Questions and Statements about God...

[Jabu_Rule]

Lets go back to Africa where Homo Sapiens started from as science and even many old wives tales has proven. What were the Africans praising? Was it the spirits? What was the greatest spirit? The Sun? Some of my African bros and Hoes help me out here with this theory. Were scared little humans afraid of the big ol sun and raging rivers and attributed a human personality or animal personality to them?

is that a picture of the rapper Rakim in your avatar?

"How did we come about religion anyway? "

But what's your point homey. Did the Abrehamic religions that control the world today not start in Africa?

I asked people to enlighten me on that btw. "Some of my African bros and Hoes help me out here with this theory". Did the Africans of old think that they were a part of the greater universe? IDK help me out here.

"Many of the elements that we claim to be created by god"

I'll change We to many so you don't get to confused. That would have been the thing to quote though. It would help though if you answered something about the topic rather then misquote me and claim i'm wrong without offering anything.

Nah that's Grand Master Flash from the Furious Five. How does that look anything like Rakim?

 

[fiat_money]

God = How to explain anything you are too uneducated or uninformed to understand.

Ancient cosign:

 

[anthony7q]

"How did we come about religion anyway? "

But what's your point homey. Did the Abrehamic religions that control the world today not start in Africa?

I asked people to enlighten me on that btw. "Some of my African bros and Hoes help me out here with this theory". Did the Africans of old think that they were a part of the greater universe? IDK help me out here.

"Many of the elements that we claim to be created by god"

I'll change We to many so you don't get to confused. That would have been the thing to quote though. It would help though if you answered something about the topic rather then misquote me and claim i'm wrong without offering anything.

Nah that's Grand Master Flash from the Furious Five. How does that look anything like Rakim?

Well maybe a little. lol

SMDH. You must be white. Or better yet I hope you're white. SMDH.

I doubt women in Africa refer to themselves as 'hoes'.

 

[Jabu_Rule]

SMDH. You must be white. Or better yet I hope you're white. SMDH.

I doubt women in Africa refer to themselves as 'hoes'.

Brother stay on topic. I'm as black as my dick. Keep yo hoes in check. It's necessary in this day and age.

 

[anthony7q]

Brother stay on topic. I'm as black as my dick. Keep yo hoes in check. It's necessary in this day and age.

How did you become interested in Grandmaster Flash?

 

[KTULU IS BACK]

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[Jabu_Rule]

How did you become interested in Grandmaster Flash?

How did you learn to stay on topic? Can you elaborate on the African religious experience?

 

[DoUwant2go2Heaven]

"In the BEGINNING God created the heaven and the earth." Genesis 1:1

The universe had a beginning, thus it can't be God.

 

[anthony7q]

How did you learn to stay on topic? Can you elaborate on the African religious experience?

The people that live on the african continent are very diverse. There are over 2,000 different languages spoken. What country in Africa are you talking about. I have only read a couple of things about Ancient Egypt and the Botswana tribe. They believed that there ancestors came from the Star Sirius.

I have read that all of the major religion were taken from Egypt by western society.

 

[fiat_money]

"In the BEGINNING God created the heaven and the earth." Genesis 1:1

The universe had a beginning, thus it can't be God.

"In the beginning, man created 'God' and religion." fiat_money 8:17

Man created "God", thus it can't be the universe.

 

[Jabu_Rule]

The people that live on the african continent are very diverse. There are over 2,000 different languages spoken. What country in Africa are you talking about. I have only read a couple of things about Ancient Egypt and the Botswana tribe. They believed that there ancestors came from the Star Sirius.

I have read that all of the major religion were taken from Egypt by western society.

Was it taken or did it spread? I mean naturally Christianity found it's way to Rome from Israel via Egypt. Before that it found it's way in Greece via Egypt. Influences also came from the Persian culture via Zoroastrianism. I'm talking about the earliest cultures that were found. It's really a theory based on the various spirit concepts that i see especially amongst the Yoruba. I'm sure things vary from culture to culture and Egypt even though it created a more complex religion still had gods and goddesses that were named for natural events. The center of the universe thing may indeed be western but the question was about God and the nature of the universe.

I was born in BK during the beginnings of hip hop. How would i not know about grandmaster flash. I just have him in my AV cause i wanted to pay homage to the old school and make a recognizable name at the same time. That's a convo for other sub-forums though.

 

[Jabu_Rule]

"In the BEGINNING God created the heaven and the earth." Genesis 1:1

The universe had a beginning, thus it can't be God.

But earth wasn't created in the beginning. If we are talking heavens as in the universe then, it is far older then the earth or even our solar system. The concept of the universe is still being pondered but more are leaning towards no intelligence necessary.

 

[Israelites]

I concur.

So do you take the “lake of fire” as a literal lake of fire? If yes, that’s an enigma we have to unravel because as we all know a literal lake is a body of water, not fire.

literal, first off we must understand it was made for spirit beings to dwell, they want be killed in the lake of fire, just tormented..this is why the scriptures gave us an example on how that will work w/the rich man wanting a drop of water on his tongue but the other person stated there was a gulf between them & they couldn't enter over into it nor anyone from there will be able to enter on the other side of the Kingdom... everything will be in the Kingdom which will be established on earth... this is why Christ stated in Matthew the difference between the least side of the Kingdom & the Great side of the Kingdom...

your right a lake is a body of water, I'm thinking (just my thoughts here) it will expand as big as a lake would but will have fire instead of water since after we've been changed into spirit beings (be it good or bad) there will be no more sea.

 

[BiblicalAtheist]

Many of the elements that we claim to be created by god on this earth that some are made of can be found throughout the universe.

All of the elements we are made of came from the stars through nuclear fission.

thought that we were the center of everything

It still is this way. We live our entire lives out through the confines of our mind, everything is what it is because we made it that way. "All things are but inherent phenomena of the mind. Apart from the mind nothing exists, not even the minutest particle."

What were the Africans praising?

Imo, everything that god is, which is everything and nothing.

 

[fiat_money]

All of the elements we are made of came from the stars through nuclear fission...

Word ?

 

[KTULU IS BACK]

the hydrogen is from the big bang

thats why there are stars to begin with

 

[BiblicalAtheist]

Word ?

For reals. 98% of the atoms in the universe are hydrogen and helium, the other 2% are the other elements. Every other element was created through nuclear fission in the stars.

 

[KTULU IS BACK]

you mean fusion though

 

[BiblicalAtheist]

No I don't. I mean fission.

Unless of course you can show me where I am wrong and why. Then I will concede.

EDIT: Nm, I concede.

 

[fiat_money]

For reals. 98% of the atoms in the universe are hydrogen and helium, the other 2% are the other elements. Every other element was created through nuclear fission in the stars.

Word, I was going to ask how stars were the source of hydrogen. But doesn't fission separate atoms? Hydrogen and helium don't have many spare electrons. So how could breaking them apart create heavy/heavier atoms?

SMH @ Me missing the above post.