@TheCobbler,
Quote:Atheists make babies too and pedophile priests pass out the Eucharist with the same hands they laid on minors. If your hypothesis was true these pedophile priests would be passing out damnation...
All humans are children of God and His hand is involved in the combining of the mind and body into a human being every time it happens.
The priest is physically and mentally flawed. We all have imperfections. Perfection physically enters the universe in the sacraments through the human bodies, spirits, and minds that participate in the sacrament.
Quote:
The only place God might be seen is when people do selfless good deeds for others and, once again, you not have to be religious. The Kind Samaritan story is about a non religious immigrant who demonstrated Gods love without religion to guide him
That is one place I agree. It is hard to argue God is there if the human wants to take all the credit though. You can rightfully argue God isn't involved there.
But, man cannot create a mind or a life let alone combine them. Beyond our capabilities, period.
Receiving the Eucharist in a state of grace (after a valid confession) is a physical act that does the same thing to a person's body that happened to Jesus and the universe when he went through death and resurrection.
Hundreds of people witnessed the death of Jesus and His resurrected body and all know those acts are beyond are capabilities.
What isn't talked about as much is how the universe was prepared for reestablishment of the initial state of perfection the evidence being the earthquake and the darkening of the sun in the afternoon. I think it can be scientifically argued (using entropic gravity) that the final days of that transition will be marked by a universal rise in temperature.
Quote:Ethics, love and procreation do not need God to exist, they exist in spite of those who profess to possess God.
But they need man to exist and man needs God to exist because only He can create something from nothing and life from nonliving matter.
