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Subject:	Re: God and the Devil and forgiveness (was Re: POV-RAY orange color)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:02:08 GMT
Reply-To:	JSPROAT@IO.COMspamless
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Todd Lehman wrote: > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal <johnneal@uswest.net> writes: > > Pretty tough IMHO to start speculating about God. It's like a 2 > > dimensional species living on a plane trying to comprehend a cube. As the > > cube passes through the plane (depending upon what angle, too), it creates > > either a square, various sized rectangles, or various sized triangles. The cube has a beginning and an end, doesn't it? The cube passing through the plane implies that, at some point, we witness every aspect of God. However, scripture indicates that very few people have even come close to this. It's probably more like a 5-dimensional tesselated klein bottle passing partially through a rumpled plane. The denizens witnessing the event reside at and around the intersection of the plane and the bottle, perceiving a skewed view of both. > But certainly, pure logic is either more perfect or equal > than perfect to God. God cannot be more more perfect than pure logic. But you forget passion. He is a God of mercy as much as He is a God of justice. Like any set of opposites, logic is absolutely meaningless without feeling. And, like any set of rules governing the world, God created them. Cheers, - jsproat -- Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/ He stands...like some sort of...PAGAN GOD or DEPOSED TYRANT. Staring out over the city he's sworn to...to stare out over... And it's evident...just by looking at him...that he's got some PRETTY HEAVY THINGS ON HIS MIND. - Ben Edlund, 1996

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		Re: God and the Devil and forgiveness (was Re: POV-RAY orange color)
(...) Well, actually no. There are certain alignments required if you want to see certain shapes... so one pass won't reveal every possible cross section. Stretching this analogy, it means that even an entire lifetime of contemplating the nature of (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: God and the Devil and forgiveness (was Re: POV-RAY orange color)
(...) Ok (...) Hey, I thought logic was only meaning_ful_ without feeling. That whole Spock thing, y'know? -- logic with feeling ain't really logic. (...) Hmmm. Well, this is one place where I kind of get confused. See, I believe that God didn't (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: God and the Devil and forgiveness (was Re: POV-RAY orange color)
(...) Exactly: it's a proof by contradiction, proving that there's nothing that can do anything. I guess it challenges the definition of what "anything" means. (...) Also various line segments, various non-regular pentagons, various non- regular (...) (25 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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