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But we actually do now have the ability to understand God:
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him."
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But God has revealed
them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God
posted by
cantey
on April 20, 2004 at 8:28 PM
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God is real.
The attempts here to personify something that is so far beyond the human understanding are absurd. If you became an ant for long enough to go into the ant-hill and hang out for awhile, and then returned to your current form, could you honestly expect the ants to be able to describe you in terms of your current self. There’s no way! Get real!
posted by
telemachus
on April 20, 2004 at 7:28 PM
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oh, I had another thought
when I read the title to your piece, who corrupt is god? god is not corrupt, no one is corrupt, it's only one's actions or perceptions which make it so. because the natural way of people is not corruption...corruption is man's descent from his/her true nature.
posted by
Jillness
on April 20, 2004 at 12:39 PM
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I am in total agreement with ExStud
because what he's revealed is a fact. man has taken fact and created a fiction around it to control the masses into obedience. It has worked well, seeing how many people follow blindly the teachings of man rather than the teachings of their inner nature. The first question to ask is this: What is God? and one way to understand something's essence is to negate it. I would tend to go with my felt sense and say that what has been interpreted as "god" is actually this mysterious energy that floats through the universe, the energy that the Taoists call "the way"...and the buddhists say 'lives in everything'...i've heard some people say DNA is god. take your pick.
posted by
Jillness
on April 20, 2004 at 12:37 PM
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little more
God is all we encounter.
We should hold as holy all around us, beginning with ourselves.
When we injure anything, . . .
posted by
Xeno-x
on April 20, 2004 at 11:40 AM
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about the God of the Bible
Interesting that you say the God of the Bible is omnipotent, sinless and not vengeful, because actually these ideas are Greek additions to the Judeo-Christian tradition. In the Bible's Old Testament, there is plenty of vengeance and anger from God, as contrasted with the New Testament God of the Son, the God of endless mercy and grace. The Greek tradition imparted the ideas of omnipotence and perfection onto the God of Abraham. The original tradition harbored no such notions.
posted by
Dyl_Pickle
on April 20, 2004 at 10:31 AM
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yes he/she is!
God is the next human you encounter.
Treat that person as such.
posted by
Xeno-x
on April 20, 2004 at 8:45 AM
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cantey
Jesus was just a man.
He may have had some good ideas, but he was not the son of God nor was he God made man.
That was created by the church centuries after his time.
posted by
kooka_lives
on April 19, 2004 at 8:08 PM
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Gheegee
I assume you disagree with the notion of ' God is human'
is this correct? Because if it is you deny Jesus Christ and you must examine your heart and see if you are truly born again.
posted by
cantey
on April 19, 2004 at 6:07 PM
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God became Man
Hence the name Emmanuel. This refering to Jesus Christ. The perfect all man all God. God took upon Himself flesh and dewelt among us. This is an enigma to people who do not accept it by faith and it cannot be reconciled. Kooka your logic is flawless, and it is at this point I ask you to suspend your logic and accept by FAITH the concept of the Godman: Jesus Christ. The incorruptable, perfect Man who is also God.
posted by
cantey
on April 19, 2004 at 6:05 PM
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Well
Hers is the human god, but the ideas of corruption can apply to any and all ideas of God. The basic idea of a perfect, all powerful God such as the Bible has makes no sense, because it is too human for the most part and therefore not perfect, be flawed. And there fore if it were all powerful, then we are domed if it ever gets a real bad headache or its lover breaks up with it. If God has any human qualities then our lives can and should have been wiped out in a blink on a bad day. If God does not have any human qualities (At which point it is no longer the God of the Bible) then it does not care about us or have any emotions, at which point it could be all powerful and not destroy us , at which point it is also not a loving god not a vengeful god. So the point is that to make God all power also either makes him 100% corrupt, or 100% unlike man. Either way it can not fit into the ideas given by the Bible.
posted by
kooka_lives
on April 19, 2004 at 5:30 PM
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Don't you mean, "The god of Cantey's bible?" (note the use of case in the word 'god.')
posted by
Gheeghee
on April 19, 2004 at 4:46 PM
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