--- In [email protected], Bronte Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you describe some of the ways it grows and grows? I've wondered along these lines. When you're "sharing the mind of God," as you put it, is it possible to know whatever you ask to? Like say you want to know what Bronte looks like, will you suddenly get an accurate picture in your head of me? Can you know anything you want to at will? Will it simply enter your head intact, as completely reliable, verifiable information? If not, then to me it wouldn't be completely a sharing of the mind of God. Because God knows all those things simultaneously.
FWIW, the way I see it, it's on a "need to know" basis. The information is all accessible, but there has to be a good reason for accessing it that is consonant with "God's will." One might even say that not even God puts attention on a particular item of information unless it's going to accomplish something God "wants" to accomplish. Perhaps it's like a computer database: The data is all in the database, but the database has to be queried before it can dig up any particular piece of data. And the queries have to be within the right parameters, or they won't pull out the right data. Maybe the parameters, in the context of God's mind, are determined by God's will. Or something along those general lines...
