To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl; r9etb; Kudsman
Yes, how we will be granted {complete livability with God}* is a mystery for us indeed, in our present state.
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* I suppose we tend to call that "perfection," which is yet another imperfect and somewhat unfortunate term, since it would misreport itself as something "standalone" and easily seen wrongly, from an egocentric attitude.
285 posted on
05/16/2003 8:07:16 AM PDT by
unspun
(love the LORD with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, all your mind)
To: unspun
I suppose we tend to call that "perfection," which is yet another imperfect and somewhat unfortunate term, since it would misreport itself as something "standalone" and easily seen wrongly, from an egocentric attitude. Very perceptive, brother Arlen. For we are not "standalone egos." We are participants in the community of being: God, man, nature, society. We are in the world, yet not completely of it. And the idea that man or the world is capable of being perfected by man is the very idea that has spawned innumerable inhuman and bloody ideologies.
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