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To: muawiyah
You may be correct with the dualism aspect but just confirm wouldn't dualism be a deity which is both good and evil simultaneously or alternately?

There is also a school of thought that reduces religion to true monotheism, a single God of good and evil exists only where the God does not exist. It's similar to believing Hell isn't a nice place because of distance from God, therefore there is no hope or hope of salvation.

473 posted on 12/13/2007 6:42:10 AM PST by britt reed (It's better to eat crumbs as free man than to eat cake as slave.)
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To: britt reed
Unfortunately, if you try pulling the "negative" out of the God-head, you end up with antinomianalism ~ which is a well known and ancient Christian heresy. It's practioners/believers used to gather in front of the cathedral and dare God to strike them dead as they took off their clothing and engaged in all sorts of things.

That was to prove that "God Forgives".

That's one of the reasons I added "fields" to my logical base for this subthread ~ They are neither good, nor evil, just basic laws of the universe expressed everywhere in equal measure. God rides above that. We live in it.

Dualism isn't needed to discuss the situation ~ the discovery of the outline of the laws of physics serves to explain the linkages.

498 posted on 12/13/2007 8:26:29 AM PST by muawiyah
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