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To: Alamo-Girl; Quix; kosta50
So for her to insist that God must do some stupid little magic trick at her command to prove Himself to her and earn her faith in Him was just sad.

Yes, so sad. And pitiable. And basically silly.

Certainly this is an extreme case of making "man the measure" of God.

Thank you so much dearest sister in Christ for your lovely essay/post!

748 posted on 09/21/2010 8:59:10 AM PDT by betty boop (Seek truth and beauty together; you will never find them apart. — F. M. Cornford)
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To: betty boop

INDEED.


749 posted on 09/21/2010 9:12:28 AM PDT by Quix (PAPAL AGENT DESIGNEE: Resident Filth of non-Roman Catholics; RC AGENT DESIGNATED: "INSANE")
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To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl; Quix
Yes, so sad. And pitiable. And basically silly. Certainly this is an extreme case of making "man the measure" of God

I agree. She could have just as well asked God for a Mercedes Benz while she was at it!

But if this was intended to equate what I said about God having to approach us within the means of our constitution, then that was either a caricature of what I said or a big misunderstanding.

We don't hear things dogs can hear, so trying to communicate with us in frequencies dogs hear but we don't is pointless, just as it is pointless to communicate with us in a language we don't understand.

God has to communicate with us in ways we are equipped to process, and that's not diminishing God by making "man the measure " of God any more than soup is "making" itself a measure of man because we can drink it only with a spoon and not a fork. It's the way the world is—even if we don't understand it.

750 posted on 09/21/2010 10:16:09 AM PDT by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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Thank you both so very much for your encouragements!


751 posted on 09/21/2010 10:28:42 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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