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How was the world created?
G-d created the world and is involved in it. (Monotheist)
28%
 28%  [ 7 ]
G-d created the world and left it byself after that. (Deist)
8%
 8%  [ 2 ]
Many gods, or one of many gods, created the world. (Polytheistic)
4%
 4%  [ 1 ]
The world was created through random acts of science, with no deity. (Atheist)
12%
 12%  [ 3 ]
I have no clue, maybe a deity or maybe not. (Agnostic)
16%
 16%  [ 4 ]
Other group
16%
 16%  [ 4 ]
Hey! You wrote my group's beliefs wrong!
16%
 16%  [ 4 ]
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Lumanny the Space Jew

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:02 pm


Reform Judaism says:

Once upon a time there was nothing. Nothing but the one G-d, YHVH.
And then G-d created antimatter. And simmeltaneously G-d created matter in forms Solid, Liquid, Gas, and Plasma, organized into elements in molecules made of atoms made of Protons, Neutrons, and Electrons.
And in a flash of power the intensity of a supernova, G-d created the Biggest Bang that there ever was.
And then there were dimensions and universes and galaxies and suns, planets, and moons.

On one such galaxy, much later to be called the Milky Way, G-d placed one such Sun with Eight orbitting planets, and on the Third planet from the Sun, much later to be called Earth, G-d created life in what to Him were Six Days but what were several Billion of what we now call years.
---G-d created Amino Acids out of the Earth. He formed these Amino Acids into Polypeptides and then formed those into Proteins. By the end of the first day, G-d had created Ribonucleic Acid(RNA)- based prokaryote life forms from the proteins. He then evolved them into Eukaryotes with Deoxyribonucleic Acid(DNA).
---G-d evolved these unicellular life forms into Multicelular Life forms and then involved them into so many life forms that the intelligent Homo Sapiens he evolved from Ape-like beings on Day 6 would need Domains, Kingdoms, Phyla, Classes, Orders, Families, Gena, and Species to organize them all. And the first Homo Sapien Male and Female, called אדם (Addam) and חבה(Chava), multiplied and created the Human Race as we know it.
--- G-d Rested on the Seventh Day, and when the Humans began to organize their time into 7-day weeks, the Seventh Day became the שבת (Shabbat), the Sabbath Day of Rest.
PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:01 pm


I think it's as the Bible says, that God created the world in seven days. I don't really care anymore if anyone disagrees.

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:34 pm


Personally I don't know. However this quote expresses my views on this quite accurately "Yeah ... there's this big giant universe and it's expanding, it's all gonna collapse on itself and we're all just here just 'cause ... just 'cause'. That, to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever."
PostPosted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 10:24 am


I believe that science and God go hand-in-hand. Therefore, I kind of believe something akin to: the theory of cause and effect must be wrong, because this theory can never explain "first cause". (If God made the world then who made God? And who made whatever made God? Etc.)

So, "cause and effect" - or any kind of linear qualities to the universe - must be illusions or some sort. Beyond the human experience, there is no time or cause or effect. There is nothing to do or say or experience; one can only "be". This is how God is.

But through this belief I can see the many admirable qualities about human life, where we can learn and struggle and succeed (and the price to pay for being able to do these things - for having linearity - is that we can also fail, be in pain, and live in ignorance).

So, I don't believe the world was ever really "formed", for it doesn't really exist. It is a reality, but realities are not measurable by science. Humans cannot gauge them or give them a "starting date". They just "are", I think.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:34 am


Spirit has always existed. It just floated around in the blackness of space. It (meaning Spirit has no gender) created the planets and stars. It decided to give life to Earth, as well as other planets in a different Solar System. To guide the life on Earth, It creates God and Goddess. God creates the land, and Goddess creates the flowers. They both work together in creating animals, who later Spirit decides will evolve into humans. When the humans start to evolve, the God and Goddess decide that these creatures need some help in surviving, so they bless a certain amount of people with their knowledge, and these selected people are able to work magick. They are witches. Medicine men/woman, healers, etc... They help all the other humans who are not in touch with the Higher Powers; God and Goddess, and ultimately Spirit. These witches pass down their knowledge of nature and their connectivity with the above, and those people who believe in the power of nature, because they accept that after all God and Goddess is within everything because they created it, and Spirit is all around us everywhere, they are pagan.

I'm a Eclectic Dianic Wiccan. That is just the story that I believe, there are other formats of it within paganism.

So, I believe in spirituality as well as evolution.
PostPosted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:40 am


I believe that God created the Earth and all there is in it, in seven time periods. Not seven days. My views are almost similar to the reformed Judaism view of it.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:31 pm


In the beginning, there was One Thing. This was Ein Soph and Kether. It was a mathematical point, zero in area but infinite in mass and energy.

