--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "BillyG." <wgm4u@> wrote: > > > The ideal is to live according to God's will, as his servant, > > realizing our total dependence upon him, this is wisdom, IMHO. > > Let's see if I have this right. > > You are assuming that you have the ability to discern which of the > thousands of ideas of gods that man has proposed is the real one? And > happen to live in a period of history when this information is readily > available to you rather than the beings that were worshiped before > people passed their beliefs down in songs which could be put into > books and then translated into a language you could understand? > > That you have the ability to understand this being's will? The > creator and sustainer of the universe, that being's will? Your human > mind can understand and decipher through the nuances of scripture and > translations or through direct revelation, the mind of God? And that > your birth language just happens to be able to convey through > translations all the subtlety needed to understand the mind of God? > > Claiming to be his servant with enough wisdom to not only understand > his will but to carry it out in this world? > > And to this preposterously grandiose list of claims you add that it is > "IMHO", your HUMBLE opinion? > > I don't think you understand what the term "humble" means. > > The claim that you know what "living according to God's will" means or > are even in a position to determine what that will is (or if the many > concepts of god actually refer to something more real than Santa > Claus) is the most un-humble claim I can conceive of. I don't buy > religious claims that try to usurp the true meaning of humility. > > For me, the association of humility and religion can be summed up in > the following phrase: > > "We don't know."
I think Edg put it best if he doesn't mind me quoting him here: "And Billy's being outside us should be seen as a clanging a gong that peals the news that he's also found inside us, or we would never have IDENTIFIED HIM OUT THERE....flown into him, labeled him, targeted him. If there's a problem with Billy outside, how much more of a problem must we have with our inner Billy?" Nicely put Edg/Duveyoung!!
