Here is what I believe
God spoke to the heavens and created light, he spoke to the land and created animals and trees and birds. He spoke to the seas and they created animals in the sea. When he was ready to create man what did God say? Who or what did He speak to? He spoke to Himself. He said "Let us make man in our own image and likeness" Man came out of God. God is a spirit so man is also a spirit housed in a body. When our body returns to the dirt our spirit returns to God. You could post whatever picture you want animals don't have a soul and animals aren't created in the image of God. We are not the same.
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So if God spoke to God and said let us make man in our own image and likeness..and God is a spirit ..why then did he have to make a body to house this spirit? Does that mean that God too is somehow housed in a body of some kind?
That cannot be true as a physical body is bound by space and time and God is supposedly everywhere.
So why did he need to form man out of the earth and breathe the breath of life into him again? And what did he breathe into animals to give them life?
Magic?
Maybe?
When I hear people like you and JC say that every event has a cause. The universe itself had a beginning, so it must have had a first cause, which must have been a creator God.
I often think that ah cause comes before ah event. If time did began with de universe, "before" doh even apply to it, and it therefore logically impossible that the universe be caused. But logic is something christians and creationists doh like or rather doh believe in at all!
And to me dis does raise de question of wha caused God. If, as some claim, God does not need a cause, then by the same reasoning, neither does de universe. ah hah!
Anyway talking about Genesis, according to the genealogy in Genesis how old is the world?
Answer me dat!
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Well bro I really can't answer all your questions but I will answer the ones most important. The rest will just lead to babble. Since it is a matter of faith we will believe what we want and worship how we want.
God is a Spirit. He had just created the physical world and He wanted someone to manage it. So He created man after in His image and likeness and put him in a body to manage and have rule over the garden. There are rules that govern the spiritual world and rules that govern the physical world. So man had to be house in a physical body to rule the physical world.
The breath of life does not refer to the spirit of the being but it speaks directly to the energy/breath/the life spark that makes your body come alive and function, so that your internal organs and systems work. Hence, when that breath leaves your body, your body dies but your spirit returns to God to give an account for your time in the body. Everything returns from which it came, your body to the dirt and your spirit to God.
Trinity I do this for a living, and one of the things that comes with my profession is to know my place. I am always reminded that I am created and i'm not the creator. I try to remind myself everyday that I could never, ever understand God fully because I am bound by time and space as you say and God is not. God was there before my time and will be there after my time. For humans to think of something that has no beginning is impossible. Our existence had a beginning so we have no other frame of reference understand God.
I'm gonna share something personal. Couple months ago i was frustrated with God because every show we did was losing money. It was hurting us in a huge way. The ministry was great, people were being blessed. But I felt like God wasn't blessing me. I felt like I was out there for Him and He was letting me down. I got mad and in prayer I told Him all He was giving me was crumbs and I deserved better.
After I cooled down He started to speak to me. You know what He said? You have food in the fridge, a good wife, a good relationship with her, a two month old baby, a roof over your head, you watching deer and turkey in your back yard and I giving you crumbs? If I was to remove my favor form you then you'll see what crumbs look like.
So dude I repented for my attitude and gave God praise for what I had, knowing that His wisdom and logic is way above mine. I humbled myself to the creator.
The world might be 6000 years it might be 6billion years, none of that is going to matter in the end. If the Lord wills we may get 75 summers on this rock. I almost half way already.
If for someone reason I am wrong about my path of faith Trinity and you are right. I would not have any regrets. On the other hand if you are wrong. Well...only you could answer that.
Thanks for jumping in on the post. Alway, appreciate the comments.