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To: antiRepublicrat; Jorge
"Compare. You must be like a god to a large water bug. You decide to undergo what would be a cruel death for one of them, say a quick spray from a can of Raid. It isn't much to you, is it?"

Compare. You must be like a god to a scorpion. You decide (this is incomprehensible) that you love scorpions, and that you want to raise up scorpions to the level of being able to love you back. So you empty yourself of your human nature and take on a scorpion nature; you go down to live with the scorpions, teaching and healing and giving them everything, even while knowing that, scorpions being what they are, you will without a doubt end up being stung to death.

You don't know, with your scorpion-mind, that there would be any recovery whatsoever after death. You've heard such; but this is not "knowledge" in terms of the scorpion-mind; it would be based on sheer trust in a higher intelligence.

You spend years reaching out to the very limits of your nature, experiencing scorpion-life, dealing with scorpion-incomprehension. And then it happens; they kill you; you accept the pain of it and die willingly for them--- because you loved them.

Even if you went back at that point to being human, is what you did nothing? Or is it an unheard-of act of reckless extremism --- the extremism of self-sacrificing love?

Or here's another one. You're a barnacle. You have a brain the size of a sesame seed. You're attached to the hull of a nuclear submarine. How much comprehension do you have of the nature and power and inner workings of the submarine to which you cling?

It isn't much, is it?

That's your position. And mine.

241 posted on 10/19/2006 11:50:07 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Mammalia Primatia Hominidae Homo sapiens. Still working on the "sapiens" part.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
You don't know, with your scorpion-mind, that there would be any recovery whatsoever after death.

That is not in line with the "Jesus is God" doctrine. He knew who he was while he was human. Colossians 2 said Jesus had all treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and Matthew said he had all power in Heaven and Earth. This is not an ignorant barnacle.

246 posted on 10/19/2006 12:04:21 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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