4 U.S. Air Force Northrop F-5E Tiger II fighters from the 58th Tactical Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona (USA), flying in an echelon left formation over the Grand Canyon. Photo #1 by Camera Operator: TSgt Bob Simons, USAF
Ancestral Puebloan granaries high above the Colorado River at Nankoweap Creek, Grand Canyon. Photo #2 by Drenaline
Grand Canyon Horse Shoe Bend. Photo #3 by Christian Mehlführer
Grand Canyon Walls HD. Photo #4 by WallpaperWeb
Grand Canyon Colors of the Earth. Photo #5 by OilBac
Devil’s Corkscrew – Bright Angel Trail – Grand Canyon. Photo #6 by Al_HikesAZ
Little red dot against the Grand Canyon. Photo #7 by Eva Prokop
Grand Canyon Arizona. Photo #8 by Ignacio Izquierdo
Cheyava Falls upper cascade – Grand Canyon. Photo #9 by Al_HikesAZ
Full Moon over the Grand Canyon. Photo #10 by Matthew Hunt
Beginning a new day rafting the Colorado River – Grand Canyon. Photo #11 by Al_HikesAZ
Ooh-Aah Point view – storm clouds gathering. Photo #12 by Al_HikesAZ
View to southeast from Clear Creek Camp – Grand Canyon. Photo #13 by Al_HikesAZ
Grand Canyon. Photo #14 by Ignacio Izquierdo
Grand Canyon – USA. Photo #15 by Tenji
Photographed by Doug Dolde at Grand Canyon National Park. Photo #16 by Doug Dolde
Mountain goat – Bighorn, Grand Canyon. Photo #17 by Marcin Wichary from San Francisco, U.S.A.
Upper Beaver Falls from trail – Grand Canyon. Photo #18 by Al_HikesAZ
Comanche Point, on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, above the Colorado River. Photo #19 by Doc Searls from Santa Barbara, USA
Grand Canyon – behind Ribbon Falls. Photo #20 by Al_HikesAZ
Grand Canyon view from Hermit’s Rest. Photo #21 by chensiyuan
Grand Canyon taken from Bright Angel. Photo #22 by Tomas Castelazo
Mount Hayden and storm – Grand Canyon North Rim. Photo #23 by Al_HikesAZ
Grand Canyon West – Guano Point. Photo #24 by Bbarnucz
Colorado River – Grand Canyon. Photo #25 by Wolfgang Staudt
Muddy whitewater rafting Grand Canyon. Photo #26 by MolallaRiverCowboy
Colorado River, Marble Canyon marks the beginning of the Grand Canyon. Photo #27 by Joshua M.
Grand Canyon North Rim Panorama. Photo #28 by Jeff Turner from Santa Clarita, CA, United States
Mount Hayden, North Rim Grand Canyon. Photo #29 by James Marvin Phelps from USA
Grand Canyon National Park – Arizona. Photo #30 by Poco a poco
Grand Canyon landscape. Photo #31 by High Contrast
Grand Canyon in Winter. Photo #32 by Pescaiolo
Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States. Photo #33 by TFCforever
Skywalk at the Grand Canyon. Photo #34 by Purple
Havasu Falls – a waterfall located on the Havasupai Indian Reservation in the Grand Canyon. Photo #35 by Photography Match
I have been to the Grand Canyon. My two sons, sister and my niece. All I have to say is there is a God. I have never seen such beauty. I cried, when I saw the beauty. It was the last trip that my sister and I did. She passed three years ago. It was the best trip with my sons. Glad I could share this with them.
I agree that the canyon is something else, but it was formed by nature without intervention from any God.
Bernie, I don’t know you and by your remark I’m sure not missing anything either.
Well said Mike! Bernie, “some” opinions are just better left unsaid! (the latter of your remark). But Hey! Thats MY opinion! Whatever keeps oneself HAPPY! : ) 🙂 Have a good one! LOVED the amazing pics! Can’t wait to make it there someday!!!!!!
Right. As usual, the fact that soil erosion requires no divine intervention is called an “opinion” which should “be left unsaid,” while superstition and misinterpretation of all evidence is revered and respected.
I really urge you to research carefully the evidence for creation before you call it an “opinion”. If you do your research with a biased view to begin with I can see where you went wrong.
this is completely surreal. look at the river….see that it’s in the bottom of the canyon. watch the water eroding the walls and soil = canyon created by erosion. it’s shocking people are still debating this. if you have a basic high school education and you paid attention it should be clear. what’s behind all of this is a mystery and should be celebrated as that. but don’t take your religious book and try to use it to educate.
Bernie, you really are in for a rude awakening. You are entitled to believe whatever you like.
Doesn’t really matter, God believes in you all the same. Have a good life.
God Made everything on this earth Including us,one thing he did not create was your attitude and outlook on thing’s that Sir Is MAN Made!!
So! Who made God?
To whom ever reads this comment, I really hope you can understand.
Now, about that comment, you see, I know for a fact that all things made with
so much beauty does indeed come from OUR Father God, please know, God blessed whom ever
with the ability’s to make such beautiful wonders here on earth. Now the comment,” Who Made God,”
well,do your self a good thing, pray and ask God, “where He came from.”
What is amazing is that fifty per cent of Americans do not believe in evolution. Rather than the majesty of the Grand Canyon formed through million of years of wear, some foolishly believe everything was created six thousand years ago. Nature itself, alone, contains the entire gamut of beauty to ugly, kindness to utter cruelty and so forth without any intervention by spirits.
Actually God did create his attitude, that very action makes for stronger Christians.
The Grand Canyon is one of God’s messages to man. God’s main interest is to Love and Fulfill people by helping them find the most intimate relationship possible – which is within Him. All the world – or at least the parts which have not been polluted by man – is a testimony of His Love for us. He’s desiring our good. He doesn’t NEED anything Himself; He’s God! But He urgently Wants us to be Truly Happy, and that can only happen in intimacy with Him.
So, he speaks to us in a million ways, calling us to Himself. These pictures say to me, “See how much I Love You?” He is Pure Spirit, and He asks us to believe Him more than we believe what we see and know. That’s Faith.
There are many people who KNOW that evolution has been SCIENTIFICALLY disproven for several decades. The ones who still believe it are the ones who WANT to believe it, instead of believing God. Those will never be happy until they repent of their foolishness and hard hearts.
Father God is waiting with Great Love to receive anyone and everyone who comes to Him. The Grand Canyon is one of a zillion proofs of this.
You look at a Timex watch and you know that someone made it. You look at an office building and you know someone designed it. I have never seen God, but I have seen what “He” has made. You see mankind, all the animals the insects, the plants, the sky, the ocean and the harmony within all of them. The Grand Canyon from space is just a big long crater with a river. From our perspective living here on Earth the Grand Canyon makes us realize how wonderful this Earth is. “GRAND” is not a big enough word… Who made God?..? Can our minds GRASP eternity? No doubt some things on earth have “evolved”.. but I think the chicken came before there were any chicken eggs…When one sees the majesty of the Grand Canyon, it is but a very small thing compared to the One who created it, the One who is worthy to be praised. The Bible says that the Angels in heaven rejoiced when God created the Heavens and Earth. We get to see a little of why.
I’m excited to know you also have a close relationship with God and our Saviour.
Keep shining your Light onto others, spreading seeds, watering them, or when needed, doing the harvest.
The Grand Canyon is breath taking and am glad to know that others are mentioning God, even though they have only heard of Him.
I will pray fot them to get to know Him and His son, Jesus.
God Bless You and may you have a Happier New Year.
I do not know how anyone who has visited the Grand Canyon can say there is no god
You are so right Terra. God created the universe believe it or not. The choice is up to the individual.
Well Said Terra! All things possible through our Lord God – The Grand Canyon, and the process it took to form, as well as the many majestic things on and around our planet! Anything and everything that man can comprehend is just a fraction of our Gods Divine power!
Someone simply states the obvious and you think he’s not much of a person. Reassess your love. It seems designed only for those who tow the line. Awesome canyone but there are numerous awesome canyons. I think the Grand is overrated.
obviously you have never been there
Carol is right…obviously you have never been there. I have been to many awesome canyons in my world and America travels, and there are so many beautiful natural sites, but the Grand Canyon is beyond beautiful, and by far is the most beautiful canyon I have ever seen. When you approach it, it takes your breath away. It is not overrated. These are probably some of the most beautiful pictures that I’ve seen of it, but no pictures come close to what you see when you see it in person.
I agree it is overrated. Canyonlands, Arches, Capital Reef, Bryce,and Zion are much prettier and much more accessable for hiking, and in the first three, 4-wheeling.
Does he not make it rain, wind blow, is he not nature…and maker of all..
I never grow tired of seeing this Canyon each time I see something that I missed in my previous visit. If you do not believe this is created by God your life has to be so empty. OVERRATED is certainly not something I see when I take my friends that visit Las Vegas. I have never heard anyone describe this beauty as overrated. You must be on happy smoke.
Jimmy D., if you want to see what overratted really looks like … simply take a look in the mirror. Now there’s a picture of “OVERRATTED” … and then some.
I do belive in God. Non believers be tolerant of those who believe in God. Believers be tolerant
of those who do not believe in God. Is there ever a doubt. Sure there is, either way.
As a beleiver I can only Pray to God. If you are a non beleiver, you can do what you choose. Either
way there is no doubt that the Grand Canyon is beautiful. Just to be on the safe side, I choose to believe How can I go wrong? Comments invited.
I agree that the Grand Canyon is indeed grand. But I used to work at Canyon de Chelly on the Navajo Reservation. Most of the people that came to see that canyon liked it better than the Grand Canyon. If you haven’t seen it, it is worth the trip. It is different to see and much more accessible.
I’m a native of Arizona, and have been blessed to have traveled all over the West. Are any of our National Parks “overrated”? I don’t believe so. Each one has its own unique beauty. I do know this, I have hiked and explored the Grand Canyon many times and each visit is new to me. Have you ever watched the sun rise over the Canyon on a brisk morning? The colors of the Canyon change minute by minute as the sun rises. Have you seen a rainstorm travel over its majestic rocks, changing their colors as the storm moves? Have you ever seen the Canyon rocks peek through a storm cloud? Have you ever seen snow clinging to the Canyon walls and rocks? If you can’t find the astounding beauty in this Canyon, what really evokes beauty to you? What a shame that some find this “overrated”.
Lisa, beautiful words about God. Please note: God is NOT nature. God created nature. Think about it again. Your God is too small.
Jim you think yourself above the laws of man, faith and God…I feel for you, because you are part of the lost bunch that think they control things on this earth….big surprise is instore for you…seek, ask and you WILL find!! You are correct; those that do not find the truth and true way will not make it….I suggest you try, for the end is near, in so many ways…do you not read, see the news and know that everything is changing? I am sad that there are so many that have taken on the dark side and accept evil as okay and the ones that seek the light are the strange ones. God places the light of knowledge in those that seek Him and the truth: Seek it~or you will always be int he dark tha tyou are in!
Jimmy D ~ the correct phrase is “toe the line,” a reference to the start of a foot race, where each runner must keep toes on the line or be disqualified.
Most people disagree with you on the Grand Canyon. Would you be willing to name the other “grand” canyons you’re referring to?
You know…share the beauty?
I agree!
If you’ve never been there, you have no way of comparing..
it is as beautiful and more so than described by anyone!
I could not have said it better Mike, thank you, Amen!
Yes, these are great pics, and the scenery is special, but if you want to see a real big beautiful canyon, go to Mexico’s Copper Canyon….
Can we not just enjoy the pictures instead of getting into all this religious garbage?
Grief!
Will you American fruitcakes just STOP your lunacy!
The biggest problem with our planet is nuts like you lot with “Faith” and “Belief”.
It might as well be fairies at the bottom of the garden or ants rule the Earth.
With such “beliefs” wee end up with “the only way is God – MY god – not YOUR god”.
We end up with “let’s nuke the non-believers”.
Then “Let’s get our retaliation in first.”
“An eye for an eye.”
Extremist points of view which generate distrust, hatred and ultimately killing and war.
We’ve enough problems with man’s innate qualities of greed, and the need to dominate and control
without confusing it with nutty religions.
And let’s NOT bring evolution into it.
It’s patently taken AT LEAST 14 billion years and several great extinctions to evolve into what we are – sentient animals with a remarkable capacity to think, a hard-wired facility for language and an ability to communicate.
That is in itself an immensely extraordinary thing.
If you want to believe it was all done in 4-5,000 years – fine. You’re a fruitcake.
But you can still NOT believe that and STILL believe that God created it all.
It’s NOT dependent on evolution.
If your science takes you only as far as the Big Bang event then just go on and believe your “god” triggered the Bang and all that sprang from it. And keep that thought as your provisional explanation. But even then please don’t ossify that thought. Humankind will progress, learn more and explain even more than that. Maybe not this year, decade or millennium. But eventually we will.
As the frontiers of knowledge roll on we’ll know more, though probably not ever everything.
So if you can’t cope with life without the crutch of a god-belief you will still be able to (sadly) go on believing that “god created it”.
But don’t get stuck on evolution.
It wasn’t long ago everyone believed the world was flat.
I mean just LOOK at it.
Fruitcakes of the world cast off your biblical chains.
Get a life. Understand the world.
Understand people.
Get real.
I am with you on that one. Well said.
Please do not compare Grand Canyon with Mexico’s copper canyon or THE Himalayas. Each one has been bestowed with their own charm and beauty.And DO NOT compare your wife with other woman as it will not be fair.Accept things as they are are and do not colour them with your judgements.
ajay
We wonder why there is no worldwide peace.. I was looking at some amazing pictures only to find at the end these comments. What a let down.. People stating there is no God.. People telling him he is empty because he doesn’t believe. Instead of everyone sharing, people knock the beauty of this canyon because they like others!! MY GOD PEOPLE!! This is horrible! CANT YOU JUST LOOK AT SOME REALLY BEAUTIFUL PICTURES WITHOUT GETTING INTO PICKING ON EACH OTHER. LOOK IN THE MIRROR. YOU ARE ALL JUDGING EACH OTHER. IT’S TIME FOR IT TO STOP! ENJOY WHAT’S IN FRONT OF YOU FOR ONCE!
I am with you on that one, Gary .
Gary, Rica, If you want to just enjoy the pics, how come you are into the ‘religious garbage’ ? The pics can be looked at without reading the comments?
Oy. I live in America and it does take patience to put up with the unscientific mores that pervade this great country. I think much of the rampant superstition and unreasoned reflex may be derived from the early migrations from Europe. Many came here to escape religious prosecution and, once established, they introduced the practice against others — including the heathen natives they nearly exterminated in the name of their imaginary god. Americans, in short, may be plagued by the “religious gene.”
Ironically, their departure from Europe partly cleansed the old continent of its most intransigent faithful, which explains why Europe as a rule does not mix science with religion and politics with gods. Even the Vatican embraces evolution, quantum physics, and paleontology, all of which are, er, anathema to mainstream American religions.
So there you have it, in a primordial nutshell: believers look at the most eloquent evidence of natural forces unguided by divine hand, and instead of drawing factual conclusions they instead turn geology into theology.
Magical thinking is not harmless: it is a pernicious mental distortion of reality and the basis of persecution and denial of truth. One day it will vanish from the Earth.
There may be a god or not. It’s not relavant to us as we are not important in the entirety of existance. In fact as I see it we are probably not much more noticeable to any posssible creator than any other earthly lifeform. And having live long, far and wide I would recommend we stop praying to “GOD” because if he does notice us he likely won’t like us very much because we are not very nice.
WOW!! 🙂 There is a whole lot of “if’s” in your post…
Jesus did say, “IF you seek me, you WILL find me”.
Just don’t give up on seeking until you find. 🙂
It is His promise.
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Why is it sad if you still believe in GOD ? YOU sir are sad, because you believe what scientists tell you, but have you noticed that most of them don’t agree with each other, Theories, that’s all they come up wit . here is a quote from ALBERT einstine ” THE MORE I STUDY SCIENCE ,THE MORE I BELIEVE IN GOD “. ps. sorry if I spelt einstine wrong.
Spirit created the Trinity.
“God” is very, very, very old, beyond human conception or reconing on any level; evoluion and erosion are all part of Spirit or “God,,,, the Big 3,” as are you and all else. “God” also “threw into the mix,” divine grace, to which you can appeal, if you’re up to it and your “Belief System,” embraces such concepts, to “lend a hand” to those of us who have chosen a mortal experience. If your particular B.S. is keeping you between the fences and headed in a truly “moral” direction, good for you. If and/or when you discover a better B.S, grab onto it and wear it out, in this journey of life, like a pair of shoes, until the next B.S. presents itself. Don’t be afraid to drop the old B.S. or it will tend to retard your progress.
Bye the bye, ALL Belief Systems can be abbreviated, B. S., as Spirit, the Big 3, etc., are beyond human conception. Therefore any B.S. you are able to “dream up,” is way short of the mark, as is mine! Enjoy the beauty around you and give thanks for “free will,” though I don’t think “free will” is all that free. Look around and observe what our fellow huming beings are doing in the name of religion and “free will.” Seems to me that “free will” is VERY EXPENSIVE! -HALEY-
Bernie:
It must be so sad to live such an empty life not believing in a power greater than yourself!!
Did you ever ask yourself…..Who formed the first rock from which this evolved??
Why is it so sad, may I ask??
I can revel in the awesome beauty of the Grand Canyon just the same as you, without the ridiculous notion of ‘a higher power’ having made it’!! What a burden to have to think that you have to carry on under the watchful eye of this being…. What about the real UGLY rock formations in the world? Did God make those too? I wonder why ‘he’ would have done that? Beats the heck out of me.
”who wrote the bible stories?
In God’s Creation you have to accept both beautiful as well as ugly;night as well as Day;Pleasure as well as pain ;man as well as woman; cold as well as heat; and all the pairs of opposites.Hindu scripture Bhagawad Gita says that the person who can endure all the pairs of opposites with equanimity and sameness without biasing is a realised saint.
To Bernie:
And whom do you think created Nature????????????
Amen!!!
I also have been to the Grand Canyon……
Good one. I agree and I agree that there is a God and that nature created this awesome canyon but Bernie you should have known when you put a statement out there like that this is the kind of feedback you would get. Maybe you dont believe in God and are wicken or something I dont know but you asked for it.
There are many places of beauty…the grand Canyon is one of the 7 Wonders of the World! While there are other places that are pretty, there is the magesty of the Canyon that is not found anywhere else, as it belongs to this place….other places have their own reason, awe and specialness….I am proud we have the Grand Canyon here in AZ, it is so beautiful. God has blessed us all with so much and those that miss His grace and the love that is given in your heart when He is there, is a tragedy……He has been around a very long time and more than enough time for everyone to have understanding of faith, Jesus, God and the spirit that lives inside, when you believe! It is there for all to have..He loves everyone and there is not some secret that makes us any more special than anyone else, except that to know Him is the greatest thing you will EVER do……and going to the Grand Canyon, as well as other wonderful places, will only expand that insight and knowledge of all that He has given this world. How can such beautiful pictures, the magesty of God and such a wonderful place envoke anything but peace, thanksgiving and appeciation of the the greatest nation in the world? People…it is time to be strong in all things of America, most of all our founding of faith in God and our nation!!!!!
I can honestly say I have never seen an ugly rock formation. I love to look at all of Gods creations.. I would not want to live as though there is no God and die and find out I was wrong.
The Grand Canyon was the first thing we went to see when we moved here in Az.in 1979. It was absolutely AWESOME! I was AWESTRUCK. First words out of my mouth was OH MY GOD! Grand is to small a word for it. There were mules carrying people and their baggage down to the bottom on the most narrow trails you ever saw. People also would hike down there and camp out (because it took so long to get there and then back). Legs would kill for days. One of the seven wonders of the world.Magnifico!!!
That would be “too” small a word –
Hey Mike, We can go on your premise that God didn’t create the Grand Canyon just for arguments sake, but, who do you suppose gave you the eyeballs to see it??? Sorry for you buddy but will pray for you 🙂
I loved your answer~
Mike’s parent’s gave him his eyeballs.
good one, Mike,,,I dont think any of us are missing anything either. yes it was nature but who created Nature????
It is better to believe in the existence of a Supernatural Power and you can call it by any name say” GOD”.Human beings are not capable of creating the likes of GRAND CANYON and many other marvels of nature and human beings cannot prevent earthquakes;Tsunamis and natural disasters.
According to Indian Spiritual BOOK Bhagawad Geeta ” GOD comes into existence through its own MAYA or powers and IT BEING the HIGHEST ;IT does not need any other agency for its own creation .IT is indestructible and eternal and nothing can DEStroy the Superconsciousness of GOD. Mankind has a perishable body and and survives through progeny and offsprings in succession.
Even The Earth;Sun and the Universe has a finite Lifespan which runs into million of years and hence it is not comprehended by us.THE Universe will disintegrate after millions of years and the CREAtion will again start from the beginning.
Ajay
How in this world can anyone not believe in our God in Heaven when seeing scenes such as the Grand Canyon and so many other places in our wonderful world.
Wow Bernie, you’re sure scaring a lot of believers. Keep it up. I’m tired of being the lone voice
of scepticism.
Mike I so agree with you. How any one can think that God did not have a hand in forming this whole Earth is beyond me. I see and feel Him every where.
Throughout this litany I keep hearing about HIM. My curiousity makes me wonder if their male god has a penis? Nobody ever mentions it…
The question is:
Who, or maybe what, IS God?
Is it a spirit just like you and I are?
Is it some sort of bigger spirit?
Is it a man sitting on a throne in the sky?
Is it a HE?
How could it be the Father of a Man named Jesus?
Could it be a concept instead of being a spirit or being?
Is it possible it is the product of all of us somehow together? Could it be the personification of the idea of nature? Could it simply be us at our best?
Does anyone know really?
Does the Bible speak figuratively at all or is it all meant to be entirely literally interpreted?
Was there any context to the data in it? I mean was any of it aimed at a specific time and place or is it to be taken as though every word is about every time and place? For example (chosen arbitrarily), did St. Paul say things because he felt they would go over well in Rome at that time, or was he meaning for it to be applied to the Japanese in our time, where their life circumstances and situations as groups or individuals are so very different from those in St. Paul’s time?
Do the questions I ask above matter?
These pictures are pictures of God’s creation. How can anyone not look at this and say it is not from God
Why hasn’t god made a godess for himself?
I wonder how many NUTS living in US ! From the church to university ? What they learn there ? Now I know, why the Americans going into shit !
Yea,and how do you know what God can do and can’t do? Sorry about your Sister, Kathleen.
Bernie, You are all wet, There is a GOD. Without him, we wouldn’t have these wonders. God made Heaven and earth and all the beautiful world wonders we so much injoy. He provided nature to mold these wonders.
There is also a HEAVEN. If you don’t believe, maybe you should read the book, ‘HEAVEN IS FOR REAL”,
By Todd Burpo
I read the book. What an inspiration and profound feeling it gave me. It just reaffirms my love and belief in God. I am so fortunate to have Jesus in my life. When I feel that someone is hurting for whatever their sorrow may be, I give them a gift of the book.
If Bernie chooses not to accept religion, then that’s his choice. Remember, not all of us will be going to heaven.
As for the Grand Canyon, it is absolutely beautiful. There are those who don’t agree, but I wonder what your idea of beauty is because nature is so perfect – look at a flower, the feathers on a bird, etc., – can you copy it and make it look as perfect?
Bernie, they all attack you. they don’t love us, the atheists. but it’s ok. i’m with you…
Hahaha they all go to hell then
Soooooo, you guys believe in hell, but not in GOD ? ? ? interesting…..Truth is, we pray for you ! We hope one day you will have eyes to see the GLORY OF GOD AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST ! ! ! Have you ever heard the story of DOUBTING THOMAS ? ? He became the best believer of all when his eyes were open. I pray for you.
Hey, Bernie. What I’d like to know is who put nature in motion?
Bernie, When you see the Grand Canyon you know God had his wonderful hand in it. How can you not see that.
Mike…that’s not a very christian thing to say. doesn’t the bible say something about loving your neighbor. I also recall something about forgiveness etc.
Seriously, Bernie
what is wrong with you whether you believe or not you don’t have to be nasty.I do believe in God and nature also.But God Had a hand in this.
But Bernie have you forgotten that nature is God……
Yes, God is Nature,thus Nature is God.
What once was an ocean is now a canyon.
Don’t be surprised if the ocean we know today becomes the next Grand Canyon.
namaste
God is the eternally existant ONE. The canyons were formed by the great flood, and no man can make it rain 40 days and nights. LOL
Bernie, or anyone else,can you begin to explain why the universe is 14 BILLION years old and earth is 4.4 BILLION yars old. Do you suppose there is a supreme being somwhere and what did HE OR She do for all this time? Do u suppose there are many life forms out there? Why is it there??
to b j marshall ..where did you get the numbers ?seem to be very confident
A friend of mine sent me the pictures and they brought back some many memories, I just had to reply.
Helen
ahahaha it’s called radiometric dating, look it up. It’s widely accepted by the scientific community. It’s also why we know dinosaurs are x many years old, unless you’re the type that believes dinosaurs were made up, or lived in the time of humans.
Time means nothing to God, as time is only a human’s notion of our Creator. All of our natural universe is but a happenstance to our God’s sense of humor, so far beyond any mortal’s depth of intelligence
Boy, everyone knows what god thinks. This is hilarious.
B.J. To the Lord, a thousand years is but a day. The Lord can do anything. That includes making a universe that is 14 billion years old to man. Afterall, we make some gadget to tell us what we want to know. How anyone can look upon such beauty and not believe in the Almighty God, is beyond me. Having served in our Armed Forces, I have seen men die who did not believe until the last moment. Never fear, it isn’t too late for you… “YET.” The Grand Canyon is a magnificient work of God. Just enjoy it. I have been there and I saw God everywhere I looked. God Bless.
So the whole seven days thing is really 7 thousand years? thanks for disproving the bible.
Btw the Colorado River is Dam controlled now so man is responsible for some of this beauty, nature not influenced any mental apparition of power as the church would have you believe in fear, is reponsible for everything above the lowest rim. Open your mind before even trying to open your eyes.
Also before you bash me for not being there I have rafted 255 miles of the Colorado.
I Am A Believer And Thanking The Almighty God For my faith!
Praise God, what a great comment. May our Father bless you and yours.
P.S. Thank you.
Dennis, I myself have not been to the Grand Canyon but would love to go some day. Thank you so much for your service in protecting (what I see on here with the pathetic comments) my personal right to the freedom of religious beliefs. I personally believe in god but I choose to keep my relationship with him private. And to all of you that don’t believe in a higher power, I feel so sorry that you have not accepted that higher power in your life. I pray that you do………………It’s such a comforting feeling!
Dennis,
You are so right. The first time I saw it with my husband, daughter and family I just cried. You could feel God there. My husband passed away 2 years ago and I know he is looking down at the wonderful sites of our earth. What a nice feeling it gives you.
Bernie, I thought Mother Nature was part of God. He/She had His/Her hand in everything on this great earth.
Mother nature can’t do any thing with out Father God!
you people make me so sick! always pushing your beliefs on others and judge them for not believing. I have nothing against your God by the way but I have everything against your kind of people who have to drag him into everything. Our earth is millions, billions years old. God didn’t create anything, he didn’t make anything. It is evolution and it is part of the Universe. If there is a God, it is called UNIVERSE. Get a life and stop throwing your God around whenever people enjoy beauty for what it is: beauty. Have you ever thought about the fact that most wars are and were about religion? Always people of one religion wanting to push it upon others. It is downright revolting.
Hi Bernie:
I have read with interest all the comments about the Grand Canyon. It is beautiful? This song written by Stuart Hine in 1899 says it all:
Oh Lord my God! when I in awsome wonder,
Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,
I see the stars, I hear the rolloing thunder,
Thy power throu-out the universe displayed.
When through the woods and forest glades I wander,
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;
When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur,
And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze.
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Bernie: My prayer is that someday your eyes will be opened, and you will cry out to the Lord for mercy and He will give you abundant life. You have never known happiness, joy and peace until you come to know Him, who to know, is life everlasting. Bernie, just suppose there is a God, and that He send His only begotten son Jesus to earth to live, die, be buried and rise from the dead and ascended back to Heaven as the Bible says. Just suppose this is true? Is it worth the gamble? Think about it.
In 1899, man had not flown, movies could not talk, nuclear power was unknown, and the internet we rely on everyday had never even been comprehended. When the work of fiction we call the bible was written, so many now explainable phenomena seemed “spiritual”. Now we know that lightning is caused by electrical discharge between water particles in the air, fire is a chemical reaction, and the members of a species with the most desireable, surviveable traits survive while the slower, weaker, less intelligent perish. I do not commit murder or steal from others not because a higher power dictates it, but because it is wrong. On a final note, how can you say that your God is the true god, but everyone that devotes their lives to Buddah, Allah or the many other “gods” out there is completely wrong. Seems a little elitist to me, and I believe your god would frown upon that, no? By the way, I consider myself to be agnostic, so I am open to any and all ideas/criticism.
I have been reading all of the replys on God and the Canyon. While I realize that everybody does not believe in God, I find it strange that, with all the beauty of this world, they don’t believe in God. He is everywhere and if you just look, you can “see” him in all. In relationship to all the “bad” things that are done, remember, God has given us the right to choose right or wrong. He does not keep control. I agree with everything Lore says and her song is and always has been one of my favorite.
Lore, that is my favorite song and it says it all. Larry
U should get this comment too. Was orig written for another follower of mythology who thinks faith is something other than harmful and without virtue. It’s not the stuff is bad news you god of gaps dribble bronze age horsesht sry but you all must catch up to the rest of us already. No excuse really..god is myth we die it is heavy but makes LIFE AWESOME wheew Seriously! wooooooooot —- orig msg to last Larry Greere or something like that———The only thing that stinks is the ignorance you swing around blindly with negative energy. It is mind-numbing to me that a rational un-INDOCTRINATED normal higher primate points out the FACT that hundreds of millions of beautiful years and changes brought about the evolution of this wonderful sight and experience and you climb up the ladder of intellect just far enough to empower you to triumphantly puke insults at someone much further a head of you. One who respects reality. One whom can even have a life to respect. Until you question and then rationally evaluate the answers and thus loose the harmful faith(which is NO virtue)I say you have yet to be alive at all… & until you experience the only born again there ever is… born again atheist all you are doing is acquiring the tools to be prepared to know the inside and out the diseased voodoo mythology you find smeared across our lovely ‘Murika and those like you with a deluded understanding of the world and “threats” from the loving people who try to bring you reality. instead of taking the gift you “invoke” fairy tails and god/of_gaps thinking WHILST being so combative. makes for a lugubrious stench. Your sect of christian mythology, no different than the rest… as this stench is common and as widespread as the disease of willful ignorance itself.
Bernie, I pray your heart and eyes are opened before it is to late for you.
Bernie, you contradict your statements, they are one sided. First you don’t believe that God doesn’t exsist but this last statement says: and I quote: I pray your and eyes are opened before it is to late for you. Which is it, that you do believe in Jesus Christ or you don’t believe. Can’t have it both ways. I will pray to God Almighty that you would have the courage to pick up a bible and talk to a Pastor or true believers that have the facts. He has helped me thru more than you could ever imagine. I feel saddened by those who refuse to come to the Lord God and ask for forgiveness. Love to you and all of those individuals that refuse to try.
Regards Sherry and I AM A CHRISTIAN!
Good For your Sherry
Well said,,, The Bible says,,, GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH, THRU GOD, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE,, and I put it this way, only God could creat such a beautiful earth,,,,
What makes you so sure about that, Bernie? Were you there?
Well, LOL, not to beat a dead horse, but I find it very interesting that folks here are talking Christian… the Bible…. Well, why are you excluding 900 million Hindus?? THEIR God is just as valid to them as the Christian god is to you… But they are totally different gods!!
You folks are ALL atheistic about all the 10’s of thousands of god’s that have ever existed. As the great Biologist and atheist, Professor Dawkins would say. .. “why not take it just one god further’….
This is fun
Sherry….that was Carl that said that ABOUT Bernie..
Do you think that only Christians should be part of the mix in this discussion. I am pretty offended at your small mindedness. It’s fine to believe in your God, but there is something other than Christianity that is worthy and feels the beauty in nature. Your narrow views are akin to the Tea Party.
Okay, now this is getting pathetic.
I agree Jimmy- and then to have Billy Seg say on the 30th of August “Throughout this litany I keep hearing about HIM. My curiousity makes me wonder if their male god has a penis? Nobody ever mentions it…” GOOD GRIEF! Why do folks always have to drag discussions like this through the dirt???
The reason I do believe in God AND specifically in Christ as my Savior is because Satan is working so hard to make me not believe, to bring in an atheist to try to convince me that I’m wrong and to try to discredit all the beauty God offers to us. Now why would Satan be wasting so much time on something that isn’t true in the first place? The way I see it, if I’m wrong and they’re right, nobody has lost anything. But if I’m right and they’re wrong, they and only they have lost absolutely everything.
You mention Satan and Christ and all. From where do you get all this? It can’t be coincidence, as there are 100’s of millions of you out there. i could say, simply, that you have heard all the bible stories and you are simply parroting what you have heard. For some strange reason you cannot make up your own mind about these things..
SATAN?? Come on… p-l-e-a-s-e. All this beaty can, and does, exist without my having to believe in these god’s you are talking about. p-e-o-p-l-e……!!
My dear Husband Geo and I went to the Grand Canyon And rode the mules down We spent the night and how any one can not believe in God and see the beauty he made is really a sad person. I am now 88 years old and the beautiful pictures bring back the memories of the beauty God made for us to enjoy and like you, if I am wrong then it won’t matter ,but if right then I have gained because I have a mansion waiting for me.Beautiful and there is much more beauty God made for us to enjoy.
THAT IS THE WAY I FEEL ALSO. ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS I TOLD THIS TOO, & HE HAD NO ANSWER WHEN I STATED IT TO HIM, HE IS NO LONGER ALIVE, I PRAY HE FOUND THE LORD AND MADE PEACE WITH HIS SAVIOR BEFORE HE DIED.
Ray,
I can look at the beauty of a ford mustang and be in awe. I can deny that it had an intelligent designer. But the truth is …Facts are Facts. A design has a designer. There isn’t anything in this world that appeared from nothing. Evolution is a farce that has no fact based evidence. Give me one PROOF of evolution that has not been dispelled or disproven. The carbon dating system was created by men …men in search of an answer without God in the equation.
Why would you want to believe that there is no God? Dare I say because you want to live life as you see fit …being accountable to yourself and not to a higher power. You most likely believe that when you die there is nothing after that. That makes life pretty simple …live how you want because this is all there is. “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:23 (KJV)
God is God …whether you believe it or not!
God created you …whether you believe it or not!
God loves you …whether you believe it or not!
God offers you eternal life …you need to believe it.
“We should take care not to make intellect our god. It has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead, it can only serve.” Albert Einstein
I am a Christian with my own ideas instead of following what others have said is how I must believe.
If you believe something that is wrong, then you have been tricked. I do not put attention on the questions you bring up.
Instead of putting attention on God, on Satan, on fighting with agnostics or athiests, I believe one should put attention on creating as much good in life for oneself and others as possible. This is what God wants. To me this is what true prayer is, is what being a real Christian is, is how to follow the example and teachings of Jesus. One gets out there in life and ACTS as one would who believes what Jesus said. He does not debate with non believers. He heals the sick, helps the poor, forgives the sinner, gives food to the hungry. He did not have time for arguing. Neither do we! There is a lot of suffering out there, and people need our real help NOW!
Trying to fight Satan and insisting on God’s existence is wasting time.
Just where do you think this nature of your’s came from?
Having read the comments this far & seeing so many are convinced a ‘Higher Power’ in control of everything it’s no wonder the US is in it’s present financial mess.
Christianity may preach Love but it’s history tells a very different tale.
Must be sad to have no GOD atleast one that is alive and well. You will meet him one day,and hope you are prepared. PFU.
I think GOD had ALOT of something to do with it.
God whispers to me. “Pause here for a moment. I have created this for you to enjoy and so that you will understand. This beauty is for you to enjoy and it is only a hint of the grandeur waiting for you in your future. Believe in me and trust in me. Listen quietly for me to communicate with you. Listen with your heart. Your eyes and your ears are a gift. Your heart is also a gift.
No intervention from God, huh? I’ll bet you’re one of those people who believe you find babies in the cabbage-patch, too.
Cabbage patch? Man, have you ever got that wrong..unless of course storks live in cabbage patches.. (smile)
Yes. The Grand Canyon has a very spiritual aura surrounding it, and I personally believe it is there for us to view, and be reminded of His power. Likewise, I think anyone with some kind of faith/trust/ belief would also feel this presence whether Jewish, Hindu, or Buddhist, et al.
Rob, you said it best and most logical.
Namaste,
Peter
Dear Bernie,
I am apreciaeting your real and update attitude.
The religion is the bigest historichal lies of the word.
The God …the best advertising project.A brand, a monopol brand.2000 years of advertising.
Still in progress.Splendid.
Good management team.Very good…
Good level of communication.For all people the same product…democracy
Goog products..broterhood of peoples premium product..and about the life after …an extraordinary marketing ideea..to sell now something wich never will be….promotion, buy now 2 life after at half price…
A little spelling lesson might help Aurelian…
Yes and she isn’t the only one….ha..ha I was just thinking the same thing….no one seems to care if they are spelling anything right these days.
always judging others aren’t you? Not listening to what one has to say as long as it isn’t what you don’t want to hear. Is that what Christianity is? Who do YOU think you are that you can judge people for what they believe in or not and whether they have their spelling in order or not? GOD?
Those errors look more like typos than spelling. What do you expect when large numbers of the human race are typing with two thumbs. Talk about progress.
I wish to make a point for the “godless” group. If there was no creator of this earth and those that live upon it, where did that first little cell come from? Endless years will not provide that first spark of life for either plant or animal.
Dear Aurelian
I know you are trying to sound astute, unfortunately your spelling and grammar belie that fact. I suggest you go back to at least the third grade!
Give it a break. Stop belittling those who are obviously not native English speakers for the mere purpose of discrediting them because your beliefs differ. I think you’re the one that needs to go back to third grade! Whatever happened to all those lessons of tolerance and compassion that we all learned back then (including those of Sunday School!)?
Hey, I know your english is not great, but this guy makes the exact point. Here is a direct quote (mainly attributed to Seneca the Younger) and see how SOME smart guys knew what religion was about… over 2,000 years ago.
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” There you have it..
Ray, well said.
Take religion away and we are just litle mammiferos trieben in earth…
We can see beauty, with nobody help, we can progress and improve with
our own streng…We do not need to “invent” or “create” a God or a religion.
Read why Jesus chose 12 common men to be his disciples and spread the gospel. “Twelve Ordinary Men” by John MacArthur. Very interesting read.
One thing in you genious’ observations that you have ignorantly or decidedly left out is that religion (in which you have stated correctly is man made) yet salvation that you have missed alltogether is totally and irrevocably of GOD for man!! you clowns keep talking about man made religions no arguement there, IT WAS NEVER HIS WILL FOR MAN TO BE STEEPED IN RELIGION WITH ALL OF IT”S ILL’S BUT IN RELATIONSHIP THROUGH SALVATION!!!
Who do you think controls nature?
Nobody controls nature, nature is uncontrollable. Humans on the other hand are easily controlled by the fear of an blasphemous apparition of power, you believe purely out of fear, “God” will not save anybody, ever, you will die waiting for your blind blessing.
Adam,
You are so wrong. God is most certenly in controll of everything. I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ because one day the Holy Spirit showed me I was a sinner in need of the Savior. I’m not a Christian out of fear but out of God’s love for all men. It is not his will that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. I hope you come to see this before you meet Him.
Adam: How strange to hear this from someone called ‘Adam’! Where do you think you got that name?
One thing I know, MAN did not create the Grand Canyon. So it must have been GOD! The God of
all nations and all mankind. I denied God for many years and got punished for it. Now that I am
back talking to him I know he answers my prayers. I visited the Grand Canyon when I was 11 years
old and wasn’t smart enough to appreciate it. Now that I am 80 I wish I could go back. These
pictures are so beautiful they take my breath away.
hear hear
By one man (Adam) we were condemned, and by one man (Jesus) we have the hope of salvation and ever-lasting life. Jesus commanded us to love one another as he loved us. So Adam, I love you as a brother in Christ and will pray for your enlightenment before you get first-hand experience in the tribulation to come. And by the way, God created the Heaven and earth and said it was good. These pictures are a testament to that to him to has eyes to see. God bless.
Why “who”?
Why is the alternative not possible to you, and that this earth we know has existed for an incredibly long period in ‘space’ and has developed to what we all see….. Naturally, I might add. Why does the concept that this world and the universe (as we know it) has naturally come about seem to be so distasteful to you?
One minute bit of evidence/proof what-have-you FOR the existence of God would make us non-believers examine what you had to offer….. don’t see anything yet!!
I am a carpenter (also a christian)I make no claim to be a genius,but recently I had to take an OSHA class where we were instructed on numerous hazards to life-one of them being gases-acetylene,propane,fumes from welding,etc.Whats the relevance? we were told to sustain life the oxygen levels need to be beetween 19.5% and 24.5%.what strange power of evolution is it that prevents our planets levels of oxygen drop below the 19.5% ? or exceed the 24.5%. Also I remember a science teacher talking about perihelion and aphelion-the earths closest and farthest points to the sun-and the teacher saying if we were much closer than this,or much farther than this-we would burn up or freeze-from this I can only deduce that evolution is VERY,VERY intelligent
Ray, Try reading the Bible. Gen 1:1 would be a great start for you. Your lack of bibical knowledge is your problem.
Why “who”?
Why is the alternative not possible to you, and that this earth we know has existed for an incredibly long period in ‘space’ and has developed to what we all see….. Naturally, I might add. Why does the concept that this world and the universe (as we know it) has naturally come about seem to be so distasteful to you?
One minute bit of evidence/proof what-have-you FOR the existence of God would make us non-believers examine what you had to offer….. I don’t see anything yet!!
My question to you is have you ever tried to study this issue from the other perspective? I am a Christian but I have also studied other religions or lack there of. According to science, before a theory can be disproven, you must A) Prove your theory to be correct, by citing an abudance of rock solid proof, and B) Prove the competing theory incorrect, by disproving any and all proof they have submitted. As a Christain, I would suggest that we are at an advantage, only in the fact that Evolution is taught in our educational system and Creationism is taught in our church. We have long been studying this from both sides, I would suggest you do the same.
This was not ment to be rude or offensive. If you looked at this argument, from a rational, unbiased, and detached point of view, examining all evidence based on merit and credibility, what would you choose?
This is a reply to Danielle, as she does not seem to have a ‘reply’ word to click onto
Danielle, the ‘other perspective’ being religious study? I don’t have the inclination to study (what–christianity, I assume in your case?) all the 10’s of thousands of god’s that have been worshipped…. Why waste my time? Believing in any God’s existence is all a personal thing. The religion one most likely ‘buys into’ is the one in which (unfortunately) one has been brought up. Parents inexcusably involve their kids with THEIR belief-system, and I think that is wrong.
Your analysis of the scientific process is a little bit skewed off-center. Sure, you take a theory and you test it until you run out of things to test it with. As you do that, more and more evidence comes in and you continue testing. after a while (in the case of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution) 150 years or so. The validity of any theory is NOT invalidated by proving competing theories incorrect. It just invalidates THOSE competing theories. any scientific inquiry has to rest on the merits (or failings) on the theory and it either tanks… or gets accepted as fact after a long period of testing…
Evolution IS taught in our schools because it is a FACT. The word theory, in science and in particular, when it is being discussed in this type of forum, is mis-interpreted. Creationism is NOT 9I repeat.. NOT) taught in schools because it is about as far away from being a scientific theory as one can possibly get!!!!
I don’t find your comments offensive… I’m just trying to get most folks to see that religion is personal…. saying a god actually EXISTS is delusional and worthy of thousands of prodding questions to the speaker….
I would think that the answer to your last question is obvious, so I won’t answer it!!! At least (from the Evolutionist-point-of-view) one HAS evidence that HAS been based on merit and credibility. Wher is YOUR evidence for the existence of any God? And I DON”Y want to hear the tired old arguments and anything what-so-ever to do with metaphysics or philosophy….
Bernie, you must believe that there is a God, because you can see it!
thanks.
Bernie,
Why do you believe the THEORY OF EVOLUTION and not the GOD OF CREATION? To have evolved is much more far fetched than to believe we were created by an all-knowing, all-powerful GOD.
You say Evolution is a fact, support you findings!
My relationship with God is a heart relationship, I accept my human limitations and so does God.
Other gods can be traced back to their roots and to their graves. Christ’s tomb is empty because HE rose from the grave and ascended to His Father in heaven, His Holy Spiirit lives in the heart of those who believe through faith, in Jesus’ atonement for my sin and yours on the Cross of Calvary. One’s acceptance or rejection of Jesus’ gift decides one’s eternal destination. I know where I will spend eternity. The choice is yours
bernie, soooo there must be allah for you.a book that says to kill every one who dosn’t believe in allah.
hmmm the god i know is a loving merciful god.he made all theis beauty around us for us to enjoy.
god has blessed me in so many ways,and when i die, i know where i am going…. do you?
Well, it appears, folks, that we have someone in the audience that does not do their homework.
Considering the BIBLE, as we know it, has the Old and New Testaments as it’s backbone, perhaps Sherry you can tell us what all those human and animal and burnt offerings God demanded were all about? That does not sound too nice to me. Merciful God. A whole lotta ‘smitin’ goin’ on back then. What was that all about?
If you really KNOW what bronze-aged middle-eastern life was like 4,000 years ago (the rough beginnings of the stories that were bounced around for 1,500 years before the Old Testament was written) then you know that human and animal sacrifices were done back then in the name of god’s that were not formalized into any organized religion. The powerful created these religions for control… and so included these mandatory sacrifices as the normal way of things… The Bible …All man-made.. Every story in it… man-made..
Sorry sherry
I hate to disallusion you but Allah and God are one and the same. Christians, Jews and Moslems all believe in God. Christ was a Jew as were all the disciples. Abraham was the founder of all three of the great religions.
Diane – Allah -and God/Christ are NOT the same God in any way, shape, or form. They absolutley are not the same.
The problem I see with the non-believers is that they do not speak from knowledge of the Bible. Several of you have attributed things to the Bible that are simply not in there. But the non-believers don’t know that what they say is foolish, because they have not bothered to educate themselves on the Bible. I think so many non-believers will not read the Bible for ‘fear’ of what they will learn about themselves.
Believers, have educated themselves on what the Bible says and have come to believe in the one true God. Sure there have been many Gods, and the God of the Bible talks about the other Gods. Another point i would like to make is that non-believers are much easier to control than believers becasue believers have a solid foundation on which to place their beliefs. They will not be swayed, convinced, tricked or deluded. Non-believers really don’t have a solid place to go to with their beliefs, so many (most) find it easier to believe in whatever hits them at the moment, be it, “Mother Nature”, Evolution, a brass or stone fat man, a cow, extra-terrestrials, or Satan, or her/himself.
The one thing non-believers have in common is that there are thousands of things to believe in – or not to believe in. No consensus. But Christian (Shrist) believers believe in one thing – That Jesus Christ is the Son of God and died for our sins, was raised back to life and lives at the right hand of God. EVERY SINGLE CHRISTIAN BELIEVES THIS. God says not everyone WILL believe, but everyone has the CHOICE to believe. Also, one more important point, The true God instructs his people to love their enemies as we love ourselves. Not one other god dictates that. I love you all whether you believe or not. But I sure hope – and pray – that many of you will pick up a Bible and learn for yourself what it is about. Don’t rely on someone else to tell you what it says……you have a brain – use it. I NEVER write on these forums, so I feel like there must be someone on the fence ——-is it you? GOD BLESS.
Allah dies not mean God it is the name (like Bob)of a black stone idol that Mohammed’s grandfather brought to his business the Kaaba in Mecca. Ilah means a god. The Qu’ran repeats over and over the instruction to its adherents to ” Kill (fight) until Allah is ilah. It also teaches it’s followers that it is acceptable, even good to lie to fool non Muslims in furtherance of Islam or for any reason they choose. It is called takiya. There is another tenet in Islam called tiseer, it encourages Muslims to assimilate and convert all around them if they can, if not they are to lay in wait until the time that Allah can be ilah in all nations. You have obviously never read the Qu’ran, the Hadith or the Sirah or you would know these things. It is time that all people know what Islam really is. Spreading This benign nonsense about Allah just being another name for God or that Abraham had anything to so with the hateful doctrine that is Islam will end with everyone under fifth century barbaric enslavement and Allah will be ilah.
Deborah and Rainbird,
I like how you two vehemently disagree with what Diane said, but instead of a structured argument explaining your reasons and evidence for disagreement, you both then embark on tirades that don’t really support your point of view and instead just reveal that the two of you are bigots. I’m sorry Deborah, Allah and God are one and the same, and same with the Jewish God.
Rainbird, ilah is indeed the name for a deity or god in Arabic, but perhaps you didn’t notice that Allah is a contraction of al- (meaning “the”) and ilah….. so Allah literally means “the God,” in the same manner that Christians use “God.” And I don’t believe that you’ve actually read both the Bible and the Quran. The Bible is just as violent if not more so than the Quran; IMHO we need to be more scared of those fundamentalist Christians in our own country who use it to further terrible things like white supremacy than Muslims in our own country, who are usually well-to-do, law-abiding citizens.
In case you both were wondering, I was raised a Christian. Went to Sunday School dare I say, religiously. I do find it repulsive when others try the condescending “I hope you will change before you meet your Maker” thing because then it’s obvious that they view the person as inferior, instead of another human being. Nothing the person says can possibly mean much because they are second-class in their eyes. I find that insulting. Religion is and should only be a deeply personal matter so everyone just needs to shut up, be tolerant, and open their minds a little. We just happened to be born Christians, Muslims just happened to be born into Islam, same goes for Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, and non-believers (or came into it on their own). And guess what? We’re all taught to treat others as we would like others to treat us. What’s the big deal?
Ah, and yes, the Grand Canyon is GORGEous. (haha)
Bernie– you’re a nut— no offense— everyone has a right to their own opinion– even stupid ones !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ‘Van’—————
You can tell him that if you ever get the chance!!! Which I doubt you wiil.
Hey, Bernie, It wasn’t just any “god”. Who do you think created nature??? You might not know God but He sure knows you. Would love to see this Grand Canyon sometime. The pics are amazing and beautiful.
Bernie, I have always enjoyed the conversations that follow a comment such as you made. Thank you!
I feel sorry for you. I have felt God in my life. I have had him take over and take me in the right path, just by me saying “I don’t want this way of life anymore”. I know he is real!
Go the the Grand Canyon, walk up to the edge and step off, if you believe, he will save you.
WAIT ONE SECOND, YOU SHALL NOT TEMP OUR LORD GOD.
May my Father God bless you.
I have rafted through the Grand Canyon six times in the twenty years. If you have never done this trip, then you have never seen the Grand Canyon. With out a doubt, the most spectacular place on Mother Earth. Just enjoy the photos and keep religion to your self. Man…that stuff gets really old!
BERNIE….THEN WHY DID YOU CAPITALIZE “GOD”?
LOLOL… Capitalizing ‘God’ makes him real??
AHAHHAAHAHAA
You’re right Bernie….God has nothing to do with nature. Just as He had nothing to do with your creation….You were a selfish act of lust twixt a man and a woman! May God have mercy on your soul.
I agree with Mary 100%. Poooor’ Bernie !!!!! I’ve been there, and it is something truly unbelieveable in all its glory.
Care to learn a bit about evolution? Oh, I forgot, Evolution is just man finding out how God did things…. It’s like a circular argument with a drunk… you can’t win… because ‘God did it”..
Good night all…….
and just how do you think nature was created. God IS nature. Sorry you’re so ignorant about that.
I agree it was formed by nature that GOD made since he made the Universe and you Bernie
On occasion a mistake is made … thus we have Bernie. Go figure.
Great Pics. God love you Bernie. You inspired quite a controversy. From the defensive nature of many of these comments I would say their faith is not as strong as they would have us believe.
I for one believe in God. What you do or do not believe is none of my business. Anyway it doesnt matter.
If their is a God he is all forgiving. Some people haven’t gotten that out of the new testament.
So…nothing to worry about Bernie. You are going to heaven whether you like it or not. However, since Hell is the Planet Earth. God may required you to retake his lessons many times over.
If their is no God it still doesn’t matter. Millions of people get great satisfaction from their faith and it sustains them in their time of need. And if this is the case we should make great fertilizer for the Grand Canyon. We should all be buried there.
Have a blessed day people.
“You are going to Heaven whether you like it or not”???? That is a dumber statement than anything Bernie could come up with!
So, you believe in God, but He has no standards, no rules, only a candy store at the end of the rainbow?
I hope your message is a case of “being ridiculous in order to illustrate the ridiculous”.
Wait a minute… ‘Hell is the planet earth’?? Am I hearing you right?? So, ‘his’ reason for creating the Grand canyon was to….. Umm. not too sure….
The New Testament indicating this God is all forgiving? Have you actually read the thing? I am an atheist and I have read it.
I think they should have come up with a third one.
Ray, Reading the Bible and Applying it, is two different things. Try the following study guide:
1.Observation: Read for meaning
2.Interpratation: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How
3.Applicaction: Apply what you learned
May God bless your lost soul.
To be saved you must: Realive your a sinner, Repent of your Sins, and Ask God to come into your heart.
To Bernie:
Mark my words, one day you will recognize that nothing on Earth “just happened”, and that the ‘nature’ you refer to, is Mother Nature, which is just another reflection upon God who created the Heavens and the Earth. Smirk or gloat as you see fit, but one day you will see.
There would be no “Nature” if it wasn’t for GOD>
Bernie, at first, I was appalled by your remark. But as I read some of the responses, it truly showed what others really are like. Some felt sad for you, some came across as “holier than thou”, some tried to tell you where you are headed. They don’t know where you are headed, they don’t know you. This is not what God would really want of us. You are entitled to your opinion, Maybe, you tried to say a lot in a shortened sentance. Maybe, like us, nature has a mind of it’s own and nature did all this on it’s own. I mean nature causes floods, tsunami’s, tornados, etc. Just like if we do something wrong/bad, did God make us do it? No, he leaves us to our own making. I give you credit for causing so many to come forward and say so much about so little.
Maybe we can do “WEEKEND AT BERNIES 3” with this as a topic!?!
If you believe there is no God, you’d better be right!
I’m sorry that you dont know much about God! 🙁
Excuse me ….. Nature IS God — God IS Nature!
God created the earth, and everything in it. Read your bible. Grand Canyon is
absolutely beautiful.
yo bernie ever read Genesis in the BIBLE it might really open up our eyes i know its a free country and everything but you might wanna try some cause that comment can really offend some christians.
P.S. I’m a christian to and i’m praying God opens up your eyes. 🙂
I’ve been reading the comments inspired by your little remark. How sad your life must be. You obviously don’t believe in anyting that is good or wholesome. It makes me wonder what type of a household you grew up in,,,,or are your opinions closeted by your closed mind. How you can even look at things like a baby, or the beauty of a butterfly and obviously decide that they just appeared with no grace from anyone or anything. Things just don’t appear our of nowhere. Just like the wonder and awe of the Grand Canyon. Kind of makes me glad I don’t know you. You aren’t someone I would choose to have as a friend. And if, in fact, you do have friends, I can’t begin to imagine the conversations that go on when you’re all together. You aren’t all that great, Bernie. You obviusly have an over rated sense of your worth to the human race. The fact that you capatalized the word God, shows that you must have SOME respect for a superior being even though you would like your remark to indicate the opposite. It’s okay to deny the existence of God, Bernie, he can take it.
think you for saying it rgiht
i totally agree! i never realized that there were rivers and waterfalls, so many great aspects , but seems to me, more than a river would have formed this great grand canyon.
BERNIE – – – – – – If you believe rivers formed the Grand Canyon, then you really believe a “Fairy Tale 
Please take note that the Grand Canyon starts on the EAST SIDE of the Mountain Range and goes through the mountains and ends on the WEST SIDE of the mountains.
For that to happen, the Colorado River would have to run up hill on the East Side and then down the hill on the West Side….
Not sure if water can do that. I am open for your proof of that unproven fact.
Sounds like a pretty silly theory that the Canyon was created by the Colorado River.
Kindly,
Jim
Bernie, Nature is GOD !!!
After reading all the comments on this page I have realized that I don’t want to be in the same species as these “believers”. Open your mind to nature rather than the fear instilled by religion. Open your mind, your eyes might just follow.
Adam (and to all that keep stating that “believers” only believe because the ‘fear’ has been instilled by religion), do you really feel that is the only reason why we believe? I cannot speak for anyone but myself and please know that I do not fear GOD, I have faith in GOD!
For those who argue about having proof, how does one prove faith any way? What is faith? According to the dictionary, faith is 1.) Confidence or trust in a person or thing, 2) belief that is not based on proof. Believing without the need for proof is what my faith in God means for me. I don’t need any proof because I just know how I feel about God. And yes, it really is that simple.
To the person(s) who posted the beautiful pictures of the Grand Canyon, thank you for sharing.
What an ignorant response! God had everything to do with it. and what a cruel thing to say to someone who has lost a loved one and had such fond memories. Wake up and smell the coffee!
You are arrogant and sick if you don’t believe God was not involved!!!