This One Thing burst outward with energy and formed the Abyss- Pure energetic chaos. As this chaos gained distance from the hottest starting point, it cooled and was able to become particles in a plasma state. As this moved away and cooled, it became lighter elements like hydrogen, and eventually heavier elements. As it cooled further and went further from it's original perfect point, it corrupted further and formed molecules. Those things followed the laws crafted by God and did what they did- The gasses fused into stars, the gravity of the stars pulled dust into planets, some planets were able to support life.

This follows the recent theories of Hawking and Einstein, as well as the ancient knowledge of the Alchemists. I find it amusing that as science clears up the infinite gaps in our knowledge, we prove more and more that the ancients already knew it.

Matter as a phase of energy, a single point as the origin of the physical universe, chaotic energy as the first stage of all things, plasma- The ancients knew it in different words, but they knew it.
PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:10 pm


Shadows-shine
I believe that God created the Earth and all there is in it, in seven time periods. Not seven days. My views are almost similar to the reformed Judaism view of it.

Reform Judaism. Never, ever Reformed Judaism.

Lumanny the Space Jew

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TimidFaux

PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:10 pm


xxEternallyBluexx
I think it's as the Bible says, that God created the world in seven days. I don't really care anymore if anyone disagrees.
well i do respect all relegions however if you really used common sence, as well as actually the abilty to learn properly it is quite obvious that relegion it self was a scam created by someone who was obviously a cut above the rest. i will also add that i am not trying to bash anyones beilefes. again i will also add that the only relegion that makes any sence well theres 2 actually and they are pagenisim and budism and yes i know i murder the english laungwage but forgive me lol sad thing is i from the us xD ive never even left the country
PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:15 pm


Echo Ligeia
I believe that science and God go hand-in-hand. Therefore, I kind of believe something akin to: the theory of cause and effect must be wrong, because this theory can never explain "first cause". (If God made the world then who made God? And who made whatever made God? Etc.)

So, "cause and effect" - or any kind of linear qualities to the universe - must be illusions or some sort. Beyond the human experience, there is no time or cause or effect. There is nothing to do or say or experience; one can only "be". This is how God is.

But through this belief I can see the many admirable qualities about human life, where we can learn and struggle and succeed (and the price to pay for being able to do these things - for having linearity - is that we can also fail, be in pain, and live in ignorance).

So, I don't believe the world was ever really "formed", for it doesn't really exist. It is a reality, but realities are not measurable by science. Humans cannot gauge them or give them a "starting date". They just "are", I think.
nice viewpoint i think about the same way

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 11:27 pm


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xxEternallyBluexx
I think it's as the Bible says, that God created the world in seven days. I don't really care anymore if anyone disagrees.
well i do respect all relegions however if you really used common sence, as well as actually the abilty to learn properly it is quite obvious that relegion it self was a scam created by someone who was obviously a cut above the rest. i will also add that i am not trying to bash anyones beilefes. again i will also add that the only relegion that makes any sence well theres 2 actually and they are pagenisim and budism and yes i know i murder the english laungwage but forgive me lol sad thing is i from the us xD ive never even left the country
I don't think so. My mom's had visions, and she's the one who taught me religion. I have no reason not to believe her. There's also been people who have had revelations of God, even when they were busy murdering Christians, like Paul (formerly known as Saul) and certain modern day Muslims. There's other people who have gone through miraculous healings, and for me following Jesus gives me a purpose. If it's a scam, then life's too...dreary for me to want to face the truth.

And you could try Firefox. It has spellcheck, which can make things a lot easier.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:20 am


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again i will also add that the only relegion that makes any sence well theres 2 actually and they are pagenisim and budism


Paganism is not a religion. It is a super-class describing religions that are not Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Rastafarian, and possibly Zoroastrianism). And on that, that would make Buddhism a Pagan religion.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:31 am


I have no DEFINITE idea of how the universe was created, but that doesn't mean I'll just believe some random story of any deity I choose.
How, particularly, the universe was created is pretty much a blur to me because of my lack of the understanding of the world of matter. That doesn't mean there ISN'T a way the universe was created, however.
I'll just let some powerful scientist discover a theory while I just focus more on other things of the world.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:11 am


Oh, by the way, which belief system did I describe wrong in the poll?
And for when I remake the poll,m what are the 'other' groups and beliefs?

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Shadows-shine

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:49 am


Lumanny the Space Jew
Shadows-shine
I believe that God created the Earth and all there is in it, in seven time periods. Not seven days. My views are almost similar to the reformed Judaism view of it.

Reform Judaism. Never, ever Reformed Judaism.


Sorry, I misstyped and wasn't able to go back and edit my posts because for some reason I can't or am not allowed to edit or delete my posts once they have been posted.
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