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To: hosepipe
Frog in a well is an excellent metaphor.

I liken our relationship to the Almighty to that of a microbe and a mathematician. Not only doesn't the microbe understand the math, it doesn't even have the capacity to realize how little it understands or the language to express its helplessness. In its ignorance, it defines everything in terms of itself, never realizing that there is a vastly larger, more complex world beyond. Even if it somehow rose to that capacity, it would still be unable to fathom its own insignificance.

We are eons from even the beginnings of an iota of a shadow of an inkling. And yet we would presume to judge the Creator of All Things. One of the sure signs of our ignorance is our arrogance. The truly wise are infinitely humble, because they understand more than most that they have reason to be.

56 posted on 02/05/2006 12:53:24 PM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack

Good work and metaphorical images.. Through metaphor you say things that takes hundreds of words directly.. As Jesus by the way proved and practiced..


60 posted on 02/05/2006 2:12:30 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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