To: Californiajones
"Why would a good God fake us out with allegory?"
Because God didn't directly write the book?
391 posted on
04/16/2006 7:09:20 AM PDT by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is grandeur in this view of life....")
To: CarolinaGuitarman
And, if God is the one who resurrected Christ from the dead, as you say you believe, does not this same God have the power and logistical wisdom to cause the Bible to be written, without relying on Jungian constructs?
Does He not have the power to be omniscient and omnipresent, loving us as well as guiding us against the pitfalls of our own propensity for evil? You, as a Christian, C.G. are limiting God to the extent that you have thought Him through. Think -- you are dealing with the God outside of Time, the God who created it all. And yet He loves us. How can it be, then if God is love, that He would try to trick us with maybe inspiring, maybe not inspiring, His Word?
He wouldn't. He would be very clear. And it would NOT require an education to understand. (That would be unfair.) Instead He requires that we humble ourselves and come to Him as children in need of a heavenly father. All our mental posturing gets us no where with God, who is wisdom. Since He looks upon the heart, He requires we come to Him in that childlike manner.
Do as Lincoln did, take Him on faith. And Darwin of course, was born on Lincoln's birthday -- a heavenly joke probably only appreciated by people on this thread.
436 posted on
04/16/2006 1:33:07 PM PDT by
Californiajones
("The apprehension of beauty is the cure for apathy" - Thomas Aquinas)
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