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To: MeanWestTexan
"Great Architect of the Universe"

That prhase was actually first coined by John Calvin, who can hardly be called anti-Christian.


Yes, but we're talking about Catholic-Mason relations here, and John Calvin doesn't really hold a lot (or any actually) theological weigh in our Church.
178 posted on 09/11/2006 6:42:29 PM PDT by Conservative til I die
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To: Conservative til I die

"Yes, but we're talking about Catholic-Mason relations here, and John Calvin doesn't really hold a lot (or any actually) theological weigh in our Church."

Obviously. That was not the point --- the point there are a lot of people (snake-handling protestants, generally) who claim "GAOU" is not the God-of-Abraham.

The reference to Calvin (a literalist of literalist, and an undoubted commited Christian, even if one has problems with his denomination and ideas) was to show that the snake-handler idea is wrong.

There is more on the "other names of God" in other posts here. (Briefly, I am a born Jew, trained in Israel, no less, and Hebrew has LOTS of "names" for the one God.)


210 posted on 09/12/2006 7:40:22 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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