1) Doesn't the theory state that all the matter & energy was confined in a very small space and that the big bang caused it to expand out into what is our current universe? That is how I have heard it explained anyway. So, how did the very dense lump of matter & energy get there in the first place and how did the bang occur? What cause the random collection of gases and such to explode out and form planets, oceans, forests and Jennifer Aniston?
2) I agree many have claimed to be the truth, etc. But, how do you explain the miraculous life, death and resurrection of Jesus if he was just another kook claiming to be someone he wasn't?
I understand that many people do not believe Jesus was divine. But, it sounded like Death was saying he was "invented". Not sure if he meant that Jesus was a myth, never even existed, etc. Or if he meant that Jesus walked the earth 2000 yrs ago but never did/said the stuff that was claimed about him.
His history is pretty well attested by both biblical and non-biblical sources. Unless you disregard all this evidence (which would mean you would have to throw out all history with less evidence like Julius Ceaser, Socrates, Plato, Alexander the Great, etc) you have to evaluate it somehow. What do you do with it?
I guess you can believe that if you want to.
What about all the historians that wrote of the Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Persian empires? Where they all fictional characters? How far do you take it? What about the people that wrote about the American Revolution? How do we know it ever even happened?
In normal people language...
Supposedly our entire universe was confined in a very small dense ball that blew up " big bang" and expanded outward and is expanding out into infinity.
The interesting thing is that they now believe it didn't all expand outward at the same rate of speed... It accelerated faster at first, even faster than the speed of light. This is now a topic for further discovery.
The non religious people believe that particles from space came to earth ( possibly from an asteroid) and landed in our oceans and that is where life began.
Possibly from single celled organisms evolving, or possibly from chemical reactions between stuff on earth and stuff from space...
So if you believe in god..
1) Does stuff from space creating chemical reactions or a chain reaction of single celled organisms disprove anything? Did god have to physically create people, or could he just create single cell organisms/chemical reactions that morphed all the way into people?
If you don't believe in god?
What was there before the big bang? Who created the rules of the universe? If the universe is ever expanding, what is on the other side of the part it is expanding to.. is there a limit...
Some people also believe that if the universe is expanding, that it will bounce back and contract.
Interesting indeed. I'll have to agree with Tiz though, in that the human race is truly clueless in unlocking the universe. Sometimes I wish I went for science instead of the money.
Supposedly our entire universe was confined in a very small dense ball that blew up " big bang" and expanded outward and is expanding out into infinity.
The interesting thing is that they now believe it didn't all expand outward at the same rate of speed... It accelerated faster at first, even faster than the speed of light. This is now a topic for further discovery.
The non religious people believe that particles from space came to earth ( possibly from an asteroid) and landed in our oceans and that is where life began.
Possibly from single celled organisms evolving, or possibly from chemical reactions between stuff on earth and stuff from space...
So if you believe in god..
1) Does stuff from space creating chemical reactions or a chain reaction of single celled organisms disprove anything? Did god have to physically create people, or could he just create single cell organisms/chemical reactions that morphed all the way into people?
If you don't believe in god?
What was there before the big bang? Who created the rules of the universe? If the universe is ever expanding, what is on the other side of the part it is expanding to.. is there a limit...
Some people also believe that if the universe is expanding, that it will bounce back and contract.
Interesting indeed. I'll have to agree with Tiz though, in that the human race is truly clueless in unlocking the universe. Sometimes I wish I went for science instead of the money.
They were as you said empires, large populations, lots of recorded history, ruins.
Without the new testament there is questionable to no evidence that a man named Jesus ever existed and the new testament is a hard case to defend.
The Jews nor the Muslims (who were around at that time) accept him.
1) A fair question with an unknown answer; of course, you have to ask yourself how your God existed in the first place.
2) How do you know Jesus was resurrected? Any real scientific proof or just accepting the word of people who thought the earth was flat, that earthquakes were God getting angry, etc.?
The NT has more copies, earlier copies than any other manuscripts from the ancient world. In addition, it was written as an eye witness account. when an eye-witness account is written, within the lifetime of those supposed eye-witnesses, it is much more compelling that a historical narrative written about events hundreds of years later by non eye-witnesses.
The number of copies, the length of time between the events and the earliest copies, and the accuracy of those copies are the criteria for analyzing ancient documents. It is very simple, if you cannot believe the NT, you cannot believe any of the other works from the ancient world. To do so would should bias of the most extreme kind.
There are over 20,000 pieces of manuscript evidence for the NT and most non-believers doubt its authenticy. Yet, there are less than 50 pieces of manuscript evidence for the writings of Plato yet no one doubts that what is written about him is authentic. Why is that?
Lastly, the muslims believe all the miracles attributed to Jesus in the NT but they do not believe he was the son of God and do not believe he was crucified. They do believe that he was a prophet and they put him on he same level as Moses. The jews do not believe he was the Messiah but they would never make a statement as ridiculous as "he never existed".
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