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re: 5 year old daughter asks world's toughest question.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 6:22 am to Open Dore Policy
Posted on 8/3/18 at 6:22 am to Open Dore Policy
"Eternal - like space. You could travel through it and keep going but you'll never hit the end. And if you did find an end to space, like a brick wall, what's on the other side of that wall? God is eternal like that. No beginning. No end."
Then you watch her little baby mind explode.
Then you watch her little baby mind explode.
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Posted on 8/3/18 at 6:24 am to Open Dore Policy
God’s essence is existence. He’s the sheer act of “to be” itself. Thus her question is amusing but incoherent. It’s like asking why doesn’t a square have three sides.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 6:28 am to Open Dore Policy
Just remember religion is about Faith
Posted on 8/3/18 at 6:30 am to Open Dore Policy
I went with
I don’t know. Let’s live a good life and ask him when we get to heaven
I don’t know. Let’s live a good life and ask him when we get to heaven
Posted on 8/3/18 at 6:34 am to llfshoals
quote:
"God’s essence is existence. He’s the sheer act of “to be” itself. Thus her question is amusing but incoherent. It’s like asking why doesn’t a square have three sides."
The best answer, so far.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 6:39 am to Open Dore Policy
quote:
My wonderful, excitable, intelligent 5 year old daughter asks many questions, like most her age. Lately, she's really got a tough question and has asked me a few times looking for an answer.
Yep, my daughter asked this question at that age that blew my mind.
She asked, Are you stronger then a chicken?
Me, why yes.
She then puts a nickel on the arm of a chair I was sitting in. Then she asked if I could pick the nickel up with my pecker.
WHAT.
True story and I stated yelling for the wife.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 6:43 am to Open Dore Policy
Santa Clause created God
Posted on 8/3/18 at 6:44 am to meeple
quote:The first four words are clearly a baseball reference. "In the big inning." I think it references that Warren Morris homer.
The answer is in the first four words of the Bible.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 6:50 am to Open Dore Policy
quote:Calling BS that a five year-old said this to start with.
How did God create himself?"
“Who are God’s parents?” would be a more-appropriate question for that age.
Secondly, that question is sexist (“himself”), you Vandy folk are certainly woke as to sexism.
She wouldn’t have picked up on Him being a Him in your household.
Thirdly, RA’ed to move to the Theism Board.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 6:54 am to Open Dore Policy
My parents always said "the bible doesn't give all the answers, so have faith and one day when you get to heaven you can ask him"
Posted on 8/3/18 at 6:56 am to Open Dore Policy
I'm 39 and still wonder the same thing.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 6:58 am to Open Dore Policy
My son has CP and recently asked "why did God make me this way?" That was tough.
This post was edited on 8/3/18 at 6:59 am
Posted on 8/3/18 at 7:06 am to Open Dore Policy
Tell her the truth. It’s all made up
Posted on 8/3/18 at 7:11 am to meeple
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The answer is in the first four words of the Bible
I assume you mean the NKJV or similar of the Bible, of which they are "In the beginning God..." followed by "...created the heaven and the earth."
Which doesn't answer the question.
Did the book get shared, and then when the question arises, Psalms get created just to have an answer so you would believe what the writer(s) wrote?
Putting absolute faith in the frequently translated writings of unknown persons millennia ago seems illogical.
I choose to believe there is a higher power and that he is good. Me and my wife have had things happen that we attribute to him.
And the bible is a great book with wonderful words for self help. But putting all my faith in other faulty human writing?
Nah.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 7:17 am to Open Dore Policy
“Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.”
Genesis 1:2
God has no beginning and no end. He’s always been
Genesis 1:2
God has no beginning and no end. He’s always been
This post was edited on 8/3/18 at 7:17 am
Posted on 8/3/18 at 7:31 am to BobbyCrash
quote:
Thus her question is amusing but incoherent. It’s like asking why doesn’t a square have three sides
Only because we call it a triangle. We could've called it a square.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 7:36 am to soccerfüt
quote:
Calling BS that a five year-old said this to start with.
Well, I wasn't bluffing.
quote:
Secondly, that question is sexist (“himself”), you Vandy folk are certainly woke as to sexism.
You shouldn't generalize.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 7:38 am to fishfighter
quote:
Yep, my daughter asked this question at that age that blew my mind.
She asked, Are you stronger then a chicken?
Me, why yes.
She then puts a nickel on the arm of a chair I was sitting in. Then she asked if I could pick the nickel up with my pecker.
WHAT.
True story and I stated yelling for the wife.
I am so glad I started this thread. That made my day.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 7:40 am to Open Dore Policy
The ultimate answer to explain the universe is probably going to be some paradoxical "something and nothing at the same time" or "the finite (us) exists to define/balance the infinite" Creation is something that requires time as a constraint. If God or whatever governs/created the universe exists outside of time then they weren't "created" at least not from our point of view.
Posted on 8/3/18 at 7:43 am to Open Dore Policy
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