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To: annalex
Needless to say, I agree. Yes, the physical world is relative, as you correctly implied. The divine world is absolute. The two are incompatible. Our language is incapable of describing the indescribable and our intellect in incapable of imagining the unimaginable. God reveals Himself to us through His good works and in that sense they are physical manifestations and evidence of His goodness, just as charitable contributions are acts through which our invisible love, fashioned after Christ, becomes evident.

It's not the nature, size, shape or color of the gift, but the love that is behind it that matters. If we love God, it matters little if the schools teach geocentric or heliocentric, creationist or evolutionist world. It is all somehow irrelevant and, from an absolute point of view, wrong and meaningless. Fact and truth are not synonimous. Truth is something we will know one day.

The truth is only in God. As +John says "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." (4:24) In faith and in the spirit of love. Not in fact.

4,199 posted on 03/30/2006 2:16:17 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; Agrarian

I think the disagreement is not over theology of the scriptural inerrancy, but over your apparent attempt to separate "hard fact" from "spiritual truth", because it came methodologically perilously close to the sola scriptura heresy, which in a likewise manner separates Scripture from the Tradition.

Perhaps we developed an allergy to it and overreact.


4,200 posted on 03/30/2006 2:32:10 PM PST by annalex
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