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all matter and energy that exists today ultimately arose from nothing.

Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. All we can do is look at what we can see and try to make sense of it. That's what we do and what would we do if we didn't do that?

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what we can see and try to make sense of it.

Using our natural senses cannot give us Supernatural answers. The Universe was spoken into existence by The Creator, The Almighty. Can we use your natural senses to understand that kind of Power?

Take a apple seed, within that seed has life - life to create a tree that produces many many apples and within those apples are more seeds. Take a lemon, pear, flower seeds - each seed has life with it's 'own' flavor, appearance, and more seeds. Can we truly understand how a little seed has life and when mixed w/dirt it grows into something magnificent for all to enjoy. Take a sperm seed - within it has the life of a child. It comes forth complete w/hair, fingers and nails, etc.

Can we truly understand how it works or where did that seed get it's life? No. Once we plant the seeds, the miracleous is happening - what God designed it to do - while we wait for that first tomato to come forth and enjoy. While God feeds us with natural things we can enjoy w/our 5 senses, He, also, wants to feed us with His Seed/His Word and once that is planted and grows in our heart, we get to KNOW Him - we can't understand how it happens but His Seed/His Word has life within It.

There are two classes - one spending their time and effort to DISPROVE God who they DON'T KNOW and one that spends their time getting to KNOW God. It's to them that He reveals Himself to. And He does it through a Seed, His Living Word.

Pride caused Lucifer to be changed into satan. By his pride he got the exact opposite of what he wanted. From good to evil. While we can point to someone who exhibits pride, you can't 'see' pride for itself. It's in the spiritual realm. You know it exists but can't see it with our 5 senses. Pride/sin will do the same for us - take us where we don't want to go and faster than we want to go.

Bottom line - God IS God, He WAS always God and WILL BE always God, The Creator, The Almighty. Accept Him by faith and get to know Him instead of 'trying' to disprove Him with our natural sense. It can't happen - one is, merely, spinning their wheels with pride in every spoke.