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To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl; Dr. Eckleburg; Quix; shibumi
To say that God is susceptible to "proof" is to commit apostasy in the first place. He is not subject to human judgment in any way, shape, or form.

The Old and New Testaments are full of examples of "miracles" whose sole purpose is to convince the Jews and the readers in physical and visible terms that God is God and that Jesus is God, or at least the Son of God (in the Jewish sense of the word).

So this "take it on faith only" and God-is-not-susceptible-to-proof-is a later-day development that contradicts everything that's in the Bible.

Which is the entire point of the observation, "Man is not the measure of God."

No but the biblical God obviously wanted man to understand him in human concepts and in human words.

Plus God is not "my" (or "their") God. He is One God expressing as three Persons eternally, universally

That is your God, betty boop. Jews and Muslims do not consider that their God.

623 posted on 07/13/2010 12:59:41 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: kosta50; Alamo-Girl; Dr. Eckleburg; Quix; shibumi
You want to argue like a lawyer argues. But the "defendant" in this case is your own soul and its fate....

I don't have to "take it on faith only" when the entire Creation is screaming, "God made me!!!" God gave four revelations: Holy Scripture, the Incarnation of Christ, the "Book of Nature" (i.e., the creation itself) and the Holy Spirit with us. You, dear kosta, act as if there were only one revelation — the one given in human language. And even that you have reduced to a dead doctrinal reading. Just so much language to be manipulated into supporting your own preconceptions regarding the fictionality of God, and the futility of the Christian religion. Or so it seems to me. Sigh....

627 posted on 07/13/2010 1:12:11 PM PDT by betty boop (Those who do not punish bad men are really wishing that good men be injured. — Pythagoras)
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