Who is God?

[sabrebattletank]

Right: There were a bunch of stories circulating about Jesus' childhood though. There were dozens (hundreds? well, a lot) of books people had written about Jesus' life, but only four made it into what we call "the Bible." There was a fifth that almost made it -- I think it was the Gospel of Peter, only it had Jesus doing something really weird at the Resurrection? Something like that -- but it was really close.

[cheesepuffly]

Well as i said, in the bible.

Do you know of these specifically?

[sabrebattletank]

I've never read any of them, but I own a copy of the Gospel of Judas.

EDIT: I've never read any of them that aren't in the Bible :p

Other gospels that got rejected: Gospel of Peter (it got rejected for inklings of docetism, the idea the Jesus' body was only an illusion), Gospel of Mary (there are a bunch of these), Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Gospel of Joseph, Gospel of Thomas... 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament_apocrypha#Infancy_Gospels

[Red Devil]

I just got the Book of Jasher and read the Book of Enoch in December and the Lost Books of the Bible.  Very illuminating.

[cheesepuffly]

Interesting, i knew books got rejected, but never knew them specifically.

They should make a bible of rejected books heheh.

Ill check on them if i can get one.

[hybirdisdf]

Why do they look up the sky and say that is god up there well,those people think there is a god up there and watch them down above the clouds.I feels that they were wrong.The god is actually an earth or sky or sun same way the pharaoh king tut worship to only one god is sun.If they see rays of sun break thur the clouds signal to people that im god with voice.Those people invesigate mystery and strange among and above us.Earth is natural and unexplain mystery power of force created by earth.They afraid of lava.They think satan live down there with bubble of hot gas.Is that a common sense?Jesus is natural born healer.

[Red Devil]

They worship the sun and and planets and stars because they were/are ignorant and belong to the Ross Perot School of Theology ("If I can't see it, touch it, feel it, it doesn't exist!").

And some people's egos are so big that they can't imagine or accept that God lives, who is perfect and more powerful than themselves.

I think most city slickers tend not to believe in God.  They're constantly surrounded by man-made things and noises, but the very first thing they'll cry out when getting mugged/killed is, "Oh God! Help me!".  Out here in the country, away from all that, it becomes very apparent that God lives.

[CivBase]

Ummm.... I live less than a mile south of the biggest city in the state, and I only know two atheists in real life.  I don't think it's city slickers, I think it's just people close to the ocean.  Too much salt water on the brain. 

[Avatar]

Ah, to be young again when the world was simple, and there was so much less grey to life...  the young tend to think in black and white, and don't know enough to know how little they truly know.  It's such a shame that youth is wasted on the young...   

Some very old words from someone who understood people pretty well:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

The universe is more vast and varied then our minds can comprehend, IF you believe the universe is infinite.  Our minds are, despite certain sci-fi movies, very much finite and have proven limits.  I think anyone who could grasp the totality of the universe would go mad, or be so changed by the knowledge that they'd be as good as mad...

Now picture something, someone who could MAKE such a thing...

And what if making the universe wasn't even his real job?  What if our entire existence is just, say, God's hobby?  Like a really big and complex ant farm...   

One final piece of advice from an old timer...  learn to understand just how tiny, how insignificant, how truly sad and pathetic, stupid and selfish, humanity is.  That way you'll truly appreciate it when you meet someone truly good. 

-Av-

[cheesepuffly]

Does you believes in a god or not? (avatar)

[Red Devil]

On the other hand, learn to appreciate how precious and amazing life - your life - truly is.

[Sonic]

Star Gate has the whole universe is infinite and that the knowledge of the ancients (the knowledge of the universe) is too large for a mere human to handle. Ascending (evolving) into energy beings on a higher plane of existence allows you to have this knowledge though.

[Nielk1]

I believe in the inconceivably we call god, I just don't agree with exclusively any one view.

I love Stargate... and Macgyver... wonder if its Mr. Anderson...

[cheesepuffly]

I love cheese

[Nielk1]

I love cheese

So do I, though rather exclusively to 10 particular types.