Quotes About Theology

God abhors a naked singularity.

Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.

But the idea that God might want to change his mind is an example of the fallacy, pointed out by St. Augustine, of imagining God as a being existing in time: time is a property only of the universe that God created.

can God make a stone so heavy that he can't lift it?

St. Augustine. When asked: "What did God do before he created the universe?" Augustine didn't reply: "He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions.

When asked: "What did God do before he created the universe?" Augustine didn't reply: "He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions.

As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: "What did God do before he created the universe?" Augustine didn't reply: "He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions." Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe.

What place, then, for a creator?

If one believed that the universe had a beginning, the obvious question was what happened before the beginning? What was God doing before He made the world? Was He preparing Hell for people who asked such questions?

The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.) There

If you like, you can say that the laws [of nature] are the work of God, but that is more a definition of God than a proof of his existence.

So what does this mean in our quest to find out if there is a God? It means that if the universe adds up to nothing, then you don't need a God to create it. The universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Como veremos, o conceito de tempo não tem significado antes do início do universo. Isso foi observado pela primeira vez por santo Agostinho. Quando lhe perguntavam "O que Deus fazia antes de criar o universo?", sua resposta não era "Ele estava preparando o inferno para pessoas que fizessem perguntas como essa". Em vez disso, respondia que o tempo era uma propriedade do universo criada por Deus e não existia antes dele. Quando

Model Ptolemeus diterima di gereja Kristen sebagai gambaran alam semesta yang sesuai dengan Kitab Suci, karena punya kelebihan yaitu menyisakan banyak ruang di luar lingkaran bintang-bintang tak bergerak untuk tempat surga dan neraka.

Apa yang Tuhan lakukan sebelum Dia menciptakan alam semesta? Agustinus tak menjawab: Dia mempersiapkan Neraka untuk orang-orang yang bertanya seperti itu. Dia malah mengatakan bahwa waktu adalah bagian alam semesta yang Tuhan ciptakan, dan waktu tidak ada sebelum permulaan alam semesta.

What happened before the beginning ? What was God doing before he made the world? Was he preparing Hell for people who asked such questions?

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. These laws may have originally been decreed by God, but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it.

Contanto que o universo tenha tido um início, podemos supor que houve um criador. Mas, se o universo fosse de fato absolutamente contido em si mesmo, sem contorno nem borda, ele não teria início nem fim: ele simplesmente seria. Nesse caso, qual é o papel de um criador?

Aristotle, and most of the other Greek philosophers, on the other hand, did not like the idea of a creation because it smacked too much of divine intervention.

One of the big questions we discussed was the origin of the universe, and whether it required a God to create it and set it going.

Paus bilang kepada kami bahwa mempelajari perkembangan alam semesta sesudah Ledakan Besar itu boleh-boleh saja, tapi kami sebaiknya tak mencari tahu mengenai Ledakan Besar karena itulah saat Penciptaan yang merupakan karya Tuhan.

Tant que l'Univers débute à une singularité, on peut supposer qu'il a été créé par une entité extérieure. Mais si l'Univers est complètement autonome, sans frontière ni bord, il ne peut être ni créé ni détruit. Il est, tout simplement. Et dans ce cas, quelle serait la place de Dieu ?

I don't believe in any actual thinking God that marks the fall of every bird in Australia or every bug in India, a God that records all of our sins in a big golden book and judges us when we die—I don't want to believe in a God who would deliberately create bad people and then deliberately send them to roast in a hell He created—but I believe there has to be something.

Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so – pardon the pun – so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist.