Look at it this way: the Earth is accepted to be 4.5 billion years old. Now, the Creationists might argue with this, but who says a day for God is the same length it is for us?

Let's do a little mental experiment here: The Age of the Earth is 4.5 billion years, from the oldest solids. Now, if we take that back a bit further, to when, say, the first gasses that swirled around to make the Earth appeared, we might come up with a number close to 7 billion.

7 billion years. Now, if we postulate that God took six "days" to create the Earth and place the first humans upon it (300,000 to 500,000 years ago), and that his "days" each lasted one billion years, and then took the seventh to rest, we come up with an interesting hypothesis:

God is sleeping. And, if this is all correct, and so is the Bible, then He went to sleep probably several thousand years ago, say, about the time he let the Jews out of Egypt. His last known REAL miracle. Regardless, it's unimportant.

The point is, He's going to be asleep for at least another 999,999 million years.

Fuck.

Where his he sleeping? I want to wake him up and have a few words with him, u'know about what a lousy job he did.

Or he's watching us all and having a good laugh or, most likely, he isn't real.

That's interesting, the Bible never said he stopped resting...

very interesting take on it.

Not true i heard god take a shit today. that turd must have taken on some godly proportions to make god grunt and moan so loud.

Kind of an interesting point, actually. My question would be, however: why would a truly omnipotent being need to sleep at all? Or divert his attention in any way?



Entheogenic

quote:Originally posted by Entheogenic:

Kind of an interesting point, actually. My question would be, however: why would a truly omnipotent being need to sleep at all? Or divert his attention in any way?



Entheogenic

and, with the omniscience thing, there's no limitation on what he can do. he can rest and still watch over the world if he wanted to.

quote:Originally posted by PirateJoe:

and, with the omniscience thing, there's no limitation on what he can do. he can rest and still watch over the world if he wanted to.

Okay, it may be possible to watch while resting. But his seventh day of resting won't be over for millions of years and that means judgement day is a long way off!

Human beings given enough technology could create a planet in much less time than 6 billion years. So God must be mexican or something, that explains why he's always appearing on taco shells I guess.

quote:Originally posted by PirateJoe:

and, with the omniscience thing, there's no limitation on what he can do. he can rest and still watch over the world if he wanted to.



Just out of curiosity, is there actually any line in the bible where it SAYS god is omnipotent and omniscient? I can't recall anyone ever quoting it to prove that point. It's just sort of taken for granted.

So if He’s been asleep, who performed all the judging and smiting in the Old Testament?

quote:Originally posted by AntlerBoy:



Just out of curiosity, is there actually any line in the bible where it SAYS god is omnipotent and omniscient? I can't recall anyone ever quoting it to prove that point. It's just sort of taken for granted.

I don't know if it is or not. But if it isn't, then what gives him the right to call himself God?

quote:Originally posted by flatplat:

So if He’s been asleep, who performed all the judging and smiting in the Old Testament?

Maybe he was talking in his sleep/having nightmares?

Maybe it was fabricated? If God is always right, why did he stop smiting people? People certainly haven't gotten any closer to "God's path" and he didn't have any qualms about killing people before, so why the sudden change of heart?

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quote:Originally posted by flatplat:

So if He’s been asleep, who performed all the judging and smiting in the Old Testament?

He got up to get a drink of water.

quote:Originally posted by AntlerBoy:

He got up to get a drink of water.

No, silly. He had to pee.

For fourty days and fourty nights.