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To: Dataman
Since we assume a Creator, that Creator is not limited nor can be logically limited by the materialist world view.

That doesn't follow. The Creator may very well have a fundamentally materialist world view, but with such an unimaginable level of power and technology that we can't tell one way or another. It certainly isn't reasonable to assert that the Creator isn't a materialist, nor does it conflict with any reasonable view of the Creator existing in the first place.

Assuming a Creator exists is one thing, assuming you know the Creator's world view, state of existence, or his favorite flavor of ice cream is something else entirely and immensely arrogant. If the Creator exists in all His glory, He doesn't need to fit into any mold or box you can imagine. If He exists, the only thing you can know about him is that you know nothing.

381 posted on 05/03/2003 4:59:24 PM PDT by tortoise
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To: tortoise
The Creator may very well have a fundamentally materialist world view,

What? The Creator would have no use for a world view.

but with such an unimaginable level of power and technology

The Creator has no use for technology. Yes, infinite power is unimaginable to the finite being. I submit that you cannot even imagine finite power as the locked power in a handful of soil.

If the Creator exists in all His glory, He doesn't need to fit into any mold or box you can imagine. If He exists, the only thing you can know about him is that you know nothing.

To say that we can know nothing about God is to say that we can know something about Him. Your statement is, therefore, self-refuting. Not only does it refute itself but it assumes God to be aloof (another claim to know something about God) and that any knowledge about Him must be discovered by ourselves (another claim to know something about God). Have you considered the possibility that God not only can reveal Himself to us but has already done so?

493 posted on 05/04/2003 4:15:21 AM PDT by Dataman
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