QUOTE(Supra Sheri @ Mar 21 2007, 01:16 AM) [snapback]1592343[/snapback]
all this from a guy who a few posts back or another thread was very clearly stating how one couldn't possilby know god he is beyond human dimensions..
also we create for ourselves what we beleive and have expereinces that reflect these beleifs.....many many chritians beleive that god passes messages from one seleceted follower to another .... this is the most often answer when i ask who is god to you???No surprise its biblical in nature....Are you a preacher too ....
Sheri, that was an unfortunate comment, I let it pass the 1st time but I rather think that, you shouldn't be so eager to simply brush off these personal experiences as some form of self delusion or ESP as you implied in your previous message. Could it be that, maybe, the simple truth that God really works through people and does do it in the way I described previously sets you back a little?
Whether you choose to believe it, is really up to you, I'm certainly not out to convert you from your pet belief system. God works in the way I described but is not limited to such actions, he does things the way he thinks best whether you accept that affirmation or not. If he chose to use me in the situation I described then so be it, who am I to complain, that's his perrogitive, since I am his servant, and happy to be so.
As for your opening statement, do you jump at every cahnce to confud«se things or is that merely a subconcious urge that gets the better of you?
My answer in the correct context is quite clear don't twist it to your own ends. Thanks.
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QUOTE(KBA @ Mar 20 2007, 11:50 PM)
Because then what is the point? By then, god has gotten so distant that you might as well be worshiping the magical lizard on a skateboard floating in a bubble of air. If God is in another dimension, then he is irrelevant. It makes no difference to our lives, so it is more logical not to cloud yourself with superstition.
The fish also lives in this world, and so does man, does the fish know about mans existence?
When I was talking about another dimensional existence, I was not saying that God lives in a different dimension. We live in a four dimensional world but we can also percieve a two domensional world. If God lived in the fifth dimensional plane, he would be able to percieve and manipulate the 4 dimensions at will. but those in the 4th dimensional plane could not, even if they tried, see that happining.
This is clumsily explained, but if you study up on interdimensional physics, especially as concerning wormholes, you'll get the picture.
So that there is no doubt to what was being said I pasted the relevant material above. Anybody who has studied or even erad about multidimensional physics, can see clearly the point I was trying to make.
A 2 dimensional being can only percieve things in those two dimensions (x, y axis). If we draw a circle on a piece of paper and we theoretically put a 2 dimensional being within that circle in a 2 dimensional world, that being would be trapped because he would literally have an unclimable wall surrounding him on all sides (the circle we drew).
We as 3 dimensional beings can see a way out of that circle that is not available to the 2 dimensional being because we can always reach inside and free that being. That would in effect make us godlike in that 2 dimensional beings thoughts.
If we extrapolate from this analogy, we can see that we ourselves are limited by a 3 dimensional universe (x, y, z axis). We can also seemingly experience a fourth dimensional part of this 3 dimensional world which to our senses we call time. That is why we call this plane of physical existence, the space time continuum.
See:
Spacetime for a clearer and more complicated explanation.
Or you can go to Wikipedia:
Space-time ContinuumNow, if God exists in a higher order dimension, he cannot only manipulate space and time but all matter in that lower dimension, he is above and outside of space-time but can be anywhere within it at will. This is why we have the concepts of omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence. They are characteristics of a higher order dimensional existence to our own.
Yet just as a 2 dimensional being cannot identify our presence because he is limited to 2 dimensions, we cannot prove the existence of God who is part of a higher order of existence. We are essintially and simply limited to our 3 dimensional universe, we call the Space time Continuum.
Finally, to answer you most undelicate question, no I'm not a preacher, I work in banking.