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To: adiaireton8
God doesn't fit into our logic all of the time.

If M is the mother of P, and P is God, then M is the mother of God. If you deny that that conclusion follows, you are making a fundamental error of reasoning, not understanding the relation of propositions. The first two premises necessarily entail the third. Logic is never violated, just as 1+1 cannot equal 3.

If you think that we cannot use logic to do theology, then give one example of an exception or violation of logic.


John 6 ... where 2 fish and 5 barley loaves ... became many more.

Also 1 (the Father) + 1 (the Son) + 1 (the Holy Ghost) = 1 (God)

It's not all about the numbers (or the words).

1,952 posted on 12/18/2006 1:45:57 PM PST by Quester
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To: Quester
John 6 ... where 2 fish and 5 barley loaves ... became many more.

So where's the violation of logic? It is not law of logic that one thing cannot become many things. You started off as one cell; now you are many cells. And logic was never violated.

Also 1 (the Father) + 1 (the Son) + 1 (the Holy Ghost) = 1 (God)

This is no violation of logic because, as I explained earlier in this thread, the respect in which God is one is not the respect in which He is three. If our theology really did say that God is one and three in the same respect and at the same time, then that would be violation of logic.

-A8

1,961 posted on 12/18/2006 1:58:32 PM PST by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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