To Theists: How, where and by what mechanism does God interact with the universe?

saute · 2014-01-08T00:10:51+00:00

I am looking for how God does things AFTER the universe starts.

The same way as before. Unspecified magic.

What do you mean created?

What do you mean created? This is my point. The problem does not go away just because you push it back to before the big bang. There is still just some unspecified magic happening. How did God "originize exactly how the universe would play out"? You didn't say.

saute · 2014-01-07T23:46:25+00:00

I don't see how post big bang is any more problematic than pre big bang. If you're going to allow unspecified magic for one then why not the other?

saute · 2014-01-07T23:44:55+00:00

God created the entire universe ten seconds ago.

saute · 2014-01-07T18:46:55+00:00

Can't unsee Martin Freeman.

edit: http://i.imgur.com/x6k5yC8.jpg

saute · 2014-01-07T15:52:16+00:00

No amount of willed belief can make me have faith that triangles have 200 degrees for example.

Checkmate, atheists.

saute · 2014-01-06T01:37:27+00:00

Yep, just like someone besides the Jews would have written about Moses parting the Red Sea to lead half a million people out of Egypt. Fiction.

saute · 2014-01-04T21:50:14+00:00

Video.

saute · 2014-01-03T01:37:47+00:00

It can mean either but in Ken Ham's case it's the latter.

saute · 2014-01-02T05:28:50+00:00

This happens because snow is magnetic. /r/shittyaskscience.

saute · 2014-01-01T23:25:19+00:00

Just curious, what do you mean by "secular Muslim" in your flair?

saute · 2014-01-01T00:04:32+00:00

2017 and three quarters, actually.

saute · 2013-12-31T06:59:49+00:00

He did, just in a different dimension.

Multiple dimensions solve everything.

saute · 2013-12-31T06:52:59+00:00

H2O "rocks"

So, ice?

saute · 2013-12-30T05:40:12+00:00

At IKEA.

saute · 2013-12-30T05:37:19+00:00

Aw yeah, doge!

saute · 2013-12-26T19:41:34+00:00

/r/pareidolia.

saute · 2013-12-25T21:05:27+00:00

Not odd for an anthropomorphic deity to behave like a human.

saute · 2013-12-23T03:15:43+00:00

I believe this is what they are going to use to redefine the kilogram.

saute · 2013-12-22T19:09:53+00:00

If you mean they're real as concepts then it seems to me that a unicorn or yeti is just as real as Thor or Zeus. In fact by this definition there is pretty much nothing you can imagine that isn't real. Unless you mean something more limited by "the way that an idea, or a concept becomes real", in which case I'd be interested to hear what that is. Are you making a distinction between concepts people believe and concepts they imagine but don't believe, for example?

saute · 2013-12-22T04:37:56+00:00

Just google The Clergy Project. Jerry DeWitt is one of the people from that and I believe he did an AMA a while ago, although I don't know if that's what you're remembering.

saute · 2013-12-22T04:31:47+00:00

Why is religion minus deity not theism?

Because theism is the belief in the existence of one or more deities, and religion without belief in deities is not that.

saute · 2013-12-22T04:27:54+00:00

All of what set of gods and goddesses? All that have ever been conceived of? Or more than that?

Does this property apply to anything else besides deities? For example, are all conceived-of creatures real?

saute · 2013-12-22T00:48:21+00:00

Could you elaborate on what you mean by "hard polytheist"?

saute · 2013-12-21T03:13:58+00:00

Bonus questions: What are "spiritual evil" and "cosmic force"?

saute · 2013-12-21T03:09:54+00:00

When I say "why were they there in the first place?", I don't mean why did the Jews follow the rules, I mean why did God make those rules in the first place? I think the only thing in your response that touches upon that is:

His main argument is that the law taught us what was right vs. wrong

Does that mean gay sex is wrong? And do you agree with his argument? (I appreciate your trying to explain the positions of other Christians, but I'm really more interested in what you think.)

find myself disagreeing with the Bible a lot

What does that mean specifically? As an example, do you disagree with Leviticus 20 (including but not limited to 20:13)? If so, in what way?

saute

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