I created this with my finger

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   mischeviousmeposted 13 years ago

   Does this make me a god?
   
   
   
   
   

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      wildernessposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      It isn't moving, and has not made up a new religion recognizing you as its creator.
      
      Therefore you are only a minor God, not the big Pooh Bah of all.  A play dough God, dabbling in the inconsequential.
      
      Sorry.
      
      *add*  Maybe if you made another one, slightly different, and provided the two of them with an apple...

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      Brenda Durhamposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      LOL.
      "I" brought this blue bunny here "from outta thin air", and even thereby "gave" him the ability to run. 
      But I sure ain't no god, nor God.
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      So, if you're lookin' for someone to tout you as a god, mischievousme, you've got a long wait coming, I reckon.
      
      And if you're trying to compare the modern use of technology to the powers of God,  you're a long way off there too.

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         mischeviousmeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         I actually created mine in the microsoft paint shop, though I know I'm nothing special.

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         wildernessposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         No, no Brenda.  You made the bunny (and a fine bunny it is) in cyber space, where we are all gods that can do anything and everything we say or do is OK.
         
         Or so the trolls would have us believe...

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            Brenda Durhamposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            indeed! 
            
            
            I got my bunny from a free place online.  I reckon I must've created him before and left him there.   So now my power is shown!     

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               mischeviousmeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               

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      Greekgeekposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      J.R.R. Tolkien believed that the phrase "in God's image" referred not to our looking like God, but rather, having the power to create.
      
      Or rather, "subcreate." God can create animate objects that are self-aware, grow, breed, etc. Whereas we cannot -- so far -- create things that live in the real world. Creation without that vital spark is subcreation. Tolkien's Middle-earth, for him, was a subcreation: it lived in the minds of himself, his friends, and his readers, but of course could never exist in reality rather than just in fantasy because he's not God.
      
      Just a philosphical theory, but I've always liked the idea of "subcreation" as an interesting distinction.

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         Disappearingheadposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Then I agree with Mr. Tolkien.

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      Jonathan Jancoposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Well, if the little tiny particles in the drawing material are conscious on some level then I guess it would make you a god in a sense, or lord I think would be more appropriate. And the imaginary character you created exists on the imaginary plane where you are the exclusive creator of what you imagine.

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      brotheryochananposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Kinda makes you appear silly

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         mischeviousmeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         It was supposed to.

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   Eric Newlandposted 13 years ago

   Actually, if you want to get technical, you didn't create anything. You just rearranged some ones and zeroes on an already existing computer storage medium, itself a rearranged amalgam of already existing matter.

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      Brenda Durhamposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Agreed.  I love your no-nonsense approach.  It stops the subject from going off onto wild tangents. 

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         mischeviousmeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         I was just pokin fun, though art is a form of creation. One uses a guitar to create sound, another uses charcoal to create pictures. So then, what is the difference between God and the mind of man?

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            Brenda Durhamposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            I was having fun too, with the pics etc.  It's a cute thread.
            
            
            The difference is what Eric said.
            The difference between the Creator and the created is like night and day, and beyond.
            
            The Bible does say we Christians have the mind of Christ.  But that doesn't mean we are Him.

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               mischeviousmeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               
               
               
               
               I used pencils for this piece... Is it not also a creation, though the mediums are different?

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                  Brenda Durhamposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                  In an easy definition, yes I suppose the dictionary has that kind of meaning for the word.
                  But I think you're looking for the dictionary's definition (and scientific and theological and common-sense) of "Creation" meaning to cause something to exist with no prior medium or groundwork.

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                     mischeviousmeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                     I tend to think God was a bit of the same, the creation of the attempt to rationalize the natural world...

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                        brotheryochananposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                        Would be true if it were that way. We look at other belief systems pertaining to God and they are deterministically linked with natural patterns and it is quite obvious that they are formed around their environment.
                        But not so with the Creator of the universe. We see that God is in control of the environment with Adam and Eve and that they knew God and yet they did not document their belief system. We find that documentation of God begins with Moses and goes into great detail about how God brought his people out of slavery, took them into a wilderness to survive for 40yrs, taught them the sacrificial system they followed for thousands of years and although we know that the God of the universe has dominion over everything, including weather, we find that yahweh is not purposefully recognized for his ability to control the weather and that he is not a deity of weather or of fertility but a God who hates sin.
                        If we examine this closer we find a startling difference between this God yahweh and all other gods and we find that yahweh is not an attempt of man to define his surroundings but rather defines his purpose.

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   Hubert Williamsposted 13 years ago

   I am a very large man. When I walk into a room people say, "Oh, My God!" but nobody kneels. Imagine that. Hmmm

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      mischeviousmeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I expect it... Kneel before your lord thy Bob.

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         Hubert Williamsposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Hallelujah!!!Lord Bob. Amen and Blessed be! Whooo!

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