I concur, Steve. Everything is indeed the way God wants it. We are confounded by this because it rather goes against how we, in our imagined capacity as God, would have done just about everything from the beginning of time. "Would the pot say to the potter, 'Why have you made me so?'"
Some people respond to this with incredulity---though they profess faith; others respond to it angrily, and cling to logic and other fig leaves of knowledge to wage a sort of anti-holy war against it. Ed's impassioned lashing out at a God that would, in his words, mock the poor dumb creatures he created is the classic expression of Nietzsche's rage and consequent desire for the death of God, at least as a matter of cultural influence. If people really read Scripture from beginning to end on its own terms, rather than through the prism of their preconceived notions--religious, or unreligious--they'd realize that the whole enterprise of existence that it describes is so many-layered and multi-faceted that the whole frame of reference of most 'debates' between ostensible believers and ostensible unbelievers about what the 'Bible says' or doesn't say and what it means is more often than not quite nearly the opposite of what both sides understand it to be. This too, I gather, is by design. It's a spiritual puzzle. What makes it unsolvable for most folks is that we live in physical bodies and our conscious existence on this plane is so centered on that basic fact---as seems only appropriate to natural man. This is our stumbling block, and staying in that frame of reference is precisely what causes us to become "entangled in words and confounded by subtleties" to once again quote Federalist #31. - Bob On Tuesday, May 15, 2007, at 07:56AM, "Wolfe, Stephen S YA-02 6 MDSS/SGSI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ><SNIP> > >> The point I'm making is pretty simple: if God is omnipotent, then >> every single thing that he creates is exactly as he intended it to >> be. Does this simple statement make sense to you? > >And the above, Ed, is excellent theology. > > ><SNIP> > > > >v/r > > >//SIGNED// > >Stephen S. Wolfe, YA2, DAF >6th MDG Data Services Manager >6th MDG Information System Security Officer >Comm (813) 827-9994 DSN 651-9994 > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
