Q&A: Questions
Questions
Question
Moses did not eat or drink for forty days while receiving the Torah. How is it possible for a person to survive after such a fast?
In what form was the communication between God and Moses?
Doesn't God need to have a creator, and why?
From a philosophical standpoint, is there proof that God intervenes in and sustains creation?
Thank you
Answer
1. Is anything too wondrous for God?
2. I don't know.
3. Things within our experience have a creator. God is not within our experience, so I do not know whether He needs to have a creator. But if everything needs a creator, you end up with an infinite regress. Therefore, there is no escaping the conclusion that at the beginning of the chain there must be something that does not require a creator.
4. I don't think so.
Discussion on Answer
1. So then how did the waters at the Red Sea remain standing? And how did the sun stand still at Gibeon?
2. No.
3. I answered.
4. What is the question?
Please, these are just needless insistences and a waste of time. I answered the questions.
4. You wrote that there is no proof. I'm asking in a different way: had the Torah not been given, in which it says that God watches over, rewards, and so on, would you understand that God intervenes in creation by sustaining it and running it at every moment?
I don't think this is just etc.; you should respect the questioner 🙂
And I'm asking in order to connect to things that I feel very deeply connected to in my soul.
I respect a questioner when there is a question. Here there wasn't a question. If the Torah had not been given, we would not know this. So what? We also would not know that one must put on tefillin, or that Abraham our forefather existed.
My apologies, but I truly do not understand these questions.
1. But God usually runs His world through nature.
2. And that doesn't bother you, believing in something you don't know how to explain?
3. Same here?
4. Does that seem logical to you?