The Creed of Beamishboyism

The Story of God in a Nutshell

God exists outside of time and space. He is the originator of the universe. He originated the universe about 14 billion years ago. Many planets that could support life appeared but I will focus only on our planet because I'm anthropocentric (which sounds better than egocentric, hehe).

God is bound by the laws of physics and he is NOT almighty. He is limited by physics laws which are the laws of the universe.

In a sense, he created the earth because he probably originated the Big Bang. But once the Big Bang took place, everything became set in motion and everything that followed, took its course quite naturally. The earth soon cooled down after it was formed 4.5 billion years ago. As we know today, crystals can form naturally and on earth, there happened to be carbon and hydrogen in abundance. Just as crystals would bond to form the crystals we can see, so did the carbon molecules bond. With the aid of natural lightning, the first formation of what we later term "life" was nothing more than the affinity between molecules that is no different from the natural bonding of crystals. Unicellular organisms began to thrive. One organism ingests another in a most natural process of chemical reaction.

Thus began the "life" of our first ancestor. In a sense, because God originated the Big Bang, he "created" life on earth.

We moved along from unicellular organisms to worms to marine creatures to piakia (spelling uncertain but that is the ancestor of all vertebrates) which dwelt in the sea to the first animal that left the sea (a bit like mudskippers today) to reptiles to the mammalian reptiles that swarmed the earth just before (and possibly even after) the Permian-Triassic Extinction 250 million years ago, ultimately to primates. About 8 million years ago, we split from the gorillas and about 5 or 6 million years ago, so our genetic record tells us, we parted ways with the chimpanzees and we developed and evolved differently.

As it was the case with most evolutionary divergences, it could very well be that a river separated our common ancestors with the chimpanzee into two groups and over hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved into humans and they into modern-day chimps. About 500,000 years ago, we split again from the Neanderthals and they evolved in their own way. They probably became quite intelligent too because they had an even bigger brain than ours. They made the flute about 50,000 years ago whereas the earliest musical instrument (also a flute) found among us was about 30,000 years old in a Cro-Magnon settlement. But they became extinct about 30,000 years ago. It is possible that we viewed them as rivals and exterminated them. It's not the first time we exterminated a whole species.

Where does God come in? God saw that the hominids had grown intelligence and could communicate through language. There were times when he, out of compassion, tried to intervene in human affairs. But God had his limits and he couldn't do much. Our evolutionary paths continued unhindered. Sometimes, God did help us but at times he only served to create misunderstanding among the early hominids which created unnecessary trouble. God realised it was best that he didn't interfere too much, given the fact that he had very limited powers.

Did God communicated with the Neanderthals? Possibly. High concentrations of pollen were found in Neanderthal graves which suggest that they had some form of funeral rites that made use of flowers. We still sprinkle flowers in graves!!! It's likely that they also had some form of religious beliefs.

People ask why God didn't save the 6 million Jews from the evil Nazis or the hundreds of thousands of Chinese from the evil Japs. There is only one answer. He was powerless. He couldn't save the Neanderthals either, could he?

Christians have tried to have it both ways. They make God Almighty AND loving and compassionate. Sorry folksies, you can't have it both ways. If he were almighty, he'd be a nasty little bugger.

Because God communicated with hominids such as ourselves and the extinct Neanderthals, only we are capable of having this concept of God. But we all make God to be what he isn't. The Judeo-Christian religion makes him out to be Almighty, omnipresent, omniscient and omni-everything. But no siree, he isn't. We collected a stack of ancient books and we say it's his Word but sorry folksies, it's not. The ancient Jews, like all ancient people, were a violent lot. Like any nomadic tribe (think of Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan of the Monggols), they would attack cities and kill everyone including children. Naturally, the Jews would say in their holy books that God commanded them to kill. But poor God could do nothing to correct the slur on his name.

But all was not lost for God. He decided to make an appearance among men. He became incarnate and was born Jesus. Jesus taught the Jews how wrong their ancient books were. He'd say, your law says this but I say this. He didn't say "my law". While the OT tells us that God commanded the killing of a man for picking up sticks on the Sabbath, Jesus and his disciples WILFULLY did many things on the Sabbath and when confronted, did he repent? No siree!!! He said rather "The Sabbath was made for men and not men for the Sabbath". Would a God who says that sort of thing order the murder of a man for picking up sticks on the Sabbath??? Certainly NOT.

The law talks of killing a person caught in adultery. What did Jesus say when they were about to stone an adulteress? Did he say, "Obey the law"? Of course not. He effectively stopped them from murdering the woman and he set her free. Did Christ disobey God's law? Of course not. That wasn't God's law. Some people say Christ could forgive and not flout the law. RUBBISH!!!! Read the law. There was no proviso for forgiveness. There was no exception. An adulteress MUST be executed.

Anyway, God continues to be misunderstood today. Churches reinterpret everything and they bark up the wrong tree and try to read in the Bible some special message from God and they wrongly accept the Bible in its entirety as God's word.