Robert Calco wrote:
> 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
Hey Bob!
Got news for you. I AM GOD!
And whatever you say to prove I am not is because you in your human
frailty and fallibility can not conceive the REAL reasons I have to be
as I AM. So please, from now on you'll pray to me from 9 to 9:30 pm . It
must start with "Heil Ricardo the almighty, you that rules all........".
Ooops. Almost forgot. You have to make a monthly donation of 500$ to me.
Or else....
>
> 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
>>
>>
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