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> God is an entity outside of what we perceive as reality, meaning his reality must be used to run our reality That’s not the understanding of God and creation

> God is an entity outside of what we perceive as reality, meaning his reality must be used to run our reality That’s not the understanding of God and creation presented in Scripture. God is not presented as part of a separate reality but is presented as the ultimate and necessary being from whom all contingent beings ultimately come from. God is presented as creating space and matter through His will alone from nothing and breathing a spirit into man who then has free will, agency, and an eternal destiny. You can believe all the vague sci-fi derived philosophies you like but it’s nonsense to map them onto the Bible.

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Jensson 5y ago
It is not nonsense to reason about how the Bible could be true. If God is a computer or God is a programmer both of those scenarios would work and result in the story in the Bible. Instead I'd argue that it is nonsense to say that God isn't a programmer or a computer without coming up with a reasonable alternative. It is also fine to just leave that part out, but in that case I'd say that my religion describing god as a computer has more explanatory power than your religion which just says god existed and used magic to create the universe, it is a very reasonable and sound extension to the origin story in the bible. Ultimately that magic is equivalent to programming the universe, we don't know what kind of hardware he used to run the universe no matter how you view it you can say he programmed it. What else would you call "writing the laws of the universe" than programming?