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To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
If you believe in an Intelligent Designer/s (as I do), then naturally there is a god of some type.
Would it be too much then, to ask you to describe this(these) god(s), since you believe it(them) is(are) NOT the God of the Bible??
980 posted on 07/17/2002 11:18:34 AM PDT by Elsie
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To: Elsie
Would it be too much then, to ask you to describe this(these) god(s), since you believe it(them) is(are) NOT the God of the Bible??

Yes, it would. I think God (I call him the Higher Power) is unknowable. I can't describe the Higher Power any more than you can describe the God of the Bible. If I ask you the same question, what would your answer be? Can you describe your God?

Are you going to give me a list of attributes that you find in the Bible? Are you going to tell me God is good? I don't believe that. Are you going to tell me God is loving? What loving God creates death, disease, and suffering? Are you going to tell me God is merciful? How is he merciful?

But, that's fine. If you want to believe that he's good and loving and merciful, go right ahead. I just don't believe it.

Am I saying that my own Higher Power is not wholly good? Yes, that's what I'm saying. The Higher Power has within him both good and evil. It's kind of icky, but there it is.

The only other possibility is that there's a separate god for all that's good, and another god for all that's evil. That's why the ambiguity between god or gods.

Either God is all good (which is one possibility), or he has within him both good and evil (another possibility), or there are different gods for both good and evil (a third possibility). I can't see it any other way. If there's yet another possibility, please let me know.

993 posted on 07/17/2002 3:10:23 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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