Boy, You all are slamming Bernie because he doesn’t believe YOUR god made the Grand Canyon? He’s entitled to his opinion which is a scientific fact. He didn’t say anything bad about YOUR god but all you religious people jump all over him because he doesn’t believe the same things as you do? Some of you that answered him rudely must be the hypocrite’s that give religion a bad name. By how you write Bernie, you sound like an educated man. Alot of people are afraid of an educated man, hat’s off to you Bernie for stating an educated response!
bull tweety
Belief in a Supreme Power is still compatible with the knowledge that natural forces formed our planet. But why try to force that belief on everyone, and denigrate those who appreciate the natural world but don’t believe in a Power that rules the Universe ? If there is a God, he must be sad that some minds are too limited to understand how evolution and geological forces formed this world in which we live. That said, pictures are a wonderful incentive to draw people to see this incredible
and spiritual place in person.
I don’t see how they are compatible, Carol.
Since the bible is all about humans being ‘his’ ultimate creation; the whole reason for the existence of the ‘universe’, in fact, It hardly makes sense that this all-powerful being needed 14 billion (?) of our years to end up with an earth… and populate it with humans just in the last 200,000 years or so… Does that make any sense to anyone out there??
And please, no “God works in mysterious ways” responses, If you would be so kind..
RAY……. I am not a High Level Mathematician so I do not understand Quadra Physics or whatever you call.
It is fair to assume, in a Scientific world, that someone understands it, they just are not in this blog right now.
With that said, I can not make a single grain of sand, so I probably can not explain how the Universe was created, and you probably can not explain it either.
With that said I suggest you not concern yourself with what happened 10 minutes before you were concieved since you can not explain what will happen, with any degree of accuracy; what shape this world will be in 10 minutes after you die.
So Ray, go ahead, try to explain these two premises and then tell me what belief brings you to those two time frames beginning and ending.
That is what Faith is Ray.
Your Faith is just as real to you as mine is to me. Which faith would you like to be “IN†11 minutes after your life is ended on this planet made of mud, called Earth?
Kindly,
Jim
How about this: Evolution of consciousness. The people who wrote the books of the Bible were writing from their understanding of the world, politics and religion. With no science to speak of, everything was blamed on unscene forces, good and bad, God and Satan. Story telling styles didn’t necessarily support the same sort of “give us the facts” styles that exist today: people were free to exaggerate to make their point. I could go on but…
The God described in most religions doesn’t work for me but I do have a belief that there is some power/force/energy that is working toward a better expression of humankind…mostly because I feel it and see it in others. Although, reading through these postings, I’m starting to reconsider.
I’d rather live as if there is a God, than to die and find out there isn’t
Than to live as if there isn’t a God and die and find out there IS.
Praying that He’ll open your mind & heart to The TRUTH.
In His awesome love!!!!!!
AMEN TO ANGIE`S COMMENT.
LIFE AFTER DEATH IS FOR REAL. WE WILL SEE THE REAL BEAUTY & PEACE FOR ALL ETERNITY.
I`M READY! PRAYERS TO ALL TO GET READY NOW!!!!
If you had any sense at all, you would realize that nature is everything God, in Heaven created it to be. He said “Let it be” and it was!
lets go the first book of the new testament…do you think that Adam had a belly button?
I never met an atheist in a fighting hole,Bernie, come to think of it a bernie either.
Bernie is a wimp and would never even survive our boot camp. We serve a mighty God, One that can even love this pathetic loser! Lon, USMC
Poor Bernie, what has she/he done to cop for all this pure garbage from you all? It would be laughable if it wasn’t so ridiculous! Wow! it’s unbelievable……
WOW! Now THIS is pathetic…. hahaha. What does the Marine Corps boot camp have anything to do with God??? (the answer should be nothing!)
If heaven is filled with the likes of all you so-called “good” Christians, I don’t want to go there!!
Hey USMC John….. 1.) What does a Atheist get when he dials “Dial A Prayer”? —–NO ANSERW—- 2.) What does a Christian get when he dials “Dial A Prayer”? —-A PRAYER—- 3.) What does a Agnostic get when “HE” dials “Dial A Prayer”? —- Here it comes……. “”A BUSY SIGNAL”” ROFLMAO
I guess you think it just evolved from a crack in the ground. Even if it did, WHO do you think
made the ground dufus?
Just returned from Grand Canyon…AND with awe one looks at the wonder of it all and KNOWS that there is a GOD and that he plays a hand in ALL!! God Bless you.
The thing you called Nature is really God. God created all the universe and everything in it including you.
…How was ‘nature’ formed?
Nature is basically a very large bag of (or books if you may) laws, created by God, (Son of God, Jesus of Nazerath) that must acknowledged and lived by and followed by all concerned. If you do not believe me, just try ignoring any one of them you want, and learn “The Hard Cold Facts Of Life”.
…and you know this because??? Hummmmm…I guess you DON’T know everything after all.
who do you think is in charge of nature?
Get a grip!!!
RICK……..Nature is basically a very large bag of (or books if you may) laws, created by God, (Son of God, Jesus of Nazerath) that must acknowledged and lived by and followed by all concerned. If you do not believe me, just try ignoring any one of them you want, and learn “The Hard Cold Facts Of Lifeâ€.
Kindly,
Jim
It was created by God and only God…”In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth…”
Sadly such a true statement is only going to be laughed at or people will assume you are a bad person. Why is it that people must think a creator had some play in such a magnificent landform??? Enjoy the beauty of the world as it is and don’t give credit to something that doesn’t exist. But hey, the beliefs (of lack there of) of an atheist clearly don’t matter since we are the minority
ALYSSA…… You say God does not exist…. Prove that to me…. I am waiting….
God is Nature. I have not seen anything in nature that is not made and controlled by God.
How do you know God made and created it (don’t cite the bible, it’s not a real reference)? Before you bicker with me about the bible, read it yourself, it supports rape, polygamy, child abuse, as well as many other contradictory evils you so called “christians” overlook while reciting biblical passages.
Let’s hold our tongues. All together now; take a deep breath.
We are exposing our arrogance and that all-knowing attitude based on
the infinitesimal knowledge we think we may have juxtaposed to or
against the vast wonders and beauty of Nature. Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Peace!! And Merry Christmas to all. If you dont’ believe in Christmas.. that’s fine.
Believe in what makes you happy and at peace with yourself and family and the society.
Why cant people stop picking things apart and just enjoy what you see?
Daune…….. This is the point…… Your parents probably told you to not discuss politics or religion….. Right? Right……!!! Well I got news for you Daune; only those people who are willing to discuss politics and religion will influence politics and religion… I suggest you turn off the Cartoons your watching and get involved in the real world, cuz you live in it, like it or not….. By the way…………OMG means OBAMA MUST GO……
Good LORD James – I agree with Duane in her statement about enjoying what they see….why must you get so personal in your attack????
Bernie,
I am sixty-three years old, born and raised in Arizona, remember my first view of GOD’s wonder and one of our treasures to behold at the age of three. Visited the GC over fifty times in my lifetime and each time was more magnificant than the last. You whatever age you are maybe moron-five must of been dropped on your head as a baby by your surrogate satanic mother who kept you in a cave and fed you via a slingshot. Hey, when you time comes and it will, you’ll be on your knees asking our GOD forgiveness and he will, but I won’t, I wouldn’t even piss on you if you were on fire. Go back into your closet and put on your Nazi uniform or the dress you stole from your sister. You Jackass
Joseph, if you are one of God’s creations you definitely are not one of his more successful efforts. Get a handle on yourself man. You badly need anger management counseling. How embarrassed God must be about the out of control over the top anger you direct at a person you don’t even know.
Joseph, I certainly hope that if you believe that God forgives, you’ll be asking it for yourself.
If you’ve ever seen the natural beauty of nature in any form, anywhere, and have any idea of what your seeing or understanding about it …. how can you doubt the hand of God and his body of work, or that of a superior being in what ever form or Deity you choose to call it.
If you see anything in nature that you can not see the beauty of … it’s by the hand of man, and no one else.
Who do you think made the world and you. The Grand Canyon is one of God’s greatest works and so were you.
Well Bernie, I reckon you didn’t know that nature was created by God. You should know that unless you have been reading the Quaran, the bible of hate.If I spelled it wrong get over it. You will get the idea.
Bull
Bernie think about who created nature. GOD even created you.
Bernie, God made everything including idiots like you…America just gives you the right to speak the dumb stuff you believe!
Pity poor Bernie, no sense of wonder, no sense of the awe of nature. Only the certainty that he is finite and impermanent. Thank God that our country was founded by people with his opposite opinion. But our Founders made provisions for his types as well. ds
Only GOD could make something so awesome as nature.
Kathleen, Thank you for your original comment. So very many scientists agree that there is a guiding force, whether we (as Christians and Jews) call it God, or Buddha, Mother Nature, Great Spirit, etc. Albert Einstein said, “Religion w/o science is lame. Science w/o religion is blind.” And as for further comments about the “quality” of the Grand Canyon, I can only say none of the other mentioned locals are considered one of the natural wonders of the world. And “no 4 wheeling”? Please–wreck the environment and stillness of the beautiful desert w/motorcycles. Not smart.
You’re sadly mistaking! What proof do you have that there isn’t a God?
And who created nature? It is illogical to believe that everything just spontaneously created itself. Someone or something has to be responsible…and that’s God.
how did nature come to exist bernie?
Can’t we all just believe in what we believe in without arguing about it? I don’t believe in a god, but I won’t begrudge you your right to believe in whatever god gives you faith.
I have been to the Grand Canyon and although I didn’t get to see much of it because my husband was in a wheelchair and it was hard for me to push him up and down the hills, however what we saw was breath taking. Now I find these pictures to really show me some of the beauty I missed seeing in person. It is a shame that people who don’t believe in God find it necessary to put down a person who sees the Grand Canyon as a work of God and that the Christians find it necessary to put down the person who doesn’t believe in God and tell him they feel sorry for him. I say to Bernie, “I’m glad you find the beauty as being formed by waters flowing and making this beauty come about and I respect you for your vision, if I see it as a work of God, why can you not respect the way I feel,” Someone went through a lot of trouble to take these pictures and to share them for the rest of us to enjoy…..why not leave it at that and not argue over HOW this BEAUTY came about.
Beg to differ. Oh yes, God had a hand in this…all of this. And my, what awesome beauty. Genesis, Chapter 1.
Wrong. Remember there would be no nature without a GOD!!!
It is good to know that even an athiest can enjoy Gods creations.
Bernie…get a life before it’s too late.
You can believe what you like. but if you are right when we die that’s it, but if I’m right I’ll be in heaven when I die and when you die you’ll be in hell (even if you don’t believe)
How can we with finite minds understand the infinite? Just know that He loves us and is willing to forgive our lack of understanding when we come to Him in faith because He is Love! I sure don’t know much but I do know that Christ was the gift of His love. I praise and thank Him everyday!
WELL THERE IS A GOD AND HE ABSOLUTELY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE BEAUTY NATURE MAY HAVE FORMED IT BUT GODS HANDS DESIGNED IT AND HE WAS IN CONTROL THE WHOLE TIME.
If you deny that God created this magnificent wonder you don’t have eyes. I have been to the Grand Canyon and it leaves you breathless. Seeing this rugged beauty should make you realize that God did create this. Nothing else could be so wonderful. Why may I ask created Nature?
I don’t know Bernie either but I think his village is missing their idiot
Bernie, so you have corrected, if that is the right interpretation, Ms. Harbour’s assertion regarding G-d. An assertion that she cannot prove, and you cannot disprove. However, I find your post, quite rude.
Bernie needs to respect the beliefs of others, Bernie does not have the final say. Bernie has shown himself to be an Attitude Hostile.
Peace, Love, Dove.
But who is responsible for nature, your legs to carry you and your eyes to see? Not to mention the brain to interpret what you see and tell you how to walk.
Bernie, I bet you don’t believe in Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny either. So Sad.
Where did “Nature” come from? Who’s dirt and water was it? Yes, God probably did not intervene with His “nature” He created all. He Loves you anyway!
That is the most idiotic remark I have ever heard – I pray for you
Bemie, here are the facts:
This is what God thinks of you, God said it, I didn’t!
The fool has said in his heart, There is no God They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. Psalms 14:1.
Who made God? Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Before the mountains brought forth, or ever thou, hadist formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Psalms 90:1-2.
Bemie, God loves you, Christ suffered and died, paid all your sin dept, and He rose from the grave the third day to give you eternal life in heaven (a place ten thousand time more beautiful than the Grand Canyon) when you die. If you will turn from your sin and ask Jesus to forgive you, and by faith, ask Him to save your soul, to come into your heart and be your Lord and savior. God cannot lie! Titus 1:2. God has said: Whoever calls on the name of the will be saver. Romand 10:9-13.
God bless you, I care!
P.S.If you think I am a nut, please read Luke 16:19-31.
man you sound just like the fool that hath said in his heart “there is no GOD” utterly ridiculous!!!
Yes Bernie, the entire perfect universe was formed accidentally. Obviously you must be a atheist geologist. You are entitled to your believes.
Hey Moron,
For you not to believe in a God, your only deceiving yourself.
How could there not be a God??
All nature extends from him, get a grip.
Thank you Bernie. I agree wholeheartedly.
Wow Bernie. You’re sure scaring a lot of believers. Keep it up.
No intervention from God? It’s very sad that you feel that way. God created nature and he created what you think he didn’t …… think about it and don’t be foolish.
Everything on this earth is a gift from God…including your life…he knew you befor eyou were even born….think, challenge yourself and seek Him…it is the only way to heaven and Him!
what , are you a fricking moron god creared everything even sorry to say assholes like you
Bernie,
And where do you think nature got its’ origins?
You could be very right. God may not have intervened, but He createde what we call nature. Also it is way more than something else. It is absolutely beautiful, especially in person from the bottom or top. Have a very blessed day & may God put someone in your path to witness and minister to you.
Who do you think created nature??
The fool has said in his heart, THERE IS NO GOD
My house can’t run by itself, so, I don’t think the Nature so big, can run by itself. Some kind of Energy has to be there to make sure that things fall where they must.
Bernie, I believe that God made all things, including humans. While God may not have carved out the Grand Canyon on a bright sunny day, God allows things to happen without intervention. I am grateful to have been there twice
When God created man, among other ingredients He included intellect and free will and an unknown duration period. We are free to develop and exercise that intellect or not. We are free to rise or decline to any level we may aspire but we only have a finite amount of time.
Bernie, give credit where credit is due whether it is to a recognized God or to an unknown factor. After you have expired you will be recognized by those you left behind and by God or that unknown factor. How will you fare? Will you be a Grand Canyon?
I think nature is part of GOD
OK, if God didn’t create it and Nature did, please explain who created Nature? And don’t give me the crap that is just appeared out of nowhere!
Jake
I am like the previous person, This could not have happened out of coincidence of nature.I believe this was part of Gods master plan. I do not have the time for people like Bernie or any facsimile of that. How Atheistic. I believe this is one of the most awesome creations in the world.
God is in control. One day you’ll know.
God directed the flow of the water to form the beauty of the rocks.
WHO DO YOU THINK CREATED NATURE? GOD THE CREATOR!!!
God is nature. Yes he did create all things.Including man. Love ya, brother
If you wish to deny the existence of God, simply do a small experiment. Take a watch, and disassemble it to its component parts. Place them all in a paper sack. Shake the sack. When you open the sack if you find a fully assembled watch, you will have disproved the existence of God. On the other hand, if you find only loose parts, you have proved that it takes intelligent design to make a watch, and by analogy a universe. To assume that God has no part in creation requires a colossal ego. You too are one of the creations of that God you deny.
You are sad. Bless your heart.
Thanks Bernie. Part of the 4.5 Billion years of Cosmos.
It certainley is a classic nature site. However GOD is nature
Bernie, Who do you think created ‘nature’?? The natural forces of gravity that carved the canyon and hold the universe together, which came into being at the Big Bang (before which there was no matter, space or time)? C’mon, where did it all come from? Like the song says, “Nothing comes from nothing.” It is to your peril that you remain in denial that there is a Prime Mover; what arrogance! If you dare, read “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Athiest” (Geisler/Turek) and allow your eyes to be opened!!
Bernie – I agree – we as a species try to assign labels & figure everything out. It’s larger than all of us, and no human is authorized as The One Who Knows/Judges any phenomenon: nature OR ourselves!
Let us permit nature to have her way:she understands her business better than we do.
IF ANYONE LOOKS AT ANYTHING OF NATURE AND DOESN,T BELIEVE IN GOD, THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH HIM. i TRULY BELIEVE EVERY STATE AND COUNTRY HAS THEIR OWN BEAUTY. i LIKE TO SEE CROPS GROWING AND GARDENS. GOD MADE IT ALL AND SOME THINGS CANNOT BE SEEN, LIKE THE WIND.
Your an idiot!
BERNIE:
GOD IS THE CREATOR OR THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING THAT IS IN IT, NOTHING WAS MADE THAT WAS NOT MADE BY HIM……
GENESIS SAYS IN THE BEGINNING “GOD” CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. SO BE IT……… AMEN
I pray for you Bernie. Who do you suppose made nature and every thing you can see and touch??
Jesus is the answer.
Who made Nature then?
I was trying to comment on the one saying that ” The ´Grand Canyon is created by nature without the intervention of any God.” with “So who made Nature?”
But the position of my question is simply stupid. so I am not going with this game anymore.
Enough to say that the pictures are breathtaking. Of course it is different when you see the real thing in person, but the skill of taking good pictures is not everyones beer. I am glad modern technology allows uns to share so quickly and so worldwidely. Some of these scenes you probably will never be able to see in real life.
There are so much beauty of nature in the world – and the world is so small in our solar system.
If people would stop fighting each other, ditators would stop exploiting their people, investimentbankers stop cheating their (smaller)cleints, managers stop closing filial to finance their own pay-raise, insurance salesperson will stop selling bad products with phony beautiful promises etc. and everyone can enjoy nature and what it has to offer, would it not be better?
(If any above mentioned professions felt offended please note that it is intended.) Thank you.
Well Bernie, who do you think created nature. I will certainly pray for you.
there is no nature without God, fool
To think one could experience Gods creation and yet deny him is so sad for you.
So what do you think nature is?
Bernie, The Grand Canyons were formed at the time of the Great Flood when the earth went thru some real churning and changes. Look at the layers that were formed as the earth settled. God was directly involved in that.
HA!!!
Are you sure about that Bernie?
Bernie Who do you propose created nature? The one and only GOD. I am happy you appreciate His work
but I am sad you don’t know Him
Bernie, so where do you think you came from? Somewhere along the way I think you just got lost and have not found your way back to the Lord. You are listening to the evil one (DEVIL). Good Luck and God Bless you. Kathleen, loved the pictures they are breathtaking, and my condolences to you and your family on the loss of your sister, my heart hurts for you. God Bless you and your sons.
how sad you don’t believe!
Bernie, you must be an atheist. God didn’t make atheist so, you don’t exist!
When you see HIS creations and refuse to believe that God’s hand was involved then you
head the list of certified idiots.
Someone was there before nature took over. asshole
I am assuming, Bernie, that you accept the “Big Bang” theory of the creation of the universice which is so admired by many current scientists. As I understand it, it goes something like this: “In the beginning there was nothing. Then, something exploded. The debris is still flying around and has evolved into all that exists. Tell me, Bernie, What exploded? Where did it come from / Who created it?
Bernie you azre one sick puppy. Get smart before its too late. God made every thing dummy. I dare you to read the bible and educate yourself?
Who do you think created nature?
To Bernie and anyone else who choses not to believe in God:
I look around at the natural world, and I see how everything has a purpose, from the smallest insect to the largest mountains. Everything has a reason for being, and everything works together in harmony. Without man’s interferrance, the natural world goes on, everything in it’s place and doing what it is meant to do. The human body is a great example, on a much smaller scale. All the organs and systems have their place and purpose, and it all works together to sustain the whole. The same goes for the entire natural world. I look at all of this cohesion and continuity and KNOW that it was no accident. There is no possible way that this could have happened without a very talented designer orchestrating it all. I am a Christian, who is at least somewhat knowledgeable of the bible. But I don’t need it to tell me there is a God and that this world is 100% created. And for those of you who will argue, “but man made this and man made that” God provided the supplies and the brains to figure out what to do with them.
And to those of you Christians who keep attacking non-Christians, it is God’s will that we love, not hate. Hitting people over the head with your beliefs only turns them away. God says to love your neighbor and to love your enemy. He doesn’t say condemn or judge those who don’t believe. Ever heard the saying “you catch more flies with honey than vinegar”?
It was all created by God. It didn’t just happen.
Nothing is formed without God’s permission. He created the world and all in it.
God bless you.
No God???? Here is what Albert Einstein said to his professor when the question of God came up: It happened when an atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand.
‘You’re a Christian, aren’t you, son?’
‘Yes sir,’ the student says.
‘So you believe in God?’
‘Absolutely ‘
‘Is God good?’
‘Sure! God’s good.’
‘Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?’
‘Yes’
‘Are you good or evil?’
‘The Bible says I’m evil.’
The professor grins knowingly. ‘Aha! The Bible! He considers for a moment. ‘Here’s one for you. Let’s say there’s a sick person over here and you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?’
‘Yes sir, I would.’
‘So you’re good…!’
‘I wouldn’t say that.’
‘But why not say that? You’d help a sick and maimed person if you could. Most of us would if we could. But God doesn’t.’
The student does not answer, so the professor continues. ‘He doesn’t, does he? My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him. How is this Jesus good? Can you answer that one?’
The student remains silent. ‘No, you can’t, can you?’ the professor says. He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to relax. ‘Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?’
‘Er..yes,’ the student says.
‘Is Satan good?’
The student doesn’t hesitate on this one.. ‘No.’
‘Then where does Satan come from?’
The student falters. ‘From God’
‘That’s right. God made Satan, didn’t he? Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?’
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Evil’s everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything, correct?’
‘Yes’
‘So who created evil?’ The professor continued, ‘If God created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle that our works define who we are, then God is evil.’
Again, the student has no answer. ‘Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things, do they exist in this world?’
The student squirms on his feet. ‘Yes.’
‘So who created them ?’
The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats his question. ‘Who created them?’ There is still no answer. Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace in front of the classroom. The class is mesmerized. ‘Tell me,’ he continues onto another student. ‘Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?’
The student’s voice betrays him and cracks. ‘Yes, professor, I do.’
The old man stops pacing. ‘Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?’
‘No sir. I’ve never seen Him.’
‘Then tell us if you’ve ever heard your Jesus?’
‘No, sir, I have not.’
‘Have you ever felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your Jesus? Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?’
‘No, sir, I’m afraid I haven’t.’
‘Yet you still believe in him?’
‘Yes’
‘According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn’t exist… What do you say to that, son?’
‘Nothing,’ the student replies.. ‘I only have my faith.’
‘Yes, faith,’ the professor repeats. ‘And that is the problem science has with God. There is no evidence, only faith.’
The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of His own. ‘Professor, is there such thing as heat? ‘
‘ Yes.
‘And is there such a thing as cold?’
‘Yes, son, there’s cold too.’
‘No sir, there isn’t.’
The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested. The room suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain. ‘You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don’t have anything called ‘cold’. We can hit down to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold; otherwise we would be able to go colder than the lowest -458 degrees. Every body or object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy.. Absolute zero (-458 F) is the total absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.’
Silence across the room. A pen drops somewhere in the classroom, sounding like a hammer.
‘What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?’
‘Yes,’ the professor replies without hesitation. ‘What is night if it isn’t darkness?’
‘You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and it’s called darkness, isn’t it? That’s the meaning we use to define the word. In reality, darkness isn’t. If it were, you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?’
The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him. This will be a good semester. ‘So what point are you making, young man?’
‘Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start with, and so your conclusion must also be flawed.’
The professor’s face cannot hide his surprise this time. ‘Flawed? Can you explain how?’
‘You are working on the premise of duality,’ the student explains.. ‘You argue that there is life and then there’s death; a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure.. Sir, science can’t even explain a thought.’ ‘It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it.’ ‘Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?’
‘If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes, of course I do.’
‘Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?’
The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where the argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.
‘Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?’
The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the commotion has subsided. ‘To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, let me give you an example of what I mean.’ The student looks around the room. ‘Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the professor’s brain?’ The class breaks out into laughter. ‘Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor’s brain, felt the professor’s brain, touched or smelt the professor’s brain? No one appears to have done so.. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, with all due respect, sir.’ ‘So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures, sir?’
Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face unreadable. Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers. ‘I Guess you’ll have to take them on faith.’
‘Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life,’ the student continues. ‘Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?’ Now uncertain, the professor responds, ‘Of course, there is. We see it Everyday. It is in the daily example of man’s inhumanity to man. It is in The multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world.. These manifestations are nothing else but evil.’
To this the student replied, ‘Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God… It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.’
The professor sat down.
If you read it all the way through and had a smile on your face when you finished, mail to your friends and family with the title ‘God vs. Science’
Yes…. The student was Albert Einstein.
Albert Einstein wrote a book titled ‘God vs. Science’ in 1921.
So sorry to see your negative remark. Did you know it takes more faith to believe in evalution than in creation? Scientist have more proof for the creation “theory” than for things to evolve.
When I see what many scientists think took millions of years to lay down by slow, gradual processes of erosion from some source and deposited at the locale of what became the canyon. I wonder why Grand Canyon has a great many horizontal strata that show no sign of erosion from one layer to the next if it took thousands to millions of years for each layer. Yet when one carefully examines each layer there is little or no sign of erosion and then fill in from later deposition. That tells me all the layers were laid down rapidly and continuously. That is how we can suppose the Genesis Flood or some other great catastrophe is responsible for the formation of those strata. The subsequent erosion of the canyon certainly wasn’t caused by the Colorado River. Something far more powerful gouged the canyon and planed off the topography surrounding the canyon.
Wow Bernie – who knew that one sentence would unleash what is to follow? By the way, I am a Christian and I too believe that God exists – and I believe that HE created this as well as all of us 🙂
And to think, I thought I was only going to see pretty pictures when I began here….some of the statements that follow are not so pretty 🙁
I couldn’t agree more. Let’s give Mother Nature some credit rather than a supernatural deity.
It is really too bad when a lost soul makes a comment that GOD was not involved in the making of all of our beautiful landscapes and all of our surrounds. I can only say that I tried it without GOD and I was very sad. All real and lasting joy in life comes from GOD. The USA was founded by free Godly people on Godly principles and that is exactly why the United States of America has been so successful and free for over 200 years. When we lose our Godly principles we will lose our freedom period.
Have a beautiful life.
Hey Bernie- How can you be sure ? Did mother nature tell you? What exactly crashed during the “big Bang” ? Was it your two idiotic brains? I think not- although there are plenty of situations in the world that could be attributed to such a catastrophic collision!!!!
one day you will believe in God how sad it will be for you
John Paul Sartre said something like this, “The basic philosophic question is that something is there rather than that nothing is there.” Schaeffer said, “He is there and He is not silent.” Isn’t there a law of science that says no effect can be greater than its cause? Here are some guideposts to consider, if you so choose: Genesis 1:1; Romans 120; John 14:6. All of us are loved.
Great shots. We camped at the bottom once. Great experience!
Hey Bernie….If God didn’t create it, who/what did? Who created nature?
This nation was founded on a profound belief in “nature and Nature’s God.”
Either everything you see was created by God, or it is the result of a cosmic coincidence/accident.
Are you an accident? Do you ever really listen to your beliefs and try to figure out where they come from?
Today is the day that the lord has made…let us rejoice and be glad in it!
God Bless You!
There are many people who KNOW that evolution has been SCIENTIFICALLY disproven for several decades. The ones who still believe it are the ones who WANT to believe it, instead of believing God.
Bernie,
Formed by NATURE?…..God is nature, without the creator of the Universe, we would not have nature!You see a watch and you know someone had to make it. How much MORE magnificent and awesome is our world and the universe, the human body? You think we came about by a big bang or a speck of matter? If so, who created the speck of matter? Something does NOT come from nothing. You might say, “I can’t see God”? Can you see the wind? No, but you can see the effects of it when the trees move to and fro. We can’t see God in a form, but we see God’s handiwork every day, all around us.
Hey, get it through you brain….GOD IS NATURE!!!!
TELL THAT TO GOD WHEN YOU MEET HIM AT YOUR DEATH.
Bernie; are you getting by on natural stupidity or do you practice a lot?
I feel sorry for her. Only God can do this as he made the heavens and earth. Only one unforgivable sin is to deny God. All Glory to God.
A Psalm of David.>Psalm 14:1> The FOOL hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
It’s really something that you know this for sure. Tell us how you know. Can you prove it? There isn’t a person on this planet that knows what’s really out there in the cosmos unless it’s you. For crying out loud tell us what you know and how you are so sure. Nothing wrong with an opinion but that’s all you have?
Take a look in the mirror and think again.
Nature was formed by God, dear.
Poor Bemie, Think, God made all of nature…! 9/18/32
It is very sad to have you look at that and say there is no creator. There is no good way to prove that it happened by itself, but there is astounding evidence of a worldwide flood, which carved the grand canyon. Just google “evidence for the flood in the Grand Canyon” Do yourself a favor…
The Grand Canyon is truly amazing, thank GOD for creating it, despite what some people think.
GOD bless America Bernie, GOD bless America.!!!!!!
Couldn’t agree more. Clearly all the people giving you greif
Over your comment have been brainwashed by the corrupt cult we call the church. They call for proof that there is no god. Well I want to see proof that there is a god. They can say all they wan that god created the earth but there is way more proof of the big bang that there is of a magical being carving a giant sphere made of rock into a habitable place.
Bernie, It’s sad that you believe the religion of evolution!!! (it is a religion because it takes blind faith to believe that all of life evolved from single-celled organisms!) A single strand of DNA is so complex that one missing or misaligned component, and the DNA is useless, NO LIFE!!! The chances of this occuring by evolution, chance, is one to the fortieth power. That’s forty zeroes!!! (1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)You have a better chance of finding a winning lottery ticket on the ground every day of your life (the big lotteries) than having evolution be responsible for life. Darwin (evolution’s god) himself said that the complexity of the human eye disproves his theory. The so-called “missing links” that have been “found” have ALL been hoaxes, yet the scientific community continues to preach (not teach since it’s a religion)their theories as if they’re fact. SHAME ON THEM!!!!!!!!!!! Look at the skyscrapers in the cities. You can’t see the architect, but you know there is one because the building is standing there. Did it design itself? Fat chance!!! It took someone who knew what he was doing. That’s so much more true when you look at God’s creation!!!!!!!!! Evolutionists are always saying that life happened by chance. It makes as much sense to say that a clone of a person will appear if they spit on the ground (since spit contains DNA). Yet evolutionists are pretty much saying that’s what happened. They just add billions of years and, VOILA, accidental life! Anyone with any common sense can figure it out. Do your own research. DON’T take the so called scientists’ word. Their agenda is to try to disprove God. Won’t happen, because anyone with any common sense AT ALL knows a complex design has a designer. What’s more complex than a human body??????????
Kathy, appreciated and feel you are right on. On February 3, 1985 I was in church for the first month of attendance in about 20 years and very distinctly saw angels. Had a Christmas Card knowledge of angels and thought they had wings. Only one out of about 6 to 10 had wings. They were ethereal white and floated so don’t need those wings. One on the side of the group was bent and prone seemingly in a prayer position. There was another spirit of a different color and smaller up behind. The praying angel straightened up and the smaller spirit waved his arms in a kind of celebration. I could feel every cell in my body tingling. My interpretation, and I think and feel this obvious, was that the smaller spirit was the spirit me. (How else to say that?) I was ministered to and welcomed into the company of angels. We have it on record that they are created and immortal. I like the suggestion of tenure. They all seemed male in form but both a male equipped or female shaped, everything about the female shape says “baby factory” so possibly, probably male shaped by default. I cannot think of anyway in which angels especially those interfering in human activity fits into the atheist, evolution “established” faith. Laurance
Who do you think created nature?????
Bernie, God forgives you.
And who does this Bernie thinks controls nature?
Sorry Bernie, but there is a God who created this and you. And you will meet Him someday. Why deny.
Psalm 14:1 “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God…” Romans 1:28 “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind…” 2Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
I agree fully. Here is a excerpt from ” God IS Not Great” by Late Christopher Hitchens.
” In 1909 a discovery of immense importance was made in the Canadian Rockies. It is known as the Burgess shale. It is almost like a natural formation and has no magical properties. This limestone quarry came into existence about 570 million years ago. Most of the surviving modern animals have their origins in this grand Cambrian burgeoning. Until 1909 we had to relay upon the evidence mainly of bones and shells, whereas the ” Burgess shale” contains much fossilized ” soft anatomy” Including the contents of digestive system.”
None of the worlds religions or their books have any knowledge of these facts. We created HIM for our fear of Death and HE did not create us.
We humans have more knowledge of our world we live in today, than all of our ancestors had in the past 5 to 7 thousand years.
Where are Jesus’ bones??? 🙂
To Bud Kaye — The answer to your question of where are Jesus’ bones can be found in Luke’s gospel chapter 24. First I’ll say this: The Centurion in charge of the torture squad that crucified Jesus reported to Pontius Pilate that Jesus was dead. Under Roman law it would have been a capital offense to lie about something like that and he would have been crucified himself. Roman guards was put at the tomb to insure no one stole the body and then claim he resurrected from the dead. If they had allowed the body to be taken whether by being bribed or falling asleep on duty the penalty would have been to be set on fire in their armor. Beside, a very large stone blocking the entrance to the tomb would have to be rolled away. It weighed more than 1000 pounds.
We then find in the beginning of Luke chapter 24 Mary Magdalene and several other woman going to the tomb to put more spices on Jesus’ body. In another gospel we find out Mary is wondering how the stone will be rolled away. When the women arrive at the tomb, they find the stone rolled away and Jesus body gone but the wrappings He was buried in were still there. Also found inside the tomb are 2 angels who tell the woman Jesus is no longer dead but resurrected back to life. Remembering Jesus was beaten and nailed to a cross meant there would have been a lot of blood. If He was only alive in the tomb, He would have dehydrated (and died) in three days and never been able to perfectly take off the burial wrappings. If the body was stolen, they would have just grabbed Him and ran off. When the Jews buried a body they wrapped a cloth called a napkin around the chin and head to prevent the lower jaw from rolling away when the flesh came off the bones. It was folded and left at the head of where Jesus had been laying. A thief surely wouldn’t have taken the time to fold it. Jesus folded it himself as a sign to whoever opened the tomb and understood Jewish custom. Here’s why; When you were at a gathering like a party and you wanted to leave the party, you balled up your napkin and put it on the floor as a sign to the servant you were leaving. If you were just going away to talk to someone or maybe go the bathroom, you folded the napkin and placed it on the table as a sign to the servant you were coming back. Jesus was telling everyone then and now, that He was coming back.
Now to answer your question. In Luke Chapter 24 the apostles and several of the believers, including Jesus mother, were in what is known today as the upper room. Then the following took place:
Luke 24
36 And as they thus spoke, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and BONES, as ye see me have.
40 And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet.
Jesus’ bones were resurrected with the rest of his body, everything except the blood which He shed on the cross, as the Bible says, to pay the penalty we owed for our sins so we wouldn’t have to.
Beautifully said!! 🙂 After reading some of these posts/replies on here a couple months ago, I had the idea of asking unbelievers, “Where are His bones?”.
I figure the non-believers, (“yet”), should come up with some answers where they think His bones are, and post them here. Or on my site I made to Honor Jesus! 🙂
Also another subject… One human has one soul right? How many humans have there been since the beginning of Mankind?
Meaning, there can only be that number of souls, and that number of souls will be cut-down after the second coming to only the “believing” souls, right? VERY SAD!! 🙁
So there won’t be all that many souls (relatively speaking) occupying Heaven, right? 3-5 Billion?
(Just thinking out loud) 🙂
P.S.
Seems as if you and I will see each other in Heaven! 🙂
Worshiping Jesus forever! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Peace to you in Jesus.
Bud…..
Bud,
I too look forward to seeing all of my brothers and sisters (spirit of adoption–Romans chapter 8) in Heaven. Imagine seeing Jesus as He is because we’ll be like Him… (1st John 3). I’ve heard it said that hope is the future expectation of something good, and of course Jesus is our hope.
I lost my wife of 26 years five years ago and I’ve watched and felt God healing me and it has been a blessing beyond imagining to someone who does not know our Lord. The Holy Spirit spoke something interesting to my heart; rather than thinking she is one day farther away in the past, each day I’m one day closer to seeing her again in Heaven. I realize there is no marriage or being given in marriage in Heaven, but it brings me a great deal of peace to know she is with God waiting for the rest of us to join all who have gone before us.
My main spiritual gifts are exhortation and encouragement with a little teaching. After Sue died, I asked God in earnest prayer what it was that He would have me do with my life, for Him, now that my focus no longer had to be on caring for Sue. He told me to study His word and write about it and send it to others. He found a way to use the gifts He gave me plus grow our relationship, and grow my Biblical knowledge (Jesus is on every page of the Bible). He also chose an interesting way to do it because before this I disliked writing quite a bit. And while I’m not really that good, I’ve come to enjoy it and look forward to the Spirit moving me to write about something. He does the writing really. I’d love to check out your site and send along what I write (usually a couple times a month or so).
The Bible is very clear that God knows us before we are even in the womb and while we are in the womb. John the Baptist leaped when pregnant Mary walked into the room, He Loved Jacob and hated Esau in the womb, David spoke to this as well. As far as how many people or souls as you put it will be in heaven let me share this passage with you:
Matthew 19
13 Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.
14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
We find this written about in Mark and Luke with something Jesus said added to it:
Luke 18
16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
There are at least 2 things being said here. The first thing is that we need to be like children in that we are to a certain extent be without guile and believing without reservation. As we age we learn the lies and deceptions of our advisory and his minions but little children not so much early on.
Now the second point. If we are a person at conception, and we are, (refer back to my comment in the paragraph where I mention Jacob and Esau) then we have a soul at that point. Remember, God already knew us by then. Many children have been miscarried or lost at childbirth throughout human history. Plus many have died at a very young age and don’t forget the many millions of aborted babies there have been. The Bible tells us that God is love and would His nature allow someone who couldn’t make a decision to blaspheme the Holy Spirit and mean it in their heart to suffer condemnation ? I believe Jesus was hinting to us that we will see those precious children in Heaven. So truly, of such is the kingdom of Heaven. Mathematically, you could make an argument there will be more children in Heaven when we get there than “adults.” Is it true ? Who knows. There is so much we don’t know yet, but today we are one day closer to witnessing it for ourselves. Praise God.
Michael
No physical evidence at all has ever been found to support the existence of a person called Jesus of Nazareth, only heresay.
You are evil and destined to hell
Only an Ignorant Atheist would talk such foolishness!!!!!! You probably support Dictator Odumbo too!
Bernie, Who do you think created Mother Nature?
It is amazing that you attribute beauty to nature and not to God.
Where did nature come from? Our almighty created it.. not man but
our God.
True.
By the response to your simply comment it seems that there are a lot of people that just do not understand the concept of natural progression and selection. The Grand Canyon is easily explained by the informed and is no mystery at all. It’s magnificence as experienced by we simple humans is a result of both knowledge and ignorance. The scale as it relates to us what is impressive. There is no need to bring fantasy characters into the picture.
BERNIE GO AWAY!!!
Not just ANY GOD, the ONLY GOD. You forgot one thing, GOD controls nature.
I agree, Mother Nature is the best.
Saying that God did not create Grand Canyon is like saying ‘the indicate workings of a wrist watch had no creator’. There are, of course, many gods; however, there is one true god, that is validated by recorded history; so much so, that every skeptic I know of, who has attempted to disprove the bible, has become a believer, himself. I challenge you to try this exercise yourself; and see if Jesus is who he said he was. He has never asked of us anything that is not in our best interest. …Bob
I agree with the notion that it was created by nature without any intervention from God. We hiked along Bright Angel Trail, had our Kayak down the river, slept at the bottom with skunk and scorpions, marveled at the beauty of it all the way and have our wonderful slides which we can view whenever we like. We flew over the canyon in a Cessna to get back to where our car was and appreciated what we saw all the more after hiking it.
All these replies about nature and the Colorado river carving the Grand Canyon just amazes me. Two things, first who do you people thing Created what we call Nature? It was God, the creator of all things including us human beings.
Second, if the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon, then tell me why the Mighty Mississippi has not carved anything! The Mississippi river makes the Colorado river look look like a spring flowing out of a rock….. Try as you will and believe what you want, but Almighty God created everything and the Grand Canyon was carved but the great world wide flood, when God destroyed all mankind because of his wickedness. All but Noah and his family on the Ark, a total of 8 persons.
Ever try to explain where Nature came from?
Where did Nature come from?
Well, God created the Heavens and Earth and everything therein, so God created what we now call Nature….
Hi Bernie. Your idea of “what” or “God” is may need modification. You are as much a part of “It” as the Canyon you admire.
And who designed Nature?
bull shit Bernie.
the world isn’t flat and we didn’t crawl out of some pond skum
Bernie, you know “squat”.
Sorry to notice you’re totally blind, dear!
Bernie, I’m with you. And as for what Rhonda said, to me it should have first applied to Kathleen, and if she hadn’t cited the imaginary being she did as being the creator of the Grand Canyon there would have been no reason for you to call out her fiction. I am so sick of religious people foisting their beliefs on us, but let us mention our belief and the get all upset. Of course, it is hard to defend something which is indefensible. As they tried to indoctrinate me as a child with “You just have to believe!” Of course, that is all they can say because it is just something you have to believe. There is no rationale for there being a god as imagined by Christians. Hang in there Bernie, you are not alone.
So, what is nature if it is not our God?
I know God to be. I know his creation to be created. I know which to turn to with my praise and worship and petitions and sorrows.
You cried at the beauty? God, what a loser!!
Get out much?
pathetic lost soul
I TAKE IT YOU DO NOT GET OUT MUCH!! THERE ARE SUCH PLACES ALL OVER THAT ARE OF SUCH BEAUTY AND MAKE ONES HEART GLAD AND SOUL APPRECIATE ALL THE GIFTS GOD HAS GIVEN US!! SORRY YOUR HEART IS SO SHUT OFF AND DULL….THE GRAND CANYON IS AMGNIFICENT AND WILL TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY SHOULD YOU GET THERE!!!
The beauty, scope and scale of the universe is totally awe-inspiring and if you spend any time looking at the Hubble photographs of the universe you can only conclude that, although one might call whatever raison d’etre resulted in this universe it is the height of egotism to believe that it was created by a god that watches our every move and motive here in this speck of dust we call earth. We are as insignificant as a bacteria.
And for those who might wonder, I have no only been to the Grand Canyon I hiked all the way down the Bright Angel trail to the river, spent two nights there and hiked back out. And then on a separate trip went to the South Rim and hiked down to Indian camp. It is spectacular. But your Christian god had nothing to do with it.
I am sorry you feel that way. It is not my place to judge you nor to make rude or unkind remarks about your belief but I do hope that some day you have the opportunity to get to know God before Judgement Day. He is a God of love. He loves you even if you don’t believe in Him or love Him. With or without Him have a positive attitude and enjoy the things He created whether you believe He did or not.
To Joan, your god of love blinds children by an insect boring through their eye, he kills innocent children with cancer and other even more painful diseases, he lets tens of millions of people live in poverty, many on the verge of starvation. Yet his is all-powerful and aware of even the swallow, right? so why does he make these things happen. These are innocent people, they haven’t wronged him and are too young and innocent for it to be something they are supposed to even comprehend. Where is the love?
I am very content knowing that when I die I will decompose and the elements that make up my being will rejoin the other raw materials of the universe and get recycled in one way or another. The I, Me, will no longer exist.
Apparently you don’t know Him either
God Jack you are the loser, please!!!!!
The first time I went to the Grand Canyon I came to the edge. I saw the vastness and the depth and I felt myself drop to my knees. I said to myself “This Is God” Every thought I had of controlling my life and any control of the world was released. How in this mighty landscape can I think that I was in charge of my life.
Who am I? Just this same beauty. You and I, we are all created by this Master of all. Let us make this world of ours a better place. Look who created this and you and I. No one nor anything can stand in our way. Let’s take care of these magnifcent gifts.
Uh…so who created God?
SAD SO SAD
From where, when, and how did matter originate.
That is where it starts, (The alfa & Omega,(the beginning and the end)
When you are confronted with a delema or being told you have a short time to live, You will go to your knees and ask God for help. You won’t be worried who created God, you will be comforted to know him!!
Bernie: Did you know that atheism is a non-prophet organization?
Allan,
Comments are great but you know you have reached an end
when punster has arrived.
atheism may be a non profit organization…But they have their day to celebrate every year… known as “APRIL FOOL’S DAY “
Way to go John!! How true.
I have been to the Grand Canyon two time when I was quite young; in the 60’s, with my father, sister, and brother. We always had a great time. My father is a Western, Southwestern, Civil War, and American Indian Historian. We have camped all over the Western United States in Bational Park System campsites. It’s a wonderful place to take children to.
On the surface of it, the forces which made the canyon are evident. God’s work is most evident in the consciousness which allows us to see it’s beauty. And there is more going on here. To look out over miles, walk ten feet along a path, and have the scene change completely — lighting, shapes, shadows – it’s a lesson I took home and am still pondering.
“God’s work is most evident in the consciousness which allows us to see it’s beauty.” Finally, someone has found the words to express the importance of God’s gift in the creation of the Grand Canyon! Thank you, Alan.
By the way, poor Bernie made a simple statement with no malice, and although I don’t agree with him, I’m not offended. I’m more offended by Ray, and I think HE’S the one with a problem!
The pictures are awesome. Whether you believe in a supreme being or not, something made the canyon special along with a lot of other places around the earth. Those who have had a chance to see any of the wonders and share it with those of us who haven’t — we appreciate your taking the time to share it with us.
Its too bad we can’t share the love instead of the bitterness of todays society.
Thank you for sharing the beautiful pictures.
Nature has made a lot of beautiful things around the world and perhaps nobody denies that. Let’s appreciate this beauty all over the world for the time being. Now who created this nature — evolution, some would say. Who created evolution — Big Bang, who created Big Bang, Aparently there is no clear answer. Now if you believe in Almighty, a creator, a God, then the problem is easier to answer. God, the creator, has created nature and the Laws of Nature and that make it easy to understand. If we avoid the debate wether Jesus was God or Son of God, we can just believe in a creator who, as a supreme being, designed the whole scheme of things and allowed it to operate as per His design, then things do not get complicated and we can have peace on earth. Wether you call the creator Jesus, God, Allah, it is perhaps less important and the world would be a more peaceful place to live in. God is the creator — call Him anything as you like, Allah, Jesus, Yehweh, Bhogwan and so on and so forth, keep it within yourself. If you are morally strong, spiritually convincing, your children will follow you — most probably. May God give us peace and prosperity and remove sufferings of the oppressed and the poor.
SChoudhury
Have been there twice and I have to agree with everything you say about the canyon. Absolutely the most awesome sight ever and it is even better the second time. hope someday we can make the trip again.
I have been to the Grand Canyon, and I too believe God waved his magical hands and created such a beautiful thing in 6 days. Yeah right. That’s such bullshit. I can’t believe so many of you idiots think that that is how the world began. There are many wonderful people and places on this planet, and don’t see how you can give credit to some imaginary old man when all of this has so clearly come into existence on its own.
I guess you also agree that you came into existence on your own!! Explaine why the earth is located just the right distence from the Sun to recieve the proper effects needed to sustain life on earth and it stays that same distance through the seasons. Majic?? I think not.
THERE IS A GOD AND I AGREE WITH YOU I WAS THERE AND THERE ARE NOT ANY WORDS TO EXPLAIN HOW BEAUTIFUL
THIS IS, JUST THINK OF WHAT HEAVEN IS!!!!!!!!!
I want to thank whom ever posted these great pictures, I have had the pleasure of seeing the Grand Canyon a few times in my life, not enough to get tired of it by any means. Take the time to enjoy the pictures and hopefully see it in person and make up your own mind about where it came from and when it came to be.
As I read all of the replies below I wonder why we must get tangled up in issues like God versus Nature. Why can’t we just marvel at what is and stop the angry comments about how it got here. My husband and I and 5 other friends have just returned from a week white water rafting the entire canyon and each day we were struck by the beauty and the variety one finds in the canyon. We were thankful to be there and no questions about how it came to be.
This incredible creation of God ALWAYS takes my breath away. Thank you photographer(s) for taking the time and energy to get all this amazing shots of one of God’s most WONDERFUL creations!
Hallo Kathleen
We were there also in june 2009, my wife and me and 2 good friends. Seeing the Grand Canyon was one of my wishes to see before i die and at the moment i was sitting on the border of the abyss i did feel such a silence inside my body; a kind of upper happynes and the same time a kind of crying. It is very difficult to explain this feeling but i guess you will understand me. I walked already on the Great Wall in China (one of my wishes) and the next what i want to see are the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.
Kind regards.
Peter from
Amstelveen – Netherlands.
Ben there 4 times and if ever there was a god it is there in all his golory
Kathleen, You took the words right out of my mouth !! Only GOD could create such beauty !!
Sorry about the loss of your sister.
Arguing about God is not the point of this website. You are ruining the beauty and peace
of the site.
Amen Sharona, this website is not for arguing, it is to enjoy all the beauty!
Beautiful place. I hope to see the Grand Canyon this year.
The “Texas sharpshooter fallacy” is alive and well on this page of comments I see….lol
I HAVE SEEN THE GRAND CANYON MANY MANY TIMES AND IT IS STILL BEAUTIFUL AND I DO THANK GOD FOR THE EARTH AND THE BEAUTY HE CREATED. ANOTHER BEAUTY IS THE PAINTED DESERT, BRYANS HEAD CANYON IN UTAH, BRICE CANYON AND BIG ROICK CANDY MT.BERNIE NEEDS TO SEE THE REAL BEAUTY AND GIVE THANKS.
I totally agree. Made me feel the same way! The splendour and beauty of it all is breathtaking.
I’ve never been to the cannon’s,which is very beautiful from the photo’s i’ve seen…The very same God that created the beauty in upstate New York, HE created out earth in six days,and rested on the seventh… whew 🙂
There are those who see beautiful things and immediately remember god. What’s then harm? nothing.
and there are those who after seeing something great, just remember to show their negative and poisonous attitude. They harm themselves and they harm mankind, and the whole society. These are pat of the 1%, and their brains are occupied with all that’s bad.
Ms. Harbour Was it ‘god’ who caused 9/11?! GOD is an atheist////
LOL, Everyone is missing the point here, its NOT about Bernie OR what he believes, WHO CARES! IT IS about how beautiful the Grand Canyon is! The amazing pictures that people have shared with us so we might see things we might never lay our eyes upon. I don’t know why people are even addressing him? We do not have to prove or try to convince anyone that there is a God. That is the Lord’s job. 2nd Corinthians 4:3-4 “But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the gods of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.” Ignore his lack of intelligence, your just adding fuel to the fire. If that’s what he believes, let him, we can only pray for him and hope he doesn’t do as his name suggests … “burn-ing”. (I couldn’t help myself, we do have a sense of humor also, hehehe)
No matterr how many times we go to, or see pictures of the beautiful Grand Canyon Am amazed that God created it all. I’ve been twice. It’s awsome.
Just reading this now and seeing these pictures and I totally agree on this and many, many other things in nature, not even half as magnificent at the Grand Canyon but amazing (at least to me) that there IS a GOD. Others can think ‘what they will’ but that’s my opinion and I’m happy with it.
Geologists say that one inch (25.4mm) of erosion is 1000 years of the Colorado River eating away at the rock. If a God created this and it is the same God of the bible, the Grand Canyon would be like 6 inches deep.
How gorgeous, I just want to go there on my next vacation with my husband and children. Thanks 🙂
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Overlook his errors Jenna.. Be happy for him that he even questions God. It shows us that he’s thinking about Him, anyhow.
I used to have spiritual beliefs until I opened my eyes and saw things as they really are. If u really believe in a loving benevolent god , download. ” letters from the earth” by mark twain. (free PDF). read the first 100 pages or so. ” Thou shall not kill”. , then god orders the massacre of 5000 innocent men and women. COME ON ! Read it, I dare you
Great idea, Sis… If I drop off my 3 brats can they tag along? I think they could use some God.
Once you have a relationship with Jesus there’s no doubting God. Faith is the key that opens the door of understanding and insight. He’s real. It’s easier for me to believe in a Master mind, God, than any other theory. Like an ant trying to figure out how humans can engineer the Golden Gate or Lions Gate bridge. We are small potatoes compared to the One who created us and the world. He must love beauty,humor, color, and relationships, love is His main thing.
Amen Dottie!!
If there was ever a perfectly appropriate application of the word AWESOME, it would certainly be to describe God’s Masterpiece, THE GRAND CANYON! And don’t we also thrill at the orchestration of The Grand Canyon Suite?!
Best way to see the Grand Canyon is to fly thru it with one of the tour operators.
I have to agree with you, but I suggest you also take along a heliocopter jus’ in case.
NO NO NO take the raft!!!!!!!!!!
don’t agree. The over-flights by helicopters and planes ruin the peaceful, grand silence of the canyon. The absolute best way to experience the Canyon is on a raft trip. I’ve been to the South Rim (way too many visitors) the North Rim, (hard to reach, hence very peaceful), and 3 rafting ventures. Rafting is unbelievable. No comparison. Make your plans now.
My husband and I would like to take a whitewater rafting trip down the Grand Canyon for our 10 year anniversary. I am in the process of researching companies. Do you have any suggestions?
Karrie,I have been down the entire length of the canyon 11 times,all with outdoors unlimited.
If you like oarrafts or especially paddlerafts,I highly recomend them.I’m hoping to book a
trip for next year myself soon.
Try as we might we as humans haven’t ruined this magical place yet!!
just breathtaking
I live in northern california,the sacramento area.I’ve never been to the grand canyon in my 53 yrs. I want to thank those people who took the time to take the pictures im so lucky to seen.Also,to the person who sent them to my friend who sent them to me.Thank you all, very,very much.Now i must go to see the grand canyon.The name suits it.It is grand,and i bet to see it with one’s own eye’s.It is even Grander.Windell Stephens,4/14/2011 at 8:17 pm.
I hope you got to see it, Windell…
It’s beautiful grand Canyons; these are the first time I and my family saw these. I admire the create of Gods. I want to thank these groups nature rocks had contributed them to all people around the World.
It is breathetaking beautiful. I will be taking a trip with my kids and mom she is 72 years old. Thank you to all that had pictures in this e-mail.
Absolutely beautiful pictures! I have never been but after seeing those pics, it makes me want to go for sure!!!!! Great job of picture taking and beautiful subject matter for sure!!
I just want to say that your Havasu Falls Picture at the end is the icing on the cake for this series of pictures you assembled on the Grand Canyon. Now my desktop looks better than ever!
Been there; done that, but it is always a new adventure whenever I see the majesty of the Grand Canyon. A river rafting trip is a must to fully understand and appreciate the power of “the” Canyon.
Great photo collection!
Thank you for the wonderful trip. only other time i went to the canyon was with all 8 kids under the age of 12. I spent most of the time with eyes closed and holding my breath. Glad i got to see it in such beautiful pictures.
It is so beautiful. I was there in the 60’s, 80’s and 2000 time frames. It has changed alot
since the 60’s. Can’t always get to the edge of the cliffs like back then. Still need to do a river raft trip and “donkey-down” to the Bright Angels Camp and stay awhile! Great pictures by some great camera artist – people with an eye for beauty!! Let’s hope we don’t smog this place up too much!! Visit Page, AZ, just north and east a bit; before the Utah border.
Ben there many times and still the splendor is so great that it takes my breath away. I could go a thousand times and see new.
How Great is OUR GOD, Sing with me, How Great is OUR GOD, and all will see, How Great, HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Considering that the paleontology on display in the Grand Canyon completely vindicates Darwinian evolution, and considering the indisputable fact that the Canyon was carved very slowly by random forces over millions of years, it’s kind of amusing that humans can’t see what’s staring them in the face if it conflicts with their comfortable dogmas. It’s perfectly possible for beauty to exist without an intelligent agency behind it.
Oh–and try getting stuck 2,000 feet down in the Canyon without adequate water and then see how inspired you feel.
to canuck .how did it happen? did the river just slowly ate its way down?
Maybe Canuck jus’ got lazy, and the river slowly etched it’s Darwinian way deeper into the canyon and he nearly died for a cool sip, ya’ think?
Apparently, you have never studied geology beyond what your ‘teachers’ taught you. Darwinian theory has been refuted time and time again. But that doesn’t hit the news, does it? Much of what is ‘dogma’ to evolutionists can be easily refuted by true science.
Get a grip on what you don’t know, and visit http://www.answersingenesis.org. If you are open to anything other than what has been pounded in your head for so many years, you may be surprised by what is real and what is imagined. Many scientists believe in God, and with great personal risk to their jobs and reputations.
And if you go to the Grand Canyon, and decide to go 2000 feet down, you’d better be prepared for emergencies.
good on you rachel,
kind’a like camping.. be sure to take fresh water with ya>> and maybe a tent ,blankets/food, and first aid bandages… so you’ll be comfie>> when ya get stranded…
i don’t think i would attempt the grand canyon. with out a guide..or at least stay close enough not to get lost.just when you think you have everything, you useually don’t.just when things go so smoth>> one twisted ankle or a snake bit>> there ya are 2,000 feet down and no wood for a fire…ya just don’t wanna fool with mother nature, thank god for her…..
The universe is moving toward disorganization (2nd Law of Thermodynamics). The Grand Canyon is anything but that. See also the Mount Saint Helen’s Grand Canyon that was formed after the eruption in only 3 weeks, including “fossils” that were half live tree and half petrified.
well, Well, inspired words from a fellow Canuck!!
