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Re: proofs and people
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Kelvin Bailey wrote:
> So the thininking is that if God made up His own rules to the game and
> then expects us to feel grateful to Him for letting us win by those
> rules, this supposedly makes him bloodthirsty, stupid, neurotic and
> masochistic.
If he sets up bloodthirsty, stupid, neurotic and masochistic rules ...
well, yes.
> I think it's incredibly arrogant of anyone to think they can even begin
> to see or understand things from God's perspective.
Quite so. But it is *not* arrogant to think that God can see things from
*our* perspective, since he made us and all. He *knows* how things will
look to us, so if he cares how he comes across, he knows what to do.
> Who of us has ever been holy, perfect . . .
Whatever those words mean. If these words mean nothing more than "just
like God", then obviously, only God is just like God. But if they mean
something else ... well, then, what *do* these words mean?
> . . . omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient . . .
More words we could spend an eternity unpacking, if we wanted to. :)
> . . . all loving . . .
Depending on what you make of verses like the one where God says he loves
Jacob but hates Esau, etc.
> . . . or creator of the world?
Okay, he's got us beat on that one, for sure. :)
> I think what happens most of the time is that we who are sinful,
> imperfect, shortsighted, finite, ignorant, mean and lacking create our
> own rules and expect God to play by them. I've tried that. His
> response..."No thanks, pal. Mine are infinitely better."
He *would* say that, wouldn't he. :)
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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