I appreciate you two so much, and both my sisters in Christ. How wonderful that God has given me such a strengthening family!
And any “piece” of creation cannot the Creator be, and because of being the Creator of it, the Creator is not subject to it. Makes perfect sense to me.
Now, A-G, to leave the sidebar you must leave the thread. I would suggest waiting for another worthy one to pop up. This one has run its course. I think we all can see that.
When it comes to debate with God-deniers, it is pointless except as a means of evangelizing them.
Thank God for you, dear brother in Christ! And thank you for your encouragements!
I'll be leaving now. See you on a new thread!
But even that is pointless.
The point is they don't want to be evangelized. What they want is to sow seeds of doubt into Christian souls.
They have deliberately shut themselves off from God. And I gather they demand the rest of us do the same.
Until such time, they will continue to spin around inside their little gerbil wheels with furious energy....
Or to put it another way, there have been times when I've just wanted to ask a correspondent: "Hey, what are we doing here — growing mushrooms?"
As you know, mushrooms thrive in the dark, especially when enabled by injections of liberal amounts of "manure" on a regular basis....
In any case, the exchange reliably proves to be an exercise in futility — for lack of a common language and a common world view.
Evidently reason itself cannot bridge that gap.
Thank you so very much, dear Padre, for your very kind words of support and encouragement!