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To: Kolokotronis; jo kus; annalex; Agrarian; kosta50
The Cappadocian Fathers were fond of this aphorism: "I believe in God; God does not "exist"." What they meant was that God doesn't exist within any frame of reference available to us. This is because He is "Existence", He is "BEING", for which reason the Fathers call Him "Greek letters I don't know how to make". (strange name) :)

Well why didn't you all just say this in the first place? Now I get it! :)

3,058 posted on 02/27/2006 8:30:02 PM PST by Forest Keeper
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To: Forest Keeper
Well why didn't you all just say this in the first place? Now I get it!

A few posts back I said exactly the same thing — God is Existence, His essence (nayture) is existence, and everything exists because it is from Him. That's why evil exists only by our choice, and not by God's will (think about it: absolute Love can not create evil; there is no "room" for evil is somehting that is all love).

3,063 posted on 02/28/2006 4:19:24 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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