You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
We were in a Bible Study of Romans at our church in Hopkinton, looking in Chapter 1 we came across these verses (19-21):
................Romans 5:6-8 (NIV)
For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
................John 3:17 (NIV)
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When I first believed I thought that there was no way to "prove" God with reason or science or the "wisdom of this world". I still believe this in many forms of thought, like philosophy, psychology, sociology and most of the "soft" sciences. But when I was around 15 years into my belief I realized that "hard" science, mathematics, physics and biology, those studies that focus on understanding what is rather than interpreting it, are bound to reveal God.
We were in a Bible Study of Romans at our church in Hopkinton, looking in Chapter 1 we came across these verses (19-21):
- The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
- Our universe is not the only universe, there is something called the multiverse (m-theory)
- our universe is one of many or an infinite number of universes
- A being from one of these other universes set our universe in motion with the big bang
- this Being does not operate under the physical laws of our universe; all the laws of matter and time have no effect on this Being or others from that other universe
- this being introduced life into this universe, here on earth, maybe elsewhere as well
- This Being intended to colonize this universe with a form of offspring tailored to exist in this universe and eventually move between universes
- at some point this Being imprinted a select species with its nature, raising it above the other life around it
- This plan was disrupted by other beings from the other universe for various reasons, the main one being jealousy
- As a result, the offspring are stuck in a transient state, half beast, half decedent, not fully formed
- This Being had a solution that would close the gap and bring its offspring to full development, but it required intervention from the Being
- Since the early humans were half beast, half decedents, this Being needed a way to explain to them what had happened, who this Being is and how to move towards full development
- This Being chose one clan among all the clans on Earth as the gene pool from which a path to full development and to the other universe would emerge
- This Being used this clan to illustrate to the entire world what had happened, how to achieve full development and the consequences of disobedience. This became the Bible.
- The Bible is not a scientific text, as only 1% of the time it has existed has humanity had the knowledge to understand the real nature of this universe.
- To reach the other 99% of that time the Being used story forms that could be understood - metaphor, history, genealogies, poetry, law.
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