Sunday, October 02, 2005
Another curly thought
A friend left the following statement in response to my previous post:
J-s-s probably doesn't believe in the ideas of the omni*s since #1. He chucked it away while on Earth to fulfill his mandate as the Son of Man, and, #2. He probably doesn't know anyway...
Before you bring out the stake, petrol and rope, I'll explain #2 further:
"The ideas of omnipotence and omniscience seem to be ones that Jesus didn't necessarily believe in. They are later categories ascribed to god...Those ideas are certainly present in some level of god's story, but I'm not sure how we're meant to deal with them."I'd like to put in my "instant-noodle" cooked thoughts on that matter:
J-s-s probably doesn't believe in the ideas of the omni*s since #1. He chucked it away while on Earth to fulfill his mandate as the Son of Man, and, #2. He probably doesn't know anyway...
Before you bring out the stake, petrol and rope, I'll explain #2 further:
- G-d exists outside our space-time, and there is only one like Him.
- Humanity was created in G-d's image - living mirrors.
- You do not know what you look like if you never saw a photo of yourself or your mirror image.
- Moses managed to change G-d's mind at some point during their lives. Ummm, dare I say is that a blind spot?
- From our point of view, since His thoughts are so much higher than our thoughts, (probably mainly due to the lack of space-time constraint), we correctly give Him the omni* labels.
- Giving G-d due credit invites more of His presence...