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I work as a project planner, business analyst, and work estimator. I love this work. It allows me to be an unobjective observer and predictor of future performance. In this role, estimating greatly depends upon the assumptions you make for the job. Complex spreadsheets created the final pricing, but depending upon your assumptions and models of the work, the numbers can change drastically Any good estimator knows that the final results are driven by the inputs and in estimating you never have exact inputs so you have to make assumptions.
As you read the theories discussed in Questions and Theories, there are some over-arching assumptions. I think they need to be discussed directly.
BTW, this website uses male pronouns to simplify the wording of many passages. It doesn't mean that God is male or that he is more like a male than a female. This is just a construct I use for communication and no meaning is meant to be conveyed by it.
If we assume the big bang is real, than it logically stands that it was started by God. And if it was created by Him, then we can assume several qualities for Him.
1) He exists outside of the universal dimensions. As such He can easily pass around in time and space to be anywhere at anytime. Also, he can see everything going on, without being seen himself.
2) He understands the universe and us even better than we know ourselves. People may argue this, but even the thought that this is untrue is pretty unfathomable to me.
3) He cares and is involved in the world. The teachings and actions of Jesus show that God is both involved and interested in what is happening in the world. Also, who creates and doesn't have some care about their creation.
Given God cares about the world and humans and that He has immense power, it is logical to believe that the universe is "the best possible world" that God could have created (originally argued by Gottfried Leibniz).
In short, for some of the best things in this world to exist, then there has to be the possibility of bad things, too. What is love, if there is no opportunity to not love? What is imagination, if it is restricted to a narrow moral standard? What is being human, if freedom of action is limited to a set of moral principles? What is faith, if everything is guaranteed? And what is hope if you already have everything you want? What is life without love, imagination, freedom, faith, and hope?
People have mocked Leibniz for his theodicy, but when mockers are thoughtfully questioned, I have never seen a better solution to this world, without breaking one of the assumptions about God. And if you don't believe the assumptions, then you are challenging if Jesus Christ, his teachings, and his resurrection are real.
And if you want to question that, what is your solution to the early church and its behavior? I don't have a better answer (and I have asked all of those questions). Eventually, the argument will dissolve into basic atheism versus the early Christian church. Atheism becomes more irrational than the basic facts of Christianity.
Humans have limited capacity to understand God and the universe. There are several reasons for this. We all have specific gifts and weaknesses which prevents us from comprehending the full truth of reality. Our perspective is limited. Our lives are short and there is no way to view and understand the entirety of our existence. The immensity and complexity of the universe is overwhelming.
Our pride, our self-sufficiency, our fears and desires all prevent us from accepting there could be a creator with specific purposes. We want the creator to respond to our every request, but we don't always understand the cost of that response. Instead, there is someone much more brilliant, much more insightful and loving, who will determine how to respond to our requests.
Many people think all it takes is faith to be a Christian. As critically, it takes humbleness. The faith is the part of us that allows us to we believe that Christ was raised from the dead. The second part to the equation, is the willingness to say "Jesus is Lord". You can not say that honestly, without being humbled.
Most people would rather live as "God" in their "virtual reality" than to live with God in the real world. My theories in this section start with this humbleness. When you argue against these ideas, check your emotions to see if the reactions are more out of your own human pride than about the points discussed.
The first and foremost question, if this is all true is Why? That is discussed in the section about AI.
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