The Story of God 3/3

The Story of God
Documentary, Part 3. host: Lord Robert Winston


THE GOD OF THE GAPS
[tags: Religion, Science, Interpretations...]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1525227/

Excerpts:





God Particle


Miracles

Dr Dr. Duncan MacDougall
wanted to find out if soul is material or in-material
he wanted it to weigh.
He took 6 patients dying of tuberculosis
and put them on special weighing bed
and wighed them for last 3 hours of their life
as they were dying.
And what he noticed was, as they expect*,
each one lost weight, on average 21 grams.
.. and concluded therefore that the weights of human soul
was 21 grams.

What he then did, he did the same experiments with dogs,
... when they died, he weighed them, what he found was
that unlike the humans the dogs did'nt lose weight.
So he concluded the Humans have a soul dogs don't.



Pascal, Principles of Uncertainity.
His conclusion became knows as the Pascal's Weigher
it is entirely rational argument for taking an irrational leap of faith.

It is NOT CERTAIN that EVERTHING is CERTAIN.



Galileo Galilie vs Bible

But the idea the science could describe the universe
better than scripture, was harder to suppressed.
By the time Galileo dided,
educated people were turning to scientists not priests for answers.



But nowa days the Vatican even has its own astronomy.

CERTAINITY is science's Original Sin.



A science expanded, God retreated,
He became the God of the gaps,
occupying those parts of the universe,
that are unexplored and unexplained
the science don't get around to yet.

Then in the middle of the 19th century along
came Charles Darwin with his theory of evolution,
and the God pushed so far back that for many people
He disappeared from the map altogether.

Noah's Flood = 4500 years ago.

According to a recent poll
45% of Americans believe that
the Genesis says one thing and
science textbooks say another,
Genesis must be right.

Galileo must be spinning in his grave.



God Gene (VMAT2)
According to Dean our capacity to know God is genetically determined.



Meseum of Creation, Kentucky

Arch
74 ft wide 450 ft long boat.



In America today
Science and God seems to be on collision course.



Perhaps the scientists can take confronts from the words of Sir Isaac Newton
who was a man of God as well as a man of science,
He said this,
"It seems to me as I am like a child
playing on the beach by the the sea
of the vast ocean of truth lies unexplored
before me."

The Story of God 2/3

The Story of God
Documentary, Part 2. host: Lord Robert Winston


NO GOD BUT GOD
[tags: Monotheism:  Judaism, Christianity, Islam]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1525227/

Excerpts:

Abraham tomb is in Hebron
a Philistinaian control town in the west-bank.


Monotheism began with the choice...
gods.



JUDAISM

And this God has complex and intriguing character...

But He is first and foremost a jealous God.


Accroding to the Bible,
3000 people were killed that day (calf worship)
it was monothesim first recoreded massacre.

It was here (Jerusalem)
And here alone when God was Israel
could be worshiped to full extent.
This was the monotheism taken to the ultimate conclusion.

One God worshiped by one people
in one city in one temple.

There's nothing quite like it
before or since in the history of religion.

They were afraid the Temble will become the object of worship on his own right
a kind of golden calf build in bricks and water.

... The pattern of invasions, defeat and exile were
played out again and agian in the land of Israel
for more than 700 years.
After the Assyrians came the Babylonian,
after the Babylonian came the Persian,
and then the Greeks, and finally the Romans.





CHRISTIANITY


Christianity is the direct descended of Judiaism,
it started out as Jewish Cult,
and the first Chrisitains were Jews.

It was Paul - one of Jesus's disciple,
who took the Jewish cult of Chrisitianity
and brought it to non-jewish or gentile world ...

Constantine was the first Christian emperor.




ISLAM

The word Islam means peace,
it means surredner, it means acceptance...
it means a lot of things.
But essentially it means 'surrender.'
So the essence of Islam is submission to the will of God.



Shiite's believe that the example of Ali
and his martyr son Hussain provide the only
certain pathway to Allah.

Shitte's believe God chose prophet's son in law Ali
to succeed Muhammad as Imam - the spiritual and political leader of Imam.
But in the power struglle of following the Prophet's steps
Ali and his family were pushed aside.

... that's the question that devides the Islam this day.



Ashrah commomorates the decisve phase in struggle of control of Islam
The Death of Ali's son Hussain
in the battle of Karbala,
outnumbered, surrounded, and dying of thirst,
Hussain and his followers refused to surrender,
and was slaughtered.

YA HUSSAIN YA HUSSAIN YA HUSSAIN ...



Jurisdiction interpretation and Spiritual interpretation of Islam
There are two trends of Islam
the juristic interpretation of Islam and the spiritual interpretation of Islam.
The juristic interpretation - people who emphasise the rule of conduct
the form of your life, you have to pray in particular fashion,
sit in particular, eat in particular fashion, sleep even in particular fashion,
and the many of these jurists are the ones who become the fundamentalists,
who become insistence try to control other people's conduct.
The mystics on other hand say O look ... .... used to Islam in mare forms with no sincerity
we accept the rules of conduct, but they're not as important as the real sincerity,
because what is the meaning of going up and down if you don't believe.


Every religion has its sacred book
but it's almost impossible to overstate
How sacred the Quran is to Muslims.

It is not just about God,
It is directly from God.

Sex in the Bible

Sex in the Bible
History.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU5y2WWNoew
http://www.mytvblog.org/?p=9237
http://www.mytvblog.org/?p=2233


EXCERPTS:

There is so much sex in bible because there's so much sex in life.

Bible: a good book of love.


4000 years ago fertility was everything.


And until recent time the women and babies often died in child birth.


The bible says nothing about masturbation.
... It is not the issue to the word of God, it is something God just leave to individual.


The Hebrew Bible treat sex as a blessing, but it is not blind to its violent and distractive misuse.


Sex is good gift for marital relations, but we can corrupted. and we very often do.


Lot has been punished for his willingness offer his daughters to stingers.


Entire book of bible calld Song of Songs is devoted to the joy of sex.


Pythagoras, Plato, Alexander the Great, they all are said to be the products of virgin birth.
...
Mary conceives the son of god, but not through sex.


Hebrew Bible prophecies that the Messiah will come from the line of David, ...
5 women are mentioned. ...
Jesus fore-mothers include Tamar, who dressed as a prostitute to seduce his father in law, Rehab the harlot who helped the Israelite to conquer Jericho, Ruth who craft beguiled his dead husband kinsman Boaz into her bed, Beth Sheba who had adultery with King David, and Mary of Nazareth an unmarried pregnant virgin.


Bible forbids all sort of sexual relations outside of marital relation.
It forbids fornication, it forbids adultry, homosexuality, bestiality, incest.


Roman law permitted polygamy, divorce, and prostitution both female and male.
Tradition allowed for the carnal union between men and boys.
The sexual use of slaves, and sacrifice of unwanted infants through the abortion and infanticide.

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