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| theQuestIsNotOver |
 Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:32 am Post subject: is "god" "open" for interpretation? |
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Is God open for interpretation?
Or, maybe God wants you to be robots in the one faith-regime?
Ideally God would casually offer a few ways for us to seeing the ultimate "thing" relevant to our survival (otherwise what's the point)?
Otherwise, where would your freedom exist within just one faith?
But is God that smart? |
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| Hiramabbi |
| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:51 am Post subject: Re: is "god" "open" for interpretation? |
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| theQuestIsNotOver wrote: |
Is God open for interpretation?
Or, maybe God wants you to be robots in the one faith-regime?
Ideally God would casually offer a few ways for us to seeing the ultimate "thing" relevant to our survival (otherwise what's the point)?
Otherwise, where would your freedom exist within just one faith?
But is God that smart? |
On the contrary --God is so smart -- He knows that if we are all in agreement and have one faith or belief, then, no one will restrain you -- including your friends -- from all kinds of delusions.
Read and learn....
Genesis 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. v7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. v8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
Next please... 
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| 425 Chaotic Requisition |
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I think God does things for me, gives me His knowledge now and again. My interpretation of Him is based on that He is giving me His own interpretation. But its God. In the eyes of numerous people, God could be anyone or no-one, and the interpretation of that, is entirley yours.
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| prasit |
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And everyone has his own reality....
Everyone feels he is right, everyone else can also be right as long as it does not conflict with his belief.
What an interesting society...
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| 425 Chaotic Requisition |
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I don't think or assume I'm right, I come up with the most logical assumption that I can. And always remember that I know bugger all.
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| prasit |
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| I don't think or assume I'm right, I come up with the most logical assumption that I can. |
Everybody thinks he is logical too.
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| 425 Chaotic Requisition |
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I didn't say I though I was logical, I said I come up with the best logic I can, that I am possible to.
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| prasit |
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OK, let me rephrase:
Everybody also thinks he has come up with the best logic he possibly can. But the result that come up by him can be very different from one by you.
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| mitchellmckain |
| Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject: Re: is "god" "open" for interpretation? |
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| Hiramabbi wrote: |
On the contrary --God is so smart -- He knows that if we are all in agreement and have one faith or belief, then, no one will restrain you -- including your friends -- from all kinds of delusions.
Read and learn....
Genesis 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. v7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. v8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
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Hey! You're stealing my line. I call it a theology of pluralism.
The only thing scarier and worse than war is mankind united, as represented by mankind before the flood. God IS the author of confusion where mankind is concerned, because mankind united will make its evil tendencies an unalterable institution of society.
Instead of an author of confusion we could call God an author of diversity and then it fits right in with the natural world that God created. In diversity living things can find their proper balance in a working ecosystem. Likewise, there is hope for mankind in a diversity of thought.
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