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Author Topic:   Atheism is a belief (Why Atheists don't believe part 2)
lfen
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Message 185 of 302 (316056)
05-29-2006 5:18 PM
Reply to: Message 184 by iano
05-29-2006 4:38 PM


Re: Oh dear, we're miles off topic again...but he did say be as cunning as a fox!
Three distinct persons who are one God?
Dissociation creating multiple personality disorder?
And the father had to abandon his son. For his son was wrapped up in filth and dirt of all our sin. God cannot look upon the bearer of sin. He must look away.
This is an imaginative religious soap opera taken to pathological extremes! but what theology is the basis of this? Does God witness wars? disease? death? Does he see bacteria and nematodes etc. breaking down excrement into rich fertilizing soil? How can something that is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent abandon anything?
We don't really understand the level of what the relationship was like. But we can picture it. We can imagine the pain of a person who has committed adultery and child molestation and rape and murder when they see the one they love look away from them in abject disgust when their eyes meet for the first time at the point of execution. We can especially imagine how anguishing it would be for the son when the sin is not his. But he choses take the punishment rather that tell the loved on that it was not his. All Jesus had to do was say "No! it is not my crime - I don't want to pay" and the Father would have willingly released him from that cross.
And you know this how? And was Jesus also God or not? Did not God and Jesus then know that they were to be reunited? What you have described is a hysterical mother upset by her child being in the hospital for three days. We are supposed to be impressed that divine beings suffer what we suffer every day only they know omnisciently that it's only a brief span of time?
Your soap opera is but emotional hysteria that sheds no light on the nature of the source of the universe.
I am beginning to think you have way too much imagination for an engineer!
lfen

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