Stephan Gunther
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"I believe that God always existed from eternity past and will exist through eternity future. " That isn't evidence, it is your belief. The bible isn't evidence. It's a book written thousands of yrs ago by anonymous authors. You have to do better than that. What will you say if microbes are discovered in Europa or Enceladus ? There is no mention of that in your mythology.@Stephan Gunther, earlier you complained about me "proselytizing" but now you asked me for my evidence, so here it is.
Let's start with one of the most elementary points.
WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM?
First, an important statement to answer your inevitable question, " Where did God come from?" I believe that God always existed from eternity past and will exist through eternity future. If He is not eternal, than He couldn't possibly be God, because if He isn't from eternity past, then He was either created or evolved. If He was created or evolved, than whatever created Him or caused Him to evolve is greater. I am also quite comfortable saying I don't understand eternity past. If I could understand absolutely everything about God, He couldn't be my God, because I would know as much as Him.
The first verse in my Bible says "In the beginning"(that's when time began) "God created the heaven" (space) "and the earth"(matter). Every scientist understands that time, space, and matter are inseparable fundamentals of the universe. You cannot have time without space, and you cannot have space without time, and matter cannot exist outside of space and time. So there you have the basic elements of reality simultaneously created. The rest of the chapter explains how God organized the universe and created a beautiful, complex, functional, living Earth.
I know of only three proposed basic theories of the origin of the universe. Creation, evolution, or a big bang.
1. We all know that no explosion ever created order, much less life, let alone something sustainable. In addition, where did the substance for the explosion come from? And what triggered it?
2. Evolution proposes that life evolved from dead matter, and that a form of unintelligent life became more capable, organized, and intelligent with time. This is entirely opposite of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Even if we could reconcile this stark contradiction, it still doesn't provide an answer for where the original matter came from.
3. Creation explains where matter came from, how it became organized, and how life began.
That alone is compelling evidence for me. If you can disprove any part of my post, please do, and if you don't understand something, feel free to ask.