by Jesus, to 'Love your fellow human as yourself."  As long as you do this and devolop your personal relationship with God, you are doing God's will.  That is what Christianiy is about, not makeing people believe the world was created in 7 days.
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I agree with you.  You cannot use logic to figure out All Powerful Super Natural God.\nIsaiah 55:9 As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.\nBlessings:  Kaitlynn
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Good questions!  I like good subjest matter.  God is not some bug eyed monster up in the sky.  Why would he be all hateful when he needs us as much as we need him?  We do have free will, and i can do whatever i want because of it, but heres the rub, i was created by something with a view of the bigger picture.  So by virture of where i was born and my personality there are huge sections of human reality that will never even occur to me to do because of who and what i was made to be. Example : kiss my boyfriend, you betcha!; eat chocolate covered ants, hell no!
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No, you're correct. Many believers can't seem to grasp this simple concept.\n\nIn the following argument (which is the same as yours, just more in depth) the author does not assign god a gender, therefor god is referred to as "it", instead of "he" or "she".\n\n"The problem here is that God knows everything that has happened and everything that will happen. Its knowledge cannot be wrong. There is not a single event that it has not foresaw. Given that it created the Universe the way it did, do we have free will? Consider that when God made the Universe it could see every possible result of what it was doing. Which means: it could not create something without knowing what the results would be, and without knowing how it would be affected (and effect) the things around it.\n\nLet's say that Fred has a choice that will save his life, to accept God or not to accept God and the final choice is to be made tomorrow. God knows already what choice he will make - God cannot be wrong therefore Fred cannot choose otherwise to what God has predicted. When God created the chain of events that made Fred it also knew that it was making Fred's choice for him, and knew how the various circumstances and character would make him choose either right or wrong. Fred would go forth and make that very decision that God knew he would make, and by virtue that God knowingly set up all the factors that affected his decision, it was not up to Fred but to God to decide how Fred would fare.\n\nThis argument does not imply that God does not exist. It leaves us with three results, two of which have to be wrong.\n\n   1. God created everything with full knowledge and we have no free will to change it\n   2. God does not have full knowledge\n   3. God did not make the Universe or there is no God"\n\n - Written by Vexen Crabtree
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do you beleive that a car create it self by it self? ... NO!?? why ?, if you can beleive that the universe was created by itself and without creator, then why you dont beleive that a car cant be created without a creator?\n\nfor everything created there is a creator, and the creation of the universe proves the greatness of God.
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Within this universe, no.  There is nothing outside our universe.  To get somewhere else you have to leave our dimension, that’s where the other possible universes lie.  Is God bigger than our universe?  He created it, and has complete power over it.  However, He is in no created dimension, which is how He can affect any dimension.  He is bigger than any universe, if they exist, He created them.  So is there any created place bigger than the universe?  I don’t know, maybe.
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I wonder how an alien would answer this question... Do they believe in a Universal GOD?  Did God create them too... if God is the creator of the Universe... He is the creator of everything in the Universe... and God made the aliens too...So does GOD extend out into the Universe and is He the Author of the aliens' Universe too?\n\nWhy do we limit GOD?  To hold Him to only Earthly religions... or the GOD only of this one planet...  EARTH????
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that is a very good point,, i have always  thought, if i "feel/think/see"   things a certain way,,, that i was made to be this way,,,, and how can i be faulted for being made the way i am,,,, by a creator, so yes, if God works within us, to determine our will,,, then is it really free will? how would we even know?  maybe God works with us,, in helping develop our will,,,,, in that if we desire something,, we find the things we need, the resources,  but where did that desire come from in the first place,  even if its something we feel we thought up,, most likely we were influenced  by our life/our contacts in life,,, what caused us to come across those certain expeirences?  and why did we react in the way we did??
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OK. I'm a pantheist. But this is just MY answer. Its what I believe, as a pantheist. The universe, everything that is, "God" if you will, is cyclical. Its a matter of the expanding and contracting universe. After its expanded to a certain point it begins to collapse back in upon itself. When it completes this collapsing, compacting process its !BANG! all over again and begins to expand once more. The cycle is never ending, repeating itself throughout eternity. So each cycle COULD be thought of as a "creation" of sorts. But that's not apt, strictly speaking. The thing, what I call Deity (because "God" is a masculine concept and just doesn't fit here, at least outside metaphysics), goes on for ever. Creation after creation, never ending. Hope this is understandable and helps. :-) ~ Peace & Blessings ~
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God is full of surprises to us.  In our 3 dimensional world, we can't begin to fathom the wonders and surprises of God.  Maybe billions of years in the future, after we have travelled the universe, we will have enough knowledge of God to predict  God's intentions.   I doubt if we'll ever know enough to predict God's actions.
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The intricacy of the laws that govern our universe make me think it must be designed rather than random.  \n\nIf you really are interested, there are many books about the how modern science almost proves that there is intelligent design based on the shear overwhelming number and perfection of physical laws that can be used to describe the universe.\n\nHas Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe - by Victor J. Stenger\n\nOr\n\nLife, the Universe and Everything: Investigating God and the New Physics\nby Andy Fletcher\n\nare just two.\n\nGive em a try!
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It is not true that whatever we do, God gets it done by us.\nU don't see God Gave us free will But also Showed the right path...\n\nSo whatever we do is our own deeds.. If we do good, God is happy with us,\n& if we do bad deeds, God Obviously will punish!\n\n\nJust take this example..\nGod is our Creater...\nSimilarly A person or an electronics company creates a TV or VCR of DVD Player...\n\nSO ..\nThe company give an instruction manual with its product..\njust like God sent us to this world with Bible/ Quran etc..\n\nNow see!\nWhen the VCR does not work properly, we take it to a repair shop, if it does not still work properly, we throw it in trash...\nTHIS is a punishment for the VCR...\nSimilarly, when we dont follow the instructions from GOD, God will punish us.