sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
You are trying to sum up God with incomplete descriptions and you have wound up with an incomplete God that you are dissatisfied with. I'm not surprised by this.
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God Is Not A Tolerant God
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Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
But was in response to your comment about another poster's Godly view which was not deviating from the OP.
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
How do we know this?
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
Because God existed before you did.
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
It's impossible for "God" to have existed before "I" did. Sorry, that's a violation of very basic logic, Sandy.
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
Only if you are assuming that all "God" really is is what our mind creates him/her to be. I think Sandy is coming at it from a different perspective which is why the dialogue between you two doesn't seem to be moving anywhere
What, you mean there's more than one perspective?!
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
Keep inventing new meanings for words and understanding will continue to elude you.doppelgänger;912229 said:
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
God's not a rapist.
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
Hee hee. Think about it a bit more . . . it'll come to you, Sandy.
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
Oh, I understand, your thought are not god though.doppelgänger;912294 said:
Buttercup
Veteran Member
How do you know?
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
Trying to control the future
is like trying to take the master carpenter's place.
When you handle the master carpenter's tools,
chances are that you'll cut your hand. - Tao te Ching
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
You see, when you make up your own meanings this is the kind of nonseqitor tht spews out.doppelgänger;912343 said:
doppelganger
Through the Looking Glass
Actually it most definitely follows from our discussion. Perhaps you just don't perceive the connection?
athanasius
Well-Known Member
Mary might disagree with you.
You do not know scripture or Church history very well do you. Rape is a violent act done to someone who is unwilling, out of anger and mental problems. God did nothing violent to her at all, rather she freely faithfully consented saying "May it be done unto me according to your will" Her fiat, her yes, her free will. She could have said no according to catholic theology. But she assented out of love and Honor for God.:yes:
God bless you through the Co-redemptrix Mary,
Athanasius
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
If God is not reflective, then why are there so many interpretations of It, then? For example, the OP provided one. Dopp and I are providing one. You are as well.
And if there is only one correct interpretation, how do we go about deciding which it is?
That is something that cannot be validated except to the individual. And as an individual, I have reasons to doubt that God is a "stand-alone being...completely without [me]". Whether or not It existed before me is irrelevent to my experience of It.