You are absolutely right Canuck,It has existed very well without YOU, the only non intelligent agency On this web site. Is there any reason people like you have to put a damper on what other people enjoy? Get over it. You MUST be a democrat.
Hi Peggy ,Is ” our God ” your God ?
Everybody’s God …or the Native Peoples God ? You know the ones we stole the land from !!! And for the record I am not a ” Native Person “
Hey Cliff, if you feel so sorry for the indians we stole the land from, please find an indian and give him your house and land, if you have one. That should even things up even a little bit.
Amen, Peggy. Been there 3 times and could go 300 more. It is Sooooooo awesome. And soooooo God-made.
I’d love to go but I’m stuck. I can’t seem to leave Florida and the Atlantic Ocean. She changes every second. Anywhere you go on Gods Creation you can marvel or ?????????
It Isn’t
Please state your proof. That is all.
Oh PLEASE…. I sincerely hope you are pulling our legs.
Peggy: Thanks a lot! You had to post it — just as we had gotten through what seemed like hudreds of posts from every one who has an opinion about religion. Just getting back into reading comments without all the arguements and you had to pop in. Why can’t we all just enjoy the beauty of things without these useless remarks. It is awesome, beautiful & breathtaking—-don’t need to know how it got there.
My wife and I thurotghly enjoyed the train ride out to The Grand Canyon. The ride itself was okay. However, the stories traded with the coachman made the ride more enjoyable.
The cars had been purchased from SP after they were retired from commuter service between Santa Clare County and San Francisco. My wifes dad used the commuter service for many years from San Carlos to San Francisco. We could have very well been sitting in one of the seats he used five days a week.
What a bit of history. The world can sometimes feel a bit overwhelming…until you start trading names with this same coachman. Come to find out, he was from San Carlos and names began to be traded back and forth. Okay, now the world seems to be whittled down and put into a smaller perspective.
Even better, when we reached the Grand Canyon…it took our breath away. Absolutely beautiful.
My wife and I visited the Grand Canyon in 1954. 22 years old. Now both 83. But excellent memories of the Canyon. We tented nearby, but the trip down to the bottom was denied, as I was too tall and too heavy. I’m still too heavy, but healthy. Our BIO’s are all typed out for the newspapers, when the final day comes. We just don’t want to rush it. So very happy that the Canyon was preserved as a National Park. Good thinking.
Though your math skills are apparently somewhat diminished these days…
Idiot!
MATHMAN! GIVE PEOPLE A BREAK YOU ARE SO IGNORANT TO PICK ON THE ELDERLY SHARING A NICE STORY..YOU SCREEN NAME IS VERY STUPID BY THE WAY. YOU WANT PEOPLE TO THINK YOU ARE A MASTER OF MATH???? WOW.. HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT .. NO SOCIAL SKILLS YOU MORON!
Come on math-man give Mr.& Mrs.Johnson a break, what’s 4 years among friends,
Some day you might be that old and make a boo-boo like that,i sorry i forgot that you are the
Math Mannnnnnnnn.
GOD help us, between math-man, Bernie & Shirley the GOD & people haters.
These pictures are awesome and since we hiked down into the Canyon on May 25th, 2010. This was for our 50th wedding Anniversary and we spent the night at the Phantom Ranch. God really created a masterpeace when he created the Grand Canyon. I would recomment anyone that likes to hike, hike the anyon if you are able. Great, Great pictures.
I’m with Bernie
The Grand Canyon is a spiritual experience. If you leave there still feeling like it’s beauty (and life on earth) was created by a huge accident, and that matter was developed from nothing into something all by itself-and not by intelligent design, well then, I suggest you read Dr. Lee Stroebel’s book “The Case For a Creator”. Stroebel was an atheist scientist who came to believe in God through knowledge of science. He interviews top scientific experts in many fields and the evidence for God will surprise you.
Here we go again!!!
There are so many holes in his book, ‘Case for a Creator’ That I could write a book about it.. Well, i DID… but not a direct rebuttal… In any case, He even states in his book, in his chapter on Doubts about Darwinism’, that “man evolved from Monkeys”!!!!! I mean, can you believe this guy???
Learn a bit about Darwinian Evolution BEFORE you torpedo your own boat… then do it… as you have done….
Mary, I am basically a simpleton. I never professed to be super intelligent. I love for problems to be reduced to their lowest common denominator – then I can begin to grasp possible solutions. If you and Bernie can explain the “mocking bird” and the “hummingbird” to me, then I will consider your theorums.
May I suggest The God Delusion by Richard Dalkins. I think it will answer your question and many others.
Mary you and Bernie deserve each other
GOD help us.
Absolutely Georgeous!!!! Thanks for sharing
I definitely want to go now…after viewing these pictures. It looks so amazing. It takes more faith to believe there is not a God, especially after seeing something like this. He made it for all of us to behold His greatness and love for man; that includes you, Bernie.
How can you look at these pictures (that do absolutely no justice)
& say that there isn’t a God. You will burn in hell, i’m satisfied 😀
to jmiza …and you are just telling the truth in love…
Why would you say you would be satisfied someone would burn in hell if you belive in God? God is all about love and forgiving. We pray for those who do not know the love of God and His forgiveness. I think that is one of the most unknowing God statement I have ever heard. How can you say such an ugly comment to such beauty. He died so no one would not go to his loving arms after life here.
great-great comments above. I only have seen some of the canyon flying to Las Vegas, I would love to see it all in person…but I wouldn’t be going on the “expansion” in picture #34…I know I couldn’t take it!! Bernie, have a heart, get a life, smell the coffee, smell the roses…who else but GOD could do this?? Folks were very hard on you, but you know…I hope, you can see why!!
I have been to the Grand Canyon with my husband Marvin and uncle Delmar.I say How great thou art. Only God could create some this awesome. It 3was a great pleasure to see it. Every american should see it.
The sky walk is made out of glass so you can see down under your feet (NOT FOR ME. We have been to the canyon, its so unreal its like walking into a dream world. You see that and you know that God is real.
Ei cantau cantarea lui Moise, robul lui Dumnezeu, si cantarea Mielului. Si ziceau: “Mari si minunate sunt lucrarile Tale, Doamne Dumnezeule atotputernice! Drepte si adevarate sunt caile Tale, Imparate al neamurilor! (Apoc.15:3)
If anyone cares this appears to be in Romanian.
Translation as follows:
They played the song of Moses the servant of God and the Lamb weighed. And said: “Great and marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are thy ways, O King of nations! (Apoc.15: 3)
complements of Google.
AMEN to that Brother Stan, AMEN to that.
Try to be an American. Nobody gives a crap that you can write in a foreign language, or even speak in one. You are probably on the “gubmint dole” anyway.
Oh yes, because Americans ONLY speak English. What the hell’s wrong with you? Have you no appreciation for anything other than what you’re exposed to in your own little life? How UN-American! You should be ashamed.
And in all likelihood, you’re on the government dole, too, you just don’t know it! So shut up about things you don’t know anything about.
It’s an awesome site. I’ve been there several times through out my life and being a rational human i never once had to make up some song ‘n dance, mumbo jumbo quakery, replete with invisible supermacho powers on how this incredible canyon was carved. We all know that Erosion is caused by Satan.
We went down the Grand Canyon by raft in 1988. We went with about a dozens friends. Wed night we meet with one of the couples that made the trip and we were reminiscing over the pictures that we took. Pictures cannot do the Canyon justice, it has to be seen. A new vista around every bend and curve. The Canyon walls tell the story of the making of the Canyon. Rock walls split open to have other molten rock flow into the split and be captured forever. Canyon walls split by upheavals and shifted hundreds of feet only to locked in their new position forever. The sights and sounds of a lazy creek that is transformed by a distant thunderstorm into a raging torrent thrashing and crashing its way to the river only to be returned to being a lazy creek in an hour. In the evening, as you rest your tired body, the darkness moves up the Canyon wall pulling the shade of darkness over you and you try to stay awake to catch sight of the falling stars. It has to be seen to really be appreciated. Take nothing but pictures and leave nothing but footprints.
I have been up and down the canyon and it’s tributaries and never get bored. I live in Kanab so I enjoy the northern parts of the canyon including Tuweep and Kanab Point and Parrisswampus Point and places the average tourist doesn’t have time to visit. That goodness I am old and can enjoy them all and see merit in all the geological arguments that exist. Enjoyed your pictures
Steve Stacey
PS look at the Toroweep/Tuweep and Kanab Point pictures for a real eye opener!!!
Science/geology determined the ages – it is a little more scientific and counting the Begats in the Bible and multiplying by 20!!!! H.P. has plenty of time – we mortals are the ones in a rush to find the other site – maybe pass through the Sipapu to the other side and be happy ever after – not the the mortal with sailoritus!!!!!!
Steve Stacey
God loves His creation, and it includes us , human beings too, even if we do not recognize Him as our God or creator. He died for you and for me. And he uses the bad for good because He is love!!! Love is a person…
Grand Canyon…. a masterpiece! Lead by a person through Nature!
Was there in ’68 with our 4 children. This made recollection of fond memories gratifying. Three (3) children now married, and one a confirmed bachelor, and the love of my life went to be with our creator.
But I recall man standing beside me – – from Texas he was. When asked what he thought of the spectacl, “He dryly commented that if it were in Texas, they would have filled it in by now.”
Woman beside him was complainig about her dry lips. Ranger suggested not to lick them as it accelerates the drying and cracking of the lips. Then TEXAS (man) suggested to do as they do in Texas. Woman asked of his remedy? Grab some donkey poo on your fingers, wipe it on your lips – and you won’t be licking them thare lips anymore!
Such humor.
I had the pleasure of living and working at the Grand Canyon for 8 years. It is truly breathtaking. The pictures are beautiful, but must see in person to really appreceiate the awe of natures bounty. I have flown over the canyon many times when working for one of the helicopter scenic flight companys and its so awesome every time. I also got to ride a mule down the trail to Phantom Ranch. What a pleasure to have been a part of it all. I miss the Grand Canyon so much, I hope to some day be able to afford to take my children there. It’s a place I absolutely recommend one to see. I had an idea of what it looked like, but when I first walked up to the rim WOW!!!!!!!!!!
And YES God is included in this bounty by the way………….
Having heard my Dad say (in about 1943 Grand Junction, Colorado) “those crazy Reed boys are gonna kill themselves making a rowboat ride down the Grand Canyon”; getting a Christmas gift from my loving wife for a boat trip down the Canyon in 1986 (enjoying the perfect stargazing nights while in the “sack” and the fabulous trip during the day); and studying the various religious views in these last few years of retirement; I can only say:
The Grand Canyon is much too GRAND to be lectured to by the hole-in-the-sand Christians, or anyone else, as to its origin or any other reference to how it was created. Let’s all just enjoy it while we are still on this good old 4.5 or so billion-year old Earth. Whether or not we take the scientific or religious view is completely irrelevant!!
Hear hear! Well said, sir.
Check out the facts on Mount Saint Helen’s and the life cycle of the Sun.
Well, I agree that we should all revel in the beauty that is the Grand Canyon, among other places on our planet, but I don’t think the view is completely irrelevant.
The world would be a completely different one if there really WAS a God. A God that controlled us.. telling us how to behave and what to think. What to eat and on what day. Who we should be attracted to.. the list goes on and on. Thankfully (figure-of-speech) we all are here on this earth, and I, for one, can enjoy all the fruits of this earth WITHOUT believing someone else had (or has, heaven forbid) anything to do with it’s ‘creation’.
To see what wasn’t seen from 37,000 feet is awesome. I though seeing the Grand Canyon from that height was a wonderful sight but to see these pictures is to know what I missed. Would love to see it from much lower and maybe even from the ground.
Whatever about God painting this, it looks like someone with Photoshop gave some of these shots a little help.
Amazing, isn’t it? And it’s for real, go see for yourself if you don’t believe me.
From those of us who are believers, God has another name, Creator. I wonder if Bernie will believe when her day comes to meet Him. The Grand Canyon in all its splendor will pale when compared to the Kingdom of God.
At the tender age of 74, I decided it was time to start my bucket list. A group of eight of us assaulted the Canyon with high expectations and were still overwhelmed with its majesty. Whether you believe in a God or not (I do), one cannot question the fact that a higher power had a hand in this magnificent gift. The spiritual feelings were palpable and ran the gamut of emotions. My only regret is that we hadn’t taken this trip when we were younger and could explore more deeply. The Grand Canyon is an elixer to be savored. May 1, 2011
“WOW!!!”
to jo bangean I don’t know where b.j. got them, but you can read them in the book, “Bang! The Complete History of the Universe”
Yes indeed, the Grand Canyon is truly awesome. According to Christian believers, this must be the work of our Creator. By the same reasoning, that same Creator must be responsibile for the stacked corpses of innocent women and children in the infamous (and truly awesome) World War II Nazi extermination camps at Dachau, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. What was the reason for His handiwork here? Why didn’t He stop the Nazis?
Ray
Good comments Ray !! Also the many wars through out history and diseases !!
All these comments about GOD makes me wonder what GOD ?? There have been thousands of “GODS” throughout history !!
Also a couple of comments to the effect that ” he died for you and me ” I thought Jesus was the one that was supposed to have done that !!!! Not GOD. So is GOD dead ????
Grand Canyon was God’s creation. Stacks of corpses were man’s creation.
Uhhh, that’s another Ray. so from now on Ill post with ray2, so as not to be confused….. with… the other Ray, lol
Bernie just remember anything and everything of beauty GOD has his hands in the creation. He moves in ways we will never understand. His beauty last forever.
I have been on one commercial river trip (1979) and three private trips (1988, 1998, 1999) with another probable trip this fall. You’ve never seen the canyon until you’ve seen it from the bottom looking up.
I’m in the process of scanning all of my photos from film (before there were digital cameras). It’s a monumental task. I’m on the 1998 trip now. All the others are done but need to be culled. I’ll be posting them to Photobucket and if I remember will post the link here.
Explain how the river can run up hill to cut through this great rock. The river enters at about 3000 feet and exits at about 2000 feet and has a 5000 foot hill in the middle of the canyon. Last I looked, water can only run downhill.
With the Hand and other Body Parts of God in play, water can definately flow uphill. And pigs can fly.
Bernie is right on. The Grand Canyon is magnificent; no doubt about it. But God was invented by man; accept it and get used to it. Natural forces create great beauty in many places. There is nothing whatsoever mystical about it – other, of course, than the question of what caused the great bang which started it all. Within a couple of lifetimes, I expect someone will figure this out, but even when they do, many will continue to argue the mystical reasons and the existence of a supernatural being called God, Allah and many other names depending upon the culture in which they were born instead of coming to grips with reality. Of course, now that Osama bin Laden has been brought to ‘justice’, this will probably not include as many of the religious ‘crazies’ as it might have just two days ago. Grow up people and face the reality of life and existence and the unknown, and quit trying to make the unknown known so you can reduce your irrational anxieties.
Check out the after affects of the Mount Saint Helen’s eruption. You might be surprised. How is there justice if there is no standard, no ultimate truth?
I’m not as old as some, but I have been to the canyon many times 50’s, 60’s 70’s& 8o’s, have slept near the rim for a week, have been there with Mom,& Dad wife& oldest child, other family and at no time did I ever see the same sights from the same spots. While laying on my back looking at the stars on my early visits, I was overwhelmed by the sights–GOD–I don’t know, but some thing or someone was letting me see the beauty in this world. By the way my trips in the 60’s was after I returned from Viet-Nam, where I found GOD was with Me in a few foxholes and when I got shot down in my helo, belive or not I do, thanks to the photogs for the pic’s and the memories.
I am feeling the need to get in a raft and finish what I began in 1972 when I was visiting the canyon and pregnant with my oldest son. Now I want to share it with my youngest son who is 15. I didn’t dare get on a mule and ride down the trail then. Now I want to have the entire experience. Everything about the canyon is beautiful. Great photos, but they can’t even begin to capture the majesty of looking out at the canyon. It’s too strange to put into words, but your depth perception plays tricks on your eyes. Just remember thinking, ‘This can’t be!. It is just too big!.’
Thank you for the fantastic photos.
The Grand Canyon is an awesome work of God is all I can say!
Surely you can remember MAN created Dacha, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. I would much rather believe in God and find out there is NOT one than NOT to believe and find out there is one. I don’t need nature to confirm his existance….nature is just an “added benefit” of his love and care.
I feel so sorry for these people who do not believe in our living God. He was, is and always will be the mighty creator of all things. Not a direct quote, but the scriptures say that God made all things and all things were made by him. Sad situation when someone can say that God was a figment of mans imagination or that he was created by us for us to have something in which to believe. I feel him with me everyday and he has been with me in many situations that I would not have survived if he had not been. Of course, The Canyon was God’s work of Art as is all the other things of beauty that he has put on this earth for us to enjoy. Be greatful for all he has given us. If you don’t you need to rethink before your time is up.
Well, no-one likes to be called ‘delusional’ but sometimes the truth hurts…
The plain fact is that you have been horn-swoggled by your tradition, your family and community’s beliefs and can’t think clearly, RATIONALLY. can’t you take one small step back and say.. “Hmmm, I DO believe this stuff because I have been told it… by my family, community, on television”, etc. where is the actual proof of ANY of it? Quoting the bible just digs you in the ‘hole’ deeper. Man created the bible, right? What OTHER creature on earth do you know that has the ability to conjure up such a book? an antelope did not create the bible, so it is a pretty sure bet that humans did… THEN you can ask yourself “why was the bible created in Bronze-age Middle east where 99% of people were illiterate? 200,000 years of modern human existence and this god of yours decided to come out of the clouds 197,000 years later, in a place where no-one could understand him?? Makes sense to me.. lol
You make a couple huge asumptions when making this comment,
1. “Margaret” was “horn-swoggled by your tradition, your family and community’s beliefs and can’t think clearly” for all you know, she could have come to believe in God at the age of 27, after growing up in Foster care where no one even mentioned God unless to swear or make jokes.
2. You assume that she has not studied both sides of the issue with a rational point of view. I can assure you, I have, and when you actually make an inquest from both sides of the argument without bias only then can an answer be found.
3. You assume there is no proof supporting Creationsism. I could argue the same thing, because as it stands Darwinism is only a theory. Not a fact. On the same line, you assume there is concrete proof supporting Darwinism. Which, there is none, or it would be fact, not theory.
And before I forget to mention it, did you know that Darwin later recanted his theory and became a Christian? It’s true. His wife Emma documented it in her diary. Which I have heard read and seen with my own eyes when it was but three feet in front of me.
comments accepted…. but they are hardly accurate. Let me enlighten you and all who may care to listen:
1) If margaret came to her belief later on in life after foster-care (and no mention of God came to her ears) where did she get the idea of the (I suppose you mean christian) God??) Certainly, If she needed to believe in ANY god to help deal somehow with her past bad experiences, then so-be-it. far be it from me to deny anyone a crutch or help-mechanism to help them out. It is doubtful, in this day and age, that NO mention of God ever came to her. This supposed belief by her is NO evidence of any God’s existence, so I really don’t know what your point was there..
2) I assume you mean you know of a God’s existence then, after you have rationally looked into both sides? what side do I have, then? I don’t believe any God’s exist. It’s that simple. However, as soon as someone opens their mouth and says “yes god does exist.”. then the questions most rightly start pouring out…. Believing in any god is a personal belief… nothing more. To stand on a soap-box though and state one actually exists is simply an invitation for someone like me, a non-believer in any gods’ existence to come forth and ask for some proof. I don’t think that’s too much to ask…
3) There IS no proof supporting Creationism. All that results is an intellectual discussion in the areas of metaphysics, and philiosophy…nothing more. All the old, tired arguments can be refuted with ease (after a bit of study) and I can hardly wait for some new and exciting ones to come around the corner…. Oh, Are you kidding me with this Darwin comment? Evolution (I assume to which you are referring) is a theory and not a fact??.. Google something like “how science creates fact” or some-such thing…… My GOD will you please do some research before making a comment like that!
On Darwin recanting his theory and becoming Christian. Let’s be clear. Regardless of what one man’s proclivities are (were) with regards to religious-belief–and to what degree– i hardly find it unusual that someone from the mid-1800’s would not be at least partially religious… or at least entertained the concept, even if he DID begin the theory of evolution by natural selection. What difference does it make? If I had a religious theory and put it out there, and scientists the world over studies it and scrutinized it and tested it ad infinitum, and it seemed to hold water… then… guess what?? This theory becomes FACT… until something comes along that disproves it…. Am I causing you to think a bit here??
just my 2 cents (and then some!)
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Did Adam have a belly button?
Don’t you remember MAN created Dachau, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. You really don’t have to have Nature to believe in God…I would much rather believe in HIM and find out he doen’t exist, than to NOT believe in Him and find out he does! My life is “liveable” believing!!!!
you said that right, Pat.
Not to kick a horse when he’s down…but consider the following:
Let’s assume you are talking about the Christian religion. You do realize that there have been over 10,000 God’s worshipped throughout history? Each sometimes had millions of followers (in a much smaller population-base). What makes you so confident that the very specific God in which you worship, is THE God. why is your God any better than the classical Greek Gods that were loved and adored By millions? I bet you are ‘atheistic’ towards those God’s.
Boy, what a coincidence that you believe in the Christian God… Let’s see, at last count there were around 1 billion of you?? Something tells me you did not arrive at your belief out-of-the-blue… NO.. I suspect you went to church, had a community that pretty-much believed in the same God…
If you grew up with parents from Mumbai… guess what, my acquaintance, you would be praying to Hindu God’s!!! Do you understand the gist of what I am saying. The Christian God is just arbitrary. So is every other God that has ever been worshipped..
another 2 cents 9I think I’m up to a buck already, lol)
Oh, but the bones of all the other gods are still in the grave, but you will not find the bones of Jesus. Because He bodily rose from the dead and just as He did, we will one day be resurrected from the dead, our spirit which goes to Heaven when we die will be reunited with our body from the grave, (the resurrected body will be incorruptible) and will be raptured and taken to Heaven with Jesus when He comes for the Church (the earthly body of Christ). Don’t gamble on being left behind. You say it isn’t true, but just suppose it is. I would not miss it for anything.
wow!!!!! Those picture are amazing!!!! I really want to go to the Grand Canyon
what was here before the the great bang,there have been big bangs going on for all time an time is forever
Beautiful! and More beautiful!
What a beautiful job God did when he made the Grand Canyon. It is most impressive. I have not seen it, but would like to go.
Grand Canyon gets more amazing in every different view of it. If you have a free year or two
it can be seen so from many different angles. Each one is more beautiful. It shows us how
insignificant we are as individuals. Looks better every time I see pictures of it.
Visited the Grand Canyon !956 .This show of pictures is more spectacular than being there, thank you .
There is no doubt in my mind as to whether God created the Grand Canyon. He, the Creator, created everything in this world and every person in this world. I am so thankful to be a Christian and to have God in my heart and His son Jesus Christ as my savior. He’s there for everyone, all you have to do is believe and ask Him to be. He’s waiting…………
So, the FACT that modern Homo Sapien man has been here for around 2000,00 years only.. that over 98% of all species on this planet has become extinct and that Fact that we know the rough age of our planet… I am perplexed… The earth has been here for 14 billion (?) years and this god popped us here 200,000 years ago..
OH WAIT A MINUTE.. most Christians think the world is only 10,000 years old….. still can’t win
Ray..you might as well give up when trying to address the god-believers…you’re talking to a dead horse.
This is most of wait Christopher Hitchen’s said but you’re wrong, Earth is 4.7 billion years old. But, otherwise I do agree.
This is most of what Christopher Hitchen’s said but you’re wrong, Earth is 4.7 billion years old. But, otherwise I do agree.
God created the Heavens and the Earth and that includes the beauteous Grand Canyon which I have had the privilege of seeing while visiting friends in Tucson. The word ‘Awsome’ is used in many contexts that are so banal it has lost its true meaning. At the Canyon it is the ONLY word to describe the amazing colours and rock formations. Thamk you for taking these pictures that will keep the memory of my visit alive, and thankyou Lord for giving us so much beauty to enjoy. Jo Otero. United Kingdom.
I have been to the Grand Canyon – both sides – many times and never can believe what I am looking at! It is one of the most beautiful spots in the whole World! When one stops to think of how old it is and how old the Colorado River is…it blows my mind! I am very happy that these pictures are out on the ‘internet’ so those, who have not been privileged to see the Grand Canyon, can at least see pictures of it. Thank you. Edna
How could such beauty generate such closed minded thoughts. We all have the right to believe whatever we choose, “and who will cast the first stone?”
The pictures are fantastic! I was on a geological float trip in the 70’s and if you can’t see the hand of God there then your eyes aren’t open. The belief in God is pure faith.
Had a hard time getting my response in the right place, but here it is.
What a load of BS Sue
All, it turns out that a “mini-grand canyon” was formed in just 3 weeks after Mount Saint Helen’s erupted in 1980, complete with “fossils” that were carbon dated as 100’s of 1000’s of years old where half was still a part of a living tree and the other half was “petrified”. Be careful of the “science” in which you are putting your faith. We all put our faith in something. At least check out Jesus Christ. He loves you and has been pursuing you since the day you were born. (Research the after affects of the eruption. Very interesting.)
P.S. If the solar system was billions of years old, the nuclear fusion of the sun would have fizzled out long before now, at the current rate of consumption. It’s only been a few thousand years.
From Job 38:2-5 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me if you understand. Who marked off it’s dimensions? Surely you know. Who stretched a measuring line across it?”
You’re an idiot. You can’t use carbon dating (or various other types of radiometric dating) on things that are recent, the carbon 14 decay probabilities (or of other isotopes) won’t be significant enough to be detectable, and the range you’ll get is just insane. So of course it came out to be thousands of years old, that’s the margin of error!! You can’t apply wrong science, get a wrong answer, and use that to disprove everything!
And you clearly don’t understand nuclear chemistry, especially stellar nuclear fusion.
What a load of BS
Frank
Sue is probably a “creation scientist”. They start off with the premise that GOD created everything in the timeline that they believe in, and make up “facts” to support their ideas, while ignoring everything that disproves their ideas. No peer review discussions, no independant verification of supporting arguments, just say what ever sounds good. It is similar to trying to force a square peg into a round hole with a hammer.
Just got back from our latest trip to the GRAND Canyon. We rented bikes and spent all day stopping to admire the views. Glad you were able to share this special place with your sister and sons, Kathleen. God bless you.
Interesting comments. As for me, Jesus is my savior. No critics can ever change that. I trust Him with all my being, now and forever. Jesus died for me, rose on the third day, ascended to Heaven to prepare a place for me, and will return some day for all who believe in Him. Thankyou, David Brockus
What is he saving you from?
Why am I a happy camper with no burden from this strange belief, and can live probably pretty-much the same general life as you.. WITHOUT this belief.. There must be a reason for that. Have you not even thought about that? Reason and common-sense pervades most of our decisions on a daily basis. Why would you simply throw caution-to-the-wind and throw up your hands and believe this nonsense?
Because you have been indoctrinated into it.
If you are so happy with no burden, why have you spent the last few hours riduculing others for their personal beliefs? It sounds to me by your writing and choice of words that you actually are just waiting for someone to give you a reason to believe, one that you can use to assure yourself that you made the right choice by chosing Jesus. I know that littl voice in the back of your head that your trying to ignore is saying “What if?” “What if their right?” My question is, why don’t you search for proof of creationism yourself? If your right, you find nothing, if your wrong, you get the chance to have peace of mind. You have nothing to loose.
If you have actually read all my comments, then you have spent as much time here as I have.
I hope I have NOT been ridiculing anyone. I stated a number of times that belief in god is a personal thing.. the DIFFERENCE ( or what makes me animated to ‘argument’ ) is when someone actually believes that a GOD ACTUALLY EXISTS. There is a big difference, even if you don’t happen to see it.
YOUR comments here, on the other hand, are a little condescending. I have mentioned I am an atheist. I am not agnostic, THEN I might say “what if they are right?”….
I would love to hear your BEST proof of Creationism. I will even give you a few days to do some research, if you like. 10 times out of 10 I bet anything you like you will come up with all the tired old arguments which have been refuted intelligently and precisely over the years. Please come up with a doozy, otherwise we will all be disappointed.
You skewered them with logic Ray but deeply held beliefs defy
logic. If you can believe in gifted people some of them say
God is the source of their muse. To them such system as
religion liberates them to produce their works. We on the
other hand live the best we can without this
system and take full credit for our works.
Mother Nature.
I do not need supernatural gods. I believe in the natural world and it is amazing. We are the victim of where we are born as to our belief system.
GOD IS GOOD
MAGICAL, BEAUTY AND AWE INSPIRING. I FEEL HUMBLE WHEN I SEE THIS NATURAL BEAUTY. ALL WE MUST DO IS TREASURE AND LOOK AFTER IT. THANK GD FOR SUCH WONDERS WE CAN SHARE AND ENJOY
LOVE AND LIGHT RONA
Wonderful photos! In my 77 years I’ve been blessed with opportunities to see lots of this world and I am thrilled to see God’s handiwork. I feel sorry for those who have to rely on natural causes for the beauty we see in this intricately designed spectacle–or in the eye of a child. Of course those things simply could not happen by themselves and an honest scientist, considering the sheer odds of everything lining up in the right order, will have to admit that it is impossible. In fact a Professor of Biology at Harvard said that very thing but then said “We choose to believe the impossible because the alternative is unthinkable!” The athiest can assert that “There is no God.”– but he has to take that on faith, doesn’t he?
I have been to the Grand Canyon twice, but these photos show the canyon in ways I certainly did not see it. They are the most beautiful photos that I have ever seen of the Grand Canyon.
Gorgeous beyond words !
Bernie
Sorry for you
Whom ever posted the pictures thank you
It may have a two fold purpose a show of some of the beauty around us and possibly I hope this Bernie fellow reads the comments he may reflect on his own nature.
Ron
From its depth and looking up will make you believe. I’ve been down it all the way to the river three times. More Awesome looking up from the depth.
These pictures are fantastic, making one feel humble with the grandeur of the Grand Canyon. I know I will not get to see them in my lifetime, but will pass these pictures to others who may be able to visit. A question whether they are the work of God? It is my belief that man could never achieve such majesty.
What a lovely view of God’s handiwork – you’ve got to enjoy it as my wife and i have; and only in person, does it really reveal it’s beauty !!
We (my husband & I) had an opportunity to work at the Grand Canyon for 3 months. It was amazing how different the view of different areas could change at differnt times of the day. The lighting was fabulous. I could always find a diffferent view and was never bored on days off when we could go exploring. I have no doubt it is a great part of God’s Handiwork!
Bernie, the price of gold went up to-day.See I know a lot of BERNIE,S
Awesome, in the truest sense of the word. Thank you for posting.
I believe in a divine entity of perfect love and grace, and I believe that entity is responsible for the feelings of awe and inspiration we have in response to the Grand Canyon. In the same sense, I believe that the Bible was “divinely inspired.”
I also believe that the universe behaves according to well-defined laws of physics that have been unchanged since the beginning of time (i.e. [according to one cosmological theory] “since” the singularity in the rectilinear representation of the space-time continuum that we call the Big Bang), and that will remain unchanged until the end of time (i.e. the corresponding singularity that occurs far, far in the future when the universe collapses into a point).
There is no possible evidence either “for” or “against” God, much less proof. No matter what you choose to believe about the divine, doing so is an act of faith. There is, however, plenty of evidence for some things stated in the Bible, and plenty of evidence against other things. The challenge for organized religion is to separate the theology from the mythology. Otherwise, they will die together.
BTW, I hadn’t heard before the claims about the “mini-Grand Canyon,” so I Googled it. It’s an idea put forth by the Institute for Creation Research. However, since it has not been accepted for publication by a legitimate scientific journal, it should not be called “science.” Here is one response to the idea: http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/08/creationism_and_the_grand_cany.php.
Peace
To say that there is no proof against the existence of god is false.
Which god are you talking about? There have been over 10,000 recorded deities in our world’s history. Which one do you mean? are you referring to the one YOU have been brought to believe exists?
To say I have no proof that god does not exist is like telling me I have to prove flying elephants don’t exist, or ghosts, hobgoblins or the tooth fairy. I don’t HAVE to prove gods do not exist. You, on the other hand, have the majority of the burden of proof… Making a statement like “a god exists” automatically suggests that the ‘speaker’.. step up to the plate to prove of this supposed existence… that does make sense to you, right?
Here is some wonderful pictures…of a great big hole in the ground..and what is really sad… Marisa and myself moved to Arizona over 2 years ago and have not yet been to see the BIG HOLE… sad Hey???
very sad, since it really is all about yourself and marissa.
Did the “big bang” just bang out of nothing at all or was there something created first so it could occur?
come on… read some books and you’ll know the answer to that one. Shall I say it for you?
‘we’ DON’T KNOW how it started (if it was the big bang) but raising up your hands and declaring that “god did it” is not getting us anywhere.. it’s just towing the party line as it has been the case for 2,000 years… the same old drivel..
I live in Northern Arizona a short trip away from the G.C. I have been there during different seasons and times of the day. As others have said, the lighting and cloud movement are ever changing. As many times as I have hiked, rafted, camped and just stopped off at the overlooks, it is always different and amazing. Can’t understand why many people from back East come only to the Phoenix area for the warm weather and never venture to this awesome attraction up north or the other scenic areas of Arizona. As a friend of mine once said–her husband would only visit attractions that include a golf course. Too bad for him as she was fortunate enough to take this splendid, and for many, once in a lifetime trip with me. It’s true–every American needs to see the Grand Canyon before they die. Thanks for the pix!
Fabulous pictures of the Grand Canyon…Have visited and stayed in the campgrounds twice. My very
first view of the Canyon was from a helicoper that my husband booked while I ate my breakfast. Flying over the trees and then over that gigantic canyon was breathtaking. The Grand Canyon National Park is one of our favorites…but try to visit as many of the National Parks as possible…they are all wonderful.
just enjoy ALL! EVERYTHING!
I just love this discussion on the existance of God. I love it more than the pictures. You people are very smart and intertaining. Keep it going.
Bernie…I don’t know who you are or where you’re from but, I love you. All of these “loving” and “christian” are the biggest group of hypocrites world wide. Lets all go to church to be preached to by a child loving priests that will molest children, lie to the public, steal from the church. Yeah, lets hear it christians. Was that “man of God” forgiven? Did the kids forgive him as well? How about yourself? The list goes on and on and on. God is just a figure that weak minded, feeble people can hide behind.
Wow this is amazing I wish I could be their right now.
I have been to the Grand Canyon a couple of times in my life time and it is truly a beautiful work of GOD at his best. It is so awesome with the many different colors that it depicts. Every color of the rainbow and then some.
In 1985 my wife Jackie and I had the opportunity to fly in the Grand Canyon. It was absolutely fantastic. If you haven’t visited the Canyon, I do recommend taking a flight. What an awesome sight! We are blessed to have a Heavenly Father who cares.
Unfortunately, this site seems to have been largely hijacked by bible-belt fundamentalist whose minds seem to have been shutdown by various charlatans, pastors and the like with their facile answers to the mysteries of this fascinating universe. The Grand Canyon is one of the most beautiful destinations on our planet but its development over the aeons has absolutely nothing to do with any supreme being or god. And for creationists to try to twist the historical record (dinosaurs, ancient rocks, fossils, light arriving from stars millions of light-years distant) into a time frame (the world began in 4004 BC) invented by the 17th-century Bishop Ussher through a misreading of the old testament is ludicrous and diminishes us all. Please folks, open your critical faculties to the wonderment of the Cosmos and reject the idiotic explanations for it all you’ve been spoonfed. Most of the civilized world increasingly finds Americans naive and simplistic and the views presented above do little to refute this perspective.
Not this site, just this post.
You choose not to believe. Your faith is in man and his explanations, based on his intellect. I don’t have a whole lot of faith in man – you don’t have faith in something greater. When it is all over for us both, we can see who is right. Until then, I am happy with my belief, and I hope that you are happy with your belief. I am not belittling you for what you believe, and I would appreciate it very much if you would do me the same honor.
Remember what it was like before you were born? Of course not and things will be exactly the same for you after you die. Reality may suck but it’s better than going through life believing in a fairy tale. Sorry to disillusion you…
Mistaken thought, unfortunately. As an atheist I simply don’t believe in any god’s existence. It is not a “belief’ as you would have us think. It is not a belief system… not at all. God’s don’t exist, except in peoples minds… end of story. I’d go nuts if I had to be burdened with this heavy-weight belief system of yours… wow….
Great photos. Thanks!
Nothing like religion to bring out the ‘best’ in people. Live and let live.
Well, I admire the sentiment, but sometimes getting to the TRUTH in a subject is worth the discussion. To say that a god really does exist is so strange to me….. a mild, benign church once in a while tradition… christmas… yaddda yadda is OK… but to take it much further than that seems to border on the mildly delusional…. or more
WELL SAID. ISN’T THIS CRAZY .. AFTER LOOKING AT SUCH BEAUTIFUL PICTURES!
Phenomenol and inspiring pictures and, amidst the lofty and not-so-lofty statements, thanks Ted for bringing us back down to earth. One of many messages: Live Love Laugh – and see the Grand Canyon.
Why argue about “who” or “what” created it? It is a beautiful and wonderous place. All that matters is the awe in each of our hearts and minds. I love the mountains because they are more than anything I know man can create. I love the ocean because it seems to have no end. I am truly humbled by the things I see.
You go Girl!! Don’t you just hate it when people can’t just enjoy something for what it is and not have to bring bring their beliefs into it! BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS, THAT”S WHAT THEY ARE! Thank You for You! Have a Great Day and enjoy all the wonders there are to enjoy!
I am humbled by the things I see to, but the discussion Can be fun….
God has always been, God is, and God ever shall be. Without God, there is nothing. Without God, we are nothing. God works according to His own plans, and in His own time. Glory be to God!
I am amazed that a one-liner from a person with a non-mainstream belief about absence of God can get so MANY responses that are narrow-minded and kind of leave the beauty of the Grand Canyon behind for judgmental arguments! One opinion is that Christ AND Allah told us we are not to judge, only to love.
It´s breathtaking.We visit Grand Canyon in 2008,it was unbelivibel.We have seen many places but nothing like that.Hope to see it once again.
Ed and Marge, one of you is a poet! What a great description of the Grand Canyon! I believe God is the creator of the universe and all things therein….but many things in nature are allowed to take their course according to the ‘laws’ of nature. People were created with commandment no. 1 to love Him- ‘God’ first and then our fellow man. Christians will love Bernie and pray for him ‘see’ God and his Son for himself someday.
All I can say is WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Have been there in 2008, spent the whole day, did the Colorado river boat tour. Need to go back and take it all in again. A sight you never have enough of whether created by our Creator, man or time. The beauty of it all cannot be denied.
To Mathman: you need to lighten up!
OOOHHHMY GOD!!!!
I used to hear that every night.
I just think ALL the pictures are beautiful
not knowing, it appeared the the canyon was under
water and then I learned it was. What a majestic sight!
God is Everything and everywhere!!
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Bernie,
Don’t worry about the nonsense remarks you received. These people do not realize that god is only a figment of their imagination.
I have to ask them a question though. Did god use a big or small hammer and chisel to create the Grand Canyon?
considering he made the universe with trillions of planets.. I imagine that he made it in .000000000000000004 of one of our seconds…. with a grand canyon making tool.. like a stamp.. there;s probably identical grand canyons on billions of other planets…
That is a stupid question one would relate to a grade school or below mentality. Just plain ignorant.
My friends Di & Sandy took me to see the Grand Canyon, It didn’t look real, I walked to the edge and I couldn’t believe my eyes. We listen to a lady talking about the Grand Canyon and in the background a girl was playing the title song of Titic on a flute, It was so quite and beautiful and this was not planed, but maybe God did that just for me to believe that anything is possible in life, you just have to believe. God Bless the Grand Cayon staff. Helen Esposito
What truly amazing pictures! There is no such thing as “Mother Nature” but only Almighty God, the Creator of ALL THINGS! What an awesome God – He created you and He also created me. We are living at such a time as this, in His sovereignty. Sadly, those who think he is a god of our imagination, will have a shock coming! He is truly a living God, and Jesus Christ is the only way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but by HIM! He is the only Redeemer, the only One who can forgive sins. We are all sinners, inherited from the adamic fall! Read Genesis in the Bible. God spoke and the world was created. Rosefen
I have been to one area of the Grand Canyon,,, someone asked of all my travels. 43 states,3 countries which one was the most awesome… and I had no problems saying the Grand Canyon… soooo beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!
The mule ride to Phantom Ranch was an all time favorite memory. Breathtaking. There was a full moon the night at the ranch and the moonlight bounced off the cliffs. Very special. I will not argue the GOD issue. I can only say we felt his presence there.
When I see the photos above, only one verse from the Bible comes to mind – “The fool hath said in his heart, THERE IS no God.†[Psalm 14:1] The careful reader will notice that the words “there is†have been supplied by the translators—unnecessarily, we feel. The fool does not say in HIS HEAD, “There is no Godâ€; rather he says in HIS HEART, “No God for ME! I decline allegiance to Him!†It is not intellectual unbelief denying the existence of Deity, but the enmity of a rebel who refuses to practically own or be in subjection to the God who created ALL THINGS!
What ever happened to Bernie? We never heard from him after his one remark… I wonder?
LOL
Bernie had the power to unleash this barrage of comments…maybe HE is the godhead!
GOD IS GREAT……….GOD IS GOOD……….GOD IS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD………..but did he create
my neighborhood, or anything else for that matter?
is god always good?
one thing for sure god is always great.
just a thought by frank in las vegas
what happens in Vegas….
Just figured out the reply thing, so my other reply is at the bottom of the page. Thanks for some great arguments. I agree with you.
In 1972,I went down the Grand Canyon with my two kids from Lake Powell to Lake Mead on two converted WWII landing raft. Most memorable trip I have ever taken. No outside communication. When we got to Lake Mead, one member asked “I wonder what they’ve been doing while we’ve been gone?” Only the Canyon stays the same!
I’m amazed at some of these comments – I’ll bet our heavenly Father is too.
Janie – I’ve been reading some of the remarks denouncing the existance of God or whatever higher Being one decides to believe in. Sometimes, I imagine God sitting in Heaven, looking down at man, his most prized creation, and just shaking his head in wonderment. I’m certain he doesn’t get angry, just mistified at what man does and thinks. Kind of like a parent who has occasion to say, “Where did I go wrong”.
Thankyou Momma,if it weren’t for you living in Prescott,Az. I probably would not hv ever been able to see such beauty in the Grand Canyon and even got to stay there. My brother has also enjoyed trips to the G.Canyon with Momma. What wonderful memories.This site of pics with and about the Grand Canyon were awsome. Thank you for sharing.
Suzie Hanna, NV.
This is nothing. I can understand the nature forces that created it. Contemplate the vastness of the universe, then explore your religious befiefs. That will give you pause
Poets and comedians speak directly and come closer to the truth than the self-named experts. Flip Wilson often said, “What you see is what you get.” and can we paraphrase that: ‘What you see is what you are,’ which in turn makes you believe as you do – no question – it’s all decided. Some people believe in God, others don’t believe. Both are opinions, neither position is provable. Those who say they believe are maybe afraid not to believe – that is fear which negates love. Perhaps they do not want to prejudice their spot reserved in heaven they have worked so hard for, and not suffer the ‘wrath of God.’ Those so-called a-theists must either worship or destroy that which they do not understand, and are apparently incapable of the former. “Misery loves company?”
A poet said, “The universe (world) has no cause – it is.” and we make of it as we will. Let us take care not to be hypnotized by words – not by our own nor those of the politicians and clergy. “What you see is what you get!” It’is all there, take a look.
To all non believers: I would rather believe in God during my lifetime and find out there is not a God after I die, than be a non believer who dies and finds out there is. Let this sink in for a while.
C. Elliott
yes the grand canyon is a nice place to visit !!
eventhough i never been there !! i would like to go some year !!!
Interesting debate, it’s gone from appreciating some truly wonderful photos of a magical place to a debate about god. Let’s just appreciate the canyon for what it is and marvel at the beauty of the land. If you’ve never been yourself, none of the photos I’ve seen do it justice, you have to be there and see it with your own eyes.
One of the wonders of the world! I flew into the Grand and it was breath taking! If you ever get the chance to see it, go! It will leave a lasting memory and it will make you feel the presence of God and his ausome power. I had that same rush when I first seen the ocean. Makes you feel how small and tiny man is next to God! I felt the same rush when I seen Niagara Falls for the first time. Why do we go to other country’s when we have such sights in our own country? : )
I can be inspired by things on this planet without concluding it was all done by an invisible, silent, unavailable for interview, incomprehensible hence undefined, god. But whatever floats your boat. Life is a great planet ride. Enjoy.
God created the Universe and the unimaginable beyond. What else could be the cause? As for our Earth, it evolved, and in the process man and woman evolved. Unlike other species and nature itself, bound to the strictures of heat, movement, water, and rock itself,and for living things the spirit of survival and reproduction, Man and Woman evolved with the unique capacity of reasoning and choices that come with reasoning, some naming it “free will”. Some men and women respond with action/inaction judged by their fellow humans at the time as evil or good. Whether our decisions/action and inaction are good or evil are judged at least once (by one’s fellow humans). Some believe the exercise of this special and unique capability of evolved free will will come to be judged twice, inasmuch as those to whom are given much is expected much. We shall see. Suffice it to say, that while we are on this Earth, this alleged 14 billion year process has given us the heart, mind, eyes,ears and soul to see beauty, including that of the Grand Canyon. At least the comments foregoing are unanimous in that. What is chilling is reflecting on whether we have used our unique intellect to decide what is in our best interests. If we do our best in this endeavor, we will reap the benefits of this exercise while living. If we do less than our best, we will chance a second judgment of our behavior towards our fellow humans, to say nothing of the earth and lesser animals. Our best interests are served by seeing beauty and good in all of creation, man, woman, child, earth, and the universe. No one seems troubled with seeing the beauty of the Grand Canyon. Is it much more of a step to treat all of creation as we see the Grand Canyon?
Either you believe the first four words–or you don’t accept the rest of the book, and all that God has and will do . . . “In the beginning, God—“
Wow. I can understand why “believers” try to convince the “non-believers”–they believe in eternal salvation (or some such thing), and they want to share it with others so that the others might also be saved. That’s how their dogma works.
But it is really puzzling why the “non-believers” work so hard and are so adamant about trying to convert the “believers.” Why? If it is as you say, then why should you give a flip what they believe? This is a case of “methinks they dost protest too much.”
As Cyndi said above–if you don’t believe, you’d better be right. There is no harm in hedging your bets on this one, so why fight so hard against it? What do you get if you convert everyone? A world with no morals? A society with only the fear of retaliatory force to regulate people’s behavior? A system where only the strongest can ever be “right”? No matter who your god might be, it is religion that has held civilization together for all this time–why would anyone want to destroy that, simply because they have the hubris to believe that they somehow know better?
We non-believers in god don’t want to convert believers. We just want our voices heard too. In this great (in many ways) country if one doesn’t believe in god it’s assumed we’re amoral, deviant. I know many so-called Christians who are full of hate, beat their children, cheat on spouses yet they go to church and think I’m the one going to hell (if there were a hell). The people I know who are atheists are thoughtful, hard-working, honest, generous, raising their kids to be good citizens. And I know plenty of people who believe in god who are as well. It’s not about religion. It’s about who you are as a person.
Amen brother….
Excellent words Joe – coming closer to logic and the ancients.
Namaste,
Peter
THOSE of you that can’t see GOD’S wounderous work all around us. all I can say is aproch all of life with an open mind learn to appreciate the beauty…GOD IS GOOD
“it is religion that has held civilization together”? Wow, maybe you should review history, and look around you. Today the biggest threat to civilization is the people with the most god faith, people who behave irrationally and violently based on a direction they imagine they have received from their invisible god. They’re about to get nukes.
Why do you want to degrade a great series of pictures by trying to tie it to your superstitious beliefs, that you can’t defend with real evidence?
You’re approaching it form the wrong perspective Don.
Without either the knowing or the sensing of a Divine Oneness, mankind is always exposed to its less evolved material characteristics. Albeit organized religions decay and corrupt over time as everything else does until it is periodically rebuilt (through inspirational historical as well a future occurrences).
There is no need to lambast the beliefs of religionists, their consciousness obviously still needs the story of Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, etc – in spite of the fact that they are divisive for the time being. The spiritual evolution of mankind takes eons and on a higher level of understanding the overriding Religion of Oneness – similar to Buddha’s ‘be a lamp to your own feet’ takes care of any remaining discrepancy.
In the mean time there probably is a need for a person to experience a life or two on this earth with the consciousness of an atheist (or agnostic) – that’s also a karmic learning process.
Namaste,
Peter
These are some of the most spectacular pictures of the canyon I’ve seen, along with Nat’l Geographic’s pics. As has been said, the Canyon never looks the same twice ! There are pics here, taken during different weather series; no one ever sees them all !! Thanks for the magnificent views.
I’ve been there a several times. It is amazing what God and nature has done. I even had the opportunity to fly into the canyon for an aireal tour in a small plane. I recommend it.
Do you believe we have wind? CAN YOU SEE WIND? Just like you can’t see the wind, you can’t see God. The creation was formed by God, and each of us has been created in His image.
Lord have mercy on your soul. Hope you will come to believe in our Awesome God, who died for your sins if you would allow HIM to enter into your heart and soul.
hahaha this is exactly the sort of religious circle-talking and analogy-making that really doesn’t make sense. You can’t argue with these types because their answer to everything is “God intended it.”
Wind is just air moving around and air is just a hodgepodge of atmospheric gases! Give me a break.
WOW, An unbelievabe piece of writing! “you can’t see God”, then “and each of us has been created in his image” Unbelievable the thinking (of lack of) of some people.
I have never read such a load of juvenile, superstitious drivel in all my life. Man invented god, not the other way around. It is just a way of explaining things when no answer is apparent. Obviously we humans (in general) have not come too far from the cave. There is no afterlife, no god, no mysterious beings, no heaven, no hell. If you only could see how ridiculous your infantile statements are and realize that this is all there is, so just get on with it and enjoy your limited time.
GRAND CANYON IS ‘GRAND’ RELATIVE TO OUR SIZE. THE WHOLE EARTH, NAY THE WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM AND MORE IS ALMOST NOTHING BUT A DROP IN AN OCEAN WHEN COMPARED TO SIZE OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE.
WE ARE HAPPY TO ENJOY SUCH SCENERIES AROUND US. WHEN SCENERIES INSPIRE US TO REALISE OUR LIMITATIONS AND MAKE US THINK ABOUT UNKNOWN BENEFACTOR/S (SAY GOD), THERE IS NO HARM. THE HARM COMES WHEN WE ARGUE WITH EACH OTHER ABOUT OUR BELIEFS. EVERYONE STARTS THINKING HIS/HER BELIEF IS AN ETERNAL TRUTH. IS THAT A RIGHT APPROACH??
WHAT WE BELIEVE IS INSIGNIFICANT COMPARED TO HOW WE BEHAVE WITH EACH OTHER. THE PRIME PURPOSE OF ANY RELIGION IS TO STRAIGHTEN-UP OUR BEHAVIOUR. WITH OUR LIMITATIONS AND DRAWBACKS UNDERSTOOD, OUR ANCESTORS INCORPORATED ALL MEANS ( STRAIGHT ADVICE – SOME PROMTING REWARDS – SOME PUNISHMENTS AND FEARS – SOME MYSTERIES – SOME RITUALS etc..) IN PROPAGATING THOUGHTS AND STORIES GROUPED AS RELIGION. EGO/ANGER/LUST/GREED etc.. ARE OUR GREAT ENEMIES. CONQUERING THEM IS MORE RELIGIOUS THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
GRAND CANYON IS AWESOME, NO DOUBT.
The photos are amazing. THANK YOU SO MUCH for the opportunity to see this beautiful piece of our earth. I am sorry that so many of you feel the need to break into and make effort to destroy one persons opinion and view … yours is not more important, and you sure arent’ changing anyone’s beliefs… did being mean make you feel bigger or more intellectual? Or perhaps you are afraid you might be wrong. Why not just say THANK YOU to the artist that assembled this for our pleasure?
It took wind,rain, heat, cold, ice, plant life, upheavel of the earth to create this beauty; can you do it?
Great pics. I’ve only seen it from the air but I’ve been to Crater Lake and I call it the place God goes to meditate and from these pictures I thisnk this is another meditation place for Him.
I suppose adults who tell children that Santa Claus is not real are sometimes characterized as mean, and ruining things, and they should just shut up because how can they be so sure that Santa Claus is not real?
I have been to the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, NY and Canada, Yellowstone, Gone up Pike’s Peak, and been to over 30 of the States in the good ole U.S of A. I have seen God in all those places, and His handiwork is just as Awesome As He, Himself. I have marveled at the buildings in SF. LV. DC. and all the Church Steeples throughout the US and Canada that I was blessed to view. For those that don’t know a god, I suggest you take the time to know the one and only God that matters. He has taken me to the mountains, been with me in the valleys, and remains with me each morning as I rise, walks with me through my days, and is there to hear my prayers each night before I fall asleep. I have 2 doctor diagnosed illnesses, and been through 6 surgeries for breast cancer within the last 4 years. I know without a doubt that God is here for me, and I truly pray you call on Him when no one else is there to hear your cry for healing, for peace when someone you love passes and before you yourself pass from this world we know…..God bless each of you and God bless America
When all is said and done the very best statement i have heard is “I would rather believe there is a GOD and when i die find there is no GOD than believe there is no GOD and die to find there is a GOD that will judge me”
I have heard that statement many times and totally agree with it. Yes Bruce, I will always believe that there is a God! If only everyone believed!!
i am a moral, caring person who doesn’t believe there is a god. i don’t fear god’s judgment. i know that if i am wrong about god’s existence, it doesn’t matter, because god will embrace me because of who i have been. shame on you all who judge that only “christians” will see heaven. to be so judgmental is not the least-bit god-like or christ-like. religion has caused many more problems in this world than it has solved. if you choose to believe and be a good person because you fear going to hell, wouldn’t god rather that you choose to be a good person because that is what you want to be? this implies to me you’d not be a good person if you weren’t worried about hell. that, de facto, makes you not a good person! i’m sorry for you.
well said
I come from a poor country a poor family no mom no father no godfather for a miracle I got tree university careers I am almost sixti years old and am very strong never get tired or sick I dont have any desease my teets are strong enough to eat anythyng I hate religions but I love God I have plenty of money and time not by miself but The Almity One is given all I need. I refused to be only the skin of this planet and to live only a hundred of years, thats not it but whow do you with your finite brain are going to understand infinite toughts and laws and miracles, tird word countries like mine families as ugly as mine poverty like I sufered for twelve years ( WHEN i waS A CHILD)only are different when you have God in your heart otherwise you do not care if your live or not.Velieve me your choose will be better if you put your faith in God never in men or in things mI prayer for you is that all of you will be more healthy richer and happier than mI.God bless you all. and forget men.
That was simply amazing. I wished I could go there some day. Praise the LORD.
these pics are lovley,, but it wasent god who made the grand cayon,, it was force of nature and god is not nature,,, the planet evvolved and this canyon was full of water at one point,, I have never seen god and so I dont believe there is one,, I believe you give a planet water and sun and earth and things will grow,, and I believe mostly old ppl who havent much left believe in god,, it gives them a feeling of hope,, but if I ever run into god,, and see him I may believe then and olny then,,but for now I am a scientest ,
The AWWWW!!!! feeling you all felt in seeing the Grand Canyon, wasn’t that a feeling of LOVE in that moment, I would even say of bliss?. Isn’t God Love?. And Love isn’t that the highest form of energy there is? and isn’t everything energy in one form or another?
Just close your eyes and listen to your heart beat. Then pretend you are in your heart, then feel the love that is in your heart and just let go to that love, just let go to God. Isn’t our journey here on earth to seek & express that love to all, because it is in all, it is…
I agree with the comment about how Christians don’t act ver Christian when face with other views. Can’t a person admire these photos in a secular manner?
Yes, of course we can, but there is such power represented in these pictures, that it seems to leave little doubt. For those who cannot accept a higher power, just enjoy the beauty that ‘nature’ has given us.
There is a God in Heaven. No one else could have done this.
Fantastic pictures. Must go sometime. Admire the beauty, let Bernie, and all of us, believe what we believe.
I’ve rafted down the Grand Canyon twice in the last 17 years (225 miles). Typically the trip takes 18 days. Rules of the raft trip – you pack out everything that your brought with you except your urine. The grind of 18 days will definitely have its way with you. You want to experience God – nature – beauty – confinement – isolation with 15 other people that you live with for 18 days – frustration – euphoral highs from challenging rapids – friendships that last a lifetime even though you only met them on this trip – a sky at night unmatched anywhere else. This awaits you.
Very Beautiful pictures!! I can’t wait to visit someday. I do think that it’s pathetic that you people have nothing better to do then argue about God, nature and science. My Mom always said “if you have nothing good to say then don’t say anything at all”
Peace 
Thanks for allowing me to share in these pictures of arguably the most awesome work of nature on Earth. As for those who find it impossible to enjoy the sheer beauty of the Canyon without irrelevant comments worthy of a religious fundamentalist tract written by Billy Sunday, chill out. Enjoy the beauty around you. God is beyond your understanding, as any theologian would be the first to admit.
What I find relatively amusing about belief is that all your information you have received ABOUT your (coincidentally-geographically relevant) belief is that they are man-made stories passed down from generation to generation.
