Thinking about God, Jesus and The Big Questions

One thing about which Christians can rejoice is that no-one can strip you of your religion.  Although this fact sounds obvious, there are many people who try to act as though they can forcibly remove religion from people.  The truth of the matter is that they are absolutely powerless to do so.  Unlike for example a jacket or a pair of shoes, no-one can take your beliefs away from you.  Even if a law were to be passed abolishing all religion, you are still free to have your own beliefs.  (You may be persecuted for them, but you can still have those beliefs - no-one can physically locate and grab your beliefs and take them away against your will.)  As an example, suppose a dictator didn't like the notion of, say, gravity, and said that believing in gravity was illegal, as was talking about it to others.  Well, whether or not you talk about it to others, odds are that you will continue to believe in gravity. If someone thinks your religion is a l...

In a previous post, I discussed how time works very differently in God's outer Universe than it does in our universe.  Our universe (containing the earth and the solar system and all the galaxies) is merely a small part of the much bigger Universe created by God.  We are a universe nestled within a Universe. I mentioned that time as we know it is probably a sort of artificial construct created for us in this particular world containing our galaxies.  I hypothesized that our time as we know it is probably related somehow to whatever the 'real' time construct is out there in God's world, but that our local time-construct is still separate and made just for us. Why events do not happen on our time but on God's time In the Bible, prophecies tend to indicate that an event will happen after a certain other event.  Or that an event may happen before a certain other event comes to pass.  Prophecies usually do not specify "on calendar day such-and-such, this part...