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2022 Dec 18, 2:55pm   24,630 views  121 comments

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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth per Genesis 1.1

The questions I have posed to numerous clergy of all denominations are as follows:

What was God doing before he started creating ?

Where was God, if there was nothing before he started creating ?

According to the physicists etc. there was nothing so how did God come out of nothing ?

https://www.cnet.com/science/stephen-hawking-tells-degrasse-tyson-what-preceded-big-bang/#:~:text=%22Nothing%20was%20around%20before%20the%20Big%2C%20Big%20Bang%2C%22,universe%20is%20best%20described%20by%20a%20Euclidean%20approach.

https://www.livescience.com/what-came-before-big-bang.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/10/05/what-existed-before-the-big-bang/?sh=67c5e507671e

So as of today I have yet to get anything but a variety of wonderful word salads for an answer from clergy of any church or denomination.

Anyone on here have something better than word salad for an answer ?

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117   PeopleUnited   2022 Dec 23, 2:39am  

How so? If someone is bitter about their upbringing or the things that happen to them, they are actually bitter at God, because God allows everything that happens for a reason, and everything that happens happens by the Grace of God to bring the expected end He desires for every believer. No person in hell is there by any reason but their own choice. And every person knows in their heart that there is a God, no matter how hard they try to tell themselves differently and justify their rebellion against Him.

Grace and Mercy abound. And when the gifts of Grace and Mercy are rejected (as most people do reject them according Christ and his teaching of the broad road and the narrow gate).... well that is why everyone deserves a warning because without repentance, changing your mind about sin and rebellion against God, there can be no forgiveness.
118   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2022 Dec 23, 7:30am  

didn’t saint george if fetalyn create everything with saint Obama and angelic Biden?
119   fdhfoiehfeoi   2022 Dec 23, 9:56am  

PeopleUnited says

because God allows everything that happens for a reason


You're forgetting this is a world of choice. Not everything happens the way God would do it, because He allows us to choose.

PeopleUnited says

And every person knows in their heart that there is a God, no matter how hard they try to tell themselves differently and justify their rebellion against Him.


I heard a story once about a missionary traveling down the river to bring the gospel to a tribe. On the way he passed a different tribe who knew he was a missionary, and desperately tried to get him to stay as his boat passed. As he went out of site down a bend in the river, he heard a great wail. Point being, not everyone gets the same opportunities to learn about God.

PeopleUnited says

Grace and Mercy abound.


From God yes, but we have a duty to personally demonstrate those qualities as well.

PeopleUnited says

well that is why everyone deserves a warning because without repentance, changing your mind about sin and rebellion against God, there can be no forgiveness.


Absolutely, don't sugar coat the truth. But also don't forget the most important part of salvation, is that it's only by grace. And if we can't demonstrate grace in our lives with others, how can they understand that crucial point?
120   PeopleUnited   2022 Dec 23, 4:18pm  

Well said brother.

And surely God never wanted people to suffer or die in the first place, but that is the path we all have chosen (sin). But if a person is bitter about their parents, their upbringing, how they were treated, their infirmity or unfair lot in life, they truly are bitter at God, because He reminds us that His grace is sufficient. He knows our suffering and sorrows, and He endures them with us, if we let Him. Even the apostle Paul has a chronic ailment that God did not heal him from, and only God knows for certain why all the evil things happen, but still He can turn every evil, and every pain into victory.

Not everyone has equal access to the gospel, but everyone who seeks Him will find Him, no matter the odds.

The gospel is a two edged sword, Grace yes, but repentance as well. The momentary pain of repentance is replaced by joy. But if there is no conviction, no pain of repentance, there is no salvation.
121   AD   2022 Dec 23, 4:53pm  

Conservation of matter applies, as the universe has always existed even if its total mass has changed in shape, etc.

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