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<blockquote data-quote="Fred&amp;#039;s Myth" data-source="post: 5276412" data-attributes="member: 55587">&quot;God made us of nothing, but by the mere act of His will He made us into something. And the same will that brought us into existence is required to keep us in existence. Think hard about this, for in it is the primary truth about ourselves; without it we shall not know the first thing about ourselves- the first thing.&nbsp;&nbsp; A carpenter makes a chair. He leaves it, and the chair continues to exist. Why? Because the material he made it of preserves the shape he has given it. In other words, when the maker of a thing leaves it, it is kept in existence by the material used in its making. If God, having made us, left us, we should be kept in existence by the material used in our making-namely, nothing.&nbsp;&nbsp; What it is made of does not account for any being&#039;s coming into existence or remaining in existence; everything depends at every instant upon the God it is made by. That is one reason for giving the whole power of our mind to knowing God.&quot;&nbsp; -FJ Sheed, Theology for BeginnersGod is as active in our creation as He was in Adam and Eve&#039;s.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fred's Myth, post: 5276412, member: 55587"] "God made us of [B]nothing[/B], but by the mere act of His will He made us into [B]something[/B]. And the same will that brought us into existence is required to keep us in existence. Think hard about this, for in it is the primary truth about ourselves; without it we shall not know the first thing about ourselves- the [I]first[/I] thing. A carpenter makes a chair. He leaves it, and the chair continues to exist. Why? Because the material he made it of preserves the shape he has given it. In other words, when the maker of a thing leaves it, it is kept in existence by the material used in its making. If God, having made us, left us, we should be kept in existence by the material used in our making-namely, nothing. What it is made [I]of[/I] does not account for any being's coming into existence or remaining in existence; everything depends at every instant upon the God it is made [I]by[/I]. That is one reason for giving the whole power of our mind to knowing God." -[I]FJ Sheed, Theology for Beginners[/I] God is as active in our creation as He was in Adam and Eve's. [/QUOTE]

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