Edaw asked:

I have some questions about religion:

Does God know what it feels like to not know everything? If not than he doesn't know everything. But
if he does know what it feels like to not know everything, then he doesn't know everything.

Is there more than one Jesus? if E.T. exists and God exists did God gave his alien son to the aliens
too?

How is reincarnation possible? Aren't we reincarnating every second since our cells are dying and
being replaced?

Edaw also asked:

Is there such a thing as nothing apart from something?

When you say everything does that include nothing?

If nothing can't be destroyed, does that mean that nothing is conserved?

Since the universe is expanding do you think that everything is becoming nothing? Since the density
of the universe is decreasing and the volume of the container of the universe is infinite, therefore a
constant divided by a number approaches zero as the number approaches infinity.

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I'm sure theologians would be happy to tackle your questions head on; and there was an era, known
as scholasticism, when religion and philosophy were interlocked to such an extent that insoluble
issues like these occupied the bulk of philosophical thinking. However, once one steps outside of
theology, one is bound to mention not only the intrinsic insolubility of the questions, but how little they
apply to God at all. For example, 'feelings' in whatever sense are distinctly creature attributes and I
can think of no good argument why God should 'know' anything about them, why he should reserve a
dimension of divine knowledge to the emotional foibles of creatures. Maybe you should look at your
list again in the light of anthropomorphisms and reflect on the difference between a physical creature
and a spiritual being. God is not a bigger than 'human' human, the very error into which many
questioners fall who have not thought about this.

And so your other questions, about Jesus and ET, really need some thinking as well, because there
are no ready-made answer that can just be pulled off a library shelf. As to 'nothing', the 'expanding
universe', 'infinity' and so on, these are all very big issues, much debated, unresolved. Let me
therefore recommend to you that start a little research of your own, whether on the internet or in
libraries, which is infinitely more satisfying than getting my opinion on them, which might only send
you on to another opinion and another, ad infinitum. Enjoy!

Jürgen Lawrenz

Sydney