(3rd time mentioning this)
LOL?
I have no idea who you are reffing to?
I never met them.
As for the Greeks, one must also account for their interpretations of God.
Again, never witnessed any of it.
While I understand your need to justify your assumptions, I also understand your inability to consider mine.
If your justification give you peace, why do you feel a need to justify your beliefs?
I exist in reality.
I believe the things in which I experience.
Those experiences allow me to form an opinion on how this are/were/will be.
I know I could be wrong.
After-all, its all just my own opinion based on the experiences I personally endure.
If I document my opinions, as I do here, now, it doesn't make my opinion valid.
Only valid to me.
There is a certain understanding one gets when considering the proclaimed truth.
When that truth aligns with reality, its easier to believe.
Problem is, the truths others seem to have never seems to align with the reality I experience.
I sometimes wish it did.
It sure would be much easier but as it is, it never aligns just right?
I wasn't there to witness the big bang.
From the understanding of my fellow human beings, I can understand how it 'could' have happened.
I also experience things in life that works against the status quo.
So as far as I am concerned, there is more to it than humans understand.
While I can accept that unknown, many people can't and need a definite explanation.
This locks them into an assumption.
Human beings have existed merely 2 million years in a Universe over 13.7 billion years old.
Human beings have only been a civilization as a species for less than 1 million years.
There is no way anyone could understand the nature of a vast Universe or any God that might have made it come to pass.
However, even us lowly, infantile humans acknowledged chaos.
Chaos that defines the predisposition of design.
Its easier for me to imagine life is a product of chaos than to think it was intended by some supreme being.
All across the Universe, we witness chaos on a grand scale that permeates the quantum.
Chaos is as fundamental as gravity and time.
It actually gives me inner peace to know there is no grand design in the Universe.
It just makes sense to me and the experiences I have endured.
There are a lot of people looking for a reason why we hurt.
With an intelligent design, we have an answer but, it never fits our circumstances just right.
But, if we understand that the Universe is merely the result of a chain reaction, it gets easier to deal with the hurt we experience.
Intelligent design indicates that everything happens for a reason.
Chaos indicates that things happen because of cause and effect.
Reality just is.
It doesn't care.
Things happen because they happen.
The big bang was a result of something else.
My marriage failed from a result of something else.
I once thought my marriage failed because of something I did but I finally realized it failed because of random chaos.
The same chaos that governs the Universe.
It wasn't till I embraced the reality before me that I found someone just right for me.
I tried forcing it but I failed because I was trying to apply a reasoning that did not align with the chaos.
I had to learn to accept reality and take steps to live within reality.
I have been on the same road to understanding many get stuck on.
I've made the same assumptions about reality.
I found actual inner peace from letting go of my assumptions and accepting reality as it is.
Reality is painful at first.
The longer it is embraced, the easier it gets to accept.
Reality is harsh and unforgiving but it is also truth and unwavering.
The big bang might have happened but why is that so important?
Frankly, I believe the big bang is still happening.
Its not important to the reality I endure as I gain experience during my life.
Fun to speculate but no actual impact on my life experiences.
It is a chain reaction and it could impact my life experiences by relativity but my mind can't operate on that level.
I operate on the here and now.
In the here and now, reality governs my actions.
I think you missed a part.
(2) As time passed and the things I have discovered has led me to see God in a view that is more than how you see God. And that is being personable. I am not saying you are wrong because I know you are correct. I am just adding more to God than you do!!