In six days, God created the universe and all thats in it.
God flooded the planet in a 40 day rainfall.
God “Nuked” Sodom and Gomorrah.
God parted The Red Sea.
As time goes by, The Almighty’s power seems to manifest in less and less powerful displays of might.
Indeed, as the Israelites entered the Promised Land, God Himself is not purging the land of Canaanites, but instead instructs The Israelites to do the wet-work.
Well, it’s known that God can’t handle iron chariots. The most logical explanation for this is that God is actually one of the Sidhe, and humanity’s increasing use of iron has weakened his powers and prevented him from making many personal appearances since the beginning of the Iron Age.
The fact that the universe exists is, in the tradition of the Abrhamic religions, a result of God’s continuing intention that is should exist. The manifestation of power contained in the parting, on one occasion, of one body of water, or the destruction of two settlements, is trivial compared with the maintenance in being of the entire universe, given that it might just as easily not exist at all. So, no, God’s power hasn;t waned. We’ve just become less impressed with it.
I don’t believe in God but if he did exist, just because his miracles got less impressive (to the point where they seem to have stopped entirely for a couple millennium) it doesn’t have to mean his power is waning.
Maybe he just needed an extra firm kick start to get everything in motion, and once it’s rolling he can back off, bit by bit. Maybe he did things the way he did because he knew that someday it would make YOU ask that very question on this board and so set in motion some sort of other mysterious chain of events that we as mortals can’t comprehend. Maybe he saw something shiny and forgot all about us. You can think up pretty much any reason you’d like but without any evidence it’s just so much celestial fan fiction.
He doesn’t really have to impress us anymore. Pan and Zeus are out of the running, a few billion people believe in him one way or another, and he doesn’t want to seem too needy. He wants to be that cool, aloof God that has an air of mystery about himself.
“What’s the matter, God?”
“You wouldn’t understand, man.”
Nah, he’s more of a Starving Artist kinda guy. “Bah, youngsters these days, couldn’t even drop the joint to gimme a fattened calf ! Why, in MY day, fathers would sacrifice their own flesh and blood, doublequick ! I blame the liberal Huns… spending all their days on the saddle, looting and plundering, never doing an honest day’s work…”
The universe is continuing to be created. The Big Bang is happening now. The sound of the “blast” continues to travel in sound waves. Scientists have seen them.
No, that’s not how it works. I think you’re trying to talk about the cosmic microwave background radiation, but you’ve screwed it up. The Big Bang is not happening now. The universe continues to expand, but is not “continuing to be created.” Go read a few books on the subject, then come back and talk sense.
Man, I don’t know if that horror movie’s been made, but it needs to be. It’s either the Second coming, or it’s a zombie uprising - we’re not sure. Brilliant.