--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], Bronte Baxter
> <brontebaxter8@> 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...
>
Yes, yes! That is exactly what it feels like. All the time.:-)