Let me ask you this. If NO ONE ELSE believed in the Christian (I assume) religion… would you run up and down the streets telling people about how this guy JESUS ( there are a lot of them down here in Miami, lol) dies for our sins and will again rise from the dead…. NO!!!! You would be carted off to the loony-bins.
You believe because it has been entrenched in our society for thousands of years through family and community. Nice stories about this and that. NOT looking into the actual old and New testament for the real statements about the human sacrifices (yes, people, that actually happened back then.. why do you suppose it was included in the old testament? Because man wrote about what was happening at the time!!)…..
tired now…..
Remembered flying through the Grand Canyon looking at the walls on either side in an Army plane from a California Army base on my way to my final destination (East Central Africa) in the 40’s.
Strictly illegal but all young guys, very capable and awestruck by the view .
Pleasant memories.
Bruce, that’s called Pascal’s Wager. Check it out at Wikipedia. It only makes sense to someone who has been programed to believe in something for which there is not even a reasonable hypothesis based on scientific observation. Show me the god hypothesis. Subsequent to hypothesis comes theory, then demonstration of theory to peers in the field, then a consensus and conclusion. This is how we learn things about reality. There is only one reality by definition. It works much better than superstition. Of course “faith” skips all that and you were convinced at a pre-scientific outlook state that faith is a virtue. It is not. Skepticism and need for verification are virtues. Modern medicine and space travel are based in the scientific discipline, not superstition and faith.
Why is everyone using this as a Religious Platform and not just enjoying these Beautiful pictures for what they are BEAUTIFUL PICTURES!! Whether or not someone believes is their on business and yes Bernie should’ve kept his beliefs to himself but the bonehead didn’t. But that should not be a reason to tirn this into a debate on whether there is or isn’t a God! Those of us that know, know and that should be good enough! So I hope everyone enjoys these photos and has a Blessed Day!
Now please hold up a minute Rick. The first poster (Kathleen Harbour) stated that there is a god.
Should she also not have kept her beliefs to herself? Had she done so, perhaps this debate would never have started. But I daresay someone else would have felt impelled to thrust their illogical theology on the rest of us. Spare us from the god botherers.
When my husband planned our trip out West 3 yeas ago, he asked what I would like to see. One of my requests was to go to the Grand Canyon. I told him “Can you imagine dying and havng to tell God – well, no, I never went there” Our friends from Vermont met us there and we had such an awe-inspiring time just looking and looking and looking at the splendure. Just makes you wonder how such a large area got to be so beautiful at different times of the day. Well worth the trip. And the helicopter ride is magnificent.
I was there 11 years ago, when my wife and I took a train ride around the USA. Pictures cannot give it justice and cannot duplicate what the eye can see. Beautiful country.
Al
As a young 2nd Lt I flew down inside the canyon in a B 24. I thrilling experience and probably one of the most beautiful sights of my life. Fortunately my squadron commander who learned of the violation was of the forgiving type and i was not punished. Jerry
My son and daughter in-law & I toured both the West end – walked the glass walk and had a helicopter ride over the south rim. We can’t wait to go again. It is breathtaking. Thanks
to the author of these pictures, they are wonderful.
I river rafted the Grand Canyon with my friend and his sons. He was at the time the President of Sea World. It was just gorgeous. Unfortunately cancer took him. So died a very patriotic American.
OMG. These pics are awesome. I wish that I could see the canyon from these views. It is fabulous from any view, but these are really beautiful.
I have been to the marvelous grand canyon several times and never tire of it. The North side is even more
lovely even though you cannot visit it for several months in the winter. It is higher than the South side and usually
has much less attendance. I am 83 and hope to visit this wonderful place along with the great national parks in
Utah many times more.
KenGossett
WAY TO GO GOD!!!!!!! Beautiful!
I have been to the Grand Canyon and it is Magnificent! I was taught in a public setting like this it is not a good idea to have conversations about Political issues or Religion.
I don’t have the right to judge what anyone chooses to believe. I know what I think and that is what matters to me.
So if you believe that God created the heavens and the Earth and all within- The Grand Canyon is just One of his masterpieces- The most beautiful among the many others is Man, Though some remarks may make us wonder if we are worthy of that creation.
Those who believe know they did not evolve- Though God created many species of plants, birds, fishes, mamals, trees and animals that did and have. Human beings excluded. From as far back as we know our ancestors were not Apes or Gorillas- Or Mine were not. If your’s were- Then you probably should not have Children-
Oh, Rose, you are funny. You were taught that it was not a good idea to have a conversation about political or religious issues in a public setting like this, but based on the remarks that followed, I guess that was one lesson you didn’t really take too seriously!
The images shown are a gift of the talented photog and the light to see the meandering power of water over billions and billions of years.
60 years ago I saw them in person and not much has changed since then. Except, some committee created a ugly hanging deck to mar the land so as to cater to tourists.
The Grand Canyon is so awesome. It almost looks like a piece of scenery even when you are standing right there. On the subject of God, it’s a matter of faith…the assured expectation of the things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities not yet beheld. I guess it wouldn’t be called faith if we knew everything. There is a difference between man-made stuff and nature. One big explosion would cause mere destruction, not the organized, balanced and beautiful things we enjoy now. There IS wind eventhough I can’t see it or don’t believe in it.
The first of all creation was the son through whom all things were made. So, if the son was created, could he be God? And if Jesus isn’t God, who is? And if God didn’t create the earth how did it get here? Why is it beautiful? Why is it perfect for us? No doubt the Grand Canyon is grand. Coming upon something so beautiful, is like coming upon a large, lovely home in the wilderness…someone had to have made it and it obviously wasn’t man.
Went to see the CANYON for my bucket list some time ago…..Took my photographer son with me and he and I shot some of the most incredible pics…..If there is a GOD, he does exist in the beauty that he or she created for us to enjoy…..Try to see it for yourself someday…..
I’ve been on 11 raft trips though the grand canyon.It’s the best way to see the canyon.
There is a guide by the name of Tom Vail who gives creationist tours and points out
so called evidence for Noah’s flood.I told a guide from the company that I go with about
him.She told me how hard it is to explain gealogy [she’s a gealogy major in college],when
there are a few of these heavily religius people in the raft.
Folks, the grand canyon was not created by Noah’s flood.It,s just a story.The bible is not
a history or a gealogy book.It’s just a collection of stories. If you have to quote from it
to prove your case as Vail does,then you don’t have much of a case.
I don’t understand you Americans, here is such a beautiful scenery and you go and argue about god.
Who cares who created it, you are so lucky it is in your country, just enjoy the beauty of it
Here, here. Right on. And all that. As I said in my comment at 7:37 on 7/6, Those of you who wish to discuss your religious beliefs, go somewhere else. This is not the place.
EVERYBODY, BERNIE MAY BE RIGHT, BUT I WOULD RATHER LIVE MY LIFE THANKING THERE IS A GOD AND A HEAVEN THAN LIVING IT THANKING THERE ISNT AND ON THE LAST DAY OF MY LIFE FINDING OUT THAT THERE IS A GOD AND HEAVEN. BEEN ALL AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE NAVY AND BELIVE ME I HAVE SEEN A LOT OF PLACES OF BEAUTY AND NOT SO PRETTY. MY GOD HAD A FINGER IN BOTH. HE DIDNT SAY IT WAS GOING TO BE A PIECE OF CAKE ALL YOUR LIFE. I AM NOT MAD OR SHOUTING, I JUST TYPE IN CAPS ALL THE TIME.
I am in total agreement with you Bernie!!!!
Wow really?????? Here’s a metaphor…. The pictures of the Grand Canyon are magnificent, but the commits are ridiculous, How about living like the Grand Canon….. beautiful, respectful and appreciate.
Everyone has a right to their opinion, (freedom of speech in this country) but there is a lot judging going on here…. isn’t that one of the cardinal rules for being christian, not to judge. Live to be grateful and love all…… it would be a much better/different place and one might see things in a more magnificent way.
Yes, not to judge, and while you’re at it, the lord wants a burnt and animal offering before you leave the building….
It’s only by way of living in the secular community that we have lifted ourselves out of the barbaric era of the old (and new) testament when sacrifices were fairly commonplace. If we were to have kept on doing all the nasty things from the Old testament, chances are we would be a totally different community than we are. No thanks to religious belief… nope… all secular, humanist stuff….
How come so few people respond to you, Ray?? They all want to talk to Bernie! I have to say, I have enjoyed your comments and agree with most of them. But you certainly do care about this a lot more than I do, to have made so many of them!
I just want to say” modulate, brother, modulate, so you don’t start sounding like an evangelist for the rationalist. A Bible(less)-thumper, if you will.
And also remember that you’re unlikely to change anyone’s mind. (As may be my result in mentioning this to you!) Too much refuting muddies your effect.
Without a common frame of reference, common basic premises, no real discussion can occur. When the christian’s basic premise is that the Bible is the inspired word of God, nothing considered “man’s thught” (including independent rational thought) can carry any weight.
But good luck in your quest to bring enlightenment! And say, aren’t those some great pics of the Grand Canyon??
Joan, my wife and I were there in 1999 and were thrilled at the site of the canyon. But a sigh t to see was a r ainbow and at both ends. no pots of gold however. Seriously, I only hope that my children and grandchildren see this beautiful site.
For those with an open mind, may I recommend you read the late Dr. Henry Morris’s book “The Genesis Flood.” He has earned doctrates in Hydrolics, Hydrolisis and Geology and spent the great part of his life studying “Noah’s Flood” as is discribed in Genesis chapters 6-9 from a pracitcal scientic approach and shows how the Grand Canyon was formed by the run-off of the shallow seas of the mid-west as the flood waters receeded, when a natural “dam” broke, and the rapid run-off cut of these seas cut this fantastic piece of art work in the face of the earth approximately 4,500 years ago, not 17 million years ago. Dr. Morris makes a very interesting statement in the introductory chapters of his book that goes something like this, and I paraphrase, “Of all the fields of geology, the only discipline we have an issue with are the paleontologist, and we do not argue their findings (fossils), but only the intrepretation of their findings (fossils).” From there, Dr. Morris goes on to show how the obvious upheavls and changes in the earth’s surface were made rapidly as a result of catestrophism rather than over vast spans of time according to the theory of uniformitarianism . So find the book and enjoy….”the rest of the story!” Ben Bounds
The photos are amazing and I hope that I am able to visit there some day to enjoy the awe, beauty and wonderment of what has been created. All the comments are interesting to a point. By the time I got half way through reading them, I forgot about the beauty that was there in front of me to see. There is something ironic about that. Believers are supposed to go out and spread the word, but not argue or try to force someone to believe what they choose or cannot open their heart to, or to insult someone who does not believe. If you Love the Lord spread His word without battering insults, and if someone chooses not to believe, turn the other cheek, shake the dust off your heals and go on to a soul ready and willing to accept. Eveyone is put here for a reason; believer or not, only One knows what His reason is for the journey each soul takes.
Yes, I am a Christian who loves the Lord.
Thanks for the photos of this beautiful place. It is truly a wonder of the world. I rode my motorcycle there in 1998. It was a great experience and a lasting memory. Whether we believe or do not, Cheri makes a good point. We should all enjoy the photos and respect each other’s beliefs and how we express them. You could make an argument that I am also making a judgement here.
There are few exhilirating experiences that even come close to rafting the Colorado river.
There is no god involved in the making of this awe inspiring landmark
Thank you Caryn and bless you.
I could not figure out why these posts went from the beauty of the Grand Canyon to is God real or not and is nature God or not….If you are a believer you know where this beauty came from. If you are not a believer, just enjoy the beauty!
Look how easy it is to get people to focus on you. Make a stupid statement and get 257 reply/comments all about you! We had 35 magnificent pictures to enjoy and share comments about but instead you all wasted your time and everyone else’s trying to put Bernie on the right track when he was obviously just trying to stir the pot. It’s a “straw man” tactic and everyone fell into lock-step. Wise up people – ignore the idiots & ignorants. Mighty nice pictures – at least I enjoyed those!!!
I saw the Cinema Picture – building the Boulder Dam – (now Hoover Dam)as a young boy I swore that I would see it and the Canyon. Took me till I retired 20 years back but I did and will never ever forget it whether by God or Nature it is awesome
Geez people!! Can’t you just enjoy the great photos and the beauty of Grand Canyon without fighting over whose opinion is right or wrong?? Get over yourselves. Or at least take a trip to the Grand Canyon and relax!
Imagine if the Grand Canyon had resulted from the activities of Man: It would be called the single most egregious example of erosion and habitat destruction in history! Tree huggers would whine, lawyers would descend, investigations would be held, corporate heads would roll and, since it’s in Arizona, Obama would be looking for a way to tax and redistribute it!
I find the grand canyon more than magnificent, but it’s hard to believe it was created by anything other than a natural phenomenal event. As for God and the bible they give people something to believe in and cling to which eases their lives. I just find it hard to buy into a book that starts out with 2 naked people and a talking snake. Just let people who believe do so in peace and enjoy the planet and all the good things around us.
I live about 3 hours away in Glendale, AZ and have been to the Canyon on several occasions. Words can’t begin to describe it. Seeing it from the rim areas is one thing; from the back of a mule going down to the Phantom Ranch at the bottom is quite another. There is so much to see that one cannot see from the rim areas. I encourage anyone that has never been there to see God and nature at their finest creations!
The pictures are beautiful! I’ve been there several times and I’m always moved by the beauty. Why can’t we just enjoy them and leave religion out of it? We all have our believes and should respect others for theirs. Some of you who consider themselves Christians, sure don’t act Christ like with your comments. Enjoy what the Creator has given you and don’t be so judgmental.
(To those out there who like to correct grammar and spelling, if I made mistakes I ask your indulgence, but english is a second language to me.)
Have a blessed day!
My wife and I spent a week at the Grand Canyon in 1974. We drove our VW Beetle and camped out along the way. We spent one night at Palo Duro Canyon in Texas, the Painted Desert, and the creator caused by an asteroid 10,000 years ago. The Grand Canyon is one of the more spectacular, but not the most, sights we have seen. It rivals the other national and some state parks.
You don’t need to nit pick about who made it: an American Indian Creator (most likely), God (as in christian), etc. It will soon be privatized by politicians in Congress and private entrepreneurs will take over operation of the Grand Canyon and other national treasures. Be sure to visit them now and view them because in 25 years private enterprise will have it so commercialized it will never look the same again. One thing I remember from our visits to national parks on mainland U. S. and on Hawaii is the destruction caused by tourists. Commercialization willk create much more destruction. One instance was where the National Park Department (they are the best stewards of these parks) had to put a fence around the pictographs because tourist had chipped away parts of the 15,000 year old pictographs. Remember see them now because the future does not look bright ahead for the treasures.
The pictures, they are just phenomenal. Wish I had the camera in ’74 that this photographer had when these picture were taken.
The pictures are awesome. I have been there twice and took the small plane tour in the canyon. It was fantastic. I would love to go again.
To Bernie and the others out there who say there is no God. I challenge you to read a small book, “Heaven is for Real” by Todd Burpo, and THEN tell me there is no God. A child shall lead them.
Lennah
You must be kidding me. what exactly convinced you God is real by this boy’s supposed exploits in heaven? The fact that he can mention all the people in the bible as having sat with them, etc??
did you know that this boys dad is a minister of the church? Can you IMAGINE the strict indoctrination this boy must have been exposed to in his 3 years.. Poor little soul. I can’t comment anymore.. it’s making me sick just to think about it….
I have been in the canyon several times and it never looks exactly the same…. Light, humidity, smog, all play a part….. And that blue that is in the pics is the true color…… It really is turquoise….. Just beautiful…… And God made it and thats that !!
The earth is the Lord’s and is a witness of Him. I’m afraid I got so excited when I first glimpsed
the view of the canyon, I shouted out with my hands cupped about my mouth, at the top of my voice –
‘YOU DONE GOOD JESUS’.
Donna, the Grand Canyon was here long before Jesus came on the scene.
When I first caught a glimpse, I shouted with my hands cupped at my mouth, “YOU DONE GOOD JESUS”.
as loudly as I could.
Hey, I like Ray. I’m a Canuck too. Why is everyone calling you Bernie? Is it possible for a supernatural being to have a gender? How does one know if god is male or female?
The Grand Canyon is truly incredible to see first hand!
All I can say is GOD blessed America and I am blessed to be living here! Have been there and never forget it.
I loved the pics, but just wanted to say one thing. Everybody keeps responding to Bernie. He has the right to believe what he wants to believe. Everybody believes what they want and there is no reason to keep this up. I am a believer but I have learned to accept others as they are.
My one concern is, that Ray is the one that keeps replying to everyones comments. Why not respond to him and leave Bernie alone. Just remember one thing. There are the ones who believe we come from monkeys:) and the ones that say we come from God. Who wrote the Bible or in Ray’s words Bibles? It was man. Someone could have a made a mistake when writing. People are not perfect.
But just enjoy the view.
35 of the prettiest pictures you will ever see. I flew through it one time. I was flying the Adjutant General of Puerto Rico from San Juan to Las Angeles and he expressed a desire to fly through it and who was I to argue.. Purely beautiful.
Dear Ben, I am presently reading Dr. Morris’s book, and it is indeed fantastic! I would suggest that others read the book, too! My husband and I went to the GC on our honeymoon over 61 years ago, and we didn’t have much money so decided to hike down to the river instead of taking the mule train. We got to the two mile mark when we couldn’t go any further because of blisters on our feet. We suggest that if you want to make the hike, wear hiking boots instead of tennis shoes!
I have been to the Grand Canyon many times and found it awe-inspiring and so calming. Reading these responses brought me away from the canyon and back to the world where people seem so bent on proving that their own way of thinking is better than anyone else’s. From the majesty of the photos and the beautiful memories made in being there in the canyon to the tension and frustration at the self-absorption of closed-minded people in the span of five minutes! What a shame!
Beautiful pics….I have seen the grand canyon in person….awesome. Question is….is “Christian” an organized religion? You know, like Catholic, Protestant, etc. or is it just a group of folks who read the bible and pray? Just wondering.
I made a trip to the Grand Canyon several years ago with my mother (who has now passed. She was just in total awe about the trip & to see the look on her face was worth a million. I had never seen my mom (PHYLLIS) be so attentive to her surroundings. We also took a boat ride down the Colorado River. I wouldn’t have missed this trip with her for the world. RIP MOM
Great pictures…
TO THE RELIGIOUS GROUP. DO YOU THINK THE CANYON JUST APPEARED ??IT HAD TO BE CREATED BY WEATHER. IF GOD MADE THE RAIN ,THEN HE MAKE THE FLOODS THAT KILLED MILLIONS . BAD GOD
RIGHT ON DAVE
WISE UP YOU RELIGIOUS FOLKS. THROUGH MILLIONS OF YEARS THE CANYON WAS CREATED BY RAIN ,FLOODS ETC. IF GOD CREATED RAIN THEN HE CREATED THE FLOODS THAT HAVE KILLED MILLIONS THROUGH THE YEARS. BAD GOD …
RIGHT ON JASON
What is atheist? A negative, nothing!
GOD is female, and the proof is on top of any bald mans head. Would a male god have created baldness??
Nope !
Only a woman with a great sense of humor would have done that. LOL
BERNIE, YOUR A REAL A**HOLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is it with all these people arguing about God after looking at pics of the Grand Canyon. Ever heard of freedom of religion ? That means you are free to believe what you choose! Use your intellect to research and consider all possibilities. NOT just believe what you are told will get you into a mysterious possible heaven. Promises Promises………. Ask your God about the Holocaust. Was he/she looking the other way, perhaps busy with another planet…… and all the terrible suffering inflicted on humans by their fellow humans to this day……….. all under the watchful eye of a “loving god”……. Mmmmmm ……. our Earth is indeed beautiful, what we have allowed to continue being beautiful at least. So I hope there is indeed a supreme intelligence out there with some purpose in mind. Perhaps in your next lives you will understand more.
Everyone keeps quoting the bible. “Men” wrote the bible. Are you people thinking that the Bible simply floated down from the heavens? No, it was written by men. So, all your beliefs are in “Man”
Are any of you willing to assume there isnt a god. If there is you better make dam sure you have A/C where your going!
I’ve been on both sides of this beautiful place.I’m sure it was made by God
To Bernie: And whom do you think created nature???? (ye of so little faith-sad)
Wonderful pictures! I have hiked many many miles in grand canyon, have boated it 30 times…and yes, it is overrated! Stay away! I just got off a hike where we were plagued with flying vampire scorpions; then when we got out to the rim (north side) there was a group of bodybuilding aggressive gay mormon bikers camped all around out vehicle…really a scary place, man!!
I visited one side of the Canyon – it’s beautiful and awesome!
I love it when people say god is nature, forgetting that tsunamis, hurricanes and tornados like Tuscaloosa and Joplin are part of nature. What, we give god all the credit for the good things and not the bad? Fear is the main ingredient in religion. Better believe rather than take a chance and think for yourself and REASON.
Wonderful photos!!! Refreshing to see other than the same-old same-old tired views, too. Betcha didnt expect that sharing these incredibly beautiful photos would start digressive arguments, did you? (I got bored after the top dozen replies.) I’m so sorry. But know that they’re lovely, and lots of people here are enjoying them on their own merits. Thanks for sharing them!!!
All Bernie wanted was attention, and with his one simple comment,has taken all the wonderful photos from many people, from all walks of life and turned it into something about himself. Certainly Bernie is self absorbed, most likely he is a politician. Forget Berndog people like him are a dime a dozen. Enjoy the view and forget the Scrooge. ed
There seems a fundamental problem with many of the people who profess to believe in a deity here – they simply do not understand what the term “theory” means when used in scientific activities. A theory – be it Darwin’s on evolution, Einstein’s on relativity or Newton’s on gravity, is simply a statement of current understanding. I’ll repeat the last two words: CURRENT and UNDERSTANDING. You gather information, either by simple observation or by performing an experiment (which also provides information by observation) and then you try and understand what that information means. The next step is to make a prediction based on that understanding. We call this an hypothesis. You then devise another experiment to test that hypothesis. The results may be as predicted, or they may not. In either case, you have some more data, which you can then incorporate into your theory – or completely change the theory if that is what the data tells you. The process is continuous – nothing is set in stone.
By contrast, those who ‘believe’ require no proof or data. You can argue with them until the proverbial cows come home and they will not change that belief. Because it is a belief, it is not subject to proof. One can admit to wonder, without ascribing that to some mythical being – male or female. Why should a deity, supreme being, whatever, have a ‘sex’ at all? The only purpose sex serves is to procreate the species. But why would a ‘god’ need to do that – especially a single, supreme being?
Finally someone who understands how theory works, but I beg to differ that there is no proof. Like you said to prove a theory it must be tested, there for you must take the bible read it do what it says to do and then come back and tell me there is no God. That is the only way to test the theory right? Disprove the Bible by doing what it says and not getting the results it promises. I have been testing the Bible and its theories in my life for over 10 years now and have yet to not get the results it promises me.So if you want to know if God is real take the bible and do as it says to do and them come back and tell me there is no God, until then you don’t have a leg to stand on. One of the things God says…AND THIS IS JUST ONE, God say’s “But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him when you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 4:29 You have to preform the experiment in context. What are you basing that he is not real on?? What experiments have you done to disprove the theory?
I will live as if there is a God and in the end, if there isn’t, I haven’t lost anything, if there is a God and you don’t live for him, you have lost everything.
The debate here can not be won by human reason on either side. The most important question in every ones life is- Do you believe that Jesus is who he said he is and have you done what he said do? God gives every one the ability to believe in their heart. Regardless of what they say with their mouth.If they then choose not to obey they receive the same as those who choose not to believe. Separation from the one who loves them the most, GOD. The pictures are beautiful!
All this crap about not believing in god. Tell me, whose god are you talking about? The Lord, Jesus,
Mohammed, Zeus, Budda, etc.? Everyone thinks they have all the answers, well we don’t. Believe what you wish to believe and respect all believers and non believers. No one has a diffinative answer.
It is terrible that the BLM and powers that be are planning to sell off parts of the Grand Canyon to other countries so they can mine uranium from it. And you know what those countries are going to use it for. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist.
The saddest part is all of you are arguing about the presence or sex of God or the Goddess and not doing or educating yourselves about the truth.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. If you don’t believe me, contact the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity, etc. They will back my story up.
I have never understood why so many “Christians” find it so unacceptable that someone might have a different opinion (that’s all it is, folks) about “god” than they have.
They choose to see everything in a rigidly defined way…..which, of course, they believe to be the only way (no problem)…….and everyone else is wrong.
Seems to me that the concept of “Live and let live” applies here as it does in most areas of the human experience…..as long as no harm is caused!
Lighten up……for ______ sake!
The God/man duality is obvious after viewing these beautiful photos! Why create something as beautiful as the Grand Canyon or the beautiful night sky laden with all sorts of marvelous sights and not have intelligent life (I use term term very cautiously.) around to witness your wonderous works?
So all you chosen ones go to heaven. What do you do FOREVER? Pray and thank Jesus all the time? Where is heaven? The rest of us burn. What burns, we have no body and we have yet to determine what is or where is our soul. And how about those who were never exposed to christan religion? Seems to me that those that say they would rather error on the believing side are really cowards who just take the easy way and are really unable to THINK or REASON. Man has not progressed from the middle ages in many ways. This great god of yours looks over much pain and suffering by millions every day.
Look over the Grand Canyon and say what a beautiful thing God has made, then look over Joplin and guess what. Your god did that also
Every question you bring up is answered definetively in the Bible. Every single one. There is no reason to wonder about such things as suffering and why God does not intervene. The only reason not to know is to choose not to learn.
At the end of one’s life, if they have chosen not to look into Gods word, will say something like, “But, I didn’t know, I didn’t know……I thought…..with all the suffering, and all the strife in the world……but, deep in my heart – I always knew you were there…..” and God will say “I never knew you, away from me you evildoers!” Matthew 7:23
God gave His word (the Bible) to save you – not condemn you.
What a pity that such breathtaking beauty and majesty inspired mostly religious and philosophical arguments, when all that we need do is open our eyes and hearts to whatever experience is wrought in those minds and hearts. An explanation is not warranted, only appreciation for such grandeur that we seldom see its like. Those of us who seldom experience a personal view of something so awesome are entitled to shed a few tears when our minds and hearts are so full, the feeling of appreciation cannot be expressed any other way. I can’t find words for what I feel about seeing such magnificence and I feel like I will explode if I don’t express it in some manner. Very often that is tears. What a glorious sight those pictures gave to me and I am overcome with gratitude!
Frances, I went down into the G.C. in 1995, but before I did, I stood on the rim, and was overcome by the beauty. Going down, was ok, but a few days later coming back up, I thought I was going to die, it was so hot. However, the pain, and the agony, was so worth it, seeing the beauty, that I went again in 2001, at the age of 60. The pain was worse, but I hardly noticed it, due to the beauty, and even the deep feeling of love I felt, going down, and up. I did all this on foot. Seeing these pictures, and the beauty they show, makes me feel awsome. I want to go again.
As magnificent as these pictures are–they cannot compare to being there in person.
For all of you who want to just argue and try to make your beliefs published on this site, my answer is just chill out. Enjoy the photos and don’t try to make a religous or political issue about this. You who have typed all the negative words about this wonder of nature must really lead a dull and boring life. ENJOY THE SCENERY IN THE PHOTOS. GET IN YOUR FAVORITE MODE OF TRANSPORTATION AND GO SEE IT IN PERSON. Get away from the keyboard as evidently it has a power over you to publish negative words in order to get anyone you can stirred up!
Get a life and go see the canyon or just enjoy these great photos. I am saddened by all the bickering on all of this. WOW And by the way, GOD BLESS YOU even if you don’t have one.
Unfortunately I only got to carnival street before turning around. Carnival street is the one with the thousand motels with cheesy signs, a sure example of man at his best destroying the beauty of the surrounding area. Without any control or common sense regulation man left to his own devices will ruin most places. I thank those, maybe it was Teddy Roosevelt who dedicated Grand Canyon as a National Park. He had a vision of the future and knew if greedy developers had their way there would be no Grand Canyon as we see it today.
What makes this site depressing are the people who use it to spout out their religious beliefs, it has nothing to do with these great pictures. It took millions of years to create by the forces of nature, no God was behind it, sorry to disappoint.
BTW, the one picture that is surely is a photo shop is the one of the sheep, I believe its a Dahl sheep but I could be wrong. Right now there are many looking at the picture and wishing they could kill it with their high powered rifle. Thats the kind of world we live in today, we would be much better off with a mindset focused on preservation and conservation, but a society so self absorbed with today is the rule rather than the exception.
I think you have all missed the point of these great photos. What these photos are for is to show you some fantastic pictures of a truly beautiful place and to appreciate the photos – they were not published with the intent to start an argument on relgion or who or what created it.
Just sit back and thank who ever or what ever you want to thank for giving us such beauty. Yes there may be other magnificent canyons in the world and we may appreciate them just as much. Its not a competition on whats the best canyon or who or what created them. Just enjoy the photos and appreciate them for what they are and the canyon for what it is. I have visited Grand Canyon and certainly was awe struck by its beauty. These photos are truly lovely and brought back very happy memories for me and my visit to the USA. Enjoy each day of your day of your life to the full, it may be your last. Thanks you to who ever put these photos on the web.
Beautiful pictures. Still on my bucket list regardless of how it was created or whether it is the most beautiful. Interesting that one person expresses his beliefs and so many feel the need to justify their belief in God. Hopefully all the believers can get back to doing the Lord’s work and stop critizing and praying for Bernie. Think he has been busy living a good life.
These photos are beautiful and the message sent is so heartfelt! Any comments less than that, SHAME ON YOU!!! Kind words go a long way… anything less than that should not be said. This is not about you, it’s about a woman who experienced something beautiful with her family. Why does it have to turn into something not so beautiful, when everyone thinks it’s about them. Enjoy the photos and that’s it!! We should thank her for sharing and caring NOT explaining and complaining!!!
Gorgeous photos. The Grand Canyon is definitely on my Bucket List but doubt I’ll ever get there. I find it hilarious that it just makes 95% of you want to argue about God. Whether or not you or I believe in a Supreme Being we can still enjoy the beautiful photos magically appearing in our home.
Someone posts beautiful pictures of one of our amazing natural resources and it’s sad that so many people want to use it as a forum to denigrate each other instead of appreciating this beauty. Whether you believe in God or not, are Christian or not, the beauty in these pictures is the same for all.
Food for Thought: I would much rather be in my shoes believing in a Higher Power and be wrong than to be in your shoes and not believe and on judgement day wish I had.
Silly me, I thought this link was all about pictures. Of the Grand Canyon.
The entire earth is beautiful. How about we stop arguing with each other and
just take care of it???
I think you are giving too much power to Bernie and the likes of him. Just stop. This discussion is beyond what needs to be discussed. We all need to just relax and accept that there are different opinions about everything and the only thing that needs to be said is that we need to respect each other’s opininons and beliefs PERIOD. If Bernie thinks what he thinks, let him be and if others seem to think this is GOD’s creation, so be it. I for one have been there and thought that this was beyond beautiful. And I have very few to compare it with and I think IT WAS THE MOST MAGNIFICENT THING I HAD SEEN. I know there are other places on earth which equal or surpass this beauty but why not just take the beauty that is there when you are there and make the comments that you wish and ENJOY! What particular reason would I have to berate someone else’s opinion be it like mine or not. I for one, did not miss out by feeling what I felt. And nobody can take that away from me. So for those who just want to rant about their non-belief in GOD, I think this is not the place nor time. Let everyone enjoy it with their beliefs whatever those may be.
I thought this was all about the beautiful pictures of the grand canyon? Do you think we could all get our heads out of our a** long enough to appreciate what nature has done and leave the rest of the world and our disagreements out of it? MY god people. This is whats wrong with society now a days. All of this over a few pictures of one of many beautiful places on this earth. And we call ourselves adults?
I can’t believe that so many people can look at these pics and then get into an argument about religion, not enjoy the canyon just for being what it is. Why does someone always have to distort every nice thing by trying to promote their own religious views? Just let it be about the Canyon, for crying out loud!
The people in Joplin, MO must be very bad for God to have done that to them…
At the end many scoffers will come.
Yes. My GOD also did Joplin. In the beginning there was no sorrow, suffering or death. But man chose the way of satan rather than the way with GOD,so that sorrow entered the world.” For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of GOD is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” We suffer because of sin. So if you want to call me a coward, go ahead. I am not one to ERR on the side of believing. I have faith and I do believe. GOD will know if you are just believing for “just in case.” So yes, GOD did a beautiful thing with the Grand Canyon. You think it was just accidental? GOD gave us great thinkers and he gave us idiots. I may not be the smartest person in the world, but I can THINK and I can REASON. I THINK you are entitled to your opinion and I can REASON that you haven’t done anything to try and help ease some of the suffering and pain. Have you done anything for the people of Joplin? Or have you just sat back saying..”That’s terrible.” Do you take the Lord’s name in vain? But I thought you didn’t believe in GOD. So, from this coward to BOB….I and many others will pray for you. You do not make me mad or upset with your comments…you make me feel sorry for you. It has never been easy for Christians. Read up on the horrors they suffered. It certainly is NOT the “easy way.”
You sound like the broken record of the born again. Man chose…..what man, when. Was there a vote?
So all those people in Joplin were sinners getting what they deserve. And the kids left behind because of their naughty parents? ALL the GREAT thinkers were or are athiests. Preachers are phonies and those who follow are fools
I may sound like a broken record, but you didn’t have the guts to answer one single question asked of you. Call me a coward, call me a fool, it does not matter to me. like I said, you have the right to your opinion, but at least answer the questions put to you instead of hiding behind insults. I believe in having a discussion with a person who is at least as respectful to others as they wish others to respect them. I never said my belief was the one all should believe. Just as your belief is not the one all should believe. But do not look down upon or insult those who choose to have a different belief. You wish for everyone to respect your right to believe as you choose and your freedom of speech, so you need to do the same. Otherwise you will get the same kind of insults thrown at you. Should I call you a fool or an idiot because you do not believe in GOD? No, not all those people in Joplin were sinners and all those children were not left behind because of their naughty parents. GOD does not intervene. And if you do not believe in GOD then how can you blame HIM for the tornado or the tsunami or the earthquakes or all the other things? Do you only believe in GOD when it is convenient for you? When you need to lay blame? Again I will ask the question…Have you done anything to help the people of Joplin? Or are you too busy trying to convince the world that the Christians are all fools?
Larry,we were also at Bryce Canyon.It was breath taking. We were also fortunate enough, to drive inland forty miles, on an all dirt road, where we saw a complete dig site, of a stegosaurus
I am slightly amused and somewhat even more annoyed at how a set of so very beautiful pictures of nature becomes an argument for religion! (totally agree Cinder & TDV) Why can’t we just comment and enjoy the beauty of the photographs for the picture’s sake? I think many times trying to force your personal views onto others is what makes people push back so hard. Believe what you like and let others believe what they wish. Why can’t everyone just be correct in what is right for them? Many organized religions push so hard to be the ‘only truth’ it just makes them seem insecure. While spiritual, I believe in nature, in fact and in science. However I do not begrudge anyone else their personal beliefs, and would not presume to make fun of them for it. I would appreciate the same consideration from others for my personal views.
Well said Lyn. Having visited this beautiful canyon several times, I have been awestruck each and every time. There are pictures in this group that most people would never enjoy even if they had the ability to spend extended periods of time there. Grand Canyon is so vast that one could spend years exploring it’s beautiful scenery. I promise you all it was a very gradual formation.
I’m not good at speaking- But READ YOUR BIBLE kept reoccuring in my mind as I read the above replies. Belief in Jesus is shown by the writings of four different people in the Gospel (which means “The Good News” (the word ‘gospel’ meaning ‘everyone who believes in Jesus will have eternal life’. BUT what convinced me – perhaps the most- is the miracles that Jesus performed during his 31 years on earth- as related by the four different persons in the Gospel. Bringing back to life three, or was it four?, people in addition to healing innumerable people during his 31 years on earth. Healing the blind, healing lepers, the lame, the insane. And in conclusion- Jesus coming back to life (his resurrection) after being crucified on a cross- and appearing to many people before ascending into heaven to remain there until his return to earth. So ‘yes’ on reading the bible (several times actually) when the bible says God created the earth and the universe there is no question in my mind. May I insert one more sentence?- In reading the Old Testement it tells how God punishes contries that stray from believing in God- in more than one example.
I’m not good at speaking- But READ YOUR BIBLE kept reoccuring in my mind as I read the above replies. Belief in Jesus is shown by the writings of four different people in the Gospel (which means “The Good News” (the word ‘gospel’ meaning ‘everyone who believes in Jesus will have eternal life’. BUT what convinced me – perhaps the most- is the miracles that Jesus performed during his 31 years on earth- as related by the four different persons in the Gospel. Bringing back to life three, or was it four?, people in addition to healing innumerable people during his 31 years on earth. Healing the blind, healing lepers, the lame, the insane. And in conclusion- Jesus coming back to life (his resurrection) after being crucified on a cross- and appearing to many people before ascending into heaven to remain there until his return to earth. So ‘yes’ on reading the bible (several times actually) when the bible says God created the earth and the universe there is no question in my mind. May I insert one more sentence?- In reading the Old Testement it tells by more than one example how God punishes contries that stray from believing in and worshiping God.
I’ve hiked the canyon many times, rafted it and flown over it, it is always beautiful even when caught in a rainstorm. Canyon lands has it’s own beauty and many places are brighter colored than the Canyon due to being more open to the sunlight. It is all breathtakingly beautiful and I will never tire of it. It took many years for the river to cut The Canyon. I am a Viet Nam vet and when there I was finally convinced that there could be no gods however if you look at what the god Mars (the god of war) did with his creation (search NASA.gov ) there is much beauty there and also the beauty of a nebula other niceties.
The thread of hate-filled responses saddens me. The intolerance
belies an authentic life of the spirit.
I cannot but agree with your response to the correspondence on this site. Some daring cameramen take superb pictures of ONE of the world’s loveliest places for the enjoyment of people who are unable to visit it, or who, like me, wish to recall the experience. The vile, unchristian invective, coming mainly from so-called christians fills me with disgust, and makes me feel that violent fundamentalism is not confined to Islam! Reading through the multiplicity of letters and replies I find many of the arguments very amusing, were it not for the fact that so much is based upon a very superficial knowledge of, for example, Darwin and geology.
If only the world were a simple as the “true believers” of most ALL faiths seem to think it is. “Higher power”??? I guess no one really “knows”… though many “believe”. But unquestionably it is a truly marvelous and beautiful blue orb that we get to spend our mortal existence on!!!! If we can only avoid destroying it!
I encourage everyone to watch the old movie “Oh God” with John Denver and George Burns. Watch it with an open mind and listen to the messages….. interesting!
Where to start on this one…
First of all these area amazing photos and I’ve just recently returned from a trip to the Grand Canyon (seeing/capturing a couple of these same images with my own two eyes) and while breathtaking photographs cannot fully capture what it’s like to hike down and back up the canyon. you travel millions of years through time each step you take down into this massive scar in the earth.
i think this site is not a reasonable venue for debating the existence of one singular god that a very limited sect of the world population believes in. I will say that the hateful tongue that many are lashing at bernie is uncalled for and unbecoming of a Christian.
also, citing the Bible (especially the Old Testament) as a factual, evidence based, proven, absolute certain truth about the creation of the beautiful world we are lucky to live in is irresponsible. telling someone to read the bible to get their facts straight can easily be equated to telling a christian to take a look at the greek or roman mythologies to get their facts on the world and how things came to be. this forum proves how toxic accepting the holy book as truth can be. so much hatred without even considering that maybe, just maybe, the foundation of your faith and belief system can be interpreted in a different way, or even (please don’t shoot me) WRONG.
Other than the Canyon the beautiful thing about our country is that we have the freedom to believe what we choose and practice whatever form of religion we choose. you don’t have to agree with everyone but this is what our country was founded on and I think outwardly telling someone they are wrong on religion is not only irresponsible, but also UN-AMERICAN.
For the record I was raised Christian and constantly re-evaluating my beliefs. I think the Christian Bible is an amazing story and an unrivaled basis for morals, but when you pick and choose parts to take literally you walk a dangerous line. Take care not to become fanatical or you will be no different than the terrorists that hate our religious freedom and want to destroy us. we don’t need more enemies within our nation.
let freedom ring…and let’s try to be nice to mother nature (regardless of who you think she is/created her)
Did i mention how awesome these images are?
I find all arguments moot. Let’s just enjoy nature, any nature that pleases you. BTW- I know a Hindu and he explained a lot to me. Hbelieves their Gods are all actually “rolled up into one”. Therefore, I believe his is ours too, if you believe. I am a Christian (Catholic, as a matter of fact), but I don’t shout about it. I always have doubts. But even if I did not believe all my church espouses, I would still have Jesus as my example of the finest teachings and “human” being. Enjoy, don’t argue.
Can’t we all just get along? The Grand Canyon photos are awe inspiring. Bringing religion into this is like fouling your campsite with waste.
Oh my!!! shame on you! how can you even say anything like that! Fouling your campsite with waste!!! So how do you feel about the American flag…the National Anthem…or anything that has to do with God? What about our currency, do you have a problem with that??
The universe is an idea in the mind of God. God is benevolent and intervenes in human affairs; therefore, we should “pray without ceasing”. Our prayers can turn cigarettes into food, and beer into furniture. These photos and the Grand Canyon are awesome.
What’s more important – How pretty this place is or great is the one who created every thing. People saw Jesus do miracles and still refused to believe that he is the son of God. Should we stop telling people that God loves them even if they don’t believe. We are accused of having a closed mind, and then they deny them self his comfort by their own refusal to listen to him.
In all the articles above, there are many individual thoughts on the awe inspiring views shown in these pictures. Yes, I have been to the Grand Canyon and found it, as one person put it, breath taking. There are many, many theories on how the Canyon was formed. I go with the one that suits me, but that won’t necessarily be something that others would agree with. I just find the whole spectical awe inspiring, something that you can gaze at for a long time, because as the light changes, so do the shadows in the canyon. So I just enjoy the pictures without any bickering. My thoughts anyway.
“How great are the works of your hands Lord, in wonder you have created it all.” Psalms
I have seen the canyon before but these are the most spectacular pics I have ever seen
I have never been there…how beautiful it is. Gods artistic work is beyond words.
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Really Great!
I have pretty much lived by the rule….
Never be sorry for something you didn’t do
I’m going, beautiful.
GOD BLESS ALL
sounds like politics to me
Those who worship Mother Earth, nature, science and their own intellect, continue to learn more and more about less and less until they know practically everything about virtually nothing at all. They put more faith in the brakes on their cars than they do in Almighty God. Lord help them if the lines leak or the pads are worn too thin. They are just one accident away from their own memorial service. Science, nature and intellect claims the Bumblebee can’t fly. Its wings are too short and thin and its body too non-aerodynamically formed to sustain flight. The Bumblebee, however, can’t read such scientific information and therefore is unaware of its inability to zip and dart through the air from flower to flower. So, in its ignorance and naivety, the Bumblebee simply…flies. Believers are like the Bumblebee regarding their faith and trust. There is indeed only one God. What mankind has tried to do concerning views of God, either believing or not believing, is certainly no fault of the Creator. A canyon may cause some to think of that Creator. Others may be similarly awed by the night sky, a majestic ocean, a dense forest, a soaring eagle, the vastness of space, or a newborn baby. The ridicule of God as Creator is like clay denying the existence of its potter.
Those closet to the land know that the Grand Canyon was created by the god Ta-vwoats as a comfort to a great Indian chief whose wife had died.
At the end of the day everyone has there right to believe in a god, it is insulting to attack anyones beliefs or lack of them. Christians- keep fighting but realize when they see things like this is makes people think if there is a higher power, with no words at all 🙂
Well to all the non believers in Jesus Christ, until you pick up the bible read it and do what it says your CAN’T say their is not God because you have not tested the theory. If you want to test the theory that gravity exist then you pick up an apple and let it go, if it falls 100% of the time then you can believe in gravity. You can’t set the apple on the ground and say see gravity does not exist, you have to test it in a certain way. God is a theory that has yet to be proven wrong, therefore it is a fact that he exists. So if you want to know if God is real take the bible and do as it says to do and them come back and tell me there is no God, until then you don’t have a leg to stand on. One of the things God says….AND THIS IS JUST ONE, God say’s “But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him when you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul. Deuteronomy 4:29 Have any of you who say there is no God ever done this, or any of the other things the bible says to do in order to find God. Where are all my scientist at? A scientist would never think to believe in some theory that has not been thoroughly tested. The theories and laws of physics that govern our universe were not discovered over night. This is not something you just figure out over night. You have to go through the process of finding God for yourself or you can have Faith that he is real. You have a 50 50 chance that he is real, and you don’t really know until you die. If your wrong about him not being real…you lose everything. If your right you gain nothing. If you choose to believe and your wrong you lose nothing. If you choose to believe and your right you gain everything, therefore there is only one way to gain everything. If there were two boxes, one had a billion dollars in it and the other a gun that you were to be killed with if you choose it, would this be a gamble worth taking. Its the same Gamble you take choose not to believe in God.
Mac1948 religion can really suck, but God is awe inspiring too. And you can’t talk about the beautiful painting on the wall without wondering about the artist who painted it. 🙂
By the way this photographer is amazing as well. Good work! I love your photos.
Or (to put a spin on Heather Adams’ defence of the source of her religious beliefs – and I don’t doubt the sincerity of her beliefs or disrespect her right to hold them – to each their own) to all the non believers in Alice, until you pick up Lewis Carroll’s book and read it and go down the rabbit hole you CAN’T say there is not a Wonderland because you have not tested the theory.
The bottom line is that the formation of the Grand Canyon (or any other natural phenomena) are ultimately explanable through science. One need not resort to magic or folklore or gods or mermaids or other mythic beings. But organized religion being a culturally acceptable system promoting both communally permitted conduct and communally shared delusions, I suppose that it not surprising that so many have spoken up in support of that shared delusion. After all, people’s belief systems underlie how people view themselves. Presumably, if the western world was predominantly Muslim, all the Christ comments in this post would have referenced Mohammed.
Ta-vwoats is as valid an explanation for the GC as any other folklore.
I have never been to the Grand Canyon,but from i see in these photos they are awesome, Children children now now lets all be adults now,,for Bernie leave that smoke stuff at home you’ll never make it out the Canyon now…gesssh now ,God Bless each and everyone here and every where…
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GOD IS THE CREATURE OF EVERYTHING; ESPECIALLY THE GRAND-CANYON; AND OTHER AMAZING THINGS. A QUOTE FROM A FRIEND; IF ONE DAY YOU RUN INTO A LONG NOT SEEN FRIEND; AND YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE FORGOTTEN HIS NAME YOU HAVE LOST NOTHING; BUT IF YOU HAPPEN TO RUN INTO JESUS CHRIST AND FORGET HIS NAME YOU HAVE LOST EVERYTHING!
I always enjoy this talk about the gods. I imagine that when apes evolved enough to develop speech, one of the first arguments was about the Gods. Of course back then life was much simpler, so they would task their Gods with issues about hunting and gathering, rain, and fertility. Probably they started with one God, and she handled all aspects. Of course, anyone who has spent time living outdoors, and I mean LIVING outdoors, not leaving their “never touch soil” existence and visiting the outdoors as if it isn’t the place we are MEANT to be, would automatically assume the Gods are female. Assuming there are Gods is not difficult when you live with nature, in fact it is immediately obvious that we are all God, as are the animals, soil, air, etc. We are all one and the same, and not separate from soil, air, water, and life. To me the worst perversion inflicted on us by Religion is the idea that it’s OK to destroy the earth because we are going somewhere that we can’t destroy – what arrogance. The sad thing is our children will not be able to survive, God will become lessened because we have made it impossible for life.
Please, people, stop talking about a god. There is no god anywhere. This is only a fairy tale. If you believe in god you must believe in Santa Claus too.
Yes there is God you DORK!!!!
If you dont believe then have
fun with the devil!!!!! He gives you
absalute TORCHOR!!!
God made nature and controls every aspect of it. I truly believe in God because I want to and not out of any fear. All you have to do is look around you and see the wonders to know that they are not man made, only God can create such beauty.
big gulley wash cuts through billions of years of sediment. beautiful colors. reds from rivers and lakes, greys and greens from when under the sea, and even older meta-rocks at the bottom been subjected to tectonic collisions way back when. tells a story, yes. makes one feel small, true.
won’t find god out there. won’t find god in a book. where’s the love? look for the light inside yourself. so, hmmm……
Our arguments with each other don’t really matter. We will all find out the truth when we die. Myself, I believe I am going to meet Jesus Christ and spend the rest of my days with him in Heaven.
If you don’t believe that, so be it. Guess we will all find out…
Friends in the United States e-mailed me with the Grand Canyon pictures, which are very impressive.
However I have found the ‘Responses’ fascinating, providing me with an insight to American conversation.
Let’s just enjoy the immense beauty of these photos, without trying to convince others of our personal convictions, …… and especially without demeaning others because of their beliefs. Thanks for the photos!!!!
Well said David. The pictures are stunning, as is the canyon.
Now everyone’s opinion on the presence or absence of God is rather absurd – this whole “my God is better than your God, or my opinion of God is right and yours is wrong” Isn’t that what starts wars?
I say enjoy the pictures and leave the religious debates for some other place and time!
-From HIS Breath to our eyes. What gifts HE Gives us.
If god is real why did he NOT mention dinosaurs? Seriously. Surely he would have mentioned dinosaurs.
Duh!!! He also didn’t mention giraffs, cats, elephants, owls, on & on. Stupid statement. You lose.
Breath taking photos. The beauty brought tears to my eyes. I did thank God when I looked at them. Thank you so much for sharing them with us.
@ Lew… 90% of Atheists have read the bible. It is a good story. Passion of the Christ, good movie. Jesus, probably was a real guy. As a matter of fact there have been many “jesus characters” throughout time born from “virgins”. The stories are quite common. Gods originated for stars. More specifically the sun. The sun was the first God. From there people wrote stories, which is not any different from what people do in present time. I just hope the future generations millions of years from now believe Harry Potter is God. Badass. Oh yeah, speaking of present day, shouldn’t you all be dead? I thought the rapture was the 21st. How disappointing. One more thing before I go. Why is it terrible for us non-believers to question your beliefs but totally okay for you to question ours? I’m sure one of you will come up with a good excuse. Christians seem to be good at that, “Rapture October 2011”. lol. cya.
There is no god, only nature. Either way, this is beautiful and these photos do a great job of capturing the scene. Good work.
Very good, Kevin. I wish everybody would think this way. It would stop this ridiculous and bigot conversation.
There may or may not be a god but the bible and all these ‘revealed’ books were written by stone age men fantasizing about the
world they couldn’t comprehend but interpreted it as best they could. Believe or don’t believe but don’t push your agenda on other people.
amazing how awesome photos of nature can be spun into a full-on religious debate. believe what you want, either way, i don’t really care. the commentators on both sides of the debate are losers. just enjoy the pictures already and keep your religious / non-religious OPINIONS to yourselves. the rest of you, have a nice day, hope you enjoyed the pics as much as i did!
AMEN KEVIN!
There are many many many artists and buiders in this world but beautiful the wk they do it will never never be as awesome as what God paints and creates as shown here in just a small samplings.
What I felt and saw here words will never be able to describe it. It was so peaceful and more. If I felt so many things I wonder what it will be like if I saw it for my self.
That awe inspiring uplifting pictures
Sad that something as magnificent as Grand Canyon brings on an immature conversation regarding its creation. While we would all agree that natural forces carved the canyons over many centuries, it is certainly evident to those who have had the good fortune to stand at the brink that some higher power had a hand in this work. To think differently is deny reality. I look forward to the day I can once again behold the beauty of the Grand once more.
I read about the first 35 comments, and then, skipped to the bottom. No-one can make me believe that ONE river created hundreds of canyons. That just defies credibility. We are always being told that the Colorado River created the Grand Canyon as we see it. Yeah, that river just had to go in hundreds of different directions. Why, then, hasn’t the Niagara or the Missouri or the Mississippi or the Ohio created hundreds of canyons?
Anyway, it is truly an amazing place, in my beautiful Arizona, which is burning everywhere. The communist in the White House must be glad to see it, too, and there won’t be a nickel of federal help, as there is nothing for Texas, either. The smoke in my valley has cleared up some the last two days, and we can see the mountains, even though they are only fifteen or twenty miles away.
JUST SHUT YOUR PIE HOLES AND ENJOY THE VEIW!
好漂亮啊!!!!
真希望我們這也有大峽谷~~~~
我真想親自看看!!!!!
I lived and worked in the canyon for years, been up and down the trails many times as a guide, I’ve hiked into Havasui falls, I’ve flown it among many other adventures in and around it. Whether you are a believer in that God created it or it’s simply time and erosion and science, why argue about it “To each his own” whoa to anyone jamming their beliefs down anothers throat. It’s a very “Spiritual” place to me and whether I’m of the science belief or Gods creation belief shouldn’t matter, I see it for the wonder and beauty it is and don’t waste my time trying to prove one way or the other who or what created it!! It’s too awsome to worry about that….If you want to believe God created it fine but keep that to yourself and if you believe it’s just the evolution process then fine but why ague about it? The more people try to prove one way or the other the more you look insecure with your beliefs anyway. When I worked there I dealt with all kinds of beliefs and never had an argument with one of them! Because I realize they are intitled to their own beliefs! I can’t prove their belief is right or wrong frankly, who am I to say what they believe is wrong? If you have strong conviction one way or the other keep it to yourself and if there really is a God then let him worry about the rest!
I managed to get a BS in Geology from NAU in the late 60s and spent a lot of time inside the Canyon, (from the Tanner Trail on the east to the Hermit Trail on the west) where you really appreciate just how big it is. Most of my instructors were members of the predominant faith in Utah but not one did not accept, or at least teach, that the Canyon took millions of years to develop. My personal feeling is that the concept of ‘thousands’ of years for the earth to form is only held by a few rabid individuals, while the great majority accept that a lot more time than that was/is necesary. I know the NPS has had to put in a ‘creationist’ section in their bookstore but don’t think they sell as well as the other texts.
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As I look at the glorious pictures of the Grand Canyon–and yes, I’ve been there–I breathe a BIG THANK YOU, GOD! for loving us enough to create such beauty to inspire us and bring us joy! Kudos to our CREATOR!
God doesn’t judge until we die, so we shouldn’t judge now.
Hey guys simply enjoy the fabulous photos of the GRand Canyon and leave the rest to GOD.why get embroiled in discussions which are no way connected. GOD save the fanatics they are abroad that too in a country like USA? Please do not discuss any tenets of any religion because religion sects, tenets have nothing to do with this nature bounty. Simply enjoy you …….
I thought this space was for comments on the pictures. All of you sound like politiciacs cutting each other down. The pictures are great.
I’ve been there several times and it is a sight to behold. Pictures do not really do it justice as good as they are. There are soo many creatures to observe and the sun projecting at different times creats a vision that is truly exquisite.
I’ve haven’t seen the Grand Canyon but I will one day! I just hope that everyone can lay there opinions and there beliefs aside for a second and get what is meant to be gotten here… The fact that there is something so beautiful and breath taking here for all of us to see and enjoy. I’m sure there are many other beautiful places out there too but insted of calling it overrated just be happy you were able to see those other places. As for God he knows what he has given us, and we know to, there’s no need to shake a finger at anyone let them believe what they want…. lets just enjoy the veiw!
To Ray;
It’s pathetic and sad that a man such as yourself chooses to disrespect people who believe in God and bash them for having faith. It’s obvious that you are a bitter man who has nothing better to do than sit behind a computer screen typing your “intelligent” emails to people who have love for God and hapiness in their lives. What are you trying to do here? Inform people that their religion is stupid and a waste of time? Why? Why don’t you just respect the fact that people beleive in God? You are a perfect example of someone who demands others to respect your point of view but your the first to bash someone else’s. Let it go already! People are going to believe in God no matter what you say and you’re not going to change that so just stop writing your emails and leave Christians, such as my self alone.
I’ve been privileged to visit Phantom Ranch on several occasions; one of my best trips was done in early spring in the falling snow, sleat, and rain; my privilage came from being accompanied by my friend Rod. We were both over sixty at the time, descending Kiabab and ascending Bright Angel Trail after a day exploring the canyon floor. The beauty was transcendental, describing it to Rod, who has been completely blind since birth.
How can you be surprised? You will not be here to witmess it!
THE GRAND CANYON IS BREATH-TAKING (NO MATTER WHO OR WHAT THE REASON). SIT QUIETLY AND BE. THESE PICTURES ARE OF PLACES SOME OF US CANNOT GO AND THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL. WHATEVER YOUR BELIEF, ENJOY THE AMAZING VIEWS.
God created the Heavens and earth and all that is in it…including you and me. Then he gave us the awesome ability to SEE his creation in living color…witness the pics, and to hear his creation…the river, the waterfalls, the animals, etc…and even taste, touch and smell his creation. Truly, Truly, We are all beautifully and wonderfully made.
If there was nothing, & God made heaven & earth in seven days & seven nights, then where did God come from?
My five hikes to the bottom of the Grand Canyon will never be forgotten. Different and spectacular views on each trip. Hike the Canyon – you won’t regret it. But prepare yourself first.
Hey everyone. Bernie is a “seminar” writer, caller, trouble-maker. Pay no attention to him. He will drag you down to his level. Have a nice weekend, and visit Arizona’s Grand Canyon.
