The Big Bang Theory does not say that everything came from nothing so it is your understanding about what the theory actually says that is likely wrong. You say, "The existence of God is never debated in Science" which is an assumption on your part but let's suppose that's true for the sake of argument. Scientist's tend to debate on the conclusions they reach about things they can actually observe. Since there is not a single shred of evidence for a God or God's, there IS nothing to debate.

Nobody knows what God is, even Moses was only allowed to see a glimpse of the back of God as he passed him by. Scientists have debated the existence of God from the beginning in fact most of the early ones were all Christians who made the huge discoveries. It is now that the secular world has diluted the word of God and science has filled young minds with pure hypothesis claiming them as fact. The big bang cannot be proven and every year some new smarty pants comes up with a new variable to make it work so again per conjecture. Man wants to know the big question "why am I here? and in trying to find the answer has turned away from scripture and to science. The concept of time was created by God when he took 6 days to make the Universe and rested the seventh. Hence the seven day week still continuing to this day. In summing up I love science and it has made life much more interesting these past 30-40 years with the introduction of computers, space travel, the hadron accelerator, etc, however I still keep my faith close to my heart and use that to make decisions. At the end of days we will all know who is in charge anyway!

I believe that I can be of some help on the prophecy question. The Energy that makes up the Universe (God) Is not bound by space or time because Energy is space, time is a function of movement through space. So time is an illusion caused by the motion of matter (energy slowed down below the speed of light ) around a central core (black hole) which rotates at the speed of light and transforms matter into energy. This same energy is the real state of consciousness which our subconscious minds are connected to and returns to during our sleeping hours. Prophecy is an everyday occurrence, people from all over the world, following different belief structures, see into the future and have done so from the beginning of our awakened consciousness. Prophecy is nothing out of the ordinary, in fact it is our disconnect from our true nature that has caused our disconnect with the source of prophecy. We are naturally capable of prophecy, it is our conscious minds that rejects the truth that we are energy living a material experience. That means that we are the source, we need to find our true nature as energetic beings and know that everything is an individual aspects of the whole. Ancient people in general were closer to their true nature, intuition was needed much more than it is now. This means that there was probably more prophets then than now, but that does not mean that their prophecies were better. It simply means that more people were able to truly access the Universal consciousness because they were more prone to meditation than most people are today. Sitting quietly with an open mind is how we contact the Universal consciousness, we must keep the ego mind out and allow natural thought to occur naturally. Through out our history prophets are generally laughed at, or not paid any attention to during their life time. It's only after the fact that we see the relevance of their words. There are prophets in every religion that has ever existed here on Earth. Some have a high degree of accuracy, others don't. The point is no one religion owns the market on good or bad prophets. This if further proof of the single nature of all things. If your religious theology was the only true source of all things, then it would also be the only true source of prophecy, but it's not is it? There fore you should begin to understand that we are here to learn to live in a higher state of mind that has communion with the Universal consciousness (God) regularly, and with real positive emotion. I have seen far too much fake spirituality for my taste. I write this to you in hopes that it will be helpful in shedding some light for us all.

I agree, God is the Universe, which means that everything in existence is God. One big dysfunctional family.

This article appears to have had the effect I hoped it would, in that it stirred up emotions and thought. I think that we will probably never have all the answers, but that all that is of God and is God will always exist

Well said that man! Some years ago I stumbled on a series of books entitled "Conversations with God" by Neil Donald Walsch which pretty much confirmed my conclusions as to the nature of that force we call God. I would recommend that you have a read if you can.

Mark, I have spent many years studying the bible and not all of the answers are there. The thing is if you and I read something we do not necessarily understand it in the same way. Like you said this is down to experience and what we have learned. I agree that religion in and of itself has little to do with this. I all depends on what we have experienced and how we choose to believe these influences are working. So before you make assumptions about where someone is coming from you need to walk a mile in their shoes. Not literally of course, but do not jump to conclusions for which you lack the foundations.

Stephen, We learn things by reading and experience. Through books we learn by reading. Through life we experience. So it boils down not to religion, but belief! There was a professor at a college speaking on the non exisitance of God. At the end of his speach he asked if there was any questions. This old man sitting in the back that was eating an apple said..."yes sir, ( while eating his apple ) can you tell me how this apple taste?" The professor said "No, of course not." The old man replied..."Well you do not know what my God taste like either!" So if you are going to talk about anything. Make sure that you have all the information first! Grab a Bible and check it out!!!