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how old is God?
    #7741781 - 12/10/07 05:37 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Im talking about the concept of god.


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Re: how is is God? [Re: danlennon3]
    #7741792 - 12/10/07 05:38 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Merry Xmas.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC


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Re: how is is God? [Re: danlennon3]
    #7741793 - 12/10/07 05:38 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

how old?

∞.


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Re: how is is God? [Re: im_on_a_boat]
    #7741804 - 12/10/07 05:41 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

woops


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Re: how is is God? [Re: danlennon3]
    #7741814 - 12/10/07 05:43 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

God is as old as mans imagination.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
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Re: how is is God? [Re: danlennon3]
    #7741819 - 12/10/07 05:44 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Prehistoric. The Aryans already had the concept when they introduced Brahmanism into Southern Asia before 1500 BCE (when the Rig Veda was written).


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Re: how is is God? [Re: im_on_a_boat]
    #7742129 - 12/10/07 06:49 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

drkrobotnik said:
how old?

∞.


god is sideways 8 years old!


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I will not fear my passions like a coward.
My body I will give to pleasures,
to diversions that I’ve dreamed of,
to the most daring erotic desires,
to the lustful impulses of my blood, without
any fear at all, for whenever I will—
and I will have the will, strengthened
as I’ll be with contemplation and study—
at the crucial moments I’ll recover
my spirit as was before: ascetic.”


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Re: how is is God? [Re: Icelander]
    #7742204 - 12/10/07 07:00 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

Icelander said:
God is as old as mans imagination.




How old is the Tao.....?
Same answer....?


>^;;^<


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Re: how is is God? [Re: PhanTomCat]
    #7742217 - 12/10/07 07:02 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Everyone knows that he's one day older :razz:


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Re: how is is God? [Re: MushroomTrip]
    #7742249 - 12/10/07 07:07 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

BZZZZZT....!   

God created the Tao on the first day day....    :smirk:


>^;;^<


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Re: how is is God? [Re: PhanTomCat]
    #7742289 - 12/10/07 07:13 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

That what YOU Christians think


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Re: how is is God? [Re: MushroomTrip]
    #7742562 - 12/10/07 08:22 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

69 yrs old IMO


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Re: how is is God? [Re: danlennon3]
    #7742665 - 12/10/07 08:47 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

There is some debate as to whether Neanderthals had religious beliefs. They did bury their dead, and I believe some of these graves were found to contain personal possessions, possibly indicating a belief in an afterlife. As for our own species, there are cave paintings dating back some 40,000 years which many archaeologists believe to be religiously significant. Based on contemporary anthropological research, it is believed that the earliest religions were animist, believing in spirits residing in nature. Ancestor worship seems to also have fairly early origins.

Animism seems to have evolved into polytheism as certain nature spirits became more anthropomorphised and myths developed around them. In fact, the Egyptian word for the gods -- netaru -- is where we derive the word "nature" from. These were the forces of nature, understood as personal spirits which could be called upon through magic and prayer.

On the darker side of things, the more complex understanding of these spirits and institutionalization of their worship was taken advantage of by hierarchies. A priestly class could claim authority over religious life, and command power over the people. This, course, was a double-edged sword, as they were often the first to be blamed when tragedies occurred.

Akhenaten, who ruled from about 1353-1356 BC, is often seen as the first monotheist. He held up Aten, the sun God, as the primordial source of all things. There are, however, some Egyptologists who believe that prior to this, Ra was seen as the supreme God from whom all others emanated, in much the same way that Hindus view Vishnu or Shiva.

So, I guess the question is, at which point would you consider "God" to have developed?


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Re: how is is God? [Re: Silversoul]
    #7743366 - 12/10/07 11:49 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

As soon as "God" developed he was as old as time.

The first people that believed in a god may have believed "God" had always existed. So is not when did the idea of "God" originate. It is how old is what we call God.

The Answer would differ from person to person but my answer would be as old as time has existed. Before time exists, you do not have "befores" or "afters".


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Re: how is is God? [Re: elmanimal]
    #7743408 - 12/11/07 12:01 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)
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Re: how is is God? [Re: ZShroom]
    #7743415 - 12/11/07 12:02 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

too much for you to understand....read a book instead


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Re: how is is God? [Re: ZShroom]
    #7820724 - 01/01/08 04:51 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

God found me by the campfire one stary night, and I have met him there several times since. Probably, when people were more connected to nature, or rather, relied on nature more, God revealed himself more often, simply because he could. When we separated ourselves from that flame we began not to look to or for God, but to other, easier means of living. Just as we have someone else grow our food and school our kids, we now rely on someone to spoonfeed us spirit. I do not think humans, being born human, would have thought that anything else governed them but themselves or other men unless they had seen or felt something, aka God or whatever you want to call it...the holy spirit, creator, the collective...whatever...that made them believe. It seems to me now, that to most people, God is a rumor. When the holy spirit decides to reside in you, or touch you somehow. God was, and is, and always will be...from the beginning and through infinity...something we humans just cannot grasp.


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Re: how is is God? [Re: Silversoul]
    #7820765 - 01/01/08 05:02 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I like how you give the straight up answers, this reminds me of a question that's been in the back of my mind but never found out... the way our time line is.. AD and BC... after death and before christ right? what about the years when he was living? doesn't that leave a gap in the time line?


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Re: how is is God? [Re: Love Cap]
    #7820776 - 01/01/08 05:05 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

what about the years when he was living?




What about them? :sherlock:


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Re: how is is God? [Re: MushroomTrip]
    #7820785 - 01/01/08 05:08 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

ok, the years between 1 After Death (AD) and 1 Before Christ (BC) wouldn't there be years on the time line representing the years he lived?


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