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Originally posted by Magus55
And I will be the first to admit, trying to understand God's nature and being is extremely difficult for a finite mind. We restrict God too much in order to fit Him into our understanding. God's character as outlined and explained in the Bible is only a tiny fraction of the extent of God's being. The Bible is the way for our puny minds to try and conceive an understanding of God. To know and understand Him fully would required us to be infinite.
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How do you know this? Are you infinite? If you are not infinite, how do you know that you would need to be in order to fully understand God? How do you know that the description of God in the Bible is only a tiny fragment of the whole? How do you know that it doesn't explain most of it and leave out only a small number of perplexing and vexing details? Where did you come by this knowledge? Did God tell you? If so, how did you know it was really God if it takes an infinite mind to comprehend more than a tiny piece God? How can you tell the difference between God and a powerful alien intelligence masquerading as a god?
Or did your draw this conclusion using your own puny, finite mind? If so, how did you manage such a feat?
How is it that the wisest of the ancients, who actually wrote the Bible, did not seem to understand or appreciate the infinite scope of God, and yet you have it all figured out? Do you have sources to draw upon that they did not? Or are you just that much wiser than they?
07-25-2003, 12:13 PM
