[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you oh so very much for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ!

kosta50, there is no modalism in my beliefs or my statement. But certainly you are free to infer what you will by my use of (or Scripture declaring) the Names of God: Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: - Matt 28:19

Texas Songwriter, the Hungarian astrophysicist has come a long way from his ethnic beliefs to this point and I'm confident part of that is because God brought betty boop into his life.

The rise of autonomy (and especially syntactical autonomy) in nature is a major issue as mathematicians and physicists have joined in the investigation of biological evolution theory. There are many complex systems theories and autonomy is a challenge to every one of them.

For instance, directionless evolution would have this path by sheer happenstance: cell>function>organism>collective>biosphere.

Conversely, final cause in biological systems (Rosen's mathematical model) suggests the reverse which would look like this at a macro level: final cause>organism>function>cell.

Or, at the highest level: final cause>cosmos>biosphere>collective>organism>function>cell.

And that would be "intelligent design" because "final cause" is unspecified. The term could be replaced with "God's will" or the Eastern mystic's "collective conscience" or the panspermiast's "cosmic ancestry."

God's Name is I AM.

[Texas Songwriter]

Am I to infer from your response that the Gaia New Age concept is similarly validated in your mind. I am having a real problem with the dedifferentiation of inorganic, material, insentience from the sentient, consciousness, soul. All is on is a Hindu concept as well as Buddhist idea of mind.

You have thrown me a real curve ball which I cannot reconcile.

[kosta50]

kosta50, there is no modalism in my beliefs or my statement

If you say, as betty boop quotes, that God the Father revealed Himself in the Person of Jesus Christ and in the Person of the Holy Spirit" that is Modalism in its classic form.