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To: Marie2
we just don’t agree that she has attributes belonging only to God (sinlessness, omniscience...)

I've never encountered "sinlessness" mentioned as a Divine attribute -- God is "All-Good," of course, which would necessarily include sinlessness, but would be so minor a part of it and so overshadowed by the Divine reality as not to be worth mentioning. Put another way, "All-Good" necessarily excludes sin (sort of tautological, or something, since sin is almost by definition that which is opposed to God!), but sinlessness doesn't come anywhere near implying "All-Good"!

No one that I've ever heard of has ever attributed omniscience to a creature -- to any creature. OTH, it's not at all hard to picture someone who knows far more than we do and who is nonetheless unimaginably far from omniscient.

24 posted on 07/19/2009 3:33:48 PM PDT by maryz
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To: maryz

“I’ve never encountered “sinlessness” mentioned as a Divine attribute “

I think it is a very major attribute. Were it not so, there would be no need that I can think of for heaven and hell. Heaven is a place of no sin; we can’t go there because we are sinners; Christ died to atone for our sins so that we could be declared righteous and so get into heaven. That’s a very central Christian doctrine.

Do you propose that God is a sinner? I can’t imagine how. We’d have no need of a Savior, then. Or God would need one.


41 posted on 07/19/2009 5:54:52 PM PDT by Marie2 (The second mouse gets the cheese.)
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