Christians / Creationists: Here are some honest questions I never really got answered.?

Your analogy breaks down because the carpenter had a beginning, God didn't. Otherwise He wouldn't be God - BY DEFINITION! (Yeah, go look it up!) God didn't create "a table".

He created the building blocks to make that table. He created MEST (Matter, Energy, Space and Time). Try, please just make an attempt, to think through this (hopefully you still have a little brain power left to follow this).

If God created MEST, then He can not be part of the MEST universe He created. God is neither matter nor energy, but something altogether other than either. And to imply otherwise creates a logical contradiction if God created the "stuff" that He consists of.

Furthermore, God can not originate in space or time if He created these. God would transcend both, making Him eternal in duration and infinite in scope. Again, if God was limited to space and time, which He, Himself created, that would create a logical contradiction.

(Perhaps YOU have no problem with logical contradictions, but welcome to Reality!) God is not subject to the laws that govern MEST since God does not consist of MEST. A painter uses brushes to apply paint to a canvas. The paints, the brushes, and the canvas, all follow rules.

Colors mix in certain ways, the canvas takes on paint and the paint dries in certain ways, etc. But the artist does not exist on a canvas, and the laws that govern how paint works on a canvas do not apply to the painter. He transcends the paint, the brushes and the canvas. Paint dries.

The painter doesn't. Paint spreads in a certain way. The painter doesn't.

Paint colors can be mixed. The painter doesn't. It is extremely foolish to try to say the painter must live under same laws that govern paints.

And it would be extreme hubris for a painting to assume that the painter is constrained by the same rules that govern the painting! Your arrogance and foolishness are extreme, at the very least, when you try to pull God down to our level. Your infinitesimally small and temporal mind can never comprehend an infinite and eternal God.

We can use examples and illustrations, but they will always fall short. So, again, your analogy breaks down.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.