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Was Jesus God? by Richard Swinburne; Oxford University Press is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The author is no doubt an informed and learned individual, but this only goes to show that where matters of spirituality are concerned, in the chaos and ignorance which prevails at the moment, one can make any claim imaginable with hardly any fear of contradiction. If we believe in a God, then we must attribute to Him a mastery over the known Universe. The Universe contains, at least, 70 million quadrillion stars (70 followed by 21 zeroes) around which are a total of at least that many planets, judging from our own solar system, and on which there must be uncounted life forms. In fact, if every star was a grain of sand 1mm across, there would be enough sand to cover the entire planet Earth --oceans and land masses alike -- with sand to a depth of half a metre. Such a staggering creation could never be perceived by a human mind. The brain, complex as it is, is still incapable of conceiving on such a vast scale. How then can a human being, who we know Jesus to have been, having sisters, brothers, a mother and father, and having hunger, anger, disappointment, even fury, pain, and even despair, be capable of this kind of intelligence? If we are saying that life itself partakes of D
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Richard Swinburne; Oxford University Press
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781281341402
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Religion, Christian
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