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To: CynicalBear; HiTech RedNeck
>>Just like if I am in the right position I can stand in both Kentucky and Tennessee.<<

One can do that on the KY/IN border; too; but most of the border would have you underwater.


 
Two parts of the USA where one must drive thru Canada to get to!
 
N 49° 16' 07"
w  94° 58' 24"
 
and
 
Point Roberts
N 48° 59' 17"
W 123° 03' 22"

528 posted on 01/25/2015 6:08:25 PM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

C.S. Lewis, in his book, “Miracles” in the chapter: “The Grand Miracle”, draws some analogies to the incarnation—
God becoming man. He says,....

... “In the Christian story God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity; down further still, down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He had created....

.... But He goes down to come up again and bring the whole ruined world up with Him. One has the picture of a strong man stooping lower and lower to get himself underneath some great complicated burden.... He must stoop in order to lift, he must almost disappear under the load before he incredibly straightens his back and marches off with the whole mass-swaying on his shoulders.

... Or one may think of a diver, first reducing himself to nakedness, then glancing in mid-air, then gone with a splash, vanished, rushing down through green and warm water into black and cold water, down through increasing pressure into the deathlike region of ooze and slime and old decay; then up again, back to colour and light, his lungs almost bursting, till suddenly he breaks surface again, holding in his hand the dripping, precious thing that he went down to recover.... He and it are both coloured now that they have come up into the light: ...down below, where it lay colourless in the dark, he lost his colour too.”

That is a good picture of the Kenosis.


531 posted on 01/25/2015 6:14:00 PM PST by caww
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