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To: betty boop
Hi, bb! I won't be here long, since there is much to do 'round here, nor will I answer directly any of the questions you and all the other worthies have raised here toward the end of this thread.

Rather, I will try to give you all a different way of looking at God as "all of the omni's"...

First of all, try reading the Bible from Genesis thru the Gospels as a history of sorts of a people's journey of faith and relationship with their Creator. When reading Deuteronomy 6, and especially Deuteronomy 6:4-9, read it as not only a way of life but, in the shorter passage, a prescription for a method of what might be called generational learning. (Here, think of the stories about the Australian Aborigines and their ability to "remember" things that their ancestors did, observed, sensed before they were born.)

If you do this (and yes, it might take some time for those who have never read all this material before, or in this way), I think the picture that will begin to emerge is of a God who will not reveal Himself until his children are ready to understand what is next to be revealed.

Or, to put it a bit more succinctly, God is omnipotent but because we are finite, He is forced to wait for us to catch up.

And, as always, if this doesn't help, pitch it into the nearest circular file. :)

560 posted on 05/05/2003 9:29:54 AM PDT by logos
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To: Hank Kerchief; unspun; general_re; exmarine
Sorry. I meant to ping you folks to my last along with betty boop.
561 posted on 05/05/2003 9:31:12 AM PDT by logos
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To: logos
Yes indeed and an aptly humble, contextual way to express the concept of progressive revelation. I can almost feel the dirt between my toes, as formerly trodden of our former travellers.
563 posted on 05/05/2003 9:43:28 AM PDT by unspun (Somebody knows all about it.)
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