I have been to the Grand Canyon many times myself…Beautiful is not enough of an adequate description…But enough isn’t in our vocabulary…The purely immense size of it is awesome.
Sure you may find many other beautiful sights in nature…But each one is beautiful in its own right..
Standing at the edge of these great gaping canyons is very awesome and makes one feel very tiny in the scope of its size…I prefer being on the north rim side and looking across to the other
side… .
Thank you to whomever submitted these awesome pictures!! It brought me back to our trip to this
magnificent Canyon and the feelings that the Canyon can bring to your soul!
I feel very sorry for the ignorant people who do not believe that this is God’s
work of art. I will pray for all of you.
Thank you for the awsome photoes. I have been there with my family several times. The best trip of all was when we took my mother there in 1987. She had, as a child, in Finland, read novels about Wild West and Grand Canyon. Her dream was one day to be able to go to Grand Canyon. That dream came through when she was 80 years old. The look on her face was priceless and worth thousand words.
God bless!
All of these Jesus freaks are pathetic and so ignorant. Using pictures of the Grand Canyon to proselytize about a christian god is so lame and dishonest. Why not show pictures of starving, permanently and artificially disfigured beggar children in India and child sex organ donor slaves in Pakistan and Bush’s manipulated phony war in the middle east needlessly killing thousands (including christian god-believing American soldiers)and huge governments payouts to corrupt CEO’s (toxic mortgages) for turning the world into one great depression, and the outright murder of thousands of Aceh province survivors of the Tsunami, and the thousands of Indonesia orphaned children abducted and hauled off to concentration camps in Pakistan to be used in the sex and Chinese organ transplant trade and thank the christian god for all those atrocities.
You are one angry man Harvey. You need help.
Wow Fred,
You have a very strong point..
Still the pictures are beautiful right.
The pictures you have pointed out maybe need to be put on display by you and make people think.
Name calling isn’t the way to go though ya know Fred. Pictures speak louder than words.. Find those pictures and display them. Make people think. This was very interesting how one comment got all these other comments,, right?
hahaha ok so i sat here and read everything you guys have said…and for a 16 year old who can still long enough to read all of this i am amazed how you guys act about these beautiful pictures… i an marveled by them…by the way RAY no one really cares what you are saying all they care about is what BERNIE has said so just shut up and stop replying to something you just need to say out of obviously you have no life…but on the other hand to all those who believe in a God that created this earth good for you! i personally love God…im 16 you know i might be wrong but you know what thats my problem ok.. better safe than sorry…
“God, forgive them for they know not what they do” Jesus
Who do you think created Nature? GOD even created you & me & the what you call an ugly rock so that we had someone or something to cpmpare it with. Love ya Bro.
“GOD” IS AWESOME, AND NO ONE CAN STOP HIM… PERIOD.
” G O D ‘ IS AWESOME.
Praise to our God who makes all good and beautiful things possible!
I agree .. it is so beautiful…And God had to be the maker…
This is great. I hope to go there somtime.
Great pictures. I have been there and I would like to thank all the people who have taken the time to share the wonderful pictures that they have taken. I enjoyed the pictures much more than all the comments.
Ok, someone linked me to this page not to look at the pics but instead to marvel at the massive amount of douchebag comments by you Christians.
You guys are fucking crazy!
You God loving people have caused more people to lose their lives than any criminal. Most wars are fought over the very thing (religion) that you guys are fighting about here. Tell those people in Japan and the victims of the tornadoes and those victims of volcanoes that God did that because God is nature. Just as Jesse Ventura stated once and was heavily criticized for it “Religion is a crutch for the week minded”.
Of all of the places for God to put his people, why did he put us on a piece of ground that is filled with molten lava, covered with a crust of dirt. Your God put us on a volcanoe. Why would he do that?
The suffering and imperfection in the world was created by us, not God. And God is real because it is impossible for the universe to come into being without some divine force. For Atheists to say that everything was created by chance is the same thing as saying it was all created by nothing, and that is way crazier than saying that it was all created by “something”.
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I have been at the Grand Canyon’s North and South Rim by car, motorcycle and by foot.
I have rafted all 240 miles in 12 days on the Colorado River through the Canyon.
I have also hiked down to Phantom Ranch and stayed one night and hiked back up.
I hiked down for my 70th birthday and stayed 2 nights at Phantom Ranch and hiked out.
Again, for my 75th birthday last year, I made it down to the floor of the Canyon and rode a mule out to the rim.
Everytime I am speachless and in awe, full of respect, everyone has the right to feel as they feel.
Herta Salzmann
I have rafted the canyon three times. God is good.
Ain’t it great that we have the freedom to believe or not. The only freedoms we have are the ones we protect for others. Enjoy your beliefs and accept that others may not share yours.
it is truly an amazing sight and a wonder of nature.
If there is a god or not this is still the most breath taking scenery
Three events in my life have literally taken my breath away: 1) a Sandy Patty Concert, 2) my first glimpse of the New England fall colors, and 3) my first view of the Grand Canyon from the south rim. Thank you for these amazing pictures! Thank you, God, for your amazing work!
Well, ray finally exposed his infinite stupidity when he says the Bible was created by man. What scientific proof, that he clamors so much about, does he have that shows us it was man created. Was he there? Did he see it written? It is obvious he believes that God died and left him in charge of everything and all knowledge even though he has an ignorant answer for every topic. He claims to have read the Bible but certainly believes nothing he has read because in it is written and revealed many times it is the Word of God, yes, inspired but recorded, that is written down, by men. Never does it ever lead anyone to indicate it is the word of man. What are the Dead Sea scrolls? Who wrote the word is not important but it is the message given. Is this not what even modern books are? Some authors use “ghost writers” but the book is about a message, not who wrote it on a computer screen.I am wasting my time trying to convince ray of anything because his mind is made up and cannot be confused by facts.I like what God said about these kind of people who are pumped up by their own intelligence. God called them a fool and that is good enough for me. The Grand Canyon is beautiful no matter how it was created but God gave me the eyes and ability to enjoy it or was man made by man????? I have no idea who made him but God created me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why do all of you have to ruin the beauty of those pictures with your nitpicking of who God is? Are we talking about the beautiful pictures or of your hatred for those who don’t believe in God and those who do. Is this a blog about God? Shame on all of you.
I’ve done the Grand Canyon. Would do it again. Is it more beautiful than Heaven? Don’t know. Never been there. But Heaven must be a really nice place because no one ever comes back after going there. An Arizona governor in the past wanted to dam the Grand Canyon to make a huge lake. This governor was a God-fearing Republican. Why would he want to destroy God’s creation? Why would he think he had a better idea than God? Thank God the people of this country were smart enough to not let this fool proceed with his plan.
I had rather live my life believing in GOD and find out later that there is none, than live my life ” not believing” and find out later that there was one!
Two quotes that may be relevant …
” Man is the Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion—several of them.” Mark Twain
“The 11th Commandment: Thou shall keep thy religion unto thyself.” George Carlin
I agree with Ms. Jackson. Religious or not, you are all at least immature. We all agree the Grand Canyon is a beautiful and calming place. Please leave it there. Petty arguements that start over things like this express the ignorance of many humans that leads to the many times uneccessary chaos and violence of the world. Please calm down and learn to understand. If you are truly christian and believe in god, start acting more like him (you can’t even do it online) and if you don’t believe in him or in many gods even, just be open-minded to their beliefs too and not so aggressive. Please.
My favorite place on earth. One picture, I believe, is not in the canyon. It’s a picture of the bridge on the upper end of lake Powell near Hite marina where the Colorado River enters lake Powell. In the canyon there are only foot bridges, and the only ones across the river are the two near Phantom ranch. The GC is the holy grail for geologists.
I agree with Susan.I have not been there,yet,but hope to one day.The one thing I would say,is that,the most vitriolic and vicious statements and,death wishes,always seem to come from the Theists.Especially the good christians and muslims.If “god” or “allah” are ticked at None-Theists,why don’t you all leave it to them to sort us out.That way you can all concentrate on praying for our lost souls,instead of drowning in your own vile “unchristian” hatred.
Oh,and the Fairies and Unicorns,at the bottom of my garden agree with me.
It appears that many of those who are commenting, are originating from
among Bible believing Christians who assume that the things they are looking
at in the world today, are the product of God’s creation as described in the
first book of the Bible in the first chapter of Genesis.
Those who are acquainted with what the Bible teaches will immediately
recognize that this is not true. In Genesis 6:5-7 we are told the that by the
year 1600 BC, the world had become so corrupt that God had to destroy it
with a world wide flood. According to Bible Chronology, this was about 1600
BC. Only Noah and his family were saved out of it. The beautiful earth that
God created in Genesis 1 was totally destroyed by the terrible upheaval of
catastrophic events that took place as a result of this world wide flood, that it
was totally unrecognizable. What we see today is what God allowed to recover
from this terrific event. The Grand canyon is a picture of the great upheaval
that took place at that time. While this view is awesome, it is not the result of
God’s original creation, it is one of the many evidences of a world wide
destruction from this flood. While there are still some beautiful and awesome
places to view in this old world, they are nothing in comparison to the world
that God originally created in the beginning.
This world is just now, at a point in time when the creator God is about to
return and do what is necessary, to return this world back to His original plan
and purpose in creating it in the first place.
Percy,Percy,Percy…How many times,are you people going to tell us,it’s coming to an end.You are as reliable as role of the die.Give usa definitive date,so,we can plan,and have a good party.I believe your source is either,a raving loony,suffering from dementia or,just maybe,does not exist – just a theory – And do us all a favor and ead some more books.Some that are a little more upto date.No surgeon today,is operating,using ideas from Hippocrates.He/she is using modern text,do the same.
Like the old joke,about the priest visiting mrs Murphey,and she tells him her cat has just had kittens,and that they are catholic kittens.When he visits again,a few weeks later and asks how the catholic kittens are doing,she says,Oh,they are no longer catholic,to which he asks,why not.Mrs Murphy replies……….Their eyes are open now
The world was so corrupt that god killed everyone in it except Noah’s family? This is the ever loving God, the one that condones slavery and states it is okay to beat your slave, so long as he does not die within two days from the beating. Whether there is a God or not, does this sound like someone who should be worshiped?
We had the most spiritual experience on the rim of the G.C. Just as the sun went down a hush descended over the valley, the quiet was almost deafening in its silence. The birds seemed to be collectively holding their breadth, and the tourists became still and mesmerised by what what happening around them, us too. Just as the sun disappeared a chant began from the Indians who were sitting very still in a circle, this chant grew in intensity as the sun glowed redder and redder and the sky became the most fantastic picture show on earth. The atmosphere was too magical to attribute to anything other than nature at it’s best. No cathedral or other religious setting could have matched this show that nature was providing for us. This memory is still as fresh and vivid to us 21 years later. Thank you for these photos which helped us to relive our special moment and thanks to my American relatives who paid for our view over the G.C. By plane. Awesome is too insignificant a word to describe this experience.
Leave Bernie alone and let him believe or not believe whatever he wants. When he dies and goes to be judged, he will wish he had listened and believed, but at that time it will be too late for him. It’s his choice. Let him make it.
GOD CREATED THE GRAND CANYON, JUST LIKE HE CREATED EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE UNIVERSE AND IT WAS
NOT CARVED OUT BY THE RIVER 17 MILLION YEARS AGO, BECAUSE THE EARTH WAS ONLY CREATED BY GOD ABOUT
6000 YEARS AGO.
HAHA
I can’t believe some of the comments here from those who do not believe there is a God. No matter whom your God is, people need to believe in a higher power. You here that insulted people for their beliefs in God, religion, or however you phrase it should be ashamed of yourself. If you don’t believe that is fine, just don’t put people down for what they believe. Shame on you, you have no class.
So,if you seen a man covering himself with leeches,because he thought it would cure him of a headache,you would lave him alone….NO..So why should we let ignorant people who believe in none existant cloud dwellers to pervert the minds of our children….Get a life,read some science books a have an open mind.If it was not for religion,we would all be better off….It simly does not make sense
Well said John…Kathleen just stated her thoughts without really attacking anyone, or forcing her belief on any of us. Take a chill pill Bernie, insecurity and arrogance is what I’m getting from you…the other way around isn’t any better. To each our own reality, if it brings joy, love and happiness, who cares what you believe??
BTW The pics are awesome!!
I am a born again believer in Jesus, the Christ, born of Mary who was made pregnant by God’s Holy Spirit. After the birth of Jesus, Mary and Joseph had other children as the New Testament speaks of them. His half-brother James was leader of the first Christian Church in Jerusalem. You don’t have to accept what the Holy Bible says, including that until the end times people, will, then die. Afterward they will be judged and many sent to suffer eternity in the blazing fires of Hell along with the Great Liar, Satan.
I’ve been to the Grand Canyon twice. In 1967, my husband, and our children drove nearly nonstop from Pueblo, CO, to visit my older sister in Westminster, CA. We entered the Canyon from the East side and out thru Williams, AZ, on our way to Orange County, CA. In 1979 I took our 2 youngest daughters from Sierra Vista, AZ, to Pueblo,CO to visit my Mom. On the way back we stopped to visit the most beautiful Native American ruins (my opinion) in Mesa Verde National Park, then on to Flagstaff to spend the night. The next morning we drove north to Cameron, again entered the Canyon from the east, spent most of the day at the South Rim.
We left by driving south toward Williams, AZ, took a shortcut to get on I-40 going east,then back to Sierra Vista via Oak Creek Canyon and Sedona. It was about 11 PM when we were driving south on I-17 when we saw a temp sign on the side of a bank building. Said it was 105 deg!
Whether you call Him God or not, anyone who has ever lived and looked at the world where they live, surely must believe in a Higher Power. I believe that when everyone in this old world has been taught about Jesus, including an opportunity to accept him as God’s son, who freely died on a Roman Cross to bear on his shoulders the suffering we would all know if we did believe in Jesus. Look around you, watch the news, Jesus said only His Father knew when the endtimes would come. With the volcanos and tsunamis around the Circle of Fire (Pacific), tornados, hurricanes, I believe this old world may yet still ending, if not in my lifetime, surely by the time my great grandchildren are grown. By them I will have been taken up in the Rapture.
Correction, I meant to say suffering we would all know if we did NOT believe in Jesus. Should have proofread what I wrote, it seems.
I will believe in any GOD when someone proves to me that he exist. When you propose that something exists, the burden of proof lies on the group proposing the existance.
I am Atheist and very proud, although, unlike most religious people, I do not go around shoving it down everyone’s throat, and I CERTAINLY do not make people feel less of themselves for being religious, although, I do believe you are ignorant and foolish. FIRST comment here, a religious person has to make it a point to bring “GOD” into what is a great set of pictures.
BTW- “feeling” Christ or Allah with you everyday, or the fact that you are alive is not proof of the existence of a GOD.
The older I get, the more and more confused I become about how a massive group of adults can believe in stories and a man in the sky.
Let me apply the typical relgi-nut’s logic to a non-religious example.
Unicorns—- I am stating here and now, that unicorns, faeries, sprites, and dragons exist. I am dead serious, all of those things exist. Tell me they don’t and I will ask you to prove to me that UNICORNS and FAE do not exist. Until someone can prove to me they don’t, well, by religion’s logic, they must exist.
If I have ever met a group of more judgemental, hateful, misguided, and close-minded people, it would be those that are religious, mainly speaking at you Christians.
You holier-than-thou, self-rightous nut jobs.
PS- Jesus was pretty cool, because he is a zombie, only cool thing about that collection of folk lore called the Bible.
Cheers!
Great pics, had to throw that in
You said it Travis………Religion is dying anyway…As A.C.Grayling says…Even the the muslim relidion is on its way out,That is the reason for the last hurrah..Just like any business that is going under,they alway make one last attempt at advertising,before they ….and the quicker the better.
So much for freedom of speech and letting everyone believe in what ever they want.
Maybe the non believers should have a little understanding of the believers and the believers have a little love for the non believers.
Lets do a little experiment and see how quickly someone responds with some bulls**t because their so far up their own arse that they just can’t appreciate the pics for what they are, fantastic images of the world.
P.S. And yes I have been to the Grand Canyon and it was lovely x
And when was it exactly,that the “believers” showed a little love for non believers.Let me see??? was the reformation…NO..was it when they were burning “witches” ..NO… I know,it was when all the dirty perverts in the catholic church were molesting innocent young people,or was it when that Nazi shirt lifter in rome,signed papers to cover up the molestation of hundres ds of boys in the homes in the States MMMMMMMMMMM
I’ve been to the Grand Canyon. I haven’t been to Mars, but I hear there is a Grand Canyon there many times bigger than the one on earth.
Too funny Harmony..like it
Most people in the U.S. have never been to the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Bryce National Park and they are truly missing the gradure of the world. But they will go to Europe or other points of the globe. Makes you wonder. I have been to all three places and they have the most interesting views…take time to see AMERICA.
I am Canadian but have never seen the Grand Canyon except in photos and on TV. These pictures are so amazing and so indescribably beautiful, I felt tears in my eyes. We have amazing scenery in our country as well, but does anything in this world surpass what God created in the Grand Canyon? It is stunning in it’s magnificence and magnitude!
The topic of where this world and its living creatures, including man, came
from, as well as where it is going, is one that has been under discussion for a
long long time. We are forced to realize that there are people out there who
do not believe in the inspiration of the Bible and are also totally ignorant of its
contents. Under these same conditions, we might even have reached the same
conclusions that they have reached. They are only to be pitied, for they have
not a shred of evidence that their conclusions are right.
We have been given past examples of people who have made the very same
fatal mistake, and realized it only after it was too late to change coarse. The
people living at the time of the flood, were so positive that Noah was an old
fool, that they laughed him to scorn. The scientists of that time assured them
that a flood was impossible, because at that time it had never even rained.
The day before the flood came, they were so positive that Noah was wrong,
that at his invitation to enter the ark they only laughed at him and refused to
enter. When the evidence came to prove that Noah was right, they were
convinced, but it was to late to enter the ark.
At the time of Christ, The Jewish priests and rulers were so positive that
Jesus was an apostate and criminal that they crucified the son of God. When
they later received evidence of what they had done, it was too late to correct
their mistake. We can only feel sorry for such people and have pity on them,
for a day of reckoning is again at our door step.
OMG! All this talk about God. Why is it that whenever someone sees something beautiful they credit it to a creation of God, but God is left blameless for all the atrocities in the world? If you believe in God, fine. If you don’t, also fine.
To me it’s just a big brown hole. Without any greenery or flowers it’s just a hole with brown rocks. I have never wanted to go there.[Do you know what the preacher said the first time he saw the grand canyon? He said”My god what a hole” That’s my opinion too.
You need to get out of your cubicle Elizebeth. Poor Elizebeth. Can’t see colors with her God given eyes and can’t see beauty a tall. Tsk! Tsk! Can only see brown, greenery and flowers. You need to take an ART class Elizebeth. It will show you how to really see things. Really.
those of you who do not believe…i’ll pray for you. i dont care what any of you non believers think… in the end, you’re the ones that are gonna be burning in hell with the devil for eternity.
Bernie: its not that the amazing Grand Canyon was formed my “any god,” it was formed by GOD…get your facts straight or start reading the Good Book.
John Thompson:You’re a tool and i hope the Holy Sprit will work into you over time. Us believers may not SHOW love because we dont agree with you, but just remember that a lot of them are praying for people like you before they go to bed at night.
As for everyone else who is lost…find your way back.
May GOD bless ALL OF YOU.
thank you
My wife and I had hot sex on that rock where the mountain goat is standing. I’m sure we will go there again once the kids are grown.
Bernie: With your smart-ass attitude, i’m surprised you even have a wife, let alone smart enough to raise kids. What really sucks is your kids will have a tool raising them. God bless THEM… and your wife.
shoould you really be calling Bernie and Me tools.Aren’t tools useful
The mayety of nature, the shortness of man
All of you agree that 1) the pictures are pretty and 2) all of you are going to die at some point, God or no God. Right?
bernie,, are not father time and mother nature,, creations of god ??? but hey,, so you don’t believe !!! mother nature carved them over father time’s eternity ….regardless they are yet beuatiful and hope they remain so forever …>>> yathink
beautiful
Earth is a pebble in the Universe. If God did not create Earth, which some people believe.I believe God created Nature & Beings of ALL kinds on this planet that we named Earth.
It is NATURE that SHAPED our Majestic GRAND Canyon,and many other beautiful sites.
I greatly appreciate all those who capture these beautiful sites with their camera and share them with us.
In this discussion of the Grand Canyon, which was created by a world wide
flood and not by God’s original creation, why is it that God is being blamed
for all the evil horrible atrocities taking place in the world today? In His
defense I would like to say these people are ignorant of the fact that there are
two powers operating in this world today. One is good and one is evil. Why
is it that people want to credit God with the works of this evil power ?
Those who believe in the inspiration of the Bible are aware that there was a
time in heaven when the Ark Angel rebelled against the government of God
and was cast out, He was not immediately destroyed, for his influence would
not be destroyed until his principles of contention were demonstrated. He
deceived our first parents who fell under the death penalty. As a result he
became the ruler of this world in which he is demonstrating his program of
government today.
Christ stepped in to give man a second chance by paying the death penalty
with His own life for those who accept Him and his government. This world
is a sample of the government that this rebel was proposing and now his
period of demonstration is almost over when he and all his followers will be
forever destroyed and all things will be made new. There will be no question
or doubt in any mind in all the universe, as to his character when he and his
followers are destroyed. I resent having anyone blame my God for all these
wicked things that are taking place in this world today.
I don’t know if there is a God. I’m just not smart enough. I like to think there is. But when I look at the Grand Canyon, or the beauty and intracies of my Siamese cats, or the solid, muscular beauty of my Rhodesian Ridgeback, I know all of this is too beautiful to have happened by accident.
John: my definition of a tool- retarded morons who think they can succeed in life but are really going to burn in hell. (a.k.a you and Bernie)
What hell??? Even the Anglican church,and now the catholics are backing awy from the notion of hell.You have to wake up and shake your head Brhett and join us in the 21st century.It’s all over,the jokes finished.Even now,the catholics – including the nazi shirt lifter,are demoting bible stories down to metaphors,as they know,the modern puplic are not a gullable as say///////I don’t errrr oh You Brhett.Pull youor head out of the sand and smell reality.
Have a great Non believer day
Hopw did all of this take place? This is pictures of beautiful nature. Nature that if nt for GOD creating this earth would not be there. So wont dont all of you just shut up and leave our lord rest? For those of you that don’t believe in God, please find a church. From now on lets talk about how beautiful these pictures are.
If any fool dose not belive that a GOD made and put life on this plant to be scauft at you are a fool. There are many factions of belife many helpers of GOD only one made this beautiful planet praze him for it and be glad you have it
Larry D. Jacobsen
wow….this same aggression that alot of you are displaying is the so called “evil” in the world. Most of you really need to study your own species…humans and a little chemistry wouldn’t hurt? there are chemicals all around us, earth, space, and like our bodies if you upset the balance things happen, diabetes, etc…on the earth, oxygen levels could plummet because of rising CO2 levels….it’s all pretty basic stuff…now, emotions?…that’s a whole other ball game and the cause of the ‘evil’ and ‘good’ in our world….don’t forget we’re mammals…animals have primeval urges? I wonder what our’s are??? seems to me religion helps control humans that might otherwise be pretty barbaric…actually it’s the cause of some wars and massive murders….evil? good? how naive a person is….we’re a blink of an eye in the cosmos of existence and all the GOD’s in the world won’t save us when the sun implodes, which by the way will happen. It’s the life of a star! When I die, it won’t be God or Him that I’ll see, it’ll be me changing form, the blood not flowing inside of me, etc….and the chemical reaction of that will be what I leave, not my name on a bridge or street sign…I’m happy with that, Heaven? what’s the fun in that???
oh, and thank you for those beautiful pictures….way to go melting glaciers! because….the earth started warming up…and….the glaciers started melting…and…oh, gee, that’s happenig again!! it’s called global warming, ice caps melting….species of birds becoming extinct, polar bears, what..all so you can drive to church in your toxic fume producing car? start thinking and acting responsibly and help save the earth…the grand canyou, our oceans. We’re all a bunch of hippocrits if you ‘see’ the beauty but go back to your wasteful lives after you exit out of here…if you don’t recycle, start to now…..try and do one thing that’s helpful for our earth….one reaction will effect another…get it!!! or take chemistry class!!! Faith is a believe in something that gives you strength, makes you a better person, all of the above….someone once said to me, ‘but who do you serve?’….there’s somemany things, idols, Gods, to serve in our wonderful existence, but it’s true, ignorance is bliss!!! wake up, look around you, take responsibility for all the reactions you make in you red dot existence on this earth. A kind heart? I’m a nurse…I care for people all the time, and took in a stray cat, and pick up other peoples garbage on the beach, etc….Heeelllooo!!! I respect people for being committed, whether it be religion, work, love, I am for prayer in schools and I’m not a religious person, but I respect people who are and that’s why, we let kids take time out to take the ADHD medicine at the office, why not let some pray? enough said…
Thanks for sharing the most beautiful sight in the world, you can say there is a GOD He has proven that He dose exist I hope my husband and I can go there someday.
Bernie, maybe you had hot sex on the rock, but your wife says it wasn’t so great.
Asolutley beautiful pictures.I just wonder why people can’t enjoy nature without religious connotation’s and just enjoy the view
John: How would you know anything about what the catholics are doing today? you obviously dont care. You need to pull your head out of your butt and embrace the Holy Spirit before its too late. and i could care less what you think or what you want, i’m still praying for your lost soul. and guess, what… you and Bernie have been arguing with a 14 year old girl.
God bless you, have a nice day.
I have read all the pics and everybody is arguing about the same thing . Who belive and who doesn;t. This question is oldest than the world. Why don’t you all shut up and enjoy nature’s wonder. You won’t know who made it anyway. I;ve been there and nights are awesome. It is BEAUTIFUL///
And God created Man… In His image did he create him!
Dear God; pleasee take me to the Grand Canyon one day and thank you for all the wonderfull things that surround us.
You know, I can’t believe what I’m hearing. You have a choice to either believe in God or not. I’m 64 yrs.old and I’m still not sure about it. I do believe that if you live a good clean life that’s what’s important. I try to do that whenever and wherever I can. What I don’t like are people that say there is a God just because something’s beautiful. You just don’t know if that’s true or not. You say “because it’s written” You don’t even know if that’s true or not. Why don’t you just try this, believe in what you want to believe in but don’t try to convince everyone that you know for sure, or that your Religion is better than anyone elses. “Lighten up”!
Best what I’ve read on here yet! I’m almost 60, been around and lived alot, obviously like yourself…wisdom usually comes with age, I think, but really, I know nothing! like the the rest of mankind…..
Good pictures.
I quote a letter to the editor in my localpaper:” I’d rather live believing there is a God, die and find out there isn’t, than live like there isn’t, die and wake up to discover there is.”
If there was nothing ? How did something come from nothing ? The earth is located in the exact perfect position where it will neither burn up nor be a frozen blob. A few degrees one way or the other mean frozen or burn. A real good designer. Don’t you think ? Our lives are controled by our watches. Our watches are controled by a perfact,alway on time world. A very good designer don’t you think ? The world just didn’t happen by chance, it was designed. By the way where did the water come from that help form the grand cayon.
Amen Joe! I was about to say the same thing.
I can’t believe some of the language from some of you who profess to be Christians. You should all be ashamed.Christians are supposed to pray for unbelievers. We will all go to heaven one day to stand in front of Jesus and answer for everything we have said and done in our lives, and he will decide where we go from there.Just because you have been a good person doesn’t get you into heaven(to Stay) What He offers us is free of charge, all we have to do is believe and accept him as our Lord an Savior, and live as much like Him as possible, ,and Jesus knows we are sinners, that is why shed His blood, and died on the cross. Was buried and arose again on the third day, and now sits on the right hand of God his Father He loved us all enough to die for us. We should love him enough to believe and try to live more like He wants us to.
Good point, Lola…God bless all the non-believers!! 🙂
To God be the glory great things HE has done!
God believes in you, Bernie.
Great reply to Bernie.
Great Photos of an amazing place. Great debate about God or no god. Without a personal relationship with Him it is impossible to KNOW Him — just like human relationships. We are here to act, and behave in such a way that others can see God through us. We are not here to be un-Godly by putting non believers down.
The pictures were ok, but will never do the Grand Canyon, or anywhere else in this beautiful World justice.
Personally, this discussion is out of reach…..And unfortunately confirms why we have great wars….there’s a small one going on here….I will not follow up any comments, and I suggest you all do the same, and enjoy what’s left of your lives.
Phil, From God’s own Country, Yorkshire, England, a man with an open mind….goodbye
No opinion eh Phil,yet you leave one mmm…Thank goodness Rosa Parks….Martin Luter King..Che.did not have friends like you,that would rather not say anything,so as not to disturb the staus Quo….Maybe if more people stood up for their fellow man,and their principles,six million lives would have not been wiped off the map 39 to 45.
I am an atheist,and disagree strongly with all the theists on here.But,I believe in their right to voice their opinions and tell me they think I am wrong.
And what’s more,”yorkshire” gods own country haha.Theres proof there is no god LOL…From an ex Lancashire lad
interesting; england enjoyed world dominance during the same period when the most stout of men stood up and spoke the word of God…
now look at england; they’re being conquered by their enemies, while their populous boast of a-theism!
…every knee shall bow…
Not these knees.I don’t kneel to invisible fairies,or to companies,like the one in Rome,that countenances and covers up child molestation….Watch “deliver us from evil”…I only kneel to fasten my shoes,or to help a fellow human being to get onto his feet….Not kill him with aides like you buddie in the clouds
why can’t everyone just enjoy the pics without having a religious debate? really people?
gees,another one that likes to live in a bubble,and believe we are all in an episode of leave it to beaver.Take a look at what religion is doing,apart from the catholic perverts,we have muslims bringing down buildings,killing their women if they dare to show any sign of disrespect.Of course,if it does not bother your neat little cortton wool existence,then what heck eh Sarah
Nice try, Sarah!
I totally agree. The pics are awesome. The comments a pety!
Oh dear John, John, John…….my mother is of the people you mention, 96 years old…..and married a nazi![if you care to call him that] a good german soldier, who was led by a few crazy people who did change the world….
We are just people passing through in this world, choosing how we live our lives…you have that choice, USE IT! believe what YOU want to believe, not what people make you believe….better to not use religion as an excuse for hatred of mankind.
I’ve found a little time to comment[knew I would], but didn’t really expect a negative. Believe me, pun was intended, as a Lancastrian, you should have known that….never mind….I do see where your coming from, I just think, well, you like winding folk up! hahaha! carry on!
Debating the beauty of the Grand Canyon is foolish. There is nothing to compare to it and we have seen and hiked in all the big canyons. We have hiked the Grand Canyon and rafted it. Some of the above writers were quite eloquent in their descriptions but photographs and words cannot do it justice, even though some of these photos are absolute breathtaking. Every day is a new experience in the canyon whether on land or on the river. I have seen it many times and plan to see it many more. Our son was a river rafter for several years in the Grand Canyon. What a gift to have everyday life in the canyon. If you have not actually been there, you must go. Just take your time. I hope you can hike or do the river. We are indeed blessed to have such magnificence in out country!!!!! Some of the above have used this sight for trivial debate are lost in their own Blah Blah. They should go to their own face book to blab. The Canyon requires respect and reverence.
It is forever a life changing experience for us.
Thanks you for sharing these awesome pictures. Pics like these bring joy to those of us who have not been fortunate enough to see the beauty in person.
wow, everyone has an opinion, you don’t need to agree with people’s opinions, just accept they have there own, (as you all do) and move on.
the photos are beautiful it is a pity religion has been brought into it, but if it is not that, it would be politics i suppose, it’s normally one or the other. just enjoy the photos for what they are.
Well, now I think Bernie may have wanted to create a little bit of a stir… he sure succeeded, didn’t he? Too bad it is only the believers who think they are entitled to state their opinion without criticism….
what beautiful pictures, I didn’t realise just how HUGE the Grand Canyon is. Being an Australian I have only been to the USA once, which wsa 22 yrs ago. I would like to return one day to see all the things I missed out on the first time.
Thank you for the opportunity of seeing such beauty.
I WAS IN lAS VEGAS,so close to the grand canyon, i fill so bad ,i could go to see it’ i don’t.
hope i will have the oportunity next time .Lorenzo Bergamasco.
WE have seen the Grand Canyon two or three times, but never such beauty as shown here. wonderful
At age 70 my husband and I muled the GRAND Canyon October 2011! AWESOME! Plan another mule ride in 2016. Best experience of my life.
You don’t leave the canyon, the canyon lets you go… Way to go Herta! I’m sure our paths must have crossed there at some point & time.
Beauty is certainly in the eye of the beholder and personally, during the 10 years I spent there, I found nothing beautiful about it, aside from people I met. But I totally agree with Herta Salzmann’s comment; “Every time I am speechless and in awe, full of respect…â€. Perhaps growing up in a desert environment (El Paso), took the love for a barren, harsh, unforgiving landscape out of me.
My mind would seem to become more clear or maybe it would wander as I myself did, during hundreds of hikes over 8 named trails & along a few without names (or weren’t even trails). I concluded during one hike, for my own edification, that if the Canyon’s origins & the Bible had any thing in common, it would have to be the story of Michael’s battle with Lucifer. Though there are many canyons on every continent, to my knowledge there is no place else on earth with such a reputation for claiming soles. And what better mark could a fallen angel from Heaven make upon the earth?
But I would rather speak of the beautiful pictures & things I have experienced than those I have not, such as religion. I have found much beauty, while at the same time becoming awe struck, just standing beneath a giant Sequoia Red Wood, or seeing the lush green meadows and forest of Yellowstone Nat’l Park teaming with fresh wildlife in spring, or riding along side the wide Yosemite River, running through a huge open valley beneath clear tall waterfalls, in Yosemite Nat’l Park.
& besides, the naturally formed cathedrals you’ll find inside a National Park is not a place where your children are likely to be molested.
it’s such a shame some ppl take such beauty and turn it into such stir!
millions of years ago there was a hugh inland sea covering the mid states. (just look at all the fossils found) now there is none. so where did it go? i believe it drained out through what is now the grand canyon as the canyon eroded deeper and deeper the sea drained away and later due to upheavals of the earth the drainage went to the Missouri rive. what do you think?
O my
There is a man who makes various models in the eye of a needle In the hand of these models is another needle This is true
Lets assume in that needle is another model holding a needle and inside that is another model holding a needle and on and on so small it cannot be imagined
If your still with me lets go in the other direction… Large
Lets look through the hubble telescope to a world much bigger than the model in the eye of the needles.This is true
Our world our galacy Our milkey way to beyond To black holes that swallow whole galaxies at a time
To milkey ways too numerious to count This is true
Heaven Hell is where? How many are there? Is it only for us? This gathering of matter called human
In all this how can you say we are alone ?
Does anybody know how many earths will send their beings to heaven or hell
Has God told you all he knows? Could we handle it if he did ?
Why should we be number one in all things that exist
What gall What egoes you have
The grand canyon is wonderfull and large to us
Come on to the creater of all that we can see and know its a tiny thing A wonder among so many that they cannot be counted.
There is one thing the catholics say that should be remembered
“Remember man you are but dust and unto dust you will return ”
There are miracles here on earth every day
Women giving birth Growing inside their bodies another gathering of matter that will be aware of itsself That exists Exists among an infinate mixture without limit
When you die as you will alone What will you join ?? Know your place It may be nothing God may be keeping secrets You may be blowing in the wind as Dylan says
Be at peace Leave others to their own
Awesome photos. Thanks for sharing them. I rode a mule into and out of the G.C. on my first visit. It was a rigorous!wonderful way to BE and experience the beauty all around us.
On the 2 nd visit I hiked part way in. Endless color, always changing in the light.
Oh yes ….. there IS a God!
During my husbands career in the marine corp we lived in Arizona along with our three children. This state is absolutely fantastic. We had the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon while there and it is one great beautiful place for anyone to go and see. Vacations would be great for families because there are so many other places to stop and see along the way.
Now for God. I am a christian and have been for many years. I know for a fact that there is a God because I have physically been touched. He saved my life one night and I felt his hand touch me so you non believers out there better get your life straight because he is real and has prepared for all of his believers (rich or poor) (black or white) a mansion. There is no sense in trying to put him down because you are hurting yourself and not me.
Many words used, “Absolutely Gorgeous,breath taking,beautiful, who can come up with the final word? God can. I use Amazing but it too seems inadequet. Use your own mind and spirit to describe
I have visited the Grand Canyon four times, but I have never seen such views. They are breath-taking. The first time I rode a donkey down a narrow path almost sixty years ago before everything has been made so “safe” that the sheer terror of the ride has been eliminated. I leaned so far in that I almost scraped the wall! It is a shame that some people have to turn an ode to nature into a nasty exchange of views that cannot be proven. In order to
I have hiked many parts of the Canyon 14 times for 2 weeks at a time. Have rafted it 3 times and at my death my ashes will be taken there by my hiking friends.
Beautiful resting place!
As I mentioned before, I have “HIKED” this Canyon 3 times. Do NOT do as I did the first time.
Black western felt hat, 45 lb. backpack, in the middle of August. 124 degrees on the bottom. Lost 28 pounds on the way out, and 4 notches in my belt.
The next 2 times I reserved a bunk bed at Phantom Ranch, along with a dinner & breakfast reservations. The mattresses were new & about 8″ thick. The food was better than most restaurants, & it was “Pass the Plate, Help Yourself”. They stop serving, when you stop eating. No back pack this time, just cameras, a loose weave western straw hat, and a canteen (large one), & went Columbus Day weekend, much cooler, & late June, much cooler.
Naree…….
You said it best…I personally don’t care what anyone thinks about, for or against, who or what…as long as no one stops me from believing, who cares…let’s enjoy the beauty, the moment and time and thank whomever we wish for what we see…I know who I am greatful to and that’s my business….I don’t have to stand on a soap box and preach what I think is right to someone who thinks they are right..is a lose lose situation….so stop it!
I think Obama went down on a mule at the Grand Canyon once.
….many years ago,forty to be exact,I rafted down the river.My trip ended ay Phanthom Ranch and I proceded up Bright Angel trail.I started at about 12 noon and reached the summet at 9 pm that evening,it started to rain.I don’t know just who to thank,God or Nature,but it was one hell of an experence…….
I am lucky to have seen the Grand Canyon in person. It would be sufficient to prove God’s love for me; but I have seen even more beautiful places: Salzburg, Austria; Naples (and Capri), Italy; Bergen, Norway; Lucerne, Switzerland; Lake Louise, Alberta; Vancouver, British Columbia; and (only in pictures) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and San Francisco, Cal. Still more enjoyable are foods such as omelets, citrus fruits, and ice cream; or the embrace of a loved one, or a back rub. But the sublimest expression of God’s love is the great music of people like Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Fauré, Ravel, and Bartók. Praise the Lord!
Bernie, you dumbass !! Haven’t you learned by now that you can’t win an argument with a Jesus Freak? Ultimately, because there are no facts, they are reduced to saying…I believe…or…I have faith….and there is no argument for that…you are beat before you start. As Benny Franklin once said…..Faith is for those who refuse to accept the facts !! Now you got me into it….everyone is going to start saying how much they feel sorry for me and all that mush…..Anyway, Bernie…keep the faith !! See you at the Grand Canyon. PS…Canyon de Chelle IS better !!
Words are inadequate. The pictures speak for themselves. Even better in person.
Why do people have so much hatred in their Heart ? Why do people feel that comment sections should be used to cut other’s down ? Why can’t we as Americans agree on anything anymore ? Why do people think that their hateful comments are going to change anybody’s mind about anything ? Why can’t people get along anymore ? I checked out many of the comments and there are only a few really thanking the person that took the time to share something with people that may never get to see it first hand. I’m disabled and will probably never get to travel any great distance from my home ever again. I just want to thank the person that provided me with the link to view such beautiful pictures and the person that took the time to create this website and post these wonderful pictures. Thank you both for giving me the opportunity. Everything will be revealed to each person when it is time. Go ahead let the hatred flow from your fingers people, won’t bother me a bit. You don’t know how lucky you are to be able to walk and enjoy these wonders cause your all to busy bickering. I’ve been bashed and slashed by the best so take your best shot, I need a good laugh anyway !
boohoo for Bob.Another one that has an opinion when told to have.Don’t upset anyone Bobbie,by showing you can think
We have been there 3 times, twice in the middle of summer (July) and once in the winter (February). There is something new to discover every time you get there.
It’s not a Mountain Goat, it’s a Desert Big Horn Sheep.
The Grand Canyon is a wonderful place, and the photos are really good. I’ve spent many happy years in the canyon, running the river and hiking, and on the rims, and really love it. It’s good to see the lovely photos, but do not enjoy all the god ranting.
Thank you for sharing these gorgeous pictures! I’ve flown over the Grand Canyon on my way somewhere else, but haven’t been fortunate enough to see it from the ground. I hope to remedy that really soon!
The Grand Canyon is one of the 7 Wonders of the World. There are really so many more “Wonders.” I don’t know why only 7 are recognized. I’ve seen so many beautiful places of nature that I am always anxious to travel and see more of our wondrous planet we are blessed to inhabit. I’m happy to be able to share my photos with those less fortunate. If you want a religious discussion, I would suggest you go to a religious site.
Diane
Whoever took all these pictures, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR SHARING. I will never get to see the Grand Canyon so I so do appreciate getting to see it this way.
Thank you again.
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Ben there…the Grand Canyon was spectacular, yet somewhat separate by distance from the awestruck. The Zion is as spectular ( if not more) in its own close up intimacy.
The subject matter was pictures not religion. The pictures are beautiful and well worth viewing. Leave the other discussion for another time and place.
You don’t have to injured each other’s believes to be a good American. Go back to the origin of this nation and read what the founders had to say about the freedom of and from religion. They, including Washington, Jefferson, Adams etc etc did not identify any particular sects or religions but left it to the PERSONAL decision of individuals..to worship or NOT as their conscience required.
THAT IS WHAT THE CONSTITUTION provides for us. No particular thought. Freedom to Think on it. Now I (WE THE PEOPLE) don’t want to hear a bunch of dribble defending your particular faith or lack of faith. It is soley your business..NOT mine. Don’t interfer with me!! I won’t interfer with you.
Standing on the south rim in May 2011 for the first time, I can attest to two things…
How small I felt on this planet and how blessed I felt to be here.
Simply magnificent!
The pictures are awesome.Yes, this world is a beautiful place and these pictures are magnificant. Thanks for sharing.I’d love to take some of my students there on a field trip to remember and write about in their memoires.
I was in awe of the beauty of all these pictures until I read the comments arguing about religion.
I was so inspired and happy…then so very sad. : (
please enjoy the beauty of the canyon if in doubt about God keep in mind that it has truly taken a very long time in our days to form. try sitting quiet and alone without your electronic JUNK for a few hours in or on the canyon or in the forest beyond the sounds of man and you may be surprised by what thoughts will enter your mind. we live on a very beautiful earth and i am pleased to give God the credit. but if you feel some other magic was responsible please don’t let that stop you from seeing the beauty around the world. might have been a mistake to have man hear who has the ability to destroy the earth no mater how it got here.
Was there and am sorry I didn’t spend more time there. My Uncle and I wanted to take a trip out west (we r from Florida) and see as much as we could in 7 days. We drove up from the south saw it for about 15 minutes then left in route to Salt Lake City. Will do it again one day!
Gods is
good God is greate thank you for all the happeness you have given to me and my famely
We all just love the grand canion God Bless every one , Ray Browning
Ray, Reminder: Reading the Bible and Applying it, is two different things. Try the following study guide:
1.Observation: Read for meaning
2.Interpratation: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How
3.Applicaction: Apply what you learned
May God bless your lost soul.
To be saved you must: Realive your a sinner, Repent of your Sins, and Ask God to come into your heart.
Ray, Reading the Bible and Applying it, is two different things. Try the following study guide:
1.Observation: Read for meaning
2.Interpratation: Who, What, When, Where, Why, How
3.Applicaction: Apply what you learned
May God bless your lost soul.
To be saved you must: Beleave your a sinner, Repent of your Sins, and Ask God to come into your heart. I hope you do this before it’s to late.
Have been there before, And it still is always Beautiful to look at ! Just 1 of Gods Wonders I think,Nick.
Hi there everyone. I am not a Chistian, I was once, but had my eyes opened from the doctrin which twists and shifts to suit the cause. “We are not given more than we can cope with” is one I heard recently – oh yes we can, tell that to the victims of disasters, to a baby born to suffer and die in a week. We had parenting when we were little, we can grow to stand on our own two feet, leave the parenting behind, and not dump whatever we can’t cope with on an “Almights FATHER” of a “MOTHER of Jesus”. Man created God, for his own immature needs. Grow up, smell the roses, and adore them. I do not appreciate the pity, and the prayers or the wishes of those Christians who seem to think that the rest of us are somehow bereft. We can accept disappointment and even disasters and still recover without “divine intervention”. We do cope, we do value, we can befriend, we can be charitable and consider others before ourselves. We can be in awe of nature and learn and know the origins. I’m rich in friendship, health and awareness of my limits, boundaries and abilities. I know love and receive love by listening and caring. If I lose some or all of that I will still have had it, and will adjust to the next stage, whatever it is and I will stay in the present and be as responsible as I can. Here’s to those who have grown up….. High Five.
Man, this is crazy! How did it come to discussing God when the first poster sent us some photos of what I would consider one of the most beautiful places I’ve seen.
Thanks Kathleen for posting your pictures and sgaring.
Shame on the rest of you! The poor poster lost her sister after her last trip to this amazing place. She was remenicing about her sister and her trip with her sons! But no….everyone has to get on the bandwagon and crtiticize beliefs, best places better than these, etc.
This type of behavior amazes me and one of the thing that really peeves me off about the internet.
Opinions are like a–holes. Everyone has one but not everybody needs to see it!
Another coward.Those of us with guts and beliefs in true science,cannot,and will not be closed down by spineless non thinking cowards.I don’t agree with any religion,but praise there,ability to say what they think……Get a spine
Re-read the comments and you’ll see how idiotic some of your comments are.
Very well said, Fed Up. My thanks go out to you, Kathleen, for the breath taking pics. I’ve been there but didn’t see it all. What wonderful memories you must have of being there with your sister.
There is no one named Kathleen who works on this site . . .
Is the question who is god? Or is the Grand Canyon pretty? Yes, I think it is. Biggest hole in the world. Three geological eras exposed. Thousands of years of human history incased. Unbelievable geology, huge river, great park, cool boats, super hiking… yeah, real pretty. My take on god is… if we look at god as a length, god is 1 billion light years long, and christ is three inches long. If we look at god as a religious entity, god is all things in the universe, all thoughts ever conceived, all points in all space, all future and past events. All elements, quarks, atoms, and gasses. Jesus, Buddha, Allah, Billy Graham etc, were homo sapiens who have shown us their way to god. Thanks, fellas, great work. The Grand Canyon is part of god, just as you are part of god, I am part of god, Catholicism is, Judaism is, Islam is, the color red is, the sound of water falling is… Can you imagine that a supreme being actually would be jewish, or catholic, or male or homo sapien? He’s freakin’ god, give the dude a break! He’s got to keep Pluto from colliding with Mars and suns from burning out. For Christ’s sake, give god a break already! If there is a god, which we could not possibly confirm, he’s got a whole universe, and more than we could ever imagine in 2011, to deal with. God knows what it created, you never will. He isn’t a he. He doesn’t care what you think. God bless god, amen. He is not yours. You are it’s. If…or not… what’s the difference??? The Canyon sure is a pretty place, isn’t it? The key is to appreciate the place, inhale the moment, be in the place, and let the place be in you. It does not matter what you think. Don’t define it, let it define you. It matters what you experience. Be open to the exceptional beauty. Be transformed. Save the world, we’re gonna need it. All of it. Love,Thomas Precarious
I HAVE BEEN THERE AND THE GRAND CANYOU WILL TAKE ONE’S BREATH AWAY…AWESOME & INSPIRING…
THE WESTERN US IS WONDERFUL…SO MUCH TO SEE…
GARDEN OF THE GODS IN COLORADO SPRINGS, CO IS AWE INSPIRING ALSO…
CHEERS TO ALL…
I MANAGED A YOUTH HOSTLE ON THE SOUTH RIM ’87-’88. A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO DISCOVER THE RYTHEM OF THE
CANYON AND GET TO KNOW SOME VERY INTERESTING TRAVELERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
I was there in ’49 and again in ’56. My first wife thought it was just a big hole in the ground. Little did she know! I’ve also followed the Colorado River on hwy 128, from near Agate to near Moab, both in UT. This is a beautiful drive, right down next to the river. I recommend it to anyone who is in that area. Moab, in case you’re wondering, is near Arches National Park. Those of you who wish to discuss your religious beliefs, go somewhere else. This is not the place.
Obie
And I’m fortunate to have been in all of the “lower 48” States, including the lowest point in the U.S. (Death Valley) and on the highest mountain road in the U.S. (at the top of Mt Evans, in CO), plus 3 of the Canadian Provinces and 1 of the States of Mexico. Grand Canyon is just one of the really beautiful places.
Interesting to see the leap of faith from pics of the Grand Canyon to existance of God. Nature has a way of stimulating the spirit in us all. We should look deeply into the value of that delightful experience, and let it lead us on a positive path. Whether created by god, or fantastic dumb luck, the Canyon enlightens us. Perhaps we should invest our spiritual devotion in the Canyon and other natural beauties. All our religious leaders pursue the goal of developing the human spirit. Maybe we should advance our collective human spirit, and accept as a fundamental resposibility, the protection of our beautiful world. This irreplaceable planet is the homeplace for all the world’s species who share our clean clear flowing water, breathe common air into our collective bloodstreams, and weave our bodies into a the food chain that sustains each and every life in turn. I suggest we devote our human spirit toward the protection of our world. My spirit is strengthened when I inhale the world from the rim of the canyon. Now there’s a spiritual investment worth making. Save the world, we’re gonna need it. Love to all, Thomas Precarious.
The canyon is awesome in every way. The water falls, the 104 degree 4th of Julys devoid of explosions and rememberances of man’s inhumanity.
love the pics thank you for sharing them. I hope to go there some day but if not I have your pics.
God? Who’s she when she’s at home?
I’ve only flown over the canyon. The photos are spectacular. My only regret is having to read all of the negative comments. Why not try and enjoy something rather than waste your time not believing? Shame on you. To those of you who honored the canyon with positive comments, and your belief in God, Thanks you, thank you!
You are all small minded fools …
The Grand Canyon is such a great and amazing place, would love to go back. Keep your religion to your seves, can’t we agree its nice without arguing over who or what made it? I find all the religious posting a little in your face and intrusive. I don’t need to be saved.
wow just read more about God then the Grandcanyon, been loved it loved seeing these pics thanks for sharing
To Bernie and his supporters of denial:
First I am not right and neither is anyone else within themself. God and His Word are and will be the final authority to oversee all things, words, and actions. Romans 3:4 makes it clear He is true.
I did notice that when you wrote you wrote God with a capital rather than a lower case which tells me subconsciously or not, you did give Him the reverance of and title of the real God. All others or idols who are to be god(s) are to be spelled with a lower case g. For that I do thank you!
A few scriptures come to mind when you mentioned nature as the creator of the Grand Canyon; Isa. 44:20; Jer.10:14, 13:25 and I will copy and paste Romans 1:18-25: “Rom 1:18-25
Unbelief and Its Consequences
18) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19) because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20) For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21) For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22) Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23) and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
24) Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25) For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. NASU
A few other scriptures to review and comtemplate might be: Gen.1:1; Ps.19:1 & 148:5; Eph.3:9; Col.1:16; Rev.4:11 & 10:6
Thank you Bernie for making a common statement that brought forward some clarification from God’s Holy Word. 🙂
Thanks to whomever compiled these wonderful pictures and I am sorry that some folks decided to use this as a time to reek havoc.
I too have been to the Grand Canyon; and yes it took my breath away. I don’t think I have seen such beauty before. When I see this beauty again it will be when I ascend into heaven and join my Lord and Savior, God .
Positive reinforcement is the best way to eliminate the negativism. Do not reply to any negative remarks, just focus on the positive remarks.
My philosophy on life is “If you cannot say anything nice about someone, then DON’T say anything”!!!
Sincerely,
Patricia
I would love to get to the Grand Canyon some day. I sit on my back porch each morning and the beauty I see around me reminds me that there is something out there more powerful than all of us, whatever that may be to each one of us.
We don’t really KNOW there is a god; we BELIEVE there is a god. We prove it to ourselves. We believe what we want to believe. I’ve heard hundreds of stories about miracles, etc. Every religion is loaded with them. Fakirs in India have been walking on water for milennia. Nothing new there. If we could trust the Bible, which we can’t, it looks like Jesus survived the crucifixiion. In three of the four gospels, someone runs up to Jesus on the cross and offers something on a sponge. He was drugged. A rich man has permission to take the body. Very unusual. The Romans liked to see those bodies rot on the cross as an object lesson. Must have been a payoff and a conspiracy to revive Jesus and that’s probably what happened. The story got embellished from there. Jesus was only on the cross six hours. It usually took 2-3 days to die on a cross. There are no original copies of the Bible extant, only copies of copies of copies, etc. Alterations were made, accidentally and on purpose. There are between 200 and 300 thousand “variants,” One for almost anything in the NT. The idea of hell is such a primitive ancient world belief. A myth. I’m surprised anyone in the 21st century could accept that idea. The Grand Canyon is what it is, a creation of time and the energy of the universe. I pray to that energy. I’m a pantheist. I don’t know there is a god and neither do you no matter how vehement and vociferous and theatening you want to get –all sound and fury signifying nothing except your hatred.
Can you say ‘morph’, as in “this discussion has ‘morphed’ “.
I thought it was a forum addressing the beauty, natural or otherwise, about the Grand Canyon.
Some of the comments here reminded me with the following joke:
A scintist told God “I can create a man from dust, also”. God told hin “Show me”.
The scinitist bend to take dust from the ground. God stopped him saying. “eeeh, get your own dust”.
Someone said, do not use Metaphysics or philosophy to prove anything. Metaphysical brings atoms into play. Everything physical is made of the same elements of atoms. So everything physical is a twin… until they line up differently. lining up differently is intelligence. Where did this intelligence come from that tells the atoms made up of the same stuff to line up in such a way as to make a rock. Also inteligence is electrical and non physical itself. Modern Scientist have proved that no memory is stored in the brain. Get this, the brain absolutely has no memory compartment, the brain only processes memory and thinking. So inteligence and memory are stored outside the body. This is now accepted by the majority of top scientist. They do not like discussing this though, Why? because that makes you part of the inteligence system that cannot be destroyed, inteligence and electrical impulses never die, nor do atoms, they just line up differently. So if we are part of the inteligence system in the universe, then we are ever lasting, that means we are part of God no matter how else you can look at it. Steven
I consider myself an agnostic, raised in the church and forced by my parents to attend. I left the church after college. There was too much hypocrisy. Too many people were intolerant of others. Not loving as “Christians” should be. I consider myself to have good morals, be tolerant and to treat others as I would want to be treated. You do not need to be a Christian to be a good person. Over the years I’ve seen a devout Baptist who attended church twice on Sunday and Wednesday evenings, read his Bible every morning. But he was married and flirted with every pretty girl. Was also with him when he couldn’t wait to go a strip club and kept pushing the other guys to go. Hypocrisy! My very devout religous father sexually abused me at a very young age. HYPOCRISY!! And he did have a very intolerant holier than thou attitude. I know the daughter of a minister who had her mother committed to a mental institution and told everyone she was dead. He quickly divorced her and remarried. The children never knew their mother was alive until they were adults and she was dead! As this was in the 1930’s there is a lot of doubt whether the mother was actually mentally ill. Not a very Christian thing to do.
Why can’t people be tolerant of others. Faith is a personal thing. Christians should not be holier than thou to atheists and atheists should be tolerant of Christians. And everyone tolerant of other religions and beliefs. I personally think that is the meaning of Christianity. But for thousands of years there have been wars over faith. Extremely intolerant! Is there a God? Or did various people write stories which were collated into the Bible? If there is a god why is there so much suffering in the world. And don’t tell me it is all man made. Look at the tsunami in Japan. I just read an article about parents who lost their only 3 children in a car accident. I guess as Christians think god needed those children in heaven more than their parents needed them on earth?? I cannot believe in that and will not be convinced so please don’t try.
I am writing this for people of faith, no faith and questionable faith. Please tolerate the beliefs of other people so that we can all live at peace in this world. That includes missionaries traveling to other countries only for the purpose of convincing people to change their beliefs to Christianity.
Thank you for allowing me to express my opinions.
Your problem is you based your feelings on man and not God. If the people were so bad get out of that church and try another one. Believe it or not churchs are different. You have studied your bible so you can not doubt that GOD is real. Just saying He is not real will not cut it and you know it. Stop looking at people. Every church has it’s phonies. Sunday christians. Look only at God. Take care of your self and your needs. Before you know it, and if your heart is in the right place, you will recognise the real christians.
Well written. Saw a great bumper sticker recently…..”Stop all wars – Ban Religion”
The best explanation I have ever heard to prove the existence of God came from a scientist (a former agnostic). He said, “Here is nothing, make something out of it.” Just think about that…
It takes a being/entity/God to pull that off. God doesn’t fit in our brains… He’s more than we can imagine.
Think about the universe….really think about it…it is infinitely large…we don’t know where/if it ends. Try to wrap your heads around that…If we can’t even explain the universe, how do we think we can explain God?
