will the real god stand up if there is one, page-4

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    Iglug,In order to try to understand God why not start with one of his cardinal attributes. Let's try POWER rather than LOVE,JUSTICE or WISDOM because power can be measured.
    How much energy does the sun contain? I think we have struck a problem! We need to call in some experts.
    They tell us at its core, the sun is about 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit [15,000,000°C]. If you could take a pinhead-sized piece of the sun’s core and put it here on the earth, you could not safely stand within 90 miles [140 km] of that tiny heat source! Every second, the sun emits energy equivalent to the explosion of many hundreds of millions of nuclear bombs.
    The sun is so huge that over 1,300,000 of our earths could fit inside it. Is the sun an unusually large star? No, astronomers call it a yellow dwarf. The apostle Paul wrote that “star differs from star in glory.” (1 Corinthians 15:41) He could not have known how true those inspired words are. There is a star so huge that if it were placed right where the sun is, our earth would be inside it. Another giant star so placed would reach all the way out to Saturn—although that planet is so far from the earth that it took a spacecraft four years to get there, traveling over 40 times faster than a bullet fired from a powerful handgun!
    Even more awesome than the size of the stars is their number. In fact, the Bible suggests that the stars are virtually innumerable, as difficult to count as “the sand of the sea.” (Jeremiah 33:22) This statement implies that there are far more stars than the naked eye can see. After all, if a Bible writer, such as Jeremiah, had looked up at the night sky and had tried to count the visible stars, he would have counted only three thousand or so, for that is how many the unaided human eye can detect on a clear night. That number might be comparable to the number of grains in a mere handful of sand. In reality, though, the number of stars is overwhelming, like the sand of the sea.
    Just how did the sun & the countless stars come to be? The Scriptures invite us to:
    (Isaiah 40:26) “Raise YOUR eyes high up and see. Who has created these things? It is the One who is bringing forth the army of them even by number, all of whom he calls even by name. Due to the abundance of dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power, not one [of them] is missing.
    Little wonder Jehovah is sspoken of as being almighty.The Greek word rendered “Almighty” literally means “Ruler Over All; One Who Has All Power.”
    So where does Jehovah reside? King Solomon inspired words tell us:
    (1 Kings 8:27) “But will God truly dwell upon the earth? Look! The heavens, yes, the heaven of the heavens, themselves cannot contain you; how much less, then, this house that I have built!
    God created man to endlessly praise Him. Even for all eternity however this will hold true:
    (Romans 11:33) O the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable his judgments [are] and past tracing out his ways [are]!


 
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