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To: James C. Bennett

Let’s expand this a little.

Just how much of God’s mind should we expect to know? What should be the ratio of known to unknown—would 80/20 meet your demands? 90/10?

It becomes clear that inability to answer this question demonstrates complete absense of the necessary conceptual foundation such that questions like yours in post #1630 can reasonably be pursued.


1,632 posted on 03/25/2011 5:47:39 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Sarah Palin is above taking the fake high road.)
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To: reasonisfaith; James C. Bennett
Just how much of God’s mind should we expect to know? What should be the ratio of known to unknown—would 80/20 meet your demands? 90/10?

What about knowing even if there is [a] God (whatever that may be)? How do you know (and I mean KNOW!) that what you know about God is really from God and not some ordinary mortal's hallucination? After all, many a NT writer mentions being "in a trance" when they had visions and heard voices. Sounds pretty much like hallucinations to me.

Besides, I hear preachers every day "explain" to their congregations what God meant when he said...How do they know that unless they presume to know the mind of God? And what does Paul mean when he said "we have the mind of Christ"? Then, as a believer, you ought to be able to answer James C. Bennet's question in #1630 because it should have been revealed to you, according to the Bible.

1,634 posted on 03/25/2011 6:39:25 PM PDT by kosta50
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