These are not ideas to be immediately rebutted. You really need to think about them. Don’t just knee-jerk a response.
For those of you who are agnostic or atheist, I challenge you to think about the facts you know to be true. Science isn’t arbitrary. Evolution isn’t random.
God has always been and always will be. These are ideas that our brains don’t like to think about, because, frankly, some of us can’t. The truth is none of us is even smart enough to figure out how our own brains work. How do we think we can figure out God?
Oh, there’s a God all right…
I noticed the comment about the other thousands of so called god’s today. I am sorry but ther is one hug, huge and unmistakible difference. My GOD rose from the grave the 3rd day and conquered death,hell and the grave and at the same time shed his blood to give me eternal life.
and the fairies at the bottom of the garden say hi.Jesus christ,I hope you have not procreated.How much mental instbility can the world take LOL
The one true living GOD is still in control of everything weather or not you choose to accept the free gift he has offered to all mankind.
in charge of everything you said!!!!!! so he likes to see people blown to pieces eh,the miserable ,unfeeling ,uncaring piece of %^$#
To experience the flip side of this presentation, come to Mtn. View, Arkansas…to the Blanchard Caverns…and see a live cavern fourteen stories below the surface. Another nature presentation you will never forget.
Incredible pictures, thanks go out to the people that took such wonderful shots. I may never be able to visit the Grand Canyon but the pictures made we feel like I was right there. Thank you to all for allowing us to view them. Whatever you feel inside when you are around beauty, is up to the individual. The pictures made my day and the special feelings that I had when I looked at them will not be destroyed by anyone else’s opinions.
Rondell, Blanchard is indeed a beautiful cavern!
It bugs me that people can’t just enjoy the beautiful photos presented here without having to toss in negative remarks…
God Himself said, “By My works you shall know that I am GOD.” How anyone can look at this world’s wonderful, intricate, diverse nature, and think that there is no God, is beyond me. But I do not force my views upon the non-believers, and would love for once to be free of their spoutings.
I have been to many countries, each with their magnificent beauty, from the deserts of Tunisia to the beaches of Spain, the mountain tundras and fjords of Norway, the natural beauty of many of the US states… None, if you take the time to stop and consider, is “better” than the other, they all have their own distinct beauty, and when you look closely at how it all works together from the biggest animal to the smallest bug, you have to see that an intelligent Creator is behind it all.
that is because you do not tink like a rational human being.So god made all this “beauty”Theists make me laugh.Yoou all want to claim all the beauty in the world,in the name of this mythical nobody,,but what about the scurges of the world.The children with mental and physical horrors visiten on them.The 6 million jews wiped off the planet.The horrors of Africa with its aids riden population.
Of course,the answer is the devil LOL..So,the devil is ,stronger,more powerful than your invisible friend…….Grow up you closed minded pompous prigs and get real.Even the catholic church is now turning to more scientific thinking,by,denouncing hell,and now saying the old testament stories,are simply metaphores for life….The bs is over.I guess the pontif will write a book on science soon.Well maybe later,when he has finished paying out even more millions for all the young innocent kids his boys in dresses have raped physically and mentally
One could not put it better in words. Thanks RS. My belief in God is mine and that is what really counts.
what incredible pictures. what I can’t believe is the number of people berating Bernie for voicing his opinion. and you call yourselves Christians.
Amazing that the Grand Canyon can inspire so many spirited theological arguments!
I have enjoyed the beauty of many things in my 75 years and never felt a need to question who made them. And, just so you’ll know, I am an atheist. In all these 75 years I have never ever met anybody’s god. And there are many ‘gods’ who people argue is the ONLY god. Show me a living, breathing god and I just may believe there is such a thing. Until then, ‘he’ or ‘she’ is just a fairy tale…..and the bible is about like ghost stories.
why do all these religious views involve fear, shame, and misunderstanding? the only thing i hear from your side of the fence is that some super-being, or creator for lack of a better definition, spun this entire universe together along with earth to create the celestial backdrop for life. it only took over 14 billion years to spin all that into galaxies that are still being discovered as we speak. and yet, the populations over the entire planet-earth are so overwhelmed by the mere fact that nobody can describe how it all happened, they begin the thousands of spins on ‘how it all happened’. and not one of those tribes, factions, warriors, or roughly-colonized groups had the ability to understand anything about how evolution takes place. the biggest gap in evaluating evolution was on getting a grasp on ‘time’ and what that can do when elements way beyond anyone’s comprehension can change landscapes, oceans, climates and life in a heartbeat, or two.
the amount of time that man has actually been known to exist on this earth is the value of 2 seconds, compared to a 24 hour clock. which means, for the first 23 hours, 59 minutes and 58 seconds that this earth was in existence, man showed up the very last 2 of those. now, bring the human element into the picture, and for the next 4.1 million years those that began to roam the earth will search for mere survival methods to see the next day. then fast forward nearly 4 million years and we get to groups of savages, cannibals, and socially deranged nomads.
after a few hundred thousand years we start to see loosely grouped folks now beginning to fight over anything, kill anything and establish a purpose behind it all. then for some unbeknown-st reasons we start fabricating stories, which actually get rewritten several hundred times (just to politically edit for sensationalism) and generate a hype where you are threatened to believe or banned from the ‘club’. whoever knew that these fabrications and fictional accounts could spin a tale as wild as our modern harry potter movies and end up bending and twisting the minds of those that tried to read and understand them.
in several of the prior responses, some real challenges for ‘believers’ have already surfaced without any account of validation, other than threats of not being around for the final exit, or plain ignorance for not being mind whipped like they. those that are not willing to believe the great ‘dog and pony show’ have simply requested info to these questions!!!??? 1. a creator (implied superman qualities)can impregnate a woman (by the holy spirit no less) and have a child the likeness of that creator (another duh?) who is going to pretend dying on the cross, get moved to a stone cave tomb, only to escape during the night (the rock was one you and i could move). now this is all done to make sure all of you are relieved of your sin and you can continue screwing the world any way you want, just because your butt is covered (see the catholics where 1/2 the priests are gay and how their sins have been forgiven!) 2. there has not been one, single piece of any type of evidence that this ever even taken place (remember, the so called creator didn’t write the bible, but only those that ran several hundred copies and changes to make the story believable to the slave mentality of people forced by persecution into believing. 3. accounts that heaven is up and hell is down have only been written into the scribes for those with a lack of creativity and were willing to believe anything to keep from getting killed. 4. give credit to religious acts for anything that is a positive viewpoint, whether art or academics in human accomplishment, and deny religion (or that great creator) had anything to do with the slaughter of hundreds of millions of people in everything from religious wars, volcanoes, tsunami’s, earthquakes, and more recently the wars on several foreign soils. we haven’t mentioned the millions of helpless children taken every year from famine, war and abuse; but where does the credit go for this? where are those that chose to believe somebody is in charge of these things? 5 every single occurrence that has been attributable as an act of ‘god’ has been explainable by reasonable circumstances present for that which happened. pseudo belief that tries to twist the real and obvious into mere acts from a higher being have really wasted tons of their own free time, and for others, that they try to persuade into the same hpye. 6. i ask each ‘religious group of followers’ to take the following challenge: a. go on hiatus for one year from your ‘practices’ (do not attend your church, read a passage from the bible, say any prayer/s, attend anybody else’s gatherings, etc.) b. go total ‘cold turkey’ for anything connected to yours or anybody’s religion. c. at the end of the year take account of what you didn’t do, and then compare that to how it affected your life, really, and try to do this without that huge ‘guilt or fear’ complex that is driven into the religion profiles.
7. now add up all the money that you have saved, compare that to your new life change and compare again if the life you gave up was worth the money you saved…see, religion cannot function without your money, and they force feed you with fear and shame tactics if you don’t…NOW, see how many churches reopen without money, that which is all based on your beliefs…whose screwing who here???
i too have been on and in the GC; i have also seen dozens of other gorges all over this north america and EACH has been a product of erosion and their evolutionary process scattered throughout those 23 hours, 59 minutes and 58 seconds (that man was not capable of being witness.
now, go see the GC and think about TIME, not that which puts you here, but those nearly 4 million years when you weren’t! if you still live in a twilight zone, remember you always have those fictitious dates for extermination to look forward to. bernie, see how you get persecuted for defending the truth? quoting written jargon from a couple centuries back should certainly make your day for how to live it right…mojo
Do you feel better now that you have spit out all of your great knowledge Mojo? I must say you are so very smart. But, not smart enough to believe in the Almighty God who (like it or not) created the whole universe. One day every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. You are one of the “every”. It will be to late.
Ann B, You will meet a living God when this life is over. I admire you for admitting that you do not believe in God. We all have the chance to make that choice to accept or reject God. But I believe that a time will come when you will regret your decision, for it is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’†I will pray that you will accept God (His son Christ)before you depart this life. But, again it is your choice to accept or reject., this is the choice that God gave from the beginning and God still expects us as believers to honor the same choice to accept or reject Him.
Beautiful . Blows my mind
A fool has said in his heart, THERE IS NO GOD
Perhaps, like Father Christmas, Gnomes, The Tooth Fairy, Evil and the Devil, God, the Soul, Allah, these things only exist if you believe in them ? There is nothing wrong with that Belief. Like metaphor, it is our way of constructing a bridge to what is beyond human speech and human understanding.
The pictures are amazing! I have been to the Grand Canyon many times. Once, I even went down by mule and couldn’t walk when we got back up. However, seeing these various pictures of it, help us to see what we can’t see from our little perspective when we are standing there, or hiking, or whatever. And just as it is impossible for us to see the entire canyon, it is impossible for us to see the entire bigger picture of why we are here and who made us and this beautiful world. But, for me, God leaves his/her fingerprints on everything in nature especially, the cycles and various seasons. I believe it was all made by God because the Universe has order written all over it. There is an order to our human bodies, all living things, all things of nature. Without order there is chaos. In order to have order, there has to be a leader. God is our creator and leader and one day, we will see the bigger side of the picture of the grand canyon and of Life. Blessed be God who has given us eternal life.
Why is it that non-believers are so angry at those who are believers? It is like a phobia that atheistic thinking requires that they lash out at those who do believe. You would think that these beautiful pictures would inspire more noble thoughts than castigating your fellow man because he believes in Someone higher than himself.
People, people, people!!!! PUHLEEZE! Why can’t you all just accept the fact that everyone has the GOD-GIVEN right to choose whether or not to believe in Him and stop the nit-picking at each other. If someone wants to believe God had nothing to do with forming the earth, feel sorry for them, pray for them if you choose, but respect their right to be wrong. (If that’s how you feel.) But stop the bickering! Don’t you know that squabbling over religious beliefs is glorifying Satan, the author of controversy? If you cannot calmly discuss and evaluate differing opinions, then it is best to say nothing at all.
An alternative approach might be: I would rather live believing in God and discover at death I was wrong, than to live disbelieving in God, then at death discover I was wrong.
As for carbon dating — it is highly inaccurate, according to studies done at a leading university. A sample was taken from the horn of a musk ox and by carbon dating it was determined the animal lived 35,000 years ago. A hair sample taken from the hind leg of the same musk ox dated to 28,000 years ago. Did this prove the animal had lived for 7000 years? Or merely prove that carbon dating is not fool proof?
I stood at the Southrim of the beautiful Grand Canyon in awe of natures Natural wonders of the world
in the month may in 1960,a never to forget Lifetime expeience as a joung Imigrant then and anaturalized Citizen now of this great country. I appreciate You America. Thank You for the opertunity.
I agree with Sherie M. and Tom B. May God Bless Your Hearts.
Everything that I have read today is very interesting. I have learned from the opinions of others. WE are so lucky to live in a country that we can express our opinions freely. Believers, do not get angry with the non believers. Pray for them. They do not know you are doing it. Non believers, everyone needs something to make them secure in life. I am not certain what makes you secure other than being secure with yourselves. That is wonderful. The fact that we can have these discussions mean we are in a society that can believe what they want and are not made to believe what others believe. The Grand canyon in my opinion is just that “Grand”. And my opinion and belief is it was created by GOD. My god (evolution, nature, man) is good and without anger and hate. Thank you for allowing me to express my opinion. GOD bless America and the men and women who fight for the freedom to share opinions such as the ones expressed here.
well said Jayne
To Bernie You are an nitwit
Ray are you related to Bernie or maybe just from the same village in the mountains
Perhaps from the same gene poool?
I have been to the GRAND CANYON several times and wonder at the beauty of this masterpiece.
I have seen other canyons also.
One thing for sure beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
If awards were to be given and I can vote mark me up as voting number one for the GRAND CANYON.
Well said, Mojo and as true as true can be but I am curious what you are doing up at 2:30 or so in the morning?
One more thing, I wish to (Unknown creator) that some of these people who reply had Spellchek.
Charley from St. Louis
well let’s see now,,, hmmmmm over 2000 recorded years,, with all of sciences advances,, we have never discovered another life sustaining class m orb,, such as earth.. not with the international space station,, not with manned lunar landings,, not even with the new and improved hubble telescope…. kinda makes one feel all alone now doesn’t it ???? it could be a fluke of scientific proportions unimagined,, even by our most brilliant minds here on earth…or it could be an act of higher intelligence… why with all this beauty here on earth,, do we see so much of our ugly side…. this higher intelligence gave us this beauty to make us more appreciative of our other side… yathink
The Grand Canyon photos are awesome. So are you people. I flew over the Grand Canyon in a plane once on the way to Las Vegas to a business convention. The canyon looked small and lonely down there beckoning for my presence about its vast expanse. The moment was short as I smiled at the thought of being there as it disappeared behind me. In that moment, I knew the wonder of creation was not in the canyon, but in me. Maybe some day I will go there. Thank you for the wonderful photos.
Check out that “Mountain Goat” and see if it’s really a desert bighorn.
I have been to the canyon and it is truly awesonme. It didn’t “just happen” either.
I believe it was a huge washout of impounded waters after Noah’s flood. How’s that for an opinion?
Those of you accounting this beauty to anything besides GOD have not experienced the HOLY SPIRT ENTER YOUR BODY AND GIVE YOU THE TRUTH THAT YOUR FAITH IS TRUE. GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU I DO HOPE THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL. ITS QUITE EASY AND THAT JUST”ASK JESUS TO COME INTO YOUR HEART” ITS AMAZING AND THEN TO STUDY THE BIBLE YOU BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THINGS.YOU WILL STILL BE JUST A PLAIN OLD HUMAN, BUT YOU WILL HAVE SOMETHING EXTRA, A TRUE BELIEVE AND FAITH IN GOD. LOOK AROUND YOU AND ENJOY THE BEAUTY MADE BY GOD. PRAISE OUR LORD AND GOD BLESS AMERICA.
MOTHER NATURE IS GOD AND AS I AM OFTEN REMINDED BY MY GIRLFRIEND, GOD IS A FILIPINA WOMAN. NOW YOU THUMPERS CAN SORT THIS ONE OUT.
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY OF PHOTOS, THANKS FOR SHARING.
To the non believers I would like to say, what if you reach the end of your life and find that you were wrong. There will be nothing that you can do to change it. You will wish millions of times that you had a different look on this but it will be too late. If I get to the end of my life, as a believer in God and Jesus, and find that it was not true, then I have nothing to lose. It has already proven to give me a better life here and now to believe. I feel so sorry for you that you are so blind and refuse to see the truth and this action will cost you dearly if I am right and you are wrong.
Great shots; would love to visit and have it on my Bucket List. I am quite surprised how quickly this became a religious isssue . . . . just shows us how screwed up this country has become.
I know there is God. He saved my life..and the scary part-had I not known his voice..maybe I would not be here today. My heart had stopped..I know. I believe he allowed me to live to share my knowledge of him. He has brought me thru so much. Time and time again.
Because He is reality-I take the time to write this. You have a soul. That soul is encased in your flesh at the moment..temporarily. Where does it go later-or do you think you are without a soul?
We,as humans..continue to progress on this earth. Where are we going with this? And how are we progressing so rapidly? Why are we questioning God’s existance more and more? Evil is also progressing-to a point. There is a greater line of division and it is growing-between good and bad.
You scholars-go ahead and define good and bad however you want. Mass killings did not happen as they do now. You did not hear of children and parents killing their families as so often happens now. The good is getting better-and the bad is getting worse. Rationalize it away if you must scholars. We have free choice-that is true.
Tha awareness of who God is growing. I know what he has told me. He has told me he touches all people in all ways. Simple..yes, it sounds simple..but his word is ever growing.
The very fact that you question, and argue whether he is or is not..Is GOOD..it means you are searching. Keep searching. I can tell you this..the longer you are alive-you more you will realize who he is. Youth questions. That is good. You will not find too many older people that do not beleive in HIM. Youth in our culture, always thinks they are the wisest, they are the different ones. The ones that are smarter than man since time began.
I say this, I have seen good and bad. I have seen Angels and demons. They are real. You will some day come to that realization. I do not have to convince you, but …If you have read my simple words-know this. God has reached out to you thru me. He can use anyone-even me. No one comes to him that is not called. He will call you -sooner or later. I pray that you hear his voice.
It is very hard to think about how and who He is. Man’s small mind has a hard time with that. Out of the billions of people-how can you be so important that he would call you? You do not have to know. He is because He is. He is the creator of life. He made the science that you speak of. We are a functioning organism that has a soul. We grow -we evolve-true evolution. We retain knowledge and progress. We are all heading somewhere-Maybe you believe that you are souless and that all you have learned here on this earth will die with you?
Perhaps you are but a youth. Perhaps you are a new soul that has not evolved spiritually. That is fine. You are growing. We that know-Love you.
I am glad you had the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful pictures of the Grand Canyon. I am sorry for hateful words for those of you who recieved them. Keep questioning. Keep growing. Peace.
so,lets see this….this god,took time out of his day of spreading aids….helping catholic priests to sodomise young boys…..set off tsunamies…..allow Nazis to exterminate millions…..so he could help you…..Maybe it is you we should pray to,if you are that important…You selfcentred egotistical,smug piece of detritus
Pamela, what in hell does this have to do with photos of the Grand Canyon. Why can’t you just enjoy them? Where are you from . . . . the moon?
I am Australian, living in Western Australia (Perth). I have been to the Grand Canyon five times since my first visit there in 1977 and hope to return a few times more. Everything that needs to be said about it has already been said and photographs such as these and others also speak eloquently. You are fortunate to live in a spectacularly beautiful country with amazingly diverse natural features, from deserts to snowfields and everything in between. Although I have been to the U.S.A. eleven times and have driven thousands of miles there, I just long to return and discover more! I also love the American people and their willingness to be open and engage in spirited debates! You can be rather naive about the rest of the world, but your patriotism and love for your country is admirable. I am a Christian, and thank God for the opportunities I’ve had to see part of His wonderful creation. God bless America indeed!!
On our way to Disneyland in 1965, we went to the South Rim. Our two older boys, then 12 and 10, went with me two hours worth down one of the trails. We saw a lot from there and from the South Rim, but we did not see all the views that were in this series of photographs. Thanks to whoever took them and to the person who sent them (Peyton Watson) yo us. I am going to forward it to just about everyone on my email list so that they, too, can enjoy it.
The pictures are great as is the canyon. As for the others when they pass they will discover a new country which no travler returns.
well’BUMP’..If you had read all of thwe attachments as I have..you would have understood…..and in answer to your question…yeah..maybe I am! Peace to Ya Bump!
I THANK YOU AL FOR YOUR OPINIONS…AND SERIOUSLY ..THERE ARE SOME AWSOME PLACES IN THE GOOD OL’ USA…I AM IN AFGHANISTAN NOW ..(NOT THE MOON) AND I SO ENJOYED THE PICTURES-THE PART OF THE WORLD I AM IN NOW IS NOTHING BUT SAND AND ROCKS..ALL ONE COLOR..AND VERY,VERY HOT WITH SAND STORMS…SO IT IS GOOD TO SEE SOME WONDERS OF CREATION THAT HAVE COLOR AND FORM!
WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL THAT THE MAJORITY OF US LIVE IN A LAND THAT IS NOT SO HARSH-AND YES, THAT WE HAVE THE FREEDOM WE HAVE TO SPEAK OPENLY. I JUST WISH SOME OF OUR PEOPLE WOULD NOT TAKE THAT FOR GRANTED AND SPIT OUT HATRED. WHAT EVER RELIGION YOU ARE (OR NOT)..YOU ARE ALIVE AND IT IS NOT HE END OF THE STORY FOR YOU. I SEE A LOT THAT HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIFE TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHTS YOU HAVE. YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOUR TIME WILL COME-ENJOY EVERYTHING GOD HAS GRACED YOU WITH.
My request to those who believe in God who do not is that every night you go to bed just pray to whoever or whatever you believe in to show you the truth. Condition is that you should be truly sincere and honest in seeking the truth. Keep doing this and it will filally come to you.
Of course this is nature’s doing. Anybody that thinks that some external force or being this is insecure and doesn’t understand physics or nature.
It’s too bad that this turned into a religious agrument.
There is a Garden of Eden it is in what is now Iraq. Believe in your own God but keep it to yourself. If there was a God he would have intervened and stopped Saddam from destroying it.
My God is a Dog which is a little backwards for some of you. Where was your god
during the following events:
McDonalds Massacre
911
Bali Bombing
Tsunami Japan
Earthquake Japan
and the list goes on..on on on on on
And my younger brother died when he was 27 and where was your god then.
Well said Jayne. I am guessing that the writers who disavow God are extreme psychological narcissists. They cannot help their non-belief. It is not about them but about God so they have not interest. Our God is a jealous God and put man on His earth to worship only Him.
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LOL. I am sorry to put a bad taste in anyone’s mouth, but i don’t believe in God either.
This is the most magnificent piece of art – the Universe sure has a way of painting life into such beauty!
The Bible was created by man to create fear and control over people, all in the means of power and money. I used to be a 100% believer, read bible every day more than once a day, wanted to become a nun, etc. Then I learned about metaphors, and punns, and parables, etc. The bible is FULL Of them!!! Then logic came along and realized all of this was made up by man for the reasons I give above.
There is no hell – we create our own hell on earth by the way we live. We create our own heaven on earth by the way we create our lives – WE create our lives the way we want it. We are our own creators.
Anyway, I won’t dwell on this topic as I am here to say beauty surrounds us with all of the Universe that we live in.
Line.
oh line,you are going to hell…..order me a beer when yoou get there please,and I can have a nice chat with a sane person LOL
Bernie…I feel sorry for you….God spoke the earth into existence. He doesn’t have to do anything physically to create. I feel for you. His son Jesus was also born of a virgin. Some people say if God said it I believe it that settles it. I say God said it that settles it. It doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not. Prayers for Bernie please….
and a straight jacket for Margaret…..please tell me you did ever get the chance to procreate
Why won’t you all stop talking about me? I’m listening, you know! How rude…
Anyway, I didn’t create that big whole in the ground. It was the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
awesome pictures, must visit these palces once in a life time, worth the pain
Geological Work at its superlative best.
Yes this site of nature is wonderful, but never forget GOD is nature
Howdy guys and gals, The Bible was written by Godly inspired men/women and when the book of Genesis was written by Moses the people of his day and time didn’t know about science and the world being round and circling our sun. He had to write a story that was understandable to them. They would not have believed that the creation of our Earth was done over a period of millions of years. there is plenty of room for Creationism and Evolution. Yes I a born again Christian and and fully believe in God and His wonderful power, but time to Him is absolutely nothing. Example, 10000 years is but a minute and a million dollars is but a penny. I just know that the God inside me loves everyone equally. All of the wonders of nature are beautiful and marvelous to behold and I thank Him for the ability to see and recognize His handy work. God bless to you all.
I agree. Only God Almighty could paint and produce such Marvlous Things and Pictures. My heart hurts for some of the ignorant remarks by some of those above. If only they knew this Wonderful God, their attitude would change forever.
mental instability….the highest produced illness in the States
SO,lets get this straight…This god of yours,made this wonderful planet,then put humans on it,and decided to make ignorant ones first.Those that woould take thousands of years to realise the planet was a sphere….Do you have – as you are filled with god and know all about him – the time line for putting all the mentally challenged on the planet,….then the physically deformed….The mass murderers,Hitler Etc…..Oh of course you don`t you sad little man…This is why the States, is in such a mess right now.Because the few with brains,know they can say and do anyting to frighteningly stupid people like you
Ah John- At last an enlightened individual. The rest of the sheep are rather pathetic to think that a higher power could create death and distruction. Just look at the disregard with which the selfish Republicans put those most in need at risk so the wealthiest will never pay their fair share of taxes. Do these folks really believe they will float up to heaven because they pray while doing in the needy on this earth?
AWESOME!!!!!! I appreciate your wording. God is love. God’s word is love. I try to live each and every day in a manner that pleases God. I take care of my family and love my neighbors as myself. Even the ones who don’t believe. That pleases God. Keep Prayin!!
BOY….AFTER READING THESE COMMENTS, IT SURE IS GONNA BE CROWDED IN HELL!!! I hope all you “non believers” enjoy each others company! IN GOD WE TRUST!
we will Sal.Just knowing it will be full of free thinkers,and realists…….oh it wont be…as IT does not exist,along with the cosy little fairy filled void you “are going to”
I have read most of the comments and find it disturbing a place of beauty cause such ugly comments. I have never had the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon, but when and if I do, my thoughts won’t be “is this overrated?”, “was it made by God or nature?”. My only thought is going to be “ENJOY THE MOMENT!”
I spent a week white-water rafting in the Grand Canyon in June, and it was the most soul-shattering beauty I have seen anywhere in the world. If you have never seen in from the water, when you can look up at miles of canyon over your head, it is a must see. It is so awesome that immediately you and all your problems seem so tiny and unimportant because you are confronted with this place that leaves you speechless. Nearly 2 months later, I think about it every day. I plan to see it as many times as I can until the day I am physically unable to do so.
I have been to the Grand Canyon…South and North rim. Hiked down to Phantom Ranch and spent a couple of nights. The Canyon was a “peak experience” in my life. It is an absurd wast of time to argue whether God exists. You exist and create of this world a heaven or hell. The canyon is part of heaven on earth.
Please, no feeling sorry for those who don’t believe in God. It is so condescending. Atheists might just as well quit trying to convince someone who does believe that they are wrong, as that is concescending to believers. The beauty of the Grand Canyon is, just accept that fact without attacking someone’s belief about it.
In my youth I hiked, climbed, and crawled over 1500 miles below the rim. The Canyon is not over rated. Also, God IS there; I remember talking to him while trying not to fall of a cliff;)
I spent 23 years in the USAF with some of that time as Commander of the Combat Crew Traing Wing at Nellis Air Force Base. Flying down the Grand Canyon was one of the perks we enjoyed.While doing this it was easy to see that it was formed over many years by the Colorado River taking the path of least resistance as it eroded it’s way south. Some say “God’s Work” other’s say “Mother Nature’s”.
Man has tried to control further damage, with some success(dams) but I think the word “Grand” does not do justice to one of the great wonders of the world.
No matter how many time I flew down the Canyon I was always in awe of the power water had if it was not controlled.
Ironically, the Grand Canyon itself (disregarding the barnacles and accretion of just-so stories that have encrusted the actual, physical data itself) surprisingly can be integrated quite well (including geochronology data from radiometrics and fossil strata) with a far different natural-history paradigm involving an immense aqueous catastrophe in Earth’s past.
After considering evidence in “The Genesis Flood†(1961) from Dr. Henry Morris (PhD, Hydraulic Engineering, U of Minn) and “Grand Canyon, Monument to Catastrophe†(1995) by Dr. Steve Austin (PhD, Sedimentary Geology, Penn State), and especially Austin’s work reviewing the rapid deposition and erosion of layered sediments following the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption, a very interesting scenario presents itself that invites careful thought, and a review of our starting assumptions in the Grand Canyon’s geologic story. Do we really understand what we just might be looking at?
Nice pic’s and very interesting comments…..all I will say is this..
each one of us will die and then we will know who is right. About one second after death you will know there is a God but alas it will be too late for some but right on time for others…..
To Bernie you nitwit-can you not just enjoy nature without expressing opinions-look at all the mail you caused in your attempt to take away from the beauty of “The Grand Canyon” I am from Canada and the canyon is awesome,why don’t you visit it with an open mind that is if you have one. Bob
Amen to you Jayne. That really sums it up.
Well the bible does not tell us when this orb that we call earth was created. It only tells us when it was made habitable for the beings of this age. The reason I can say this is because in Genesis it tells us that God Almighty came down and water covered the face of the earth and that it was dark. Then it tells us the steps He went through to make it livable for us and at last made man (male and female) in His image.
Abraham is not the father of 3 religions. He is the father of faith in the one true God. God Almighty. From Abraham and Sarah came Isaac and God established a people supposed to tell the world about Him and His love for them.
Back to the subject, the Grand Canyon, when you first walk up to the rim and suck in your breath at the panorama unfolding before you – you will, like me recall that first feeling for the rest of your life. I live near another place that has that effect on you but not to the same degree – Crater Lake. Such first impressions are precious.
Last year I visited in December and the Grand Canyon.
It was my second best experience in my life until the birth of my daughters 😉
Who has time and is a nature lover, who should have attended every event in his life on the Grand Canyon.
Catching one’s breath are almost…
Greetings from Germany
Karl Dammann
To those who wonder about OUR LORD, wonder no more, remember the two roman soldiers that had to admit JESUS was in the tomb. And then he was gone. He died for the believers as well as the non believers. As long as the non believer is alive, they have hope, once they die, all hope is gone.
All of you know what it takes to make a telescope to look far away in the heavens. Imagine what it took to make the human eye. Think about it and I will pray that you are saved.
Beautiful photographs. Pointless discussion.
“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
“There are none so blinded as those blinded by faith.”
Never the twain.
With love to Bernie:
God, Ishwar, Allah, truth, absolute, divine, reality, mother- nature, consciousness, chetna, brahm, cosmic energy etc are all invisible attributes – – – – – – different names of something we can not comprehend fully but wish to know and then try to identify it by giving these names. What one describes is what one perceives physically, mentally or spiritually but the unconceivable cannot be conceived. That is why we fail to know God and try to realize Him in our faith in some form or no form. God is something or someone believed to be permanent, immortal, and unchangeable, omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient, limitless, with no beginning and no end. In this universe nothing else has these attributes except Energy. Cosmic energy in any and many visible and invisible ways is the essence of every thing; the Shakti or chetna the divine consciousness in this sense is Brahm or God. In any other concept, form or no form, God is a myth, mystery or a quest for the human beings existing in their faith due to curiosity, fear and greed. It is a journey from the unknown to the unknowable; well said in Hindu scriptures.
Camped 4days 3 nites by myself on north rim in the boonies, not a campground. It was awesome, totally alone (no people)but my camper was so filled up with God’s presence thought I would have to open door to make more room. If u don’t believe in GOD suggest u try it the way I did & with an open mind.
I thought the purpose of this group was naturalistic
discussion about, and information about the nature of the
Grand Canyon. There are hundreds of religious sites, at
least scores of rationalist and humanistic sites, and it
would be pleasant if those of us who do not wish to engage
in ego struggles or contests measuring who has the biggest
nose; but wish to learn about the Grand Canyon in ways that
will enable us to give our selves, our friends and our
children a better experience can do so.
You religious folk, of whatever orientation are demonstrating
what most of us older folk have known for generations, religion,
sex, and politics are not fit subjects for polite conversation.
Would all kindly stop ruining this site and let us talk about
the natural Grand Canyon and how to enjoy it, and to learn about
its demonstrable history??? Please??? Thank you.
George von Hilsheimer, Ph.D., F.R.S.H.
I believe in God and in His Son, Jesus Christ. He loves the believers and the non-believers. We are His children. Since He loves us so much He gave us agency and allows us to choose what to believe, what to think, what to say and what we do. I am thankful to Him and His Son for this marvelous planet and the chance to spend my few years on it in mortality. There is so much about our Father in Heaven and where He lives that I do not know but only believe. I am thankful for the rich diversity of opinions and experiences that people share here and enjoy learning from believers and non-believers alike. I know non-believers that I honestly admire and respect. I would not take away their right to their on beliefs or the lack thereof. Yet, together we can appreciate and enjoy the wonders of the planet and also appreciate each other’s frindship and respect.
To George von Hilsheimer, my apologies. I agree that there are other venues for religous discussions. It is too bad that those who have a greater desire to debate and contend over differences in belief than to come together in the appreciation of nature have clogged up this comments section. I am awed by the beauty of the Grand Canyon.
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I did not read most of the comments just the first dozen so I can’t speak to most of the respondents but all I want to say is thank you to whoever put these amazing photos together for our viewing pleasure. I have visited the Grand Canyon and I know it is an awesome sight to behold and these pictures captured some of the awesomeness that one experiences when you first approach the canyon. Everyone is entitled to their opinions and own beliefs but why did they have to spill over to this posting. Enjoy the beauty and be thankful that it was created and that you can appreciate its’ beauty.
Pictures are great but I wish there was a way to cut off those comments prior to forwarding to a few friends. Such a waste of transmission time!!
Thank you so much for allowing me to see your beautiful photographs. It is indeed breathtaking and felt so close to it; unreal for me.
The canyon is BEAUTIFUL ..I do believe in GOD. I also know people who don’t. They are good people,, would never try to hurt anyone and live good lives. Why so judgmental too all of the people you don’t know? That is why our military people fight and die for ALL Americans
freedoms. TO EACH THEIR OWN!!!!!!!
Ok so if we say that God did not create all this then there sure must have been some industrious mason or a sculptor from Texas or china who must have decided one day to go out and create all this
for the whole mankind….!!!
Im a non believer – what is it they say about religion – its for the “weak minded” and “an opium for the masses”! If believing in God etc helps one get through life good luck, Ive heard a lot of religious people blaming God for everything thats gone wrong in their life – got to blame someone for your own mistakes. Also a lot of wars have been caused by religion – I say it should be banned!
What about the Catholic church and their sexual predators and those self proclaimed Gods that have several wives and have sex with underaged girls because they call themselves God. Maybe I should call myself God and make a gold lined Grand Canyon
I have been to the Grand Canyon. When I appoached it and the view opened up in front of me I was overwhelmed. Not only did I see the canyon but I heard it as well. There was a deep ooohhhmmm sound that accompanied the visual awe – the sound of that the people in India make when they are meditating or praying but it was all encompassing.
I was brought up in a Christian religion but I do not practice the weekly rituals of it. There is something that the Grand Canyon drives home to people and that is that there are forces in our world much greater than us, the earth and universe are immensely old, and that time is perhaps endless.
To quibble over whether there is a God or how stupid one is if they believe so, or if they believe not, is embarrassing in the face of such overwhelming magnificence.
I saw a picture of the Grand Canyon and the caption said it was made by a Scotsman who dropped a nickel down a gopher hole.
By the way, religion is the scam ever invented.
I meant, religion is the biggest scam ever invented.
u need 2 read Genesis
Dave……… I am not a High Level Mathematician so I do not understand Quadra Physics or whatever you call it.
It is fair to assume, in a Scientific world, that someone understands it, they just are not in this blog right now.
With that said, I can not make a single grain of sand, so I probably can not explain how the Universe was created, and you probably can not explain it either.
With that said I suggest you not concern yourself with what happened 10 minutes before you were conceived since you can not explain what will happen, with any degree of accuracy; what shape this world will be in 10 minutes after you die.
So Dave, go ahead, try to explain these two premises and then tell me what belief brings you to those two time frames beginning and ending.
That is what Faith is Dave.
Your Faith is just as real to you as mine is to me. Which faith would you like to be “IN†11 minutes after your life is ended on this planet made of mud, called Earth?
Kindly,
Jim
Less than 1% who visit the Grand Canyon step below the rim. We have just returned hiking to the bottom via Bright Angel Trail. “Strenuous” as they describe the hike and even more so since it was over 100 degrees. (Have hiked it before in July and never that hot!) We’ll be doing it again next year, but choosing a cooler month. An experience – those in good physical condition – may want to experience. Just a thought…
God Is, everything we see and don’t see, around us and in each other, on the earth, our universe and all universes, galaxies and all of the cosmos he created the (“Big Bang” as they say) and everything before that. God is not a being. GOD IS. And it is all good. With out good there can be no evil, without light there can be no darkness, without ugly there is no beautiy it is all relative.
I have seen all these places over 30 years ago and it is much more beautiful in person.
10 day trip down the grand canyon
Di, the quote you are referring to is actually “the opium of the people” and I find it an interesting refutation or put down of religon that you are attempting to quote as these are words uttered by Karl Marx. I am a Christian and as Christians we truly understand Christianity and religon are not the same thing. Religon is a set of rules and procedures to follow and is as far from God as you can get. Religous people tend to believe that it’s what they do, or how they do it that gets them their salvation. Nothing could be farther from the truth. God’s grace is unmerited, undeserved favor. We cannot earn it by what we do. Christianity is a person and that person is Jesus and as the apostle Thomas said so well in the upper room, he is “My Lord and my God.” The gospel message is simply this, Jesus was crusified on the cross and while there took all our sins on Himself–He in a sense became sin for us. He was buried and rose on the 3rd day. If you believe this in your heart, truly believe it, and ask Jesus to come into your heart and give your life to Him, you are saved. Period. There is nothing more to it. After this it’s a matter of studying His word and praying and fellowshipping with like-minded people. You grow your relationship with Him. It’s an amazing and wonderful adventure. You are right about one thing, religeous people blame God for their trials and woes and hardships. Christians on the other hand seek God to help them with their troubles and hardships. Earth is not heaven but people desire their lives to be perfect like this was heaven. God has not forsaken us. Rather, He has given us a way to be with Him when we leave this life here on Earth.
Here’s the rest of the Karl Marx quote and some information I found about it:
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions.
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
“In the above quotation Marx is saying that religion’s purpose is to create illusory fantasies for the poor. Economic realities prevent them from finding true happiness in this life, so religion tells them that this is OK because they will find true happiness in the next life. Although this is a criticism of religion, Marx is not without sympathy: people are in distress and religion provides solace, just as people who are physically injured receive relief from opiate-based drugs.”
By Austin Cline from About.com
Marx’s problem was that he equated all belief in God and all religon and appled it to all believers whether truly Christian or not. He had no concept of a relationship with Jesus or of God’s grace and the forgiveness of sin. Your mention of sexual preditors and pedophiles is warranted and real Christians find these things repugnant and contrary to God’s word. The apostle Paul said something interesting:
1 CORINTHIANS 6
12 ALL THINGS ARE lawful unto me, but ALL THINGS ARE not expedient: ALL THINGS ARE lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
We can do whatever we want, believe however we want, but that does not mean it is good or profitable for us. We can choose to be unbelievers, you have that “right” as you might say, but there are consequences to this that you do not yet understand. Please find someone who is a Christian and talk to them about it. I assure you, you won’t be sorry. After you talk about it, you are free to make up your mind about what you hear. You may be surprised by how you feel. The Bible tells us that eternity is written on our hearts… Find out if that’s true for you.
What beautiful pictures. Breathtaking,,,,, Very eye opening how obviously pathetic people are by some of these responses. Still I say,,, these pictures just make you feel good all over,, ahhhhhhhhhhhh I love these pictures..
Still the one guy way above these comments I think his name is Fred,, had a good point.. He should post some of the sad things going on in this world as he pointed out so we can see both sides of the coin, and maybe appreciate that we can go see these wonders and still yet realize how some others suffer and only see the evil side of life here on earth. something to ponder. the good and the evil. I think we have seen both on some of the comments left here.
As for me, my choice is breathing in everyday and giving thanks to my God.
thank you John
I wonder if Bernie knows what he started here. The mental image is of a stick and a pile of ants.
I find it very sad that these beautiful photographs of the Grand Canyon have resulted in controversy and dissension. Whether we believe in God (as I do) or not, none of us are likely to convince another to change in this manner. I am sad to say, the exchanges on this site appear like a microcosm of what is happening in our country and our world. We seem to be looking for areas of disagreement instead of agreement. If we continually seek out what’s ‘wrong’ with someone else, we will never use our strength to work together to help create a better world. Instead, we will destroy whatever is good, both in the world and within ourselves. Can’t we just agree the photos are gorgeous and stop there?
I don’t get why everyone argues over beliefs. They are just that – beliefs. NO one is wrong, everyone is right – for themselves. The militant pro-God folks and the militant atheists are typical of what is divisive about this country. They lose sight of what matters – things like the Grand Canyon!! Enjoy it’s beauty wherever it came from, celebrate your faith in the way you choose under the privilege of being a free American. Everyone is free to voice their thoughts, those who disagree should consider asking why the person feels that way in order to be informed, but to condemn them is inconsiderate.
Well……I’m a confirmed atheist and have (sadly) never seen the Grand Canyon but, just from the pictures I’ve seen – past and present – I find it impossible to see how even the most extravagant descriptions can be judged as “overrated.”
Whether there are more beautiful or spectacular canyons is not the point: the Canyon stands on its own (as do other such wonders) as an awesome example of what nature or God has created.
But what I don’t understand is how the wonder of the phenomena should become the subject of a debate as to whether there is or is not a God. Enjoy its magnificence for whatever it means: believers and non-believers will never convert one another to their beliefs, so why not just leave the argument and enjoy? I know, if I’m lucky enough ever to see it, that I will.
Mac Fletcher
Bernie
If you buy insurance for your house, and your car, you should believe in God, because you and I, we never know we would need a helping hand from God in the next life. Of course, if the premium is right.
If you do not believe in the next life, then it is scary because you do not have any hope when you get older, and closer to death. The other people can go to their Paradise, but so far nobody know where it is located, after we launched the Hubble telescope and still could not see the end of the Universe. Then if there is no Paradise to go to. It’s even scarier!
If you believe in evolution, I think you have scientific proof, such as dinosaurs bones, and the genome studies showing gene mutation. For other they have blind faith, which is OK as everybody has the right to any theory. That reminds me of the time when the Earth was the center of the World.
Bernie, I think you opened the Pandora box, and caused too much excitation.
I visited the Grand Canyon and other wonderful sceneries in the States in 2009. You Americans have really a very beautiful country, enjoy and protect it please.
I do not believe in God, and I don’t want you to waste your time praying for me. It is a little bit strange for me to read all these (sometimes very unfriendly) comments from believers, why can’t you just accept that there are people who do not need to believe in heaven, hell, satan, after life etc.? That we are enjoying our life here and now, doing good and act as a fine human beings just because we want and not because a Bible, a priest or a God is demanding that from us?
(Please ignore any grammar mistakes in my text. English is not my native language.)
Question: Why is that sheep listed as a goat?
The mountain goat in photo # 17 is in fact a female bighorn sheep.
At one time a long time ago, God flooded the Earth. Only some in a boat survived. We can see these truths in His creation. The colors in the rocks, the shapes of the revines and high mountainous regions of the Grand Canyon, indicate high winds and fast moving water created this beautiful testimony to those who have the heart to see His beauty and power. All we have to do is easy- listen and watch to realize what has been done to alert us of His majesty!
Lotsa believers in Fairy Tales & Myths
you poor baby
Helena has it right…There are no Religionists or Atheists who can prove their beliefs,
One says there is, the other says there isn’t.
A better approach is that of an agnostic who says I don’t know, nor do I need to know.
Just live a good life and do no harm to others.
Those of you that do not accept the Grand Canyon as God’s creation probably voted for President Obama. You must live with that mistake also
What would really ‘tell the tale’, is if the non-believers who feel so strongly in their beliefs (or lack of) would test their own theory. What would it harm to pray a prayer for Revelation. God WILL reveal Himself when asked. Then, come back to this forum and share your experience. I for one would love to hear your story. If the non-believers truly feel secure in their ideals, then one sincere prayer shouldn’t cost too much time or effort.
Either way, let’s all just be good to one another. Believers, show Christianity through modeling it. No-one likes to be ‘told’ their wrong (especially since we’re all sinners). Pointing fingers just makes us (believers)look like hypocrites. ‘Preaching AT’ unbelievers generally does more harm than good and opens up the door for intelligent unbelievers to give individuals who are ‘on the fence’ even more excuses and reasons to not believe.
I hope you ALL find what you’re looking for. 🙂
BTW – the pics are beautiful. I hope to one day visit.
Fantastic photography. surpasses Copper canyon of Mexico even though it too is great. There are really no canyons in Nepal-been there twice hiking toward Everest. For those not believing in God,please take time to think of what is going to happen to you when you die. Serious thoughts. I would not want to be without Him when that happens. Being a doctor I have been around a lot of dying people and at that time nearly all look to God. May be too late
Rode the Grand Canyon on the sweetest little mule ever born named Roscoe! He did ALL the driving, thank goodness! These wonderful pictures help me remember one of the best times of my life. Thanks to all who took them!
There is a “GOD” please read Genesis the begining then read Revelation the ending
Then read some science books and some real history.And then read the bible fully,and see all the bs and contradictions.And finally,get real
Too bad we won’t see you in Heaven John unless you ask the son of God to be your Lord and Savior, repent and then we’ll see you there. I pray this is what happens. Every knee shall bow before the Lord.
it would make as much sense,and get the same result,if I asked the wall to make breakfast.Do you and all your friends and family,a huge favor and read some science and join the real world,instead of being afraid all the time,and looking over your shoulder.
Comment: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes,
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
God made the earth for non-believers as well as believers. There were a lot of people knocking on Noah’s Ark when the flood waters began to rise. Only eight humans were on board. Don’t become a knocker but a passagner. All believers will be glad to see you there and so will I. Wayne
God made the ugly rocks so we would know the pretty ones when we see them. He also made the bad so we would appreciate and be able to choose the good. He then made things different so we would be able to compare, and he made all the colors for all the different tastes.
The canyon is but a gift from Him to our senses, just as a colorful reef, a rain forest, waves off Oahu, Niagara falls, the sahara, our children and spouses are a few amongst a trillion things we have been given by Him to love and enjoy. Such is His wisdom which we will never wholly fathom…..
And he also made politicians so we could appreciate honest, honorable and trust worthy people. :^)
I hope you wrote that from a comfortable place in a nice secure room,with lots of padding,so you cannot hurt yourself.How sad that a adult mind comes to such waste
Leave it to the christians to turn the comments section into a soap box for the reality blind. Your simpering idiocy is so one-dimensional. Just because you are too simple to grasp even the most basic scientific concepts doesn’t change the fact that nature marches on without your silly little superstitions and mythology.
I believe this conversation is best posted on a completely different site. The comments were supposed to be about the pictures. If you want a religious or philosophical debate there are other venues for that. Everyone has a right to their viewpoint, but this isn’t the place to discuss the existence of God.
Having said that, the pictures were beautiful! I’ve been to the Grand Canyon a few times and these pictures do an excellent job of reminding me how truly awesome it is. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome that all I can say!!!!!!!!!!!
Dorothy
Thank you for these incredible photos of my favorite place. Having been down the Bright Angel…I”m impressed that I lived!! I’ve never seen the trail from this angle!! It was 104 in the narrow canyon walls at the bottom. One of the rangers informed us of the temperature as we sat in a pool of water cooling off. Those people go up and down the trails like a bunch of Mt. Sheep! All this
“God” talk….we have no idea of the power of our creator…we say we were created in his image…but the Grand Canyon is the image of God as are the countless universes in our sky. The psyche of man knows of God, but does not know God. We get only a twinkling of this creator. It seems so simple just to trust and believe and know that all creation belongs to “God” We are in the “Grace” and “his” by Grace alone. We can only understand “God” through the anthropomorphism of “his” being. Our tiny fragile minds can’t begin to understand who/what God is. Every leaf and blade of grass, every person regardless of how we might judge him/her in our pitiful attempt to usurp judgment from our “Lord”…is sacred and belongs to him alone. We are blessed with the beauty of creation. All we have to do is be thankful for our lives and opportunity to witness to the wonders of this creation. Not everyone has that privilege.
Bernie rocks!
As an agnostic dyslexic insomniac, after seeing these pictures I had to stay up all night wondering about the existence of dog.
These photos are without doubt the most complete and supurb ones of the canyon landscape that I have ever seen. How could any child not be astounded witht the geological formations to the point of wanting to have a career as a geologist?
Jesus said: no man can see the kindom of God unless they are born again by the spirit of God , God’s finger prints are spectacular .
In one of the pictures, a person is standing right on the edge. Brought to mind the great spiritual gulf that span that exists between man and God. At this very moment, too manny of our friends and especially our loved ones are one heart beat away from falling into a bottomless pit described in the book of Revelation. Motivated to tell everyone about the great love and the high price that was paid to link that great gulf between God and man – Jesus Christ.
God created woman….and then all the problems began !!!!
When I recieved this via a friend I saw some beautiful pictures of a place that I will most likely never see in real life. Then I started reading the posted comments and the more I read the more hysterical (laughter) I got. It started with some, complimenting the pics and then berating Bernie for his comment about god and nature. Soon it became an ecclesiastical argument between the two phillosofies of believer/non-believer. The believer spouting quotes from the bible and the non-believer offering his/her rendition of evolution. Some even chided the respondents, for their lack of english accumen, or for not proof reading their comment before submitting it.
Let me just say this, I was once (as a young person) a believer, However as the years passed I saw how this so called god treated his beloved children and became an agnostic. Then, eight years ago I lost a son. not to war or disease or an accident, and I was still an agnostic. Then six years ago I lost a second son, again not to war disease or accident. He was murdered by a druggie. The druggie got a lousy 30 months by pleading guilty to manslaughter. That’s when I snapped, and decided this so called god was not merciful, but IF he did exist he was malevolent. THAT’S when I became a full blown atheist.
I say, if you want to believe then believe but don’t you dare try to tell me I am a lesser person because I don’t adhere to your belief in god. By the way I HAVE read the bible and if I’m not mistaken does it not say somewhere in there, that only 144,000 of each of the four original families shall be awarded the priveledge of ascending into heaven. Given, that there are (I think) 4 BILLION people on this planet, that doesn’t leave much chance of me or you or 3,999,856,000 other souls ascending to the promised land, since it has obviously already been pre-ordained.
My personal belief is, that in a time, when there were dozens of gods, someone said, why don’t we create one omnipotent god, so that we only have to pay tribute to one instead of many, and the idea caught on.
I firmly believe that the gods or god were invented to give the feeble minded masses a focal point to explain the virtual, and at the time, unexplaiable, ie: floods, drought, tornados, tsunamis, fires etc. etc..
God is Great, Beer is good and people are crazy. If you have to ask,Who made him or where did he come from then you don’t understand that he has always been here and because of his love he did create everything. You,me,nonbelivers and belivers. God, Allha, Yahwee, they are all the same, one mighty being. Evolution is man’s way to try and understand his creations. The Grand Canyon is SOOO wonderful and like Yosemety it’s beauty can overwelm us. Created by a river or glazer millions of years ago, tell me crazy man, how long is one of God’s days? Stop driving yourself crazy,trying to play scientist and enjoy the the wonder of the beauty. Have you experienced your own child being born? Talk about a sense of wonder and mistery, two cells with only half of what every other cell has and they become something of such joy/pain/wonder/fulfillment, experience it and you don’t understand, you just know. The secret of life is enjoying the ride.Stop say Thanks and enjoy the ride. Spelling errors included, batteries are extra.
Why not a real God? Belief is certainly what everyone possesses, wether in God, self, or someone else. If not a spiritual God to believe in, why are we here? A German poet wrote: In everyone of
us, even those who seem most reckless, their is an inheret desire to obtain balance.
It seems silly to soil such beauty with some of the remarks above, with that being said I had the choice of Floating the Grand Canyon or going to Hawaii, I chose the Canyon and have never been sorry, athough I did see Hawaii when I flew to Korea. The silence as you float along is enveloping, and then you come to a rapid and the excitement causes an adrenline rush proportional to the size of the rapid.The wallswere breathtaking and the thought of being near the oldest rocks in our world is thought provoking. If I ever had the occsion to go again I would go in a heartbeat.Don’t miss it if at all possible,you will be in awe and totally amazed. Virgil
Great pix!!! Been there. It’s awesome!!!
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The stunning natural beauty of the Grand Canyon will induce a response in sentient beings according to their controlling belief system. As an alternative to this learned bias, experiencing the Grand Canyon with all one’s senses, including the inherent spiritual eye, will bring a full awe of it to the human consciousness. By this means, even the confirmed religionist may perceive the creation before him as a wonder beyond words.
Peggy B.- You have saved me alot of wasted time. Trying to respond to all the lost “souls” would be useless.When I read your comments I thought I was hearing my own thoughts!I just got around to viewing these fantastic pics a friend e-mailed me, but all the religious garbage nearly spoiled it all! Your comments restored my sanity. Thanks! ( the comment requirement said e-mail addresses will not be published, but I’ll take a chance, in case you’d like to communicate. It’s obvious we have something in common.Don
About 8 years ago we floated the Grand Canyon from Page Dam to Lake Meade and it was wonderful. If we were doing the trip over I would exit just beyond Seperation Pass at the reservation. From that point on the trip drags and all the falls are gone. Regardless of whether it was made by God or by nature, it is one of the most meaningful trips we have ever taken. Go if you have the chance.
One day, all will know. It does not matter what you think now. One day, all will know. I am thankful that I know now. In GOD’s Love,
actually,god did not make that mans attitude.god made man with his own power of choice.so,man being the way he is,decided to make his own choice by saying what he feels or what he may believe in.just like the bible,everyone has his or her own interpatation about what the bible says.
What silly arguments about God. It is whatever it is – we don’t know if God does or does not exist and we do not know if God does or does not intervene – so why is there so much arguing and hatred produced in the world over a subject about which no one knows about.
you don’t know,don’t paint us all with the same lack of common sense brush.Science and logic.Science and logic people.Open up those sealed eyes and see the wonder of the REAL world.
Enjoyed the pictures…..Nuff said!
After my retirement in the early nineties my wife and I traveled from Ottawa Canada to the Grand Canyon taking in many more states and sites on the way there and back. By far the views of the Grand Canyon were the hi light of our trip. As well the peaceful quiet we experienced when we first viewed this canyon at a look-out still remains in our memory. Americans be proud of it, if the Grand Canyon was in Ontario Canada I would visit it every year and some more than once.
Gerry L
It seems the arguments debating the origin of the canyon’s beauty may go on for as long as the canyon itself. Unfortunately my time left here is brief, so I’ll leave you to it and make my way to seek and see the beauty which this life has afforded me.
Nature and evolution is merely God’s handiwork still in action !
It is more beautiful than breath
To those that dont believe about God, the bible says in Romans chapter 1, that by just looking at nature (grand canyon) you have a witness (verse 19 and 20) that there is aGod. But dont freak out….He loves you, and always will. So why dont you TRY and consider that GOD is real and He has a plan for your life ! To those that believe…rejoice in that God,s goodness is everywhere.
GOD created everything through Evolution!
I’ve seen the Grand Canyon once and it took my breath away. It was so beautiful! I’ve seen a lot of beautiful places but, the Grand Canyon was one of the best. God is really amazing! Places that were made from nature were all beautiful and we should thank God for it.
The Grand Canyon is indeed a sight to behold. It is fairly young in geological terms and a fairly accurate description of the steps in its formation can be found in this website….As for God maybe He/She/It guided the steps???
Iam an old lady. I have never seen the Canyon except in pictures and these pictures are more beautiful than any I have ever seen of the canyon. I have looked at them a number of times before I delete them. I am writing to say how very thankful and appreciative I am to these splendid photographers for taking the pictures and sharing with folks like me! You have given me a lesson today in just how beautiful this place on earth is! I have flown over the canyon on several occasions but ,of course, the real splendor in these pics wasn’t revealed.I really really enjoyed their work and the trouble someone went to in assembling them. I was dismayed with all the hoo-ha following the beauty in the pictures. I was reminded of the words of my late husband who would often read or see something on TV, shake his head and say, “Is it any wonder we have wars? ”
He would have just loved these photos and the splendid assemblage and sharing of same. I thank you Photog people for making my day!! EGR
Evolution created everything that we see and are. Then man made gods.
che meradoviglia la natura , grazie a chi ha realizzato queste foto per dar modo a chi non puo vederlo dal vivo
A Book of Revelation written in stone
O boy! Most beautiful pictures! Imagine the destructive force required – and the resulting beauty! And God could make it all level if He so desired. I don’t usually read the replies, but I decided to read a couple. The third comment set the tone for all the ones that followed. Bernie, you really got a discussion started. The subject is old and very important. The decision is eternal and eternity is for a very long time. Each person must work it out on his or her own. The Bible says to work it out with “fear and trembling”. There is an saying, “God doesn’t have any grandchildren”. There is hope. Look at Apostle Paul.
I spent 31 days on Iwo Jima and came off without a scratch when 2 of every 3 were killed or wounded. This reinforced my faith.
Elizabeth Riley, you are showing your age and obvious good breeding. Well said, Madam, well said.
I find it amazing that, no matter the subject, someone just out to see if they can find someone to put down has to pop in and attempt to ruin it for someone else or make someone else look small.
It’s surprising how quickly we lost sight of the original message about the beauty of the Grand Canyon.
Perhaps we should all take a lesson from Disney’s Thumper: “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothin’ at all.”
Tom “Forty Rod” Taylor
I have been to just about “all” of the great National Park’s of the South West. It would be hard to pick a favorite. I have been to the bottom of the Grand Canyon on a Mule. Driven the White Rim Road (102 miles,..all tough dirt) and found it beyond description. They are all great,…beyond great !
The Grand Canyon is beautiful! There is no doubt about it. There are many other places around the world that are beautiful too and in its own time and place each deserves its own accolades. The US is blessed with many beautiful places, and the Grand Canyon is one.
