How powerful is your God?
Typical believers view God as something that watches over them, like a parent watching their kid through a window playing in the back yard. Most believers think God has a hand in their daily lives, helping them make the right choices. Almost all believers think God answers prayer, which is why they spend so must time praying. All believers think God made the universe, but they rarely consider the universe outside Earth’s atmosphere.
So what happens when I tell you that the universe is so big you can’t even understand it, you’re not able to comprehend it’s size? Does your mind play tricks on you and try to convince you that God is powerful enough control the universe? Do you make your God as powerful as he needs to be for you to believe in him? Let’s take for instance this image of the Omega Centauri. This is a tiny image through a tiny pinhole of the universe. And it contains hundred of thousands of stars. You can’t actually see the stars with your naked eye, but you can see the cluster of them which is Omega Centauri.
When scientists refer to the universe they use phrases like millions of billions of stars. Millions of Billions, not only can you not convince me of God here on Earth but take into account the Million of Billions of stars, those star’s planets and those planet’s moons and you don’t have a chance. There isn’t anything that made this, their isn’t anything controlling this and the universe will still be here when humans no longer exist.
Here’s the original article with higher quality images of Omega Centauri. Want to be reminded daily of just how small you really are?
Tags: Omega Centauri
This entry was posted on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 at 10:51 am and is filed under From the Internet, My Own Thoughts, The Universe. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:01 am
I completely, totally 100% disagree here. God does exist. It’s evident in everything we see, including human life. How can you honestly say that there is no God, when a pile of a few different types of basic elements came together to make coherent, intelligent life?
Keep in mind, God is NOT corporeal, he is omnipotent and omnipresent. He can see the smallest atom and the largest galaxy. He made it all. In order for there to be as many complexities as exist in our universe, including the ‘universe outside Earth’s atmosphere,’ there HAD to be divine influence. A universe full of things that are IMPOSSIBLE for man to reach, let alone recreate, CAN not and DID not just happen one day by coincidence. Nor have we [humans] been in existence for millions or billions of years or more; nothing has.
Furthermore, thus far every prophesy in the Bible has or is coming true. Not always in the same century, but they are coming true. Now, mere man alone cannot possibly see into the future; and time machines certainly don’t exist.
Moreover, God most certainly does answer prayers! I have SEEN it first hand!
Anyways, I leave you with that thought.
Have a good night!
—-Mike—- [Member blog of the YCF: Young Christian Force - http://universeofmymind.blogspot.com The Universe that is My Mind -- Mike]
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:15 am
Mike, it’s possible that when not talking about religion you sound as normal as everyone else. But when it comes to religion, you, like all the other believers compartmentalize god because there is no logic in your reasoning. When it comes to religion you sound like a crazy person. The only reason you’re not in a facility for crazy people is simply because there are millions of you out there that believe in the same fantasy.
I’ve learned that there is nothing I can say or do to make you think otherwise. However, you’ve been lied too by the same people that compartmentalize their own god because they can’t think rationally about religion either. It’s like the blind leading the blinder.
I wish you the worst of luck. And by that I mean I hope no one falls for your fantasy stories of gods and ghosts. I hope that people see through your ignorant book.