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I agree that people claiming to know God's mind and intention is troubling, but people being troublesome is a normal part of life, and some times (not always) the trouble makers are the ones who are right.I ... just want to point out that what troubles me is people who claim to know God's mind and intent and put us (conveniently including themselves) at the center of that intent.
You also say "the center of that intent" which is a different thing, because my finding (and I do say) that humanity is indeed the center and the true dynamic of God's intentions, which is basically what I said in posting #8, page 1, of this thread HERE = .
The very idea that humanity is somehow less-than important (less than super important) is an absurdity to my perspective.
I do see religion as that "dividing line" just as was said before:Religion is not the line that divides one from the other
QUOTE: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." ~ Albert Einstein
Of course that is the "dividing line" for me because I embrace both science and religion (as did Einstein) and the one true divider is thereby RELIGION.
It might have been otherwise a thousand or 500 years ago when science was the divider but now the table is turned, IMO.
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That is correct, but that is misleading.a better way would be the total perspective vortex.
When you are put into the Vortex you are given just one momentary glimpse of the entire unimaginable infinity of creation, and somewhere in it a tiny little mark, a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot, which says, "You are here.
It shows exactly our place in the universe as a whole. a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot.
Being super small or microscopic / tiny in the extreme - does NOT mean less important or less meaningful or less anything.
Science tells us that before the BIG BANG that the entire universe was so small that it had no real substance or size.
The atomic bomb is based on a tiny little atom creating a very LARGE explosion.
Even in the Bible Jesus said to have faith being as small as the smallest mustard seed in order to move mountains, Matthew 17:20, and not large faith because the real power is in the SMALL.
Men have the idea that larger is better and the bigger the better, and sometimes bigger is better, but it appears that idea is not quite right for all things.
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My understanding is that God must always play by the rules, that the rules are the domain of God.It must have taken 14 billion years for God to make all that stuff.
As such the laws of physics (the correct laws) are the limits of God just as for mankind.