"In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth . ."

by nicolaou 118 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • Magnum
    Magnum

    JWs teach that the "heavens" referred to in that passage are the physical heavens - the physical realm beyond earth. According to them, the spirit heavens (the residing place of God) are not referred to in that passage.

    Of course, there are still many unanswered questions about God, where/how he exists, etc.

  • Heaven
    Heaven

    God was in wherever the Pleiades star cluster was before it was created. Uh... errr... wait...

  • Viviane
    Viviane
    it is in fact one mans story. with lots of contradictions I might add. this is whats so puzzling, where did anything come from?

    Why did it have to "come" from anywhere?

    Since He is a spirit being, He exists "nowhere", He exists outside of the psysical realm.

    What is this spirit stuff made of?

  • Fisherman
    Fisherman

    Since He is a spirit being, He exists "nowhere", He exists outside of the psysical realm..

    That is how you see it, but you don't know. The Bible also describes another reality, a spirit realm.

    before the Universe, before matter, there was no time

    You don't know. One definition of time is is the measurement of the duration of events and their intervals between them. Given, the length of a solar year, it is possible to use it as a standard to measure events in the spirit realm ( we are assuming it exists) for the sake of human understanding, before the universe came into existence.

  • Fisherman
    Fisherman
    Given a living creature and the same creature dead, the difference between them is the substance that "animates" them.
  • Finkelstein
    Finkelstein

    The only place one can honestly define god is within the restriction of the human imagination.

  • Viviane
    Viviane
    Given a living creature and the same creature dead, the difference between them is the substance that "animates" them.

    What is that substance?

  • nicolaou
    nicolaou
    TheOldHippie; Since He is a spirit being, He exists "nowhere", He exists outside of the psysical realm.

    This is called 'making stuff up'.

  • sunny23
    sunny23

    Given a living creature and the same creature dead, the difference between them is the substance that "animates" them.


  • prologos
    prologos

    You try to create anything out of nothing, then show and talk. and,

    Movement through time is compulsory only for us. Pure energy is exempt.

    The Earth was not created in the beginning ., The bible writers were wrong, starting with verse 1. Do not argue about wrong.

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