To everyone who has commented on this page – it is time for all children to play nicely together. For crying out loud if you don’t like the pictures then move on!! It’s a pity that with all the beauty in this country that there so many people who go out of their way to spoil the joy of others. And if you don’t have anything kind or civil to say/write, then you may best prove yourself by being quiet …
Reading all those comments make me really sad about the so called “God-People”. People who state their personal opinion about NATURE (evolution) and not God (fiction) are being put down immediately. Is that really relegion? Shame on all the people (religious or not) who go below the belt.
Of there is a God – who knows. If people believe – fine. If they don’t – it is their own opinion.
But last not least – the Grand Canyon is amazing and so are other Canyons.
After starting life as a Christian, and then spending almost 50 years of study into thirteen disciplines covering, and relevant to, the origins and development of world religions, including the three encompassing and based on the Judeo-Christian-Islamic “god”, I can say that there is incontrovertible proof for those who are interested only in the truth, that every “god” written or spoken of in all of the religions of this planet has been totally man-made.
The “ecstatic” experiences which “confirm” such beliefs in the “supernatural” for some, emanate entirely from functions of the brain as it has evolved over long periods of time, and are based upon the man-made folklore handed down to us by our ancestors. Most will be astounded to know that there are more than 36,000 documented “religions” on this planet, and that each of them believes that IT has the ONLY TRUE “god” or “gods”, every bit as much as those “grand three” believe that their respective version of their common “god” is the one and only TRUE GOD, although even they, of course, all make VERY DIFFERENT claims about “him” and…in the case of Islam….use a different name for “him”.
The common origin of their “god” is a man-made pagan “god” of the Ancient Near East, one of many, who descended originally to the “Hebrews” via a tortuous route through Mesopotamia and Old Babylonia, being renamed for local “gods” along the way, before reappearing in Canaan, whence it was adopted by the Hebrews and again renamed YHWH/Jehovah. The Hebrews/Israelites/Judahites ultimately sought to turn this “god” into the ONLY “god”, as they did what all other Ancient Near East Nations did in “harnessing the power of the ‘gods'” in order to try to further the interests of their own nation vis-a-vis that of other surrounding nations. Israel and the Islamic nations, not to mention Christianity with ITS desire to be the dominant force in the world, continue to dine out on this myth to this very day.
Those who wish to denigrate evolution, claiming that it is only a “theory”, simply deonstrate that they have no understanding of what the word “theory” means in scientific terms. The claims of Henry Morris and those of the Creation Research Institute have been shown to be scientific quackery written for purely religious apologetic purposes and with no regard for truth at all. Many will not know that “scientists” joining the CRI are required to sign a “creed” which effectively is a declaration that any “findings” they make will not be at odds with the claptrap which passes for the origins of the universe in the bible. Thus is true scientific enquiry stifled by the religious fundamentalists fo this world, as it has been for centuries.
By contrast, the theory (as defined scientifically ) of evolution is based on incontrovertible factual information from a number of very well-proven sciences, including, but certainly not limited to, biology. No reputable scientist would claim that it, or any OTHER scientific theory, is necessarily correct in every detail, and all of them are ready to modify any such theory on the basis of new developments in research. BUT evolution, as with ALL true scientific theories, is based entirely upon conclusions reached after exhaustive and repeated observation of factual events/phenomena, and has been subjected to rigorous testing and subjection to peer reviews. All results must be predictable and repeatable and if such requirements are not met, the theory is rejected or sent back for further rigorous research and testing.
Believers in the “supernatural” subject their prime sources to NO such scrutiny, analysis, and testing for veracity, or they would very quickly know that everything upon which they found their faith comes from the fallible minds of unsophisticated and unscientific eras.
With regard to the origins of the Grand Canyon, whether or not the geologists have the time scale of its formation EXACTLY right should be of little concern. There is NO DOUBT that they are close in their estimates, and “infinitely” closer than the Creationists who stick doggedly to the mythical “6,000 years” time-span suggested by the bible. They are also…despite the sleight of hand and outright deception of the apologetic stories fabricated by the CRI and its followers….very accurate in their descriptions of the MEANS by which the GC has been formed. To doubt this is to fly in the face of, not only geological science, but a range of supporting sciences which underpin its findings.
Having said all of that, the Grand Canyon is unquestionably a breathtaking example of what the “simple” forces of nature can achieve, and we can all be awestruck by its sheer beauty.
I shall now re-view this awesome series of photographs, and have my breath taken away once more !
It is just amazing to me that someone can post some absolutely fantastic photos of a natural wonder of our world and someone comments on it as a beautiful work of God’s hand and suddenly it is a religeous debate on whether or not there is a God, whether or not Mother Nature did it, hell, who knows, maybe Paul Bunyun picked up a shovel and dug it all out while his big blue bull stood by and watched! That’s how insane some of your posts are people. In my humble opinion, whether you believe in a religeous diety or not, KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!!! Why must you put down everyone else’s beliefs just because they don’t believe as you do. So I will say this — you are full of crap, up to your eyeballs, because you don’t believe as I do!!!
About the photos, they are beautiful and they are awe inspiring. I hope I live long enough to go see it for real! You religious fanatics (both pro and con) SHUT UP!!!!
Yes, Tinman.
Well, for the last two millenia, thinking people have been TYRRANISED by the bible-bangers thrusting unsubstantiated, and unsubstantiable, susperstitous drivel down their/our throats AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY, and the time has come for it to be challenged. Hence, every time one of them pokes his/her head above the parapets, it will henceforth be shot at.
You will note that those who do the challenging DO NOT “open their mouths” until the mindless believers have already opened theirs.
So the remedy is quite simple: If the believers shut up, there will be no cause for the rational thinkers to respond. That would fit nicely with your desires.
God is the grand geometrician of the universe.
Tinman..the brainless one! If you are brave enough, use your real name..OH my mistake you are the real Tinman from Alice in Wonderland.
Amazing, not the pictures, the bullshit you people come up with. Its like TV, if you dont like the channel, change it and get off. Are you all mental?
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Serious scientests have found that the layers of rock and sediments in the canyon do not support millions of years of erosion. The many miles of near level layers are evidence of a sudden mighty rush of water.
For all the people that believe this was created in only 6000 years give your head a shake. There is none so blind as those that will not see. If all you religious folks could see past the dogma and brainwashing that you have suffered since birth you could come to an understanding that creationism and evolution could go hand in hand. I personally don’t believe in fairy stories and don’t need an imaginary friend for grownups (God) but I do believe in live and let live that is why if I ever did take up religion (can’t imagine that unless I suffer a brain injury) I would have to choose Bhudism as they are the only religion that will tolerate with an open mind.
How did pictures of the GRAND CANYON become a discussion of God? Please I am asking all the bible thumpers to relax. Your beliefs are NOT the end all be all. Yours is not the only correct position. Personally, I do not believe in God, or any organized religion. I consider myself to be spiritual, and see no reason to be part of any group. It seems to me that all organized religion is more about the almighty buck, than the Allmighty! Give it a rest, His name needn’t be every other thought in your head. What ever happened to tolerance?
We should all know soon enough how real God is. All of you who do not believe, rest easy. IN CASE YOU HAVE NOT HEARD OR READ: God is SO compassionate and loving and kind and wise and good that He will accept you if you so CHOOSE with your last dying breath. Tell Him you’re sorry for all your sins, confess them, this means you are repenting, turning away from your old life; and, we’ll spend eternity TOGETHER, in heaven! Thank you JESUS! I believe, I accept. Again..you have free will, you decide. God will honor your CHOICE. (BTW:Tolerance is a leftie concoction.)
Ok, I guess I’ll just lay in a box and rot! I’m looking forward to that too! Leftie, rightie, who cares. Can’t we all just get along????
Just shut up and look. Jeez!
My husband and I have seen photos of the Grand Canyon all our lives, but nothing compares to seeing it in person.
I had no idea this is so gorgeous. Hope to visit in the future.
I never tire of seeing God’s landscapes; all have their own beauty. As Canyons go, another
beauty is the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, in Colorado. I love the Canyonlands, Bryce, Zion,
Yellowstone, Alaska. You name it, I love it; even the flat lands of all Deserts, and Kansas, LOL.
God has been good to let me travel enough to many of these places.
Why is this awesome beauty a source of argument? God help us. (Please!)
Simply stated, religion demands unquestionable belief, while science demands continual questioning. In a democracy, one can choose either. However, as history shows, that has not always been the case for so many who came before us and unfortunately, it continues today for so many in other parts of the world. Therefore, appreciate your good fortune and enjoy the majesty of the Grand Canyon that belongs, not to humans, but to the cosmos.
Ah yes; But only God can make a Grand Canyon!
Great photos. I believe the animal in the one photo is a Desert Big Horn Sheep, not a Mountain Goat.
Magnifique !
Jo Blow
God was made by his Mother and Father. Just like he is Your Father.
FANTASTIC PICTURES!
In 2003 we had the opportunity to take my 88 year old father to the Grand Canyon. My father was a man of few words. He said, I believe this is the most beautiful place God created. I agree with him. They can talk about the glaciers, the ice age, erosion, etc. God created the Earth and everything that is on it. If the Grand Canyon WAS formed by erosion, glaciers, etc. God created that too. This much beauty was not wrought it was created.
Let me begin by saying, “I am just glad to be here”.
The reason is having an accident 9 years ago and living a long time with a low IQ.
It is not a fully recoverd accident but, hey, I am now 64 in Deceember. “Lucky To Be Here”
I love to learn. More information than I previously obtained. The beauty of these photo’s totally exceed “anything” the men had control of. The “cartoons”(figmant of our imagination) will show he can, but, it still is a cartoon. How did it get conceived? Humor never ends.
Just look at NASA Space Exploration. Look at not only us but, the total Universe. Do you think we wasted money supporting Outer Space Exploration?
Well, the Cavemen didn’t understand everything when they were here. Would you like to be considered “Cave Man” Well, not me either. I have continued to recover from the accident. I have resourced every bit of intelligence I could have had in my front and whatever was available.
The most important item to me is that triangle of life. The utmost item in this triangle is my “Faith”. It’s the reason I am hear. You cannot believe that? Then ask the Physicians in St Louis, MO. They won’t doubt me. I am still here. And, oh by the way, “The Canyon is a Beautiful Thing”.
I hope “Heaven” is More Beautiful Than The Canyon.
Larry The Citizen with just a suggestion.
I think that these are some of the most fantastic pictures I have seen of the Grand Canyon!! I also think that some of you are right on with the comments, why did this have to become a debate as to whether or not there is a God? Can’t we all just be grown up people, and say, “to each his/her own”, and let us all have our own beliefs and religions and whatever? PLEASE PEOPLE!! Whether the Grand Canyon was created by God, or erosion, or some aliens from Pluto, who cares? WE all have the chance to see such beauty in our lives, with our eyes, and feel the beauty with our hearts! THAT is the beauty here!
Oh, and when I looked again, this was in the signature of the email I got linking to this page:
“I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man He would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart He put other and different desires. Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for Eagles to be Crows.”
– Chief Sitting Bull – Hunkpapa Sioux (Tatanka Iyotake)
I had the pleasure of working on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon for several months and saw many manifestations of the weather on Its walls. The quality of pictures representing the the reality of the Canyon’s magestry is always improving and these pictures are indeed beautiful. Somehow there is no comparison to actually standing on the rim. All of my senses were overwhelmed and there was so much peace.
The first time I saw the Grand Canyon was from the South Rim, I took one of the grandkids up there for a few days, it is simply breahtetaking to see it for the first time. It is like this Sacred Place that so many people journey to see each year and it’s right in my own state of Arizona. If you’ve never been to the Canyon, before you leave this world, see it, it is a memory that will last with you forever. In this world of murder, rape, robbery, debauchery and all the other horrible things that go on, The Grand Canyon is a place that is peaceful, natural, and allows one to directly speak to the Almighty on his or her own terms. I believe if God physically lived here on Earth, this would be His home, it is that beautiful and unique. Thanks for sending these pictures, I need to get up there again as soon as I can with the rest of the family, although, all of us have been there a few times since moving here. God bless the USA and all of it’s very special and beautiful places.
I had been Grand Canyon 5times since 1985 but much regretly I could see on the outlook.
I really impressed to see the the picture of inside of Grand Canyon and rising demand
in my mind to visit again there.
Worst case of erosion I’ve ever seen.
It’s due to the power of water! 🙂
Christians are very intolerant. Sad They will be judged who judge.
They seem to also belong to the Flat Earth Society.
Not all Christians are intolerant just as not all non-Christians are tolerant.
I attended an exhibition in Las Vegas and I only saw the Canyon from above when flying over it on one of those small single engine planes for visiting tourists. I was also pretty frightened as we were bouncing all over due to sky winds. Nevertheless it was an unforgettable experience. The canyon is a majestic and impressive nature wonder and it should be enjoyed on the ground and/or on a boat on the Colorado river. Too late fpr me. I enjoyed reading many visitors’ comments. However,rather than embarking on complicated philosophical/religious debates between practising christians or other religious believers and atheists, I would say one has only to enjoy the unique show of MOTHER NATURE. I wish I could have seen quote: “the the sun raising over the canyon on a brisk morning…the colors that change minute by minutes as the sun raises….or the snow clinging to the canyon…..astounding beauty…that evokes beauty” unquote (from one of the above comments by a native of Arizona). My only regret is that, being 81, I’ll unlikely be able to enjoy the Canyon again and in better conditions!!
I really would like to forward these beautiful pictures to a fair number of friends, but the idea of imposing upon them all this garbage and mumbo jumbo about god and the hereafter, etc, etc, blah blah discourages me. What you believe is your business, but because you believe it doesn’t mean that it is real. By the same token, because I don’t believe it doesn’t mean that isn’t real. A question for all you devil dodging bible thumpers – of all the great religions in the world the only one that produces such smug, self satisfied hypocracy is Christianity – why is that?
Thank God I am an atheist.
Thank you for these pictures. I am humbled by the skills of the photographers. The beauty of the canyon far exceeds my capacity to expess the awe of my own canyon journey on my 60th birthday in October 2009. As for the incredibly myopic “discussions” inspired here, it appears that the human need to be “right” is like a bed of quick sand. I do appreciate the photos, and again I say thank you.
Janet
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Live in peace.
Forgive everybody.
Judge no more.
WHAT’S UP WITH THE JESUS FREAKS ON THIS WEBSITE??
My Dearest Everyone, I love all of each of the pictures really big beautiful outside….
The photos are inspiring, but the conversation that follows is entertaining and uplifting. I was in a gloomy mood after months of hearing world and US news and economic forecasts, but no longer. I think this conversation represents the “real” people, with differing view points and outlooks on everything. Yet, running through it all is a heavy dose of acceptance and tolerance. Just maybe we are becoming more beautiful with the ages, just like the Grand Canyon.
Went to GRAND CANYON, with my wife, with a 1949 nash ambassador, that had a double bed inside the vehicle.The TRIP was WONDERFUL,GRAND CANYON was WONDEFUL, VIEW’s ARE WONDERFU, WHEN WE RETURNED HOME….I spoke to my neighbor’s. One of the neighbor’s was so impressed, He & his wife wanted my wife & me to take them there. We went in the winter time, We rented a vehicle, & had to put chains on DriveWheel Tires, & travel with a GROUP, who were required to stay together as a group. I installed a Walkey Talker Radio with extended Antenna, to be able to talk to RANGER’s, or other driver’s that had WALKEY, TALKEY Equiptment.,When I asked my friend, Do you want to do some Driving of this Vehicl? HE ANSWER, “No WAY!” I’m much safer with you doing the DRIVING!”
This is a second comment,The first time we were at the GRAND CANYON, we were amazed that an airplane was flying way below us above the Colorado River. The second time we went in the winter time with some of our friends. A HelaCopter, flew similiar to the aircraft, below our view, slightly above the Colorado River. The time about 12:30 P.M. What do you think can happen, If the EARTH NORTH & SOUTH POLE MOVE? I can immmagine we will have the Oceans SHIFT, & perhaps something like the GRAND CANYON MAY BE A future wonder of the world.
HEY !!!
WILL YOU PEOPLE PLEASE STOP WITH THIS NONSENSE. YOU’RE MAKING ME LOOK FOOLISH IN MY OWN EYES. I AM SUPPOSED TO HAVE CREATED YOU IN MY IMAGE. WELL, I DIDN’T MAKE YOU IN MY IMAGE. I MADE YOU, AND EVERY THING ELSE YOU ARE AWARE OF, AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT ON A SLOW DAY, THE RESULT BY MY STANDARDS BEING A SHAKY C+. AND I WAS ABOUT TO ERASE THE BLACKBOARD WHEN SUDDENLY, I SAW HOW PUUPY CUTE YOU WERE, STEPPING IN YOUR OWN POOP, THAT I DECIDED TO LET YOU STAY AND WORK OUT THE KINKS WITH A LITTLE SHAPING BY ME. SO COOL IT, AND STOP INSULTING MY INTELLIGENCE WITH YOIUR NATTERING. HERE’S THE REAL POOP. I MADE YOU AND DON’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK. IT’S THE DOING THAT COUNTS, DUMMIES, NOT THE OPINIONS. GET WITH THE PROGRAM, HELP ONE ANOTHER AND STOP THE WARFARE.
GOD
YOU BETTER LISTEN. HE’S REALLY PISSED. JUST PUT ME ON FLOOD WATCH. YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.
I get a kick out of hearing adolescents argue about whether or not there is a God.
Guess what I believe. I’m not going to tell you. That’s why you gotta guess.
Every decade another group of young primates pass from childhood, through puberty to young adulthood and try to show how intelligent they are by arguing the presence or absence of God. You’re not the first. You won’t be the last. Nobody will prove anything.
Just fughedaboudit and enjoy life. Which ever thing you believe will work for you.
Just to slightly change the subject. I met a guy who said he was underwhelmed by the Grand Canyon (as we stood on the edge of it) I took what he said to heart… looked about and said to myself, “It’s just rocks and water, and sky and earth, but it’s quite different than the flatlands of Illinois.
I have a cousin who doesn’t like ice cream. I met a man who said he “hates blue”. To each his own.
Give me a choice of eating a bowl of ice cream at the Grand Canyon with blue skies and a tiny rivulet of water way down and the bottom and another choice of drinking a hot toddy on top of Mount Everest with dark clouds blowing over at twenty knots and a fog layer down about 6000 feet that you can’t see through???? I don’t think I could make the choice. VARIETY is the spice of life.
really couldn´t have put it better myself. I generally tell people I am a pedestrian. Keeps the religious fanatics complacent and the rest confused. But I recently bought myself a Bike, so I might have to rethink myself – Keep variety coming. there are so many religions out there, is there a right one? They all have something going for them, even atheism – I know I can´t choose, and I have looked deep into many of them –
A few years ago I was fortunate to do the canyon the old fashion way. We set off for 18 days of beauty, visions, and friendship in 16 foot boats with nothing but our love for where we were, the skills gifted to us, and the power of the river to move us forward. The spirits were alive and well along the way as they have been for thousands of years. What an incredibly magical place. It was a trip that has painted my tapestry in incredible colors.
Dieu , Allah , Boudha , Vichnou , mon patron ….etc
Nous
These are the most beautiful pictures of God in all his Glory. No man could create such beautiful sites. Thank you for sharing them. I have been to the Grand Canyon many times in my life and it is always awe inspiring.
God is for those that are afraid to die.
Happy Holidays.
Live and let live and show respect to all.
The Grand Canyon is a marvel. Been their 5 times.
The fourth Gospel written by JOHN a close follower of CHRIST. Writes “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.” If you understand the above, wonderful; if you don’t then I hope it does interest you. please get a new testiment of the HOLY BIBLE and read the Gospel of John; my favorite book. God Bless
and in the catholic priest handbook,it must say.Go forth and molest the little children,in the name of the all loving god,and for your nazi aproving holy father.Who lives in a big house with plenty,but lets people die of aids,rather that give them condoms
Isn’t this fantasticlly beautiful!
First those beyond-words beautiful photographs.
Then all this wonderful, beautiful commentary
done by such wonderful, beautiful people.
Aren’t we glad to be alive!
That is the supreme miracle.
Whatever power made us – & the grand canyon
and our brains & everything – we all believe in it
whatever we call it. SO with open minds & hearts
we all agree. Perhaps the best name for it is
Love.
Having listened to these religious rants, I offer yet another prayer to God, thanking him, as I do every day,that I do not believe in religion.
haha good one.Let us all do it….Maybe he will get the message and piss off
Thanks for sharing these beautiful pics. I hope to visit the Grand Canyon some day soon. It must be amazing to see in real life. I’m sorry that super opinionated people had to once again turn something into a forum for their own purposes. It seems to happen alot on the web.
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Wow, reading what you christians are saying makes me glad I made the decision to stop going to church. You respond to a “non-believer” by calling him names (asshole, moron, idiot, fool, to name a few). Your holier than thou attitudes make someone on the fence run far, far away! The whole “I am going to heaven and you are going to hell” attitude is disgusting! Who would want to join you and be like you? Not me.
I have to agree with Charlie. I was brought up to be a good honest Christian. However, I have realised that there are too many faiths each having their own “GOD”. I have now found it almost unbelievable. It reminds me of my schooldays when we hade 4 teams – I have now dropped out of the team game.
Well put John.So nice to see common sense being put forward,and not delusion.The good thing is,that religeon is on it’s way out.And,getting faster at leaving,all the time.On tv,in movies,and books,also music.SO People of “faith” wave bye bye to yourinvisible friends
Thanks Charlie for trying to bring into line those who “think” they are Christians and then call them names. What they, you, me and EVERYONE else needs to remember is that WE all, according to the Holy Bible, were made in the image of God. If you are still living, you are not BAD, as God did not make anything or anybody BAD. Now, as far as the Grand Canyon is concerned, I have never seen it, but I believe it was formed there when God created the earth. If you don’t agree with me, that is OK with me. However, it MIGHT NOT be OK with God. That is between Him and you. And do remember, Jesus loves you and so do I!!!
ou need abible refresher.You – not me or other rationalists – are born dirty,full of sin,and you must spend your life,trying to cleanse yourself.You basically,live in a religious north Korea.But,at least you can die,and leave Korea.You cannot leave your religious chains
What else do they have charlie?? Never trust anyone that,gets their knowledge and rules from one book.That,is not even cronologically correct
I am not a Christian, however I do believe that there is a God. I also believe in science…and don’t find them to be mutually exclusive.
I just wanted to say to any non-believers out there, what I told my own son when he first announced that he was an agnostic….and then later an aetheist.
Go back to being an agnostic, and keep looking for the answers, because if you die an agnostic you may have some ‘splaining to do, but as an aetheist you are SCREWED! Never bet against the House!
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Why don’t you thank your “god” that your son,has not been inculcared with the same lack of reasoning,that you have…Way to go son
Thank you Lord for Your Creations!!!!
Dziekuje Ci Panie Boze za twoje Dzieła!!!!
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We have to protect this marvellous canyon…
Mother Nature worked so well…
Sad how the beauty of this place can’t be enjoyed without the pedestrian god arguments taking over the conversation.
Thank you Esteban!!! Can’t we all just enjoy the pictures of the beauty of the Grand Canyon without the commenting of religious differences? We can all agree that the Grand Canyon is a wondrous site to behold.
Thanks to my nephew Brad B, Took 2 years to get the permits. 4 of us walked the bottom of the canon. It took 1 week, but walked the bottom of it. We carried all supplies on are backs. No tracks. If you are going to do the walk trip, Get ready to sleep on rocks, every day. Yes it does snow in the bottom, many wild critters there also, all types. Very scenic, rugged, be in shape, the water bars on trails are tall. Pictures are like mine, very colorful and precious. I DID IT. Gary
I feel foolish for spending so much time reading all these comments. Going to do something productive now. Really loved the amazing pics!
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Why must we always attach GENDER to ‘the diety ?’ ???
Our God is an AWESOME God!! He created us and we are in His hands!! What a wonderful blessing.
God’s not real.
God’s not real? Dang it!!!
P.S. The food is there for even the birds. But they still have to seek it out… 🙂
God came from the heaven to the earth to the cross to bring you salvation, with your free will you do not have to except that free gift, but your knee will bend and you will proclaim him king of kings lord of all, and what we see at the grand cayon is just a glimps of what he has in store for them that that love him and want to serve him
The oldest religon as far as I know of are the druids, before you do any mouthing off read up on it…. you might be surprised!
As far as the bible goes it was written by MEN as THEY thought it should be, IT WAS NOT WRITTEN BY GOD!!!!!!
Do the research not repeat blindly what others say!
Just 1 more log on the fire: MORE crimes were and are committed in the name of religon than ALL other combined!!!!… just ask the victims of the clatholic choir boys by the pedo loving priests, I was rasised a catholic and stopped going to church when a priest TRIED to SHOW me a new way to pray, he won’t ever touch another… he is now a boy toy doing life in prison, he is a favorite “girl” for the inmates there….some how he “lost” all his teeth and has to wear a diaper 24/7 … couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy!
Confucious say: MANY MAN SMOKE – BUT FU MAN CHU.
My question is who had access to all these pictures taken by 29 different people and was able to compile them. I am glad the whoever it is did. Another question is over what period (weeks, months, years?) were the pictures taken?
Thanks to whomever for sharing.
JAM
WOW! Cannot believe how beautiful GOD’S/nature’s creation is. AWSOME.
After taking the time to read all the comments I feel pity for the misguided who have no faith or lack of faith. All I can say is take a deep breath, look around you and then truly say and believe that GOD had no part in any of this.
As far as the bible’s authenticity, I have yet to hear an explanation from a non-believer how the dozens of prophesies regarding Christ’s 1st coming could have been fulfilled by chance. This is even more astounding considering the fact that the scriptures were written by 40 different authors over 1500 years in three different languages. Mathematicians assigning conservative odds to just 8 of these prophesies being fulfilled in one man (Jesus) reach astronomical odds – basically impossible. The only reasonable explanation is that the writers were in fact inspired by a God who exists outside of time in our past, present and future all at the same time. Recently NOVA had a program in which they demonstrated this very possibility (that in the space-time continuum the past and future can exist at the same time as our present) In the bible itself God proclaims several times that he tells the “end from the beginning” so that you can know He is who He claims to be. Just a side note – there are numerous prophesies about Israel being brought back into the land of Palestine in the last days. Furthermore, it is prophesied that Israel will be a “cup of drunkeness” for the surrounding countries intent on its destruction…”and it will happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.”(Zechariah 12:2&3)Prophesied 2500 years ago. Actual political allignments are given, the most eye-opening being the one between Persia (Iran) and the country to the furthest most north (Moscow is the furthest most north from Israel) For the first time in history there is now a military alliance between Persia and those in Russia. Read Ezekiel Ch 37,38,39 (the destruction of Iran, Russia and others). (note the attack by air – kind of hard to do 2500 years ago when this was written. Jesus warned that in the last days the biggest threat would be “deception” about who he really is ( The second person of the trinity/God himself) . (Matthew ch 24) One last thing. Do you really think your DNA (made up of tens of millions of digitally coded bases) just randomly came together? Remember – this violates the second law of thermodynamics ( increasing disorder) Also,most mutations cause harm and death to an organism. Plus there has never been one observed occurence of macroevolution (one organism mutating so that there is an actual increase in DNA material) You can believe not to believe but with the evidence I think it takes more faith to believe that there is not a god. So what is the whole purpose of all this = John 3:16 “for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son (Jesus) that who so ever believes in Him (his shed blood on the cross for your sins) shall not perish but shall have everlasting life” A final note. Jesus promised he would return a second time in the end of days as a King. If all the prophesies were fulfilled concerning his first coming, how likely is it that all the prophesies about his second coming will be fulfilled. If there is any other way then he wasted his time dying on the cross for your sins.
Very well said, Barry. Very Chuck Missler-like in your approach. It’s heart breaking to see so many people turn away from God without actually knowing Him first. So many refuse to believe in an absolute Truth, yet live by their own ethical code. They sadly don’t realize that the concept of morality and ethics is from God. Please pray for them as will I.
Michael from Montana
My brother-in-law from mesa arizona just sent me this e-mail. Had tears in my eyes just viewing those beautiful pics, and my dream is to do some of that crazy white or muddy rafting. What a gorgeous place, nature at her best.
I feel so sorry for you folks who do not believe. I was that way for 36yrs/ I thouht all religions were the same. Religion is man made, Christianity is Christ centered. We went to the grand canyon many years – 1972 to 2001. We even took the smooth ride,visited the northrim. Went down to phanthom ranch. How anyone can say that God does not live,it is their choice. God gave you a choice – believe or don’t beieve. “No one can come to the father but through me”. God has always demanded a blood sacrifice. Now Christ became the sacrifice. One last statement – Darwin even believed at the end that he was wrong, but they would not let his publish this.
I have justread all the comments listed here , We believe what we want to believe whether its creation or evolution. But not having been to see this wonderous piece of nature *( Gods creation) I can only wonder at these wonderful pictures, its too late for me to go & see it for myself, as an infirm 76 yr old .So I thank you for sharing them .
OMG, STFU and look at the pictures!!!!
I concur, however one must believe in a higher power
no matter who or what it, he, she is.
but don’t discount the fact or be so arrogant to think
there is not one. enjoy the beauty don’t get so hung
up on how or when etc
beauty is all around us – even here in rural Australia
4000+ years ago there was a world wide flood!
I have been to the Grand Canyon, once in July 1983, with my parents and my two children. It is
a most spectacular sight, that has to be seen in person, and it could only have been created by God.
Just to add a point of contrasting interest….I believe somewhere in the presentation it says the river carved the canyon, giving the impression that the water dug downp deep to cut the canyon. I have only seen the canyon from the bottom -in the river on a raft – and learned that the river level hasn’t changed. The land rose up over time and the water just kept it’s level.
I have seen the grand canyon from the north & south rims, hiked down it’s trails, rafted it’s river, seen it from aircraft, all said and done….my advice…go see it before you die…tony pilon.
I have stood at so many of the places in this photo display and wonder at the marvels God has created in this beautiful world. I stood waiting for a sunset in 29 degrees for an hour and it was worth the freezing. Everyone should have the chance to see this wonderful place.
i too have marvelled at natures wonders there, millions of years of earth movements and climate change still going on today, to talk of a creators blessing what about pictures of tsunami, earthquakes, starving and sick children, religious wars and massacres in the bible and to this day is this a creators blessing also
Ladies & Gentlemen: We must all admit one thing. If we were all atheists, then there wouldn’t be anything to argue about and the long drawn -out discussion filled with arrogance and rancour would not be taking place. Love M.L.
Very Beautiful……
As a young Air Force second Lieutwnant in between Primary and basic flying training courses, I managed to hitch a ride in the back end of a North American B-25 going to California. I awoke from a nap during a fairly bumpy ride and saw beautiful canyon walls out both sides of the aircraft, and being quite curious of our location, I crawled up to the cockpit via the narrow passageway thhrugh the bomb bay to ask the crew if we were in the Grand Canyon> “Where else would yo be able to experience thi magnificent panorama this close up?”was the reply from the co-pilot. I’ll never forget the ride, and am sorry for those who have not had the “privelege” of the ride, now that the restrictions have been in existence!! Wish I could have flown down it way back when!!
Here’s a thought. These are some really pretty pictures of an incredibly gorgeous place. I’m grateful our young hostess put them here for us to find and appreciate.
As for the rest of it, seems to me there are many paths, leading to a destination we know not where, but we are destined to make the journey. Our chosen spiritual, emotional, mental and physical conveyance, in the end, matters not. We will all make the final few steps in exactly the same fashion.
Be talkin’ to you……………….Webrydr
To stand on the rim of the Grand Canyon made me aware of how small I am in the scheme of things. Yet God in His mercy sent His Son to die for my sins and provide me an eternal life in heaven. Better to believe in Heaven and find it not real than to NOT BELIEVE and find it is real! Praise God I am a child of the King!
jimmy d, you need to go to know that “The Grand Canyon” is not over rated. It is both beautiful and frightening all at the same time. ride the river in a dory and you will know what i mean.
god didn’t do0 it he was busy with war. one of his assistants did it.and he left a big hole in the ground
I’ve hiked the Canyon every year since 1995. Guess you all know why. I’m seventy and just came out May 8th, 2012. Hope to return in the Fall as don’t have forever to record in pictures a place I will always treasure.
Wonderful pics.
Shame about the comments.
They demonstrate man’s arrogance.
Why can’t we just rejoice at the beauty of nature.
There are 4 lifeless elements to be alive for all the living creatures: The sun, the water, the air and the eartch. Some couple of years after your birth you accepted the existence of god. Not before your birth and not after your death. That means the god is your creature, the creature of humanity. If you were born 5000 years ago, would the god not be a in different shape? If you believe in god, then please show me. Is it female, male? Where does he live? How can I meet him? Noone can answer me these questions? Because there is no such a god. It is just an imagination.
I also have seen the Grand Canyon, the awful beauty of nature created in millions and millions years.
Do remember that your comment is conformity with no proof. Likewise of course the “proof” of God’s existence is imperfect if it is just an emotional response to the beauty seen around us. Let me through out something for consideration. Numerous times, almost universally, religions have common elements of a salvation, i.e. a hope for a perfected or vastly improved future, a highest power and interestingly a blood sacrifice relevant to the “salvation.” The atheist faith also has a highest power, inevitably it would seem they must center immense power is a central government, not in divided, local governments. There are various “salvations”, some greenish, some with universal connections to the central govt. The commies promised a society minus the tensions of class. You will find practical uses for abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide etc. but when do the zealots stop?
great!!!tnx 4 sharing pictures:)
The 1st moment I encountered the Grand C. I understood why it was so easy to give it that title. Talk about the wonders of the world…..Number Eight.
While worthy in every way of the title “Grand” the Grand Canyon is named, like most canyons after the river that runs through it. The Colorado River used to be called the Grand River. It is just as GRAND as always and I have hiked it every year since 1995.
The Grand Canyon is awesome as is GOD. Thank you awesome GOD
So… about that canion…
Wow. Never seen so many comments on a subject like this. What gives me buzzing/cold feet about the grand canyon is that TV ad about POWER CHAIRS. Have you seen it? Two old biddies sitting in their power chairs just a few feet from the edge of the canyon. All I can think of is one or both of them slipping and hitting the power control on their chairs and it is then over a mile straight down. OOOOPPS. I get tingling feet every time I see that ad. All to sell those power chairs. I’d never buy my granma one if she were going anywhere near the Grand Canyon.
Also, it amaizes me how many people are so sure about God. I submit that not a one of us is totally sure who or what is out there in the cosmos and what it is responsible for doing. Come on, admit it. We all can have opinions. Nothing wrong with that. But if anyone is absolutley sure what or who created the canyon or anything else for that matter, please let us know how you know for sure. I’m not a believer nor am I a disbeliever. I’m a hoper. We are just going to have to die and find out I guess and even then the onlyl thing I’m worried about is whether after death we will then be aware of where we are, what is going on and what this trip was all about. I truthly hope to see you all again in the great beyond. Even the non believers. I don’t know and I submit neither do you. We can ony hope. If I’m wrong, tell me for sure how you know it for sure. ? In the mean time, I’m using my pro camera to record all the great beauty we have on this earth to enjoy so that I can review each place by picture when I want to. If I could, I’d take my camera and my albums with me when I go.
God Bless (if there is one) And don’t tell me you know any more about it than I do. (unless you can prove how you know) Opinions are great but admit they are just that and not proof of a thing. They just discovered in Switzerland the Higgs Boson particle a few days ago. Maybe we can get closer to actually finding the creater. But I wouldn’t hold my breath for too long. You might find him yourself.
dg
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Cool Pic’s now I won’t have to pay to go there
the grand canyon was made by a scots man who lost an nickle and is still digging for it
It’s sort of like you might not want to go to every baseball game for a whole year but there really is no substitute for going at least once rather than sitting on your keester and watching TV all the time. Nothing quite like being there to get up close and personal and take it all in for yourself and pay those high prices for a hot dog and a beer. Would cost a lot more to see The Grand Canyon but worth it at least once. Every time the light changes it’s a different experience too.
I HAVE been to the Grand Canyon and it IS a magnificent sight to behold. Beauty, splendor and Majesty – all the words that just naturally relate to God. Yes I AM a Christian, and I DO believe in God and ALL of his creations. Instead of arguing – “Is there a God”– why not just look at nature and allow yourselves to believe that Yes, the Grand Canyon (and other natural beauty) was created over years of erosion and water and floods and ice BUT those creations were directed by the Will of God. Science – for sure – but also Divine intervention. And to those who might question – the chicken definitely came before the egg!!!! May God bless you all – believer and non-believer alike.
Peace & Love
My God is bigger.
Mrs G. Can you explain that statement that your God is Bigger at all.? When I see that nothing comes to mind at all. Do you mean he is larger than you or weighs more or what? Can’t you expand a little at all.? Nothing at all wrong with having an opinion but can you tell us how you know for sure?
dg
Hi there.
I beleive I have a Maker, whom I call God.
I believe God nade everything out of nothing and holds the whole world in His hands.
I have seen the Power of my God remove obstacles out of my way where otherwise it was impossible and left no hope for it to be different.
3 years ago I did not believe God had a son named Jesus. I went 4 decades believing that.
It was that evening 3 years ago I looked up and said to God > I can’t do this by myself. It is to hard, I need help. Please help me.
Before I got the last 2 words out, Jesus was there.
I then knew Jesus is alive, He does exist, He is real, and everything in the Bible is truth.
Right then I was filled with the Holy Spirit and I was changed 180°.
I will continue living the Christian way of life and will speak daily to others about Him and His son Jesus when needed.
I now have something to compare my Christain life with and I will not live the life Jesus redeemed me from.
I thought I was happy but with Jesus in my life, I feel happier, I have a calmness within that I have never felt and I feel at peace. No matter what storms I will face in my life, I know I have Jesus with me to help me through it.
What a wonderful feeling to feel my mind & body in total relaxation mode knowing I do not have to worry about my life, because with God, All things are possible.
God Bless you and yours.
BTW..today is my 59th birthday and I am so excited.!!
I liked them all but the first one.
f.t.m.
It is so interesting to read about everyone’s Ideas about this, or that, what-ifs, could it be, wow what a wonderful thing it is to be alive & well. Nothing was really solved. Do you all feel better that you read these comments. It’s so amazing how people disagree on everything.
I looked at the inspiring pictures of the canyon and remembered the times when I have visited it. Yes, it is awesome, but there are other canyons I find just as beautiful and some I like even more than the Grand. My happen to love mountains and lakes and waterfalls and the flowers in my back yard, too. The thing that spoiled these pictures for me was reading the vitriolic and judgmental comments by “believers” and “enlightened doubters.” I thought Casey nailed it when he pointed out that the reason the world hasn’t achieved peace because its inhabitants haven’t learned anything after generations of slaughter. I am a “believer” and a Christian, and the God I worship is a God of Love. I believe in the creation, but I also believe that God works through natural laws. I do not believe that he created the earth instantaneously or in six days or even in 6,000 years. I do believe he wants us to be tolerant and kind. Like Casey, I want to enjoy nature without quarreling with others about their beliefs.
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After reading most of these comments, I must believe that we are all a “work in progress” and that someday, maybe, we will all learn to respect each other. Too much to hope for??? I hope not.
Like you, I believe we are “work in progress” and it’s too bad that others will have to wait until their life’s end to find out.
These comments become tiresone to read. Associating God with the canyon is stupid, truly. Religions and God are nonesense, along with their Holy books. I bit of logic solves all that. The earth is magnificent and our emotions fill us with pleasure and joy. We are creatures who exist. What science has not yet explained is unknown. That’s OK. Please don’t muck it up with ficticious beliefs. Religious people too often demonstrate the worst traits among us, bigotry, hatred, intolerance and donwright nastiness, then naively claim imperfection as an excuse for their evil matures. Tsk, tsk, whouldn’t it be nice if we were simply adults living our wonderful brief lives in generosity and kindness? Religion is evelved superstition. The God belief is imaturity hoping for protection and escape from death. No one has either. If you grow up, you can live in love. Its a good deal
Dick Gaskill,
I admire the fact that you have an open mind even though you aren’t a believer. I respect that. You wanted some tangible proof of the possibility that a creator, that God, can exist. Below you’ll find something I wrote some time ago and perhaps it will give you something to ponder. The sixth paragraph should be of particular interest to you because I make a case using hemoglobin as an example, that only God could have created the human body.
Someone asked me one time what my definition of science was. I told him that it’s man’s way to be able to describe in words we can understand, some of what God has created. Or words to that effect. I’m still having the religion verses science conversation with some people who still believe it has to be one or the other.
Atheists will tell you that they don’t feel they should have to answer to God for the choices they have made with regards to the life they have led. They say that their choices are their own, their life is their own to lead as they see fit. If this is true then why do they feel compelled to repeat this mantra so often, and to defend it ? If there is no God and we are the result of random chance, then once they have made their declaration why bother to make it again ? If they know there is no God then what is there to argue about ? As a believer I have come to understand that eternity is written on our hearts and I suspect that atheists sense this to some degree, great or small, so must continually deny it if you will, as part of the justification of living there lives as they see fit. That would make being an atheist a choice that is made by that person just as being a believer is a choice.
When we make a choice or decision of any kind we should use as much relevant data as we can collect at the time to help us with the choice. For those who don’t like math or can’t be bothered with it, (or any other imperical evidence, research, or other data) it can be easier to just make an assumption as to what is true and call it truth. It’s a misguided approach used as an easy route to justify believing what you want, if it will serve your particular purpose. I want to do what I want, so I’ll believe what I want, as it were.
Here’s what I’m getting at. There has been for sometime now a celebration of the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin. A man who was mad at God over the loss of his daughter. Did you know that his wife was a devout Christian ? Darwin used a relatively small sample in a unique environment to make a very large declaration of the natural order of things. It was mediocre science at best and quite a bit of it has been disproven by the way. Only hardcore evolutionists still cling to his theories. There is always the same thread running through their argument, and it’s a philosophical one disguised as a scientific or realist one and that is the claim that God cannot exist and therefore does not. This relieves them of their responsibility to God, thereby allowing them to, once again, live as they see fit. In effect they have made themselves the God of their own lives.
OK. The Bible says we have a choice and we all have made a choice. So far so good. Now let’s look at some data that has been used to make that choice. Darwin and his disciples believe that change happened by random chance slowly over a long period of time. Subtle difference in things like color and environmental adaptation and physiology created a diverse and healthy bio-sphere. Gaia, if you will. Some of you may not know that term. Think of it as Earth being alive. All by random chance. Here is some data that is known by scientists but is ignored as are millions of other examples like the one I’m about to show you.
Hemoglobin (that part of your blood that carries oxygen to all your cells) contains a total of 574 individual parts made up of 20 different elements i.e. 1 of these, 65 of those, 22 of that and so on, all in a specific order. That means the total number of possible combinations to make a chain of 574 elements long using 20 possible elements is 1 with 650 zeros after it. To give you an idea of how big a number that is, there are only estimated to be 10 to the 15th seconds in the life of the universe and 10 to the 66th atoms in the entire universe. That’s 1 with 66 zeros after it. So what are the odds of something with a 10 to the 650th power (that’s 1 with 650 zero’s after it) chances of occurring actually occurring by random chance ? Think about that for a minute. In physics it is considered to be impossible.
Darwin and his followers today would have you believe that hemoglobin evolved over time to the exact way we needed it. There is only one correct sequence that actually makes hemoglobin but there are 10 to the 650th possibilities, that number is the same as the number of ATOMS you would find in 10 of our universes. Even if this ridiculous possibility could happen, how did man survive while his hemoglobin was evolving–slowly over time. And this is only one small part of the human body, one of thousands upon thousands of chemicals and so on needed to make a human body, forget about all the animals and plants and insects etc. Even if the world is 4.5 billion years old (and I can show you data that will prove this concept wrong as well) there wouldn’t have been enough time for everything in our bodies to have evolved in the first place.
There is only one possible and logical explanation for the creation of man or anything else and that is there was a creator, whom we call Jesus. No other explanation makes any sense at all. Only a very specific design by a specific designer explains every problem science can encounter in trying to explain how we got here.
Anyone who works in the information sciences will like this. DNA is a 3 out of 4 error correcting, self replicating binary code and it’s made up of 3 billion elements in the chain and it uses over 200 different proteins having 3000 atoms, using only 20 different amino acids, and in the code it knows which part of the code to use to make something, like hemoglobin for example and also directs the making of it. If something like hemoglobin has 10 to the 650th power variations possible, what do you suppose the number for DNA is ? The possible chances would be a bigger number than we have a designation for, meaning we don’t even have that number nor can we conceive of that number. There is no possible way that Darwin’s theory of random chance developing into exactly what we need to support life is possible.
PSALM 139
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
In verse 13 the Hebrew word for reins means organs, meaning that part which controls my functioning. In verse 16 the Hebrew word for unperfect is golem which means embryo and it refers to being folded up as is our DNA. The word continuance is a temporal reference which means in this context, yesterday. What David is saying is that God already knew who we were going to be before we were even conceived. He has made the DNA of every single person and he already knows us even before we are born. Can there possibly be a closer relationship than one like this ? To say we are here by random chance and that life has no meaning beyond what we assign to it only explains why people have so much difficulty coping with everyday circumstances and challenges. They have nowhere to turn to but themselves. For some of us it’s time to see what God can do in our lives and turn away from what the world has to offer and to what God has to offer. The Bible tells us that if we seek God first He’ll see us through this life and into the next one. It’ll be different for each of us and is the ultimate adventure. Life on this Earth will never be easy but with God guiding you it can be navigated, and with a sense of purpose.
Goodnight everyone. I hope and pray that God is blessing each of your lives.
Michael
PROVERBS 20
12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
(there is more than one layer of meaning here…)
I hiked the trail 3 times back in the 80’s and 90’s from rim to river, from north rim to south rim and vice versa. Wonderful experience and wish I was young and healthy enough to do it again. I recognize many of these photos and value the beauty of them all. It’s an amazing place and I’ve always wondered how it compared to that canyon we see on Mars. I would doubt that one has the color of ours but I could be wrong and it doesn’t really matter.
I have found many of your comments to be interesting. Some quite shallow, some very astute and even a few profound. I find it comforting that eventually all of these questions will be laid to rest and we can all say, “OH! That’s how it is! Now I remember!”
I think John has it right. We’re just going to have to pass on to the next life to find out? These people that are just so sure they are right and have it all under control as to what is going on are nuts. They either are just quoting something theyve read from others or made up something that they think they know and sounds rihgt. For me we all can either believe or not believe. Either way is fine. You aren’t going to really know until you pass away. I hope all the good thoughts they have are right. My one main fear of any kind is whether our soles will have feeling and thoughts in the next life and that when we die that’s just not the total end of all feeling. If it is the end then I guesss that’s it and I can say “It’s been great knowing you on earth. If we are able to communiate with those that have passed before us and we still have feeling and thoughts then we no doubt can find God and will learn what all this is about. In the mean time I’m enjoying the heck out of life, taking lots of pictures, trying to respect other people and all the animals and trying to please the creator (if there is one) I tend to think that all we see is so magnificent it is highly likely that there must be something or someone that created it. But the people that are so certain about everything are very straange indeed. I’d say just by looking around you and mathematically it IS likely there is something wonderful out there. But come on guys, you can’t tell me you know what it is. Just like me, you are going to have to die to find out. That, my friend is why I’m kind of looking forward to it. At my age I can say I’ve had a great life and nothing more really is owed to me at all. I’ve been blessed. I hope you have been too. Hope to talk to you about it all when we get there.
dg
Man made GOD!!!!!
Any one know, from where this word GOD comes from or who made this word GOD?
The first time we see he word God in the Bible is in it’s very first sentence. Genesis chapter 1 verse 1: “In the Beginng God created the heaven and the earth.” The Old Teastement was written in Hebrew except for a few places which are Aramaic. The word God here is the Hebrew word ‘elohiym (pronounced el-o-heem’) It is important to note that this is a plural intensive – singular meaning word. In Hebrew words can be single, dual or plural, which is different than English. Our words are either singular or plural. In Hebrew, a plural word always denoted 3 or more of something. This word elohiym is always used as a single word even though it is a plural word. It helps us to understand that there is one God with 3 separate attributes or persons–God the Father, God the Son (Jesus), and God the Holy Spirit. Each entity speaks to us in the Bible (read Hebrews 3:7-11 to see the Holy Spirit speaking) Psalm 2 is a conversation between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is difficult for some to come to grips with a single God who is three persons in one. If you believe in your heart Jesus died on the cross taking our sin upon Him, was buried and rose again alive, if you truly believe it in your heart and declare it with your mouth, meaning say a prayer to god telling him this, you will become what Jesus referred to in John chapter 3 as born again, or what Christians refer to a being saved. You will inherit eternal life and the Holy Spirit will come and actually dwell inside you. It’s hard to explain but you know it’s true when it happens. There are no deeds to perform, or price to pay. It’s not believe and go to church or believe and read the Bible every day or believe and perform certain rituals. You just believe in your heart who Jesus really is (He’s God). He paid the price for us. It really is that simple.
Trinity in Hinduism tries to view a very critical aspect of the universe and how it works. Starting from the basic tenet that every beginning has an end, every material thing in this world goes through a basic life cycle of creation, existence and destruction. So, in Hinduism trinity – Brahma is associated with creation or beginning, Vishnu is associated with life/existence/maintenance and finally Shiva is associated with end or destruction.
Each syllable/letter which constitutes the holy word GOD when analyzed, redefines and at the same time unveils the same meaning for which the word Triad is used for.
God : G = to generate(a Generator = who brings life into existence = The Brahma)
O = to operate (an Operator = who manages the life to exist = The Vishnu)
D = to destroy (a Destroyer = who terminates the life to exist = The Mahesh)
It is very clear that whatever the language is, GOD and BHAGWAN depicts the same meaning for the Supreme Spirit – the Almighty who is known to everybody either as GOD or BHAGWAN(in Hinduism).
Hinduism (Ved-Puran) is the oldest religion in the world.
“The Creator – The Benefactor – The Terminator”— the all-in-all powers of this Universe.
“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” 🙂
Amen brother, Amen.!!
Subhanallah !!!
Thanks for sharing such a creation of Almghty Allah.
I may wish to see but will never be able to visit this place in my life.
I strongly believe in Allah, always love to see his variety of creations to say “Subhanallah”.
May Allah bring all of us in his path under “Isalm” to go in “Jannah”.
Alhamdulillah, I am a muslim.
Please pray for me, so that I can leave this eternal world with “Shahada”.
After reading of so many different versions of beliefs in GOD, I can only add:
You needed to be at my dying sisters side and witness, as I did, her dying words:
Tossing and turning and in cancer pain she yelled out–‘NO, I DON’T WANT TO GO DOWN–
I WANT TO DO UP!!! With thesse words she clung onto my arm and pulled herself up as far as she could before dying in my arms. GOD is truly the maker of everything you and live and die for–Please NEVER forget this.
RJH
You said it in your very first statement. “”After reading of so many different versions of beliefs in God etc,” I have always said that not a one of us knows what the truth is. We can have and are welcome to our own opinions (and that’s why there are so many religions). Lets admit it. We just don’t know. Those people that are just so sure they have it right—give me a break. Not one of us knows and we will have to die to find out the truth and hopefully our souls will be aware then of what the truth is and what is really out there in the cosmos. Watch that wonderful program on the History Channel. There are hundreds of programs on this subject . One of the first ones was “Is there really a God” Lots of ideas and opinions. But not one of them proves it. They even admit it. So don’t sit there and try to tell me that YOU are the one authority on it all and know the answers. Many quote various writings and books (The Bible etc). All of which were written by people much like you and I. Unless you know that God has his own printing press and not only printed it but somehow got it down to us on earth. I’ll defend your right to the death to have any opinion that you want. But don’t tell me what you think IS IT. I’d like to talk to you after we all pass to the other side so to speak and then we can have a discussion that means something. Mathematically I’ll admit it looks certainly like there is something out there wonderful that created all this beauty and you and me. But that doesn’t prove a thing. Let’s just admit it and hope that we do have something really wonderful to look forward to. I certainly wish you the best but lets admit it. You Nor I know for sure and don’t say that you do. If I’m wrong and you really do know the truth then for crying out loud tell us all how you found out. I’m dying to know. Maybe YOU are God.
dg
Hi Dick. I understand this is your opinion, your perception and your belief but when you say > Not one of us knows and we will have to die to find out the truth …I must say that there are a few of us that do know.
I pray you will have a closer relationship with Jesus and be given a glimps of what others already know.
I and many others will be praying for you. Have a great day. (((hugs)))
” In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made”.
The Gospel of John 1:1-3.
……n the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. The Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. …… Genesis 1: 1,2
In the beginning God said let be light, and do you know, there is light. Else, how could we see this
what is it with you yanks and god the colorado river eroded the rock away over thousands of years it had f### all to do with god
Take a look at Mount Saint Helen! Right before our eyes, in a very short time, we witnessed a mini Grand Canyon take place, from volcanic activity, not a slow process over thousands of years. As a matter of fact, water flowing down (duh) after the canyon was formed from mudflows, (in hours), walla, formed a river in the bottom.
God loves you; but if you don’t “obey” him, he will send you to hell and burn, burn, burn!!!! 🙂
I have been looking at these comments and I truly do not understand why no one can simply look at the pictures, appreciate them, and then comment on them without preaching what ever it is that they believe in and then belittle and insult anyone that does not agree with them. Whether you believe in God or evolution is your business and no one else’s. Everyone has the right to believe what ever they wish. You have the right to disagree. That does not give you the right to rage on about how stupid or blind they are. Lighten up people.
Also, do not compare the Grand Canyon to other places. Each has it’s own beauty and is worthy of awe. There is no place like the Grand Canyon. There is no place like Canyonlands and Arches and so on. By the way, I have been to all these parks and only wish I could spend more time at all of them. I love these pictures but dispise almost all of the comments. MY OPINION.
I totally agree David. I do not care what anyone believes or doesn’t believe. Just look at the beauty in the pictures and enjoy them!
Hi,
I wont aurgue the existance of God with anyone. God is sovereign and takes care of sceptics Himself and has no need of our help to do so. What I would like to share is that God’s Word speaks of His wonders and His grace. I’ve been priveledged to visit the Grand Canyon a couple of times and can only stand in awe at its beauty. There are other places that also give forth His awesomeness, but I must say that the Canyon stands as my favorite. I don’t think we should pass judgement on folks on either side of the comments. As I said, God’s Word speaks for itself.Also, His work on these beauties also speak for itself. As David S. offers, we can all look at the photos, some from a Creator perspective and some not. I choose to relish in the fact of how awesome my Creator is, yet give way to allow others to disagree. And that is my OPINION. God bless.
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Life is Like a Box of Chocolates, you never know what your gonna get next!!!!
Amazing place. I have seen it from the edge, would love to walk, helicopter ride, and see it ‘up close and personal.
As a photographer, I lust over these pictures and appreciate them and the great work of those who provided them for our enjoyment. Thank you for sharing.
It would be nice if all of us in this country could just appreciate great photography without dragging everything down to politics and religion. That we will never agree on. Let’s all just come together and agree that the Grand Canyon is beautiful and that the photographers did a wonderful job of sharing views that most of us will never see.
If you want to argue religion and politics and other favorite places, take it elsewhere to an appropriate venue.
Two short things to say:
#1 Everyone needs to be left alone to believe whatever makes them happy believing. It’s not the business of anyone else.
#2 Wish they wouldn’t “color enhance” pictures. Sure, they are beautiful. But, nature is pretty enough without involving computers!
For the past few years my wife and i have visited the Grand Canyon and to Zion Canyon. I am not a religious person but would just like to say the whole experience was awesome.There is something very special about these places if ur religious or not.
Just sing the song “God Bless America”. That says it all!
I have never been to the Grand Canyon, I know from pictures like these that is is a beautiful place and I do hope to go visit it some day. The Grand Canyon was created by God, it was created during the great Biblical Flood. For those who believe in evolution, that is stupid, evolution is now and never was anything but a theory, evolution is so stupid that it disproves itself! Someone tell me if evolution is true, then where did the trees and plants come from? If evolution is true, did the seeds crawl up out out of the sea too and one seed decided it was going to be a redwood tree, another seed was going to be a rag weed? Evolution is stupid and foolish. The Bible says that “a fool hath said in his heart, there is no God”.
If you don’t believe in God now, 5 seconds after you die you will believe in him, but then it will be too late. There is a God, he created the Heavens, the Earth, and he created us Mankind. God also sent his Son Jesus Christ here to be born of a virgin and grow up and go to Calvary and die on the cross for all mankind because we were born sinners due to our fore farther Adam sinned so all became sinners. You just have to have faith and believe in Jesus to call on his name and be saved.
Believe me, it takes a Whole Lot More Faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in the God of the Bible.
If you want to know the truth about God, then pray to him ask him to open your eyes and show you that he is real, ask him to show you the truth and he will. God is real, Jesus is real, Heaven and Hell are real and the Bible is true. It does not matter if either you or I believe it or not, God does not change. There are millions of lost souls in Hell right now, who know that God is real and they would give this whole world just to have one more chance to come back and call on God for salvation, but it is too late for them now; as it will be too late for you who don’t believe in God now and after you die and you find out you were very wrong, that truly God and his Bible were really true after all.
God is a God of love and he loves sinners, like you and I even if we reject him and choose not to believe in him, he still loves us!
Larry I totally agree with you. Thank you so much for saying what I wanted to (and didn’t have the time)
Larry I totally agree with you. Thank you so much for saying what I wanted to, but could not get it into words, AND WHAT NEEDED TO BE SAID!! The LORD is good and we can only plant the seeds in others, but he will bring them into fruition. God bless you for being a light in this dark world, and planting a seed to help others to see the truth, even if they choose not to believe they will know soon enough that God IS real and is willing to forgive even the most evil people on earth.
Its not Gods work, merely mother nature telling us humans that She is the greater power.
ok
right here goes.
No.3 why is the boat going up river?
No,20 taken a shower under these falls. a. ouch, b. brrrrrrrrrrr….
No.35 jumped into the lower pool from the main one. see b. above
No.1 to 35 less 34, been there, done that, got 3 t-shirts, 2 maps, and a hat to proof it
fantastic go there, do that, its amazing!
Al, Al,
Its Not God’s work? Who in the world do you think created what we call Mother Nature? God created this earth we live on, so the Grand Canyon is his work too.
Someone shares some beautiful pictures, and we “evolved, superior humans” turn it into a war between believers are non believers….
What a shame…. It only proves we are not “evolved” enough…. Cause if we were we would be wise enough to respect each others opinions and beliefs
I am a Christian, i believe in Jesus, but could never state as a fact that those who believe in Allah, Budda, Mahoma or any other are “wrong”… Because there is only ONE God, creator of the Universe, which has evolved through millions of years to what we see now…. Human intervention not withstanding….
We choose to give God different names or we choose to ignore His existence…. We are free to decide…
Believing in a superior being and believing in evolution are not necessarily opposed…. A good percentage of scientists believe in the existence of a God and if we intend for this world and its beauty to endure we must learn to be TOLERANT and RESPECTFUL with nature and our fellow Humans….
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…..
the grand canyon is a beautiful place caused by erosion over millions of years. the superstitious see it as made by a deity who made everything. since i am an atheist i have an enlightened view.
You related in your comment you felt the hand of God (deity as you put it) had no influence in creating the Grand Canyon. Perhaps that is true from a certain perspective, and perhaps not. You also stated that people who believed God was involved were superstitious. I decided to look up the word at an on-line dictionary (dictionary.reference.com) and here’s what it had to say:
Superstition: a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
We’ll get back to this. You also stated your assurance that erosion over millions of years created the Grand Canyon and that as an atheist your belief in this notion makes your view an enlightened one. I looked up enlightened also:
Enlightened: to give intellectual or spiritual light (understanding) to; instruct; impart knowledge to:
We see from this the idea of knowledge being imparted to someone who then becomes enlightened about that particular subject. I was wondering what the source or sources of your enlightening on this particular subject are ?
You say as an atheist, the information imparted to you makes you enlightened on this subject. If a Christian relates to you that the Holy Spirit is real and has enlightened him or her concerning the scriptures and has given them understanding regarding the reality of the existence of God, by your own logic, you are unable to refute what he or she says. So, for you to say that “deity” doesn’t exist is in fact a superstitious belief and response on your part.
I say this with no malice toward you what-so-ever. If you aren’t a Christian, then you cannot have any data to support the notion that God doesn’t exist. In fact, it is really just a feeling you have, a belief or notion that came from somewhere and you accept it. You therefore, ironically, have a belief system that is based on faith. You believe that there cannot be any empirical evidence that God isn’t real so you have faith that you are correct. By this definition, you actually have no enlightenment at all, just a dogged belief that you are right. Interesting…
May God bless you and may you seek from Him answers to any questions you may have. May you turn to Him and fully be able to comprehend the meaning of both Truth and Love. Search your heart objectively and see if eternity is written on your heart. Then ask Jesus to come into your heart and you will experience a peace and hope you couldn’t have imagined existed. You will experience things that until this time were not real to you.
Boy Bernie you really stirred up a hornet’s next of hate and contradiction. I thought the message of Christianity was love but I sense such underlying anger in so many replies. To be fair I sense anger in the non-Christian replies also.
My favorite reply was one by Ajay Gupta, July 2011. I wonder if you (Bernie) are still reading these things or have moved on to bigger and better targets to stir up.
Religion should be a private and personal relationship between the individual and who or what they believe in. no persons personal beliefs should be forced upon anyone else. You don’t convert people by force but by living the example you believe to be right. If you are atheist, live by your belief but do not condemn. If you are Hindu live by your belief but do not condemn. If you are Christian live by the example you were given but do not condemn. Being raised a (liberal) Christian I believe Jesus taught us how to live yet so many who call themselves Christians find more importance in condemning non-Christians than they do in living the way Jesus taught us.
A large argument seems to arise because of a difference of opinion over who or what is God. If Jesus is God come to Earth as a man is He not God? If God in the Bible is the God of Abraham (the one God) is not He the God of the Jews, the Christians and Islam?
God is all things. If you accept that concept then God is the beginning and the end, Alpha and Omega, the Universe, Nature, your thoughts, actions and deeds. You are in God, of God and all that is. We are not alone in the Universe, we are part of it and all creation or all that seems to exist. If we choose to believe or not believe we are still part of it.
All that you are made of physically (atoms and mostly space) will still be here when you die. In that respect those things will ‘evolve’ into something else. Do they retain the knowledge that you as a being gained? I cannot answer that.
If you are an Atheist and do not believe in a spiritual side to your life then you are missing half your existence. You need to look more deeply, try meditation, just give it a try. If you know you have a spiritual side to your being you need to connect with it, try meditation, try looking deeply into what you believe or don’t believe. If you do this in ernest you will have a revelation. If you seek, you will find. If you walk away you remain unchanged and will continue to argue that which you don’t have enough insight to argue about.
Peace through understanding be with all of you.
Bill
Ammen.!! I
I could not have said it any better.
Bill-
You too judge. Read your own words. …you are missing half your existence, you need to connect, look deeply, etc.” You claim an atheist doesn’t have enough insight to argue about the existence of god? I know Christians who SPEW HATE and still call themselves Christians. I was once a devout Christian. Believing in god means you must accept things on blind faith. Once I realized that according to almost all religions, it is God’s Will if a child gets raped, or suffers great pain; millions die of hunger in other countries, but they are condemned forever because they don’t believe the “right” dogma, creed, or book. Basically they were born in the “wrong” place I decided I wanted no part of a benevolent being that allows children to suffer and millions to starve who supposedly has the power to change all of that. Science treats all alike. This is what you get. No tests or rules. It is what it is. Humans have the ability to change the course of personal history, the ability to be kind or cruel. They have the ability to affect the climate. They are the ultimate predator and any so called god so far has done a lousy job and is failing miserably at saving this beautiful world and the predator from him/herself.
Mary
Bill-
“You too judge. Read your own words. …you are missing half your existence, you need to connect, look deeply, etc.” You claim an atheist doesn’t have enough insight to argue about the existence of god? I know Christians who SPEW HATE and still call themselves Christians. I was once a devout Christian. Believing in god means you must accept things on blind faith. Once I realized that according to almost all religions, it is God’s Will if a child gets raped, or suffers great pain; millions die of hunger in other countries, but they are condemned forever because they don’t believe the “right” dogma, creed, or book. Basically they were born in the “wrong” place I decided I wanted no part of a benevolent being that allows children to suffer and millions to starve who supposedly has the power to change all of that. Science treats all alike. This is what you get. No tests or rules. It is what it is. Humans have the ability to change the course of personal history, the ability to be kind or cruel. They have the ability to affect the climate. They are the ultimate predator and any so called god so far has done a lousy job and is failing miserably at saving this beautiful world and the predator from him/herself.””
Ah, my apologies. Everything I write is my opinion, not a judgement of others.
After my lifelong search for truth, and having found, at least what seems to work for me. By saying ‘you are missing half your existence’ I was exclaiming about what I have found and how anyone else could also find that which will enrich their lives. I did not see that as passing judgement on anyone, sorry if it was taken that way.
I am guilty of lumping Athiests into one category. I realize some, maybe many atheists were once religious. I was thinking more of those who know nothing of religions and don’t want to know and reject even the possibility of an intelligence greater than our own. I am guilty of rejecting organized religions because they are contradictory and self serving. Hmmm there I go judging again ha.
I have never accepted anything on blind faith, I do not accept any other persons opinion as truth. I’ll listen, but what I know, I have found for myself and so it should be for each of us. I try not to be judgmental but I suppose uttering an opinion would be considered judgmental by someone. Should I sit in total silence and look at nothing?
I wrote that I believe we are ‘In God and of God’ which is all inclusive, no one is without God or not of God. That needs further clarification by saying that the name ‘God’ implies someone separate and dwelling in a specific place. That places a lot of limitations on who or what God can be and on how humans can perceive anything greater than themselves. I cannot accept a benevolent being indifferent to the suffering we have here on Earth but do not expect a perfect world or the concept of a perfect world where everything is beautiful. The entire Universe is a beautiful, violent, unforgiving yet rewarding place and we are part of it.
This is probably the best-known quotation by Karl Marx, the German economist and Communist political philosopher. The origin German text, in Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, 1843 is:
Die Religion… ist das Opium des Volkes
This has been translated variously as ‘religion is the opiate of the masses’, ‘religion is the opium of the masses’ and, in a version which German scholars prefer ‘religion is the opium of the people’. The context the phrase appears is this:
“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.”
Who said we must accept things on blind faith? Men (mankind)? Who condemns because of dogma, creed or book? Men (mankind). These things are Earthly condemnations by man upon man.
In the Bible it tells us the One who made all things, including mankind -lovingly and sacrificially gave us FREE WILL so that we could Love Him or Not Love Him, but we should never be able to say He forced us to love Him or to be like Him. Now that’s a reasonably acceptable concept, according to WHAT WE SEE, and HAVE ALWAYS SEEN happening in this world. Humans have always done Good and evil, Right and wrong, Kindness or cruelty, Selflessly or selfishly, Wisely or stupidly, Righteously or sinfully, Obediently or rebelliously.
And so we have seen into the farthest history of the world the horrors mankind is capable of promoting and committing and justifying against each other, and upon the helpless, the weak, the innocent (as well as the guilty), ~and I, for one, see every person who knows there is a starving being on this earth yet does nothing to let go of a few dollars a day to feed those and their children– make themselves promoters of the sickness of selfishness.. I could go on here but space does not allow..
Now here’s something not hard to accept and conceive either– we have too always heard that there is a God who is “reserving” justice for the innocent AND for the evil…whether the innocent know God or not, and whether the evil know God (or claim to) or not.
Now think about it; no one can deny we all have heard and seen down through the ages of those who so desired to serve God, and know Him and be like Him, AND who claimed to have found Him, heard Him speak to them, felt His love for them and gave Him credit (glory) for empowering them to do good and to share HIS very LOVE with this world…that these have influenced the world to care and give, to be meek and gentle, taught the world compassion, self sacrifice, etc…So that I believe none can DENY –by this plausible concept OF OTHERS EXPERIENCE –that no being has ever lived in a world without goodness in it.
And there is no point going back over and over again to that moot point of all the evil that’s been done in the name of God…when we can all agree that it was evil and that IF THERE IS A GOD–THAT GOD WILL BE JUDGE– and none else. But… in the meantime–WHILE HUMANS ARE DOING ALL THE EVIL why do we give GOD THE CREDIT FOR ALL THE EVIL IN THE WORLD??? Certainly there are natural disasters and UN-natural disasters, but where is all the comfort and help that does not respond to that suffering of our brothers and sisters, just because we think God did it–so it’s His problem… or they must’ve deserved it??
Now, I know the Son Of God, Jesus; By His Words, And By His Deeds, by the Records of The Witness to The things He did, His Power and Miracles, and His very Being of Goodness and Love For His Father and to us. But not all recognize perfect holiness, for He said to the sinful and self-righteous religious leaders of His people, ‘Which of you can accuse me of any evil? if none, then why do you not obey my teaching???’ And also as He said, ‘If anyone desires to do God’s will, HE WILL KNOW OF MY TEACHING, WHETHER I SPEAK FROM MAN OR FROM GOD’… and also ‘this is the work of God you need to do first– to believe in the ONE He Sent’. … And what did He mean when He said, ‘As you do to the least of these, you have done to me.’ and, ‘As you have not done to the least of these–in need of food,shelter,clothing,visiting in prison,in sickness, in sorrow…you have not done to Me’…
???What point is there in believing One Person could have all the answers just because he worked loving miracles,spoke constantly of Love, even telling us that Love was the fulfilling of all God’s commandments,it being the actuality of loving God Himself! What??! and why should we believe him anyway when he goes too far and says, “I and my Father are ONE”?? Why not just join with the religious powers of that age who said he speaks and does all his mighty works by the power of the evil one? Why not?? Why not indeed?!
Because to them this Jesus DIRECTLY said that “All sins may be forgiven mankind except the sin of blasphemy against the HOLY SPIRIT. That sin will never be forgiven, neither in this age nor in the age to come.
People be careful what you call dark, or evil, or superstition, and ignorance and lies. If You Speak about the work of God in this world, giving Him credit where man should take credit, or robbing Him of the glory that no man can reap or even discern–of His mighty works–you may someday yet learn there is no forgiveness to those who outright shake a fist in the face of the living God.
John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John 3:21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
John 3:33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
I found this article and thought some of you might find it interesting.
THE GRAND CANYON FORMATION – ALTERNATE THEORIES
The Grand Canyon is a geological wonder, a vast chasm stretching 277 miles west to east through northern Arizona. The canyon offers one of the best geological cross sections in the world, with nearly 30 distinct layers found from the bottom to the top; its mesas, buttes, colorful slopes and spires illustrate the geological story of the great American southwest. School children are fed a simple tale about how the canyon was formed, but as any honest geologist will admit, nobody knows exactly how it got there.
The true cause of the Grand Canyon is still hotly debated among geologists, and all recognize there’s no solid answer. There are too many missing pieces. The basic park ranger explanation is that the Colorado Plateau – 130,000 square miles covering northern Arizona, southern and eastern Utah, western Colorado and northwestern New Mexico – began to rise up 50-70 million years ago, causing the existing Colorado River to down cut. After millions of years of steady uplift, the Colorado River carved out the Grand Canyon. The higher the plateau rose, pushed upward by magma from deep in the earth, the more powerful the erosional forces of the river proved to be.
The Colorado River was tamed a great deal when the Glen Canyon Dam was finished in 1966. The dam controls the flow of the river now. The Colorado’s flashfloods once carried boulders the size of VW Buses, and it transported an estimated 160 million tons of sediment every year, scouring the canyon bottom. Still, many people consider the vast expanse of the Grand Canyon and despise the Colorado as an under fit river, one that could not have possibly hauled out all the necessary sediment.
A Few Puzzles:
The simple explanation does have serious geological issues. The Colorado River flows into the Gulf of California – the Sea of Cortez – which contains sediments from geologically young Pliocene layers – not older layers. It appears that the eastern part of the Grand Canyon is much older than the western part of the Grand Canyon, but nobody knows exactly what happened.
The western end of the canyon is fairly young. Local sediments come from the Basin and Range area to the west of the Canyon and are from Miocene layers. No river could have carved through there until after the Miocene. There’s also no evidence that an older Colorado River ran through the Grand Wash Cliffs at the western end of the canyon. There is therefore an upper Colorado River system to the east that did not originally continue west of the Colorado Plateau.
Alternate Theories:
The first thought, of course, is that the deposits were carried away by a different route. Perhaps the canyon was carved by a river that flowed down through Marble Canyon through what is now the Little Colorado River, draining into the Rio Grande. According to the theory, another small but steep and vigorous river rushed westward across the Basin and Range. It moved eastward by headward erosion until it ran into the upper Colorado. It “captured” the Colorado, caveman style, and the two married and carved the Grand Canyon in 4-6 million years, dumping into the Sea of Cortez like today.
There’s a problem there, though. The Continental Divide would have prevented the Little Colorado River from reaching the Rio Grande, and the sediment evidence is not there.
Some argue that the old river flowed south at Peach Springs Canyon, until the river burst through whatever blocked the way to the western part of the Grand Canyon. Some argue that the Colorado Plateau tipped one way and then the other as it rose so that the Colorado River flowed in the opposite direction. Some argue the river flowed underground, or flowed northwest, draining into lakes in Nevada and Utah.
The deposits to prove these drainage systems haven’t been found. That’s part of the problem; there is a lot of data that is just plain missing.
A Breached Dam:
According to one theory, two major lakes formed in the so-called Bidahochi Formation to the east of the current day Grand Canyon. The Colorado River overflowed the basins of the Colorado Rockies, filling the vast Hopi Lake and Grand Lake to the east. When the natural dam holding back the lakes broke, they gushed down, tearing out the soft limestone and sandstone layers of the Grand Canyon. With a rupture in the Kaibab Upwarp, the Colorado River changed course and followed the fissure down through what is now the western end of the canyon and south into the Gulf of California. In other words, the Colorado did not really cause the Grand Canyon at all, it merely followed the easiest path down to the Sea of Cortez after the Canyon had been formed.
The breached dam theory has an interesting bit of support from the legends of the local tribes. More than 500 Native American sites in the Grand Canyon Park indicate that significant populations lived in the vicinity throughout history. In his video Grand Canyon, part of the Great National Parks series, Dan Goldblatt refers to a Navajo legend about the formation of Grand Canyon. In the full story, it rained in the land for many days. It rained so much that waters rose high over the tops of the mountains. After the rain stopped, whatever was holding back the waters broke, and the waters rushed down and carved out the canyon.
Young Earth geologists like Steve Austin believe that these great lakes were leftover from the Flood of Noah. When the natural dam that held them broke, the waters ripped through the Kaibab Plateau with a fury. If the lakes were quite large – three times the size of Lake Michigan, by some estimates – the erosion would not have had to take the millions of years that geologists would have expected.
In the end, the scientists will keep battling it out. Only God knows exactly how that fantastic crevasse in the earth was formed, but every bit of information adds to the tremendous fun of figuring out the mystery.
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why cant people enjoy the pics without a religious or politcal comment
Maravilhosas fotos.
Parabéns
Of course Bernie sees believing in a god as a burden. Any self respecting narcissist would find it a burden to contemplate an anything higher than them.
A lot of you sort of got off track by the comments of those who will find that eternity is a long time in a bad place.
I think the main point is that these are a collection of some great pictures of a unique location.
I already said what I needed to say. Now can we just enjoy the beautiful view?
God Bless You.
I just have one question…is it god that causes the “h” key to stick in caps on a christian’s keyboard? Notice that my g, c, and h keys do not stick. Religion covers all ignorance and spreads all hate. Imagine if there were no religions….PEACE!
John you are very much right, religion creates all problems. Believe in five elements, our life depend on these elements. Thanks
Punch-Tatwa(Five Elements)
Human life depend on these elements
1. Air
2. Water
3. Fire
4. Earth
5. Sky – Sun, Moon
Always keep these values
1. Truth
2. Love
3. Compassion
4. Peace
5. Happiness
Always control these senses
1. Sleep
2. Hunger
3. Speech
4. Mind
5. Sex
Always promote righteousness
1. Vegetarianism
2. Cremation
3. Teach toddler to use Right Hand
4. Relationship is between man and woman only
5. Nakedness is animalism
Disease spread or People get sick due to
1. Bad air
2. Bad Water
3. Badly grown and cooked food
4. Expose to extreme hot and cold weather
5. Animal products – Meat, Milk, Butter, Ghee, Egg
Human….get real…you don’t have to “believe” anything. Beliefs all involve delusions. So you’re just collecting a different assortment of delusions….vegetarianism? sleep and sex are “senses”. Oh what utter BS! I know what I see and what I don’t understand is because of ignorance. It’s as simple as that. Much of what people didn’t understand 200 years ago was just simple ignorance….much of what the didn’t know, we now do know. Much of what we don’t know, will be known 200 years from now. I don’t need to make up quotes, books, beliefs, “elements”….or anything else. You are worse than a religion; you think YOU are the answer. Nope…just the facts. We live…we die….we rot. Pretty dang simple. If you can’t handle that, then I guess you’ll have to make up your own little lie to tell yourself. We may never be able to figure out exactly how the Grand Canyon developed but it isn’t because it’s a mystery of or a work of some god…it’s just because we are ignorant of all the facts. We may never figure it out satisfactorily, but, again….not an indication that god did it. So please don’t bother me with your “elements” BS.
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Jerks and Assholes:
Please enjoy the pictures, meditate if you need to, and SHUT UP.
God is something to satisfy your ignorance, the prisons are full of these people.
It’s pathetic that such beautiful pics could lead to a malicious war of words!
Why do you evolutionist and creationist have to spend spend so much time and energy
trying to justify your position(s)? You’re like a bunch of kids squabbling over an all-day-sucker!
Why not just sit back and accept/appreciate the Canyon for what it is – very old, very big, very
beautiful and just plain AWSOME!!
Really! I empathize with you all and accept no pity from any of the small minded minions, trying to justify your points, your existance, your right to the another life beyond this earthly existance. Pathetic but totally understandable considering.
I did love the marketing retort.
It appears that ball engaged parties accept the concept of infinity and therefore time has no beginning or end. If we apply logic and reason to the concepts of probability that life can occur at some point is not only reasonable, but rather inevitable. The cycle and our universe, there could be others, continues. I realize that everyone will believe what your ki9nd rationalizes as truth. Individually what you believe changes nothing in the long run. Group thought and clan, clique or mob mentality is the killer. Our group hubris will be our downfall. We are limited only by extent to what we choose to imagine. Visual input stimulates the imagination. If we could only imagine everyone putting all this energy into trying to keep our planet and civilization going rather than trying to prepare for our end.
Some great thoughts, simple minded thoughts, tragic thoughts and whole bunch of disallusioned thoughts that make no sense. Mine is probably considered to be one of them.
There could be a God but there doesn’t have to be a god, if you don’t wnat one.
Everyone is right, everyone is wrong.
Nobody really gets it, we all justify our perspective for the sake of our pathetic ego’s, faith, science, …. whatever.
There is nothing more constant than change. How can we change this discourse. We can’t persuade anyone unless they want to change, so keep trying.
At some point it is about survival, terratorial imperatives, independence, dependence and social interdependence converging to a point that will not be inconflict but harmonize like the natural magnificence of the Grand Canyon.
I don’t have much hope for that after reading through the comments from all of us.
Life is terminal, so I will live it with love in my heart, understanding for those that do not agree with my perspective and compassion for others.
I feel we need to pass on to future generations those positive virtues which we have had the opportunity to experience. Not all this negative nonsense and petty bickering over faith or science.
The Canyon just keeps getting deeper and more beautiful over time. The forces of the universe coalesce into the magnificence and grandeur for our eyes and spirit to absorb.
Now I am a particpant in this pointless diatribe. Guilty of all of the above!
To all the naysayers. When you lie at deaths door Then who or what will you pray to for mercy.
Every knee will bend every soul will bow. Come soon ole Lord come soon.
When are you mob going to wake up that there is room for both opinions in this world.It is the bigots who are responsible for all conflict and war .The Grand Canyon is infinitely beautiful ,you are lucky to have it ,as we in Australia have our beautiful places . Don’t fight over it , Enjoy it !!!
As a former earth science teacher, I have taken my family to the Grand Canyon. It is as spectacular and anything on earth. I will be sending these pictures to my family as a reminder of our rafting trip down the Colorado River. We experienced seeing the pictographs on the canyon walls, the waterfall where we stopped at in order to cool off, and the oh so cold water itself! The geology of the canyon speaks for itself. The Colorado River has cut down to the oldest rock on earth. Water follows the path of least resistance which accounts for the meandering pattern of the river. I marvel at the eons of time which it has taken the river to carve this spectacular canyon. My kudos to all who have helped to prepare and publish these pictures.
Most of the people who say , “there is no God, have never had the experience of a near dearh situation, I have and entered the tunnel with the light at the other end and have been told, they it was not my time, all I can say is , I am a believer
If some people believe that everything I mean everything out there came from something smaller than a speck at the big bang. Then I guess I can believe in God.
I have been to the grand canon 3 times and will go again before long.
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I cannot believe you people that don’t believe in God. How do you figure we have all these conveniences? All things denote there is a God. Yes, Our God is a He, but we also have a She. She is our mother. We were born spirit children of our heavenly parents many eons ago. We saw this earth being made. We were there! Jesus Christ was the firstborn of our Heavenly parents. As far as time being a part of it all, if God made it, He can shape it in any configuration He wants. With His power how could anyone sit and say it can’t be done. As far as some of you calling it religious garbage, I want to see your face when you have to face Christ at His bar. Don’t plan on bringing your attorney to represent you because you will be standing there all alone.
I think these pics are the best ever of the Grand Canyon. I have been there and it is impossible to see it all in 10 trips.
Great work! This is the type of info that are meant to be shared around the web. Shame on Google for now not positioning this put up higher! Come on over and visit my web site . Thank you =)
God’s gift to mankind! In 1980, my wife and I walked to the bottom of Bright Angel trail and back up in six hours. We
were tired and sore the next few days, but wouldn’t trade the great exhilaration and experience we had on that beautiful
once in a lifetime trek. Great Pictures!! Thank You for the return trip!
It’s not about God. It’s about beauty. We can appreciate beauty as a good thing (in places, in people, in acts) without attributing it to any higher power. I feel gratitude when I witness beautiful things, beautiful people, and beautiful acts. I try to live my life in beautiful ways. That’s all it takes. That’s all that is important to me.
Jan,
In your reply you said you feel gratitude when you witness beautiful things, beautiful people, and beautiful acts. That is a good thing of course. I would ask this though: to whom are you grateful ? You also said, we can appreciate beauty as a good thing (in places, in people, in acts). If beauty is a value it must be learned. It’s relative to what you would classify as beautiful. From where do we form our opinions of what is beautiful and what is not ? There would seem to be a need for a starting point or an absolute from which we pick the direction we will go in this and many other decisions we make. If there are no absolutes, then anything someone calls beauty will be beautiful to them. What if someone’s beauty is ugly to you ? What if someone’s truth is a lie to you ? What if someone’s right is wrong to you ? Jan, please understand, if we don’t have absolute truth as a starting point, any morals and values and ethics will be relative to what a particular person desires them to be for themselves. If you say the Canyon is beautiful and someone says it’s ugly, who’s right ? Without God, beauty and morals and ethics are relative and that in my eyes at least, would be ugly. I am grateful to God for establishing moral and ethical absolutes. They are starting and ending points. God created the universe and by His very nature is beauty defined.
The Grand Canyon like all wonders in the world are for all to enjoy, if you believe in God than you have to believe that he allowed the world to evolve through the centuries with little interference and what we have today exist because God allows it to exist. God has done a masterful job allowing for each person to have his own identity and he loves all. Our challenge is to support him and defend him in real life and allow each other to respects what he teaches. Our enemy is those who have a death wish for us believers and God would expect us all to stand up and fight for what is right sand to those that preach death of the non believers re the ones we need to fight not each other who are true believers in God.
The non-believer that made comments about the Grand Canyon not being created by God created quite a stir by us believers. These people should be not be paid any attention. Its like the turd that is suddenly found floating in the pool. Everyone jumps out screaming while the turd does it’s dirty little deed as this one did.
The only thing that stinks is the ignorance you swing around blindly with negative energy. It is mind-numbing to me that a rational un-INDOCTRINATED normal higher primate points out the FACT that hundreds of millions of beautiful years and changes brought about the evolution of this wonderful sight and experience and you climb up the ladder of intellect just far enough to empower you to triumphantly puke insults at someone much further a head of you. One who respects reality. One whom can even have a life to respect. Until you question and then rationally evaluate the answers and thus loose the harmful faith(which is NO virtue)I say you have yet to be alive at all… & until you experience the only born again there ever is… born again atheist all you are doing is acquiring the tools to be prepared to know the inside and out the diseased voodoo mythology you find smeared across our lovely ‘Murika and those like you with a deluded understanding of the world and “threats” from the loving people who try to bring you reality. instead of taking the gift you “invoke” fairy tails and god/of_gaps thinking WHILST being so combative. makes for a lugubrious stench. Your sect of christian mythology, no different than the rest… as this stench is common and as widespread as the disease of willful ignorance itself.
Those are awfully hateful words from a true believer. Talk about negative energy!
Huh?
Hi ! One last comment, ” FOR SOMEONE WHO, HAS FAITH, NO EXPLANATION IS NECESSARY AND TO ONE WITHOUT FAITH , NO EXPLANATION IS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME EXPRESS MY THOUGHT. PIERRE
I am 76. I was thinking to respond to the discussion re. the existence of God, but Pierre did such an excellent job in just a few words, that I will only say, “I agree.” Thank you, Pierre!!
For someone who has faith, no instruction is productive; for someone who is faithless, no instruction is necessary.
#17 is NOT a goat.
You are correct when you say that it is not a goat…it is a Bighorn Sheep ewe…I live in the Rocky Mountins and have these marvellous creatures in my back yard, so to speak.
PEOPLE! THIS WAS A SHARING OF BEAUTIFUL PICTURES! NO MORE, NO LESS.HOW ABOUT ENJOYING THEM AND LEAVING RELIGION OUT? THANKYOU FOR SHARING THE PICTURES.
I agree! Thank goodness someone else thinks so, too! Beauty is beautiful. Enjoy it, for goodness sake.
The two tenets of Atheism:
1. There is no God.
2. I hate Him.
Hi, I agree with Karen’s message of June 28, 2013. Religion has nothing to do with these great photos of nature.
Bernie, I can see that you are nothing but an ignorant Atheist. Keep your stupid remarks to yourself! You probably support our Illegal Queer Dictatoro too!!!!
There is much evidence that the Grand Canyon formed as the water from the flood of Noah dissipated. Much more evidnce than the concept that the Grand Canyon, and all forms of life, evolved from nothing, no matter how many billions of years you assign. Science attempts to date life based on the matter God created fully mature and calibrates their findings on material they cannot date.
Agree with Karen….have flown over but not traveled down into the Canyon…..what beautiful pix…..thnx
Everything beautiful as God intended, except all the additional man made crap.
“The fool has said in his heart there is no God”
I cannot convince those the Bible so classifies
I do pray that all will come to the truth
What fools these mortals be!
Bernie, we have been following this comment thread for over 2 years. It is shocking how much vitriol and hatred have been directed at you by “Christians” for making a simple comment about the Grand Canyon.
In solidarity, the Boozesters
That is why we, say.”thank you God for everything”
MY wife and I stood on the South rim and looked across 10 miles and straight down one mile over 50 years ago and stayed at the Lodge there on a beautiful spring day with the weather changing before our eyes at the awesome sight before us. Even have some photos tucked away while in our thick new Mexican sweaters and my real western hat worn at the proper cocky angle to fit the mood of Grand Canyon which is one of the awe inspiring wonders of the world. This is remembered with joy of the purity of sight, size and in living changing color which in one to two billion years will cease to exist. This fact makes all the previous petty immature childish religious gibberish discussions and criticisms redundant and moot.
really breathtaking pics of grand canyon when i have seen the pic of skywalk i was stunned and speechless.
I am always amazed at majority of us. We are quick to accord every manufacturer on earth there due respect and accolade in line with there gadget of creation. Be it a car on the road, mobile phone in your hand, satellite in the sky, ship in the sea. We always have a good word for such great minds. We are quick to forget even how we were formed if not you, your children. Science has done well to inform you how you came to be and that is good but where science can’t reach yet it yarns to know and give an explanation? Do you then turn to yourself and call that chance? Please if a car has somebody who created it why would you think otherwise about the place you happen to dwell on the earth. who created it? will we say it’s the big bang. My children do need to inflate a balloon for me to hear a big bang when it burst, two items have to be propelled against each other for them to cause a big bang. Who threw whatever to come out of a big ban and why did he stop only at that can somebody tell me where I can find such I need to tell them that they did a good job and they should not stop but continue. I guess you too don’t because somebody told you that but for me no one needed to tell me I just reasoned with myself that If a car, a phone, a plane a ship can’t just big bang itself into existence then even the earth or the grand canyon can’t just big bang or erosion itself into existence. Each created thing you come across is out of a design that is so well thought through and the face of the earth and the way all on it is organized and well thought through makes me conclude that a big bang or an erosion explanation just does not cut for a person like me who reasons using day to day things. Why would you want to dismiss the truth of the Grand Canyon being a creation of a Master Creator. I am glad the grand canyon was created and formed the way it is it is beautiful and I say to the Creator YOUR AWESOME IN YOUR CRAFTSMANSHIP no matter the tools you use. This is my take
I believe that it is the will of God to prompt some people to talk about Him. I believe whatever caused the beginning, is called GOD, He had to send His Son to clean our sins, I heard that the only way to make someone who doesn’t believe is to ask them, PROVE TO US THERE IS NO GOD! I realy don’t understand why people try to convince us that there is no God. I love the story about the little girl who wanted to talk to her dad, he was reading, so to get rid of her, he got a page of a newspaper, that had the map of the USA and he tore it into many small pieces, and told her go and come back when she has put the pieces together, she came back in a few minutes, and the father was shocked because it happened in just a few minutes, and he asked her, how did you do it so fast? Well, in the other side it was a picture of Jesus, and she said, when I put Jesus together, the whole USA map got together. The moral of the story is that when GOD IS BACK IN the Schools, and people’s lives, everything will be fine,
Why does a natural wonder like the Grand Canyon launch such a diatribe among opposing viewpoints as the origin of such creation? I was very touched by what the first woman said. She was expressing her experience of what she saw and felt. All of our experiences, thoughts and feelings may be different but I doubt anyone would say they are not awestruck by the beauty, raw power, and grandeur of the Canyon. Can we just seek common ground on something this magnificent and not make it into another religious/political/ideological battle? My reply to Ms. Harbour would have been, that I too have experienced that sense of overwhelming emotion when I’ve visited the Canyon and what a wonderful gift that she was able to experience it with her sister before she die. Can’t we just express what we feel and accept what others say without judging them?
Barbara, well said. It is strange… and sad… that so many discussions have to be so combative. Every topic devolves into a frothing debate much like whose football team is the best…
The reality is, the Grand Canyon is beautiful. Some feel moved to state a higher power was involved. If you feel this way and wish to state it. That is your God given right in this country… Others feel it is simply the result of eons of erosion, combined with changes in rainfall, rock strata, etc. If this is your position fine.
I believe in a higher Power and a grand plan but, I honor all and defend their right to their beliefs. I regret that many are unable to respect the other’s positions on this and other topics and lack the civility to balance between our freedom OF religion, and our freedom OF speech.
True God is God!!! Let us not forget that all will not see God in creation. I not only see God in the land forms that are around us but also in all the different people that are around us. None of us are the same and who could have created such diversity in nature but God. God loves all of his creation and wants a relationship with his creation just as he did with Adam and Eve. One must seek God to find God and only then can one have a relationship with him. Sin separated us from our relationship with him and the only way we can have a relationship with God is through his son Jesus Christ. God can not look on sin therefore Christ took the punishment for our sins on the Cross. Once one receives Christ and believes that he died for our sins then and only then can one have a relationship with God. Every thing God Created was good and is good it only becomes ugly because of sin. Not all will receive this truth but no matter if they do or not, I will not pass judgment on them and I will continue to love them because they are Gods Creation.
I have been there and I cannot describe the beauty that I saw….I remember seeing a post card that read, “you will need the mouths of Angels to describe what you saw today.”
What is all the talk about Creation Vs. Science? All natural science is the study of how the hand of
the Great Spirit works! Have camped North Rim, South Rim, House-Rock Valley…Marvelous pictures
and experience.
The Grand Canyon is gorgeous. Thanks to the Photographer and the website developer for posting such an awesome tour.
After reading the majority of posts here, it seems painfully evident that the word “God” always causes division and strife. Jesus said “Mat 10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.” Why? It’s simple. God’s Law, we pick and choose what to obey. As humans, we are convinced that we know better than God. That’s why we have thousands of years of strife and death over religions of all kinds. They have one thing in common. Every person was right. The German prayed to God, the Brit prayed to God and then they went out and killed each other. God’s Law? Exo 20:13 Thou shalt not kill. This is just one of His precepts. The majority of His precepts are ignored by His followers. Why? Because they follow another god.
So————Hey folks, just thot I’d share a few words from the Holy Bible, written down around 4 thousand years ago by a Hebrew/Jewish prophet, namely King David,(the father of Solomon, the wisest king renowned the world over.) This is an account from the oldest historical, record keeping peoples of the earth. These verses came from the book of the 1st Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
1stChronocles 16:23~34
“Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation. Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations. For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also is to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens. Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place. Give unto the LORD, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength. Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
Fear before him, all the earth: the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved.
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein. Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.” ——
BTW– when I went to the grand canyon to live and work a few months, I promised myself I would go to the rim and gaze over the canyon every day of my stay, and that wasn’t too hard,since I only lived a 1 minet walk away…This I had to do, tho, because from the first time I saw the Grand Canyon to the last, I knew — this is what it’s going to be like to see the face of God. For there I met with beauty so intense it fills you continuosly, and so grand that you feel you could stand there gazing forever and still never take it all in or ever have enough. I found in that beauty a miracle so wondrous and awesome that I would have to force myself to turn my back and return to my business.
But..how I came to be there…that was an hilarious a miracle I’d like to share briefly.
I had just finished 5months of cancer treatments, surgery and chemo and radiation. I was laying on my bed watching the “travel channel” one evening,and it was on the GC and Bryce C and etc, with all this amazing aerial photography from helicopters and planes, so that I was seeing it in a way no pictures could ever have shown me before. And I was so awestruck by the immensity and beauty of it, that I spoke to God right there on my bed and begged Him to let me see the Grand Canyon with my own two eyes before I die. (no i wasen’t sick anymore–but you never know) The next day I was in the Employment Office looking for a job…and came across one listed as a National Park job. I needed a new direction in my life so I took a chance and went up to the desk to get a referral. Well the lady took the little piece of paper from me with the job numbers on it and looked it up on her computer…then she smiled and said hmmn… are you interested in going to the Grand Canyon??
God Bless You All, especially you unbelievers, with the beauty of His loving kindness and mercy.
You dont`t have to be a christian to believe in God
I do believe in a super power in the creation of the universe ( Most people call it God )
I believe different religions is a means of been able to control people in masses
Just believe in that ` God ` did create the universe & man created religion. But all the different religions believe in ` God ~
Mike. Aren’t you just telling me what someone told you?? Are you so sure there is not One Living God who knows you and wants to be known as He is??
Here ~Let someone tell you something new. Try this on for a less generic relationship–just for the few minets it takes to read thoughtfully???
Jer 17:7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD.
Jer 17:8 He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Jer 17:10 “I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”
Jer 17:12 A glorious throne set on high from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.
Jer 17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be put to shame; those who turn away from you shall be written in the earth, for they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living water.
Jer 17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.
Isa 61:11 For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up before all the nations.
Isa 64:4 From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.
Isa 64:5 You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways.
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This is the unchanging WORD written down thousands of years ago in the historical Old Testament of the Holy Bible ~by the famous Hebrew prophet Jeremiah (who has so honored the modern world with a million namesakes).
It is too amazing sometimes to ponder the depth of wisdom and grace that went forth from the mouths of these ancient people the Jews, whose claim to fame was to be chosen of God thousands of years before CHRIST, to deliver a savior to the whole world.
SHOULD You ask the question; Which came first, the chicken or the egg?….how Dumb!…This is yet ONE MORE EXAMPLE of GOD’S existence… HE Created the Chicken (just like everything else in the Uni-
verse, including YOU),…and then the Chicken could lay an egg!…pretty simple….Just cannot understand WHY…people have a problem with such an EASY QUESTION…..God Bless Everyone, Amen
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
You’re all nuts!
Good Grief!!!
I’ve been to Grand Canyon several times. I always FEEL God in me and in my presence. What is the big debate?
The ultimate adventure! I had the opportunity over the years to hike down to the river, take the mules down and stay overnight, and raft the river for 300 miles. It is an experience that transforms one and leaves you in awe of the power, intense beauty, and peace of creation. See the Canyon once and be addicted for life.
Kent, I have been hiking the Canyon yearly since 1995. Seem to have caught that addiction. I’m only 72 now and plan to hike again next Spring, wouldn’t miss it. Am disappointed to see most of those rants about God pro and con. Am a Believer and hopefully true follower as best I can of Jesus, aka Yahshua. I celebrate the Devine order and in the Canyon I celebrate erosion, and mineral decoration of the walls. An irony: The Government “shut down” the day I first entered in 1995 and had just “shut down” October 1st the day I came out. Wish it had stayed down since 1995.
I’m pretty sure my input is meaningless, just like all the other postings. That said, enjoy the place and take from it what you will.
Are we there yet?
I have seen and enjoyed the fresh awinspiring GRAND CANYON. My family enjoyed the visit so much that I still remember the beauty of God’s creation. All this reinforces our belief that God is the greatest!
…sadly, the ‘mighty colorado’ is little more than a mud puddle now, compared to what it must have been in order to carve the canyons from the top down– beautiful nonetheless.
I appreciate the beautiful things that GOD created but who is responsibile for such disasters as sunami.earth quakes ,tornedos,cyclones,fires,epidemics etc.etc.?????? and the majesty of the canyon?????Can we put all this, in the same beauty of CREATIONS by GOd or………..?????
the pictures are great! but the rancher said, “dang farmer”.
Let us enjoy the beautiful that our eyes can see right now. Someday it will be gone
The Grand Canyon often inspires thoughts of and thanks to our Creator.
Those with negative or hurtful comments will answer for them one day.
For those who thought of God. God blesses you, as he always has and will.
Wow!I’m sure that if you could physically stack all these comments, they would probably extend to the total depth of the canyon!
While writers are expounding on G’d’s creations, they seem to have missed the other events, like the size and depth of canyons on Mars for example.Also, the multitude of other planets,stars,and galaxies that exist beyond our current comprehension.
While writers are expounding on being good Christians and believing in G’d, did you forget that other faiths exist. Are you so arrogant to believe that “In God We Trust”, only applies to those of you in the USA with your Grand Canyon? When was the last time you used Google or actually visited the other Natural wonders of our world? And while you are pondering this, ask yourself what you are doing to reserve some part of our environment?
Thank you for taking the time to read my comment. No reply is necessary, just drop some of your self ritcheousness and arrogance and do something for someone else less fortunate and for the planet. That is how you praise God!!!
Why can’t there be both god and evolution ?
You got it right Bernie, on the head!
After reading all of these comments it is comforting to me to know who made the Grand Canyon and to know that when this is all done, it is that God who will be judging us and determining what our eternity will be. As for me, I echo a statement I saw on one of the kiosks at the Grand Canyon that said: “Thank you God for making something that Walt Disney could not duplicate!”
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AMEN!!
I cannot understand how pictures from the Grand Canyon caused such commotion.
Who cares if God or evolution created such a monument. We all should fill lucky
to have that beauty in our back yard. I went many times to enjoy it. It never came
to me that the Canyon could cause such ignorant feud amongst people. Wake cup. There are more important things to do in life. Lets enjoy the Canyon. It will be there after you are long gone.
Well said. :<)
It is a beautiful world we live in though it includes the not so. That beauty has to be the perspective of the those who perceive. As a believer I relate to beauty as a promise, a view of heaven to come, though it is not IT and the experience quickly fades.
It’s “All” mind stuff, “God” if you prefer, all a play on pure consciousness. Everything is consciousness, in different stages of manifestation, including all the atoms comprising you and me. Atomic structure is 99.999% space,,,, tain’t nothing there but just little “wiggles” of electromagnetic fluctuations, which are popping in and out of existence at a “VERY” rapid rate,,,, ie., “mind stuff.” There exist in each cubic centimeter of “space” enough energy to recreate all the solid matter we “see” in this Universe with 33 orders of magnitude left over. Now that’s a lot of energy. The dependence of the population of this planet on oil, gas, coal, etc., “the concept of limited energy” is an imposed concept, enforced by men and their corporations, there is no shortage of energy,,,, but there is a great shortage of morality. Oil, gas, coal, etc., is a $600 trillion strangle hold on humanity that “some human agencies” do not want to relinquish. It will be interesting to see how it all plays out,,,, maybe not comfortable,,,, but interesting.
Wow Haley,
What a wild story! My goodness have you and all the other people who clam to not believe in God have a very rude awaking coming when you find out 5 seconds after you die, that there is really a God who sent his Son Jesus Christ to die for mine and your sins, But then it will be too late. Read John 3:16
If I am wrong and you are right, then when we die either of us have nothing to lose, but; if you are wrong and I am right, (which I am) then I have gained everything and you are lost for all eternity!
I say all this in love, and I will pray for you, that God will open your blind eyes to the truth of the Bible.
Don’t believe me? Then ask the God that you don’t believe in to show you if he is real or not. If you ask him in sincerity and in wanting to really know the truth, then he will show you.
Hi Larry, your lack of understanding is “underwhelming.” Hang in there, bro, I have faith in you, if not your juvenile understanding of God and Christ. I do believe,,,, whether your understanding can comprehend same or not. May God, and the Christ within you, bless you and all those whom you hold dear. Don’t fret the fact you don’t comprehend God, no one does until totally awake in Him, as is Jesus, the Christ of Nazareth. -Haley-
Undoubtably the most beautiful grandeur of what our planet can offer. Evelyn & I rode the mules down the Bright Angel trail and possibly the best trip we’ve ever been on. I was at the Grand Canyon and hiked around and down the South Rim. After Evelyn & I went, I took my Mother and we did the Helicopter ride in/over the canyon; a trip my Mom and I will never forget. EVERYONE should visit this site!
Hello, There is nothing like the beautiful Grand Canyon. I had the opportunity to be a tour guide plus the tour bus driver one year. People asked me “don’t you get tired of looking at the canyon?” My answer was always never never never. It is the most beautiful place I have ever seen and had the privilege to work. Jenna
For Pete’s sake, if you people would spend as much time seeking the truth as you do nit picking, you might find the ans.to this argument! We DO still have freedom to worship in America, everyone can believe or not, and worship what Supreme Being they want or not – or none, if they wish. If everyone were exactly the same, all but one is unneeded! Enjoy the beauty of USA & quit trying to force feed what you happen to believe to everyone else. Thankfully, we still also have freedom of speech which has been over used in this comment section…
I am an Artist and from my view. Fallen angels walk this earth trying to erode the existence of God. When actually, we Christians feel and see that even in the most magnificent erosion there is more proof of Gods existence. Now don’t read more into this or less…
Sherril,
Amen, I agree with you 100 percent!
Larry
I truly enjoyed looking at these pics! However, keep religion out of this – you are entitled to your own beliefs. I am just so awed by these pics – I can not imagine how much more beautiful Paradise would be!!
The indication is that water level have been higher to create this Grand Canyon. If it does not prove Noah’s flood it does not disprove it. The freedom of religious exercise is a blessing not appreciated by all. The Muslims do not have that freedom nor do they give it. Our Constitution was created by Christians even if there might have been an exception. Our calendar goes forward and backward from the birth of Jesus. If you believe that the complexity of plants and animals all started with a primordial accident, then you have more faith than I do. The earth being a sphere was revealed by God to JOB. You have creation without a creator, programs with no programmer and you ignore the law of entropy. God has given us free will and that is not offered by non Christian dictators and we are in danger of losing it from our current administration.
To all who venture here and read this entire blog, I offer this view:
It is amazing how a simple collection of pictures has created such a rift. The old statement “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is an absolute truth. Yet, so many people are unable to see it as you do, and therefore may not enjoy it with the same perspective. The pictures are only images of elements our brains have collected and interpreted. Those elements are exactly the same, no matter which one of us sees them, but how we see them, in our minds, is very different. Such it is with faith, and belief systems. Sadly, it is also the reason, mankind is at war. War with ourselves, and with everything around us. We have yet to find harmony, and we struggle constantly with others, as to what is harmonious. Whether you do, or do not believe, in a God, will not change the element of the existence of a God, only how you, act upon what you believe. Here in this blog, as in so many other things in life, we have demonstrated our ability to fight, rather than to appreciate, the beauty of the element. Shame on us all for that. The pictures and the canyon are beautiful, and I appreciate them, no matter how they became, as they are. All of you, that tainted the pictures with your banter and jibes, have taken a thing of beauty and made it ugly with words. What a shame that these pictures created a thousand words of discord, instead of a resounding appreciation for them.
I love “my” Grand Canyon and have hiked and camped on the river yearly since 1995. That love for beauty is a give of God.
Well this is the 1st time this year I’ve bothered to answer a comment here…But I felt compelled as I wonder why so many people who don’t “believe” still want to talk/respond to this God talk- as if they are searching for some “God Sense” in all of it…? -And why people who do “believe” can’t seem to reserve their preachin’ for each other,(‘encourage one another while it is yet today’) instead of offending with “judgement threats” those who haven’t met God the same way(?yet?)and wouldn’t EVER WANT TO if it was left up to us so called ‘believers’ to invite them, lol. So to both groups who are here yappin up all the beauty God has bestowed so graciously & lovingly on this planet for the joy of believer and unbeliever alike– I leave a quick quote from GOD, THE GOD, The One who calls himself “The Only God”, quoted from the Bible in Malachi 3 and spoken to the Hebrew nation of believers, or so-called sons of Abraham:
“I’ve heard YOU say-‘It is vain to serve God.’ ?What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the LORD of hosts? The arrogant are more blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.'”
Then those who truly feared the LORD spoke among themselves and the LORD hearkened to them, and a book of remembrance was written before Him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed His name. “They shall be mine,” says the LORD of hosts, “in the day when I make them my treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.” “Then once more you shall discern between the sanctified and the unsanctified, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.” Quote unquote.
….So ‘by your words justified… or by your words condemned’, said Jesus. I say it’d be good to get the arrogant, self rightious mote outta our own eye afore we see ourselves so fit to remove a Darwin seed from our brothers eye…which GOD is usually best at doin Himself. Peace.
Nicole,
By way of an exhortation I’ll say this: You may well be right in saying that people who don’t believe are acting “as if” they are searching. God’s wants that none should be lost, that all should come to repentance (2nd Peter 3:9). The Holy Spirit is calling all of us and while many just outright refuse to respond, some are searching because God truly has written eternity on our hearts. We all know innately, even if we refuse to acknowledge it, that there is something more than this “tangible” world we live in. God tells us in his word that we are without excuse in not knowing He exists (Romans 1:18 and following).
Regarding the Malachi verses (which are both contemporary to that time and prophetic in nature), they were written 400 years before Messiah (Jesus) was born, so your term believer cannot refer to Christians in this particular context; the passage refers to the Children of Israel (the Jews) who are not referred to as believers and your term sons of Abraham, while it refers to the Jews is also a term applied to all true Christians. The Apostle Paul put it this way:
Galatians 3
6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen (Gentiles) through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
So you see, Paul is telling us that we who are Christians are also the children of Abraham because as we learn in Romans 11, Christians are grafted onto the ‘olive tree’ (an idiom of Israel and the Jewish people).
I would like to shed some light regarding your Matthew 7 reference for clarification. First the passage:
Matthew 7
1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the MOTE out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
You’re correct of course in implying we are to remove the beam (big problem) out of our own eye before we deal with the mote (little problem) in our brothers eye. Jesus does say however, that we are to remove the mote out of our brothers eye. And who is our brother ? The word translated brother in this passage is the Greek word adelphos which in this context is more likely to mean fellow believer, but even if it does refer to any person, the believer is doing the casting out. Your notion that God is best at doing this may be correct but again in this context God isn’t the one doing it. Never forget that Christianity is a choice; God will never force anyone to believe. So, if God removes all the motes prior to a person coming to faith in Jesus, ten what is the motivation to seek Him ?
If you know your Bible, then you know what happens at the White Throne Judgment. It may be that some Christians are going about revealing truth in a manner that distorts the truth or rubs people the wrong way and they should be more careful in choosing their words and saying them in love rather than with criticism. The stakes are not only high but are the highest: Our eternal condition is at stake. To use your own phrase: The “Darwin seed” must be removed. Jesus said people will have eyes but be unseeing and have ears but be unhearing. As Christians Jesus expects us to tell people about the reality our existence: our sin must be dealt with. Jesus paid the price with His death on the Cross and we need to confess our sin and become born again like Jesus explained to Nicodemus in John chapter 3.
It’s a hard thing to explain to people these days and it’s a hard thing to accept these days. A Christian has to rebuke or instruct a brother or sister when necessary of course but our main focus has to be the sharing of truth with those who are lost. Life is indeed precious but it is short and once we die our opportunity to come to faith is lost. God bless you as you continue your walk with the Lord. And for those of you who don’t know Jesus grab a Bible and read the Book of John and then decide for yourselves. At least you’ll know what’s at stake and how you proceed is up to you. Consider what you read and choose wisely. God Bless you.
I hear a sounding brass, and a tinkling cymbal. Oligopistos. Where were you before GOD opened your eyes? If I’d of known any “christians” before I came to Christ, i may very likely have never come. –and yet…it was not my ‘choice’ but GOD opened my eyes all in a moment, the twinkling of an eye. Christ preached the judgment of some rich men…who wouldn’t give a beggar their dog scraps… AND on men who preached big and even cast out demons in His name…called them evil doers, i suppose because they had not love. He preach against those who had Him in their midst, yet wanted none of His healing or miracles,& said Sodom would be better off on judgment day…But I never heard Him preach against a baby, a child, a teenager, or anyone who might die before they met Him in faith. In fact, He preached to and set free the captives when He broke down the gates of hell. In fact, it is written “Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.” I know He said ‘whoever confesses Me before men-him shall I confess before My Father and the angels of heaven’ but who denies Me–him shall I deny..etc’, but man, He was talking about more than our words, else how was Peter so surely forgiven for denying Him? ‘By your words justified and by your words condemned’ had more to do with how you use them to offend and keep people from entering the kingdom of God. To deny Him is something the heart and mind do when it serves itself and can’t give love, but only hatred and strife. This is not the world’s goal, tho it be the goal of some who will end up in that proverbial LAKE OF FIRE, AS IT IS WRITTEN… But how can it have ever been my Lord’s goal to send the ignorant and ‘god-less’ there after He, Himself, JESUS–said– “All sins will be forgiven mankind BUT THE SIN OF BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT will never be forgiven.” The Holy Spirit HAS BEEN SENT to convict the world of sin etc and He has not been idle among the modern day ‘heathen’ He is still bringing secular beings to repentance, just as He did for me long before I knew “theSpirit” as associated with Jesus or knew anything about this (in)famous Jesus being the Son Of GOD or His death on that ‘man shaped cross’ … BUT -in my ignorant rebellion against a holy God, could I have died and been lost after all my Lord went thru to save me?? Who was it said that the servant who knew his masters will and did not prepare himself to do it will be beaten with many stripes, …but the servant who was ignorant of his masters will and was found unprepared, will be beaten with only a few stripes. Jesus? Oh my. As in life so in spirit..this world being the shadow of that heavenly one…Most people I know don’t remember being born…nevertheless they were. So maybe just as a seed can be alive and take thousands of years to be quickened, like the grain in the pots of the pyramids of the Pharo’s… Yet give it the water of Life in this world or the next and it will live to God and thrive in His Light, unfettered by man’s metering approving or disparaging words. The “ignorant” who can love, who can forgive, who know instinctively when they’ve been bad–seem to me to be on God’s favorite list. Did not Jesus say it was ‘of such as ‘these’ ignorant children that the kingdom of God consists’?? How are the dead judged at the GWT? By their works. A man’s works are always the surer proof that he fears or reverences God, even if he doesn’t know God’s name or believe yet that it could be ‘Jesus’. Might not that other book-the BOOK WHICH IS OF LIFE– be full of the names of all those unsprouted living seeds? ‘Abram’ didn’t know God’s name or what Jesus was going to do for him. He just knew there was a voice of truth that spoke directly to him and he responded with greater and greater faith and the years went on. What else to say to those who bear judgment and aren’t ambassadors of LOVE.? Confess with your mouth, believe in your heart and be saved,,,but it’s got nothin do with faith to try to say who will ascend to heaven or who will descend to hell. The Great White Throne is the only place where that will be decided. Sure you can warn people, but is that the best sign of your faith, is that all you got to give?? Knowledge puffs up but love builds up. Most people know they’re not good enough to come to God, will they feel more like it, will they believe in His love and His mercy more by seeing and hearing it from you? If it is not His (the Father’s) will that any should perish, why do you limit HIM?? iS HIS will so remote that He can’t see or care when a sparrow falls? Do you think He cannot seek and save that which was lost– in life and in death? Weather we live or die, we live or die to Him. In Him we live and move and have our being. I read the Book. I read between the lines. It says all you need is LOVE.
After reading the comments regarding the beauty of the Grand Canyon, and seeing how the discussion turned to one of whether it is a result of God or nature, it is obvious that it is not just our Congress that enjoys worthless arguments. Anyone who grew up within religious surroundings knows that there is no easy answer to the question of God, and that is why religion is based upon “beliefs”. Arguing the point when discussing The Grand Canyon is dumb, because all the time spent arguing could be used to enjoy the beauty of nature, and all those who are religious believe nature is a result of The Creation and those or us who are non-religious see nature differently, but with just as much awe and love.
It is not only the Grand Canon which is beautiful – beauty is found all over the world, according to ones taste. To admire such beauty should be a thing in itself and whatever in nature is, is the result of many years of wear and tear and has nothing to do with God. When I read through the blogs above I read nothing but praise for the Lord and his never dying love for mankind and I want to add here my thanks for His generosity of bestowing on us the multitude and diversity of things like cancer, tuberculosis, herpes etc., etc., the myriad of viruses and germs to plague man and especially innocent children, to let them die by the thousands of hunger, Hallelujah, praise to God. My suggestion is to keep God out of this, as there are many gods men believe in. Beauty is not only for Christians.
In my humble opinion, perhaps a posted sign placed that reads, “This project that you are experiencing at this moment, was made by God for your viewing pleasure. If you believe otherwise, please avert your eyes to not offend oneself.”