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ringo

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Message 5 of 84 (338978)
08-10-2006 1:58 PM

Reply to: Message 4 by Phat
08-10-2006 7:45 AM

Re: Attempting to clarify my Belief Statement

Phat writes:

There is a learning curve for a beliver which starts at what they have been taught and ends at what they actually decide to believe.

So you think there's an end to the learning curve? (Or a start, for that matter?)

I would think that one would aspire to getting continuously closer to God by learning more.

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Message 9 of 84 (339057)
08-10-2006 6:59 PM

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08-10-2006 6:27 PM

Re: Attempting to clarify my Belief Statement

Phat writes:

I think that another way of getting closer to God, for me at least, is getting closer to others who know or claim to know Him.

The problem I have with that is that a lot of people who "claim to know Him", don't.

I mean they reallly, really, really don't. To paraphrase Jed Clampett, "When they tell you 'Howdy', they've told you everything they know about God."

When I said "learning more", I didn't mean learning more "about God", per se - and I certainly didn't mean learning from those who claim to know Him. I meant learning in general.

The more we know about the creation, the better we know the Creator.

As you said, you can only know me by what I post - what I create. Do you form your own ideas about me from what I post or from what others post about me?

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Message 55 of 84 (340511)
08-16-2006 1:00 PM

Reply to: Message 54 by riVeRraT
08-16-2006 12:48 PM

riVeRraT writes:

We are god's, with a little "g".
But we can only play with what is here.

Nice poem.

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