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To: unspun
An implicit question here: how can omnipotent God relate to anything at all that he might create without in some sense limiting himself?

God is sovereign, which means a human being can only act within the limits that God has set for man. Man has free will but only within the confines of God's sovereignty. For example, no man can come to embrace and worship and love the true and living God unless God Himself reveals Himself in a personal way to that person. It is man who is limited. It is impossible for any man to "reason" his way to God.

You can't start with the finite particulars of the world we live in and reason one's way to the infinite. You must first start with the infinite (revelation) and reason your way down. That is why objectivists cannot name a logical coherent source for moral absolutes.

557 posted on 05/05/2003 8:52:58 AM PDT by exmarine
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To: exmarine
You can't start with the finite particulars of the world we live in and reason one's way to the infinite. You must first start with the infinite (revelation) and reason your way down. That is why objectivists cannot name a logical coherent source for moral absolutes.

Succinctly put as well.

God is sovereign, which means a human being can only act within the limits that God has set for man.

Yes. What I was bringing up is how God 'pulls some of himself back' so to speak, so as to relate with us finite souls. You know, sinful man cannot even bear God's presence....

559 posted on 05/05/2003 9:19:10 AM PDT by unspun (Somebody knows all about it.)
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