> Yes, I don't have any problem believing that, Anne. > Faith goes where logic fears to tread. Matter of fact, > if a Christian said that they didn't believe that > Christ was God manifested in human form, how can they > be a Christian?
Thanks Bob! It's a leap of faith I can't or am unwilling to make, but I respect those who truly believe. Or, actually, I think pretty much all religious allegory is a metaphor. But that's just my own belief. It doesn't make the stories any less valid. In fact, sometimes I think if taken as a metaphor, some stories are actually more powerful! > It's almost a logical extension to believing in a > higher power...if you believe in a power greater than > us, would they not be able to create a manifestion of > themselves in other forms? And here's where we agree, sort of. To me, God is in everything. I am in awe of the power of creation and feel I witness it every day. And (here's where I'm not in agreement with most religions) I think the miracles are here and now, not at a specific moment or even carried out by one or several particular saviors, prophets, saints, etc. If I look at any individual on this list, for example, I am witnessing a miracle that is beyond my comprehension. > When I was a Sunday School teacher I tried to use the > analogy of water-ice-steam to explain how something can > exist in more than one form. That helps ME understand > it anyway. Really nice way of explaining it! I've used water to think about God too, but not quite in the same way. > > Great - now we have political AND religious threads > going! ;~) Yeah. Now we're talking about the two things you're not supposed to talk about in polite conversation :-) (Although, I think that politics is influenced by religion.) lots of love Anne
