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To: Mad Dawg
I have no access to Divine logic.
I speak the truth to the best of my ability. I speak without mental reservation or purposes of evasion.

I am not a theologian, scholar, prophet, priest/minister, or teacher; so, I have no need or desire to go beyond my complete acceptance of human depravity as a condition of human life. My faith is simple but not simplistic, fundamental but not fundamentalist.

God's inability to act outside His own nature could be considered a limitation in human terms but probably not in Divine. I say probably because the issue (I think) is open to debate. I am not equipped to debate it.

I hope saints will intercede for me, but I will not ask them to. I think that anyone with the qualities of a saint would intercede for as many people as possible.

To compare Jesus sitting in Mary's lap with her being the Seat of Wisdom is to compare two concepts that are not related. As far as we know, all children sit in the laps of their mothers or in those who act in that capacity. It is a condition of human life. Being the Seat of Wisdom is not. To make such an argument is foolish.

92 posted on 03/31/2014 11:37:25 AM PDT by quadrant (1o)
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To: quadrant

At a level so superficial as to be almost silly. ..

1) If you have no access to Logic of God, what logic do you use to say the Seat of Wisdom stuff is ridiculous?

2) If the Wisdom of God is foolishness to men and if you hold yourself to be bound to human logic, maybe the ridiculousness is a point in “my side’s” favor.

More seriously, the big juicy problems are What WAS IHS, and what can we know and how can we reason about Godly matters. Is theology possible and how?

Yes in the normal course of things children sit on their mothers’ laps. So we have to ask what it means that this child was God AND that touching just his garment could heal intractable illness.


99 posted on 03/31/2014 12:25:20 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
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