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Re: God and the Devil and forgiveness (was Re: POV-RAY orange color)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:21:58 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera^SayNoToSpam^.com
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Sproaticus wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
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 god is insufficient to reveal all the facets
of her existence. if you believed in such a thing, of course.
> However, scripture indicates that very few people have even come close to
> this.
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> 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.
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