Our intellect is far too limited to comprehend God from a scientific angle. That’s why I like the eternal someone (God) vs eternal something (Universe) framing. I see no reason why there would be an eternal universe with no beginning, end, or purpose. On the other hand, an infinite creator (God) makes sense as evidence by math, highly complex messages in the form of genomes, laws of physics. It also requires a lot of faith to believe something came from nothing, or that consciousness would emerge in an eternal universe devoid of a creator. From there seek to understand this creator and the gospel accounts of Jesus Christ seem to be reliable, so we can come to know and worship God through Christianity.
The Bible never claimed to have the answers to every natural or supernatural phenomena, so I find it strange to discard Christianity on that basis.
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I would push back slightly here on eternal universe. The universe is scarce and finite, however growing in time and memory around a conserved quantum of thermodynamic memory (Kelvin). Even the addressable “space” must be finite. Time is seemingly growing towards the infinite, yet it’s always finite regardless.
It is the energy that is eternal and conserved, which brings us back to god. As observed in Bitcoin, the “creator” (Satoshi) is gone, yet every miner and every participant transacting is playing a role in the creation of immutable information around a scarce quantum of thermodynamic memory (Satoshis). It’s a pure fractal embedded into the grand ledger.
That begs the question, who is mining the Planck Blocks of discrete quanta? Who is transacting in said blocks. Bitcoin is the literal mathematical framework of the universe we inhabit, we broadly haven’t recognized that yet.
As a thought experiment, put your consciousness inside of “Bitcoin” and you’d see yourself.
Genesis 8:22 - As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease.
John 1:4–5 - In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
How could we “see” universal genesis, the eternal light, without living inside of